The Boston Red Sox, based in Boston, Mass., participate in Major League Baseball (MLB) and are a member of the American League East Division. The Red Sox were founded as the Boston Somersets in 1901.
BOSTON — The filing period for free agents hasn't started just yet. So officially, you can still refer to him as "Red Sox left fielder" Jason Bay. The popular right-handed-hitting slugger did a live chat with Red Sox fans on WEEI.com on Thursday afternoon and remained open-minded about where he will be playing in 2010. [...]
Casey Kelly has put in a lot of innings this year. He spent half the regular Minor League season on the mound and the other half in the infield. Now he's in Arizona to get in even more work. In his fourth Arizona Fall League game, Kelly smacked a triple, a double, plated four runs [...]
BOSTON — At so many critical junctures of Terry Francona's baseball life, Brad Mills has been right beside him. They were roommates at the University of Arizona. They were teammates with the Montreal Expos in the early 1980s. During the four frustrating years (1997-2000) when Francona managed the Phillies, Mills was on his staff. And [...]
Almost seven years ago, the Boston Red Sox hired a young front-office talent away from the San Diego Padres in hopes that the move would bring glory back to the franchise. On Monday, the Padres returned the favor. In a press conference at PETCO Park, San Diego officially named 35-year-old Red Sox assistant general manager [...]
Jed Hoyer is close to being named the Padres' general manager. A baseball source said that Boston's assistant GM is the leading candidate but that no formal agreement has been reached. The announcement could come as early as Monday, but as of midday Saturday, no news conference had been set. "There's nothing new to report," [...]
SAN DIEGO — The San Diego Padres are close to hiring a new general manager. According to sources, Boston Red Sox assistant general manager Jed Hoyer is the frontrunner for the job to replace Kevin Towers, who was informed a day before the regular season ended that he wouldn't be retained in 2010. SI.com cited [...]
He is 43 years old, and one day removed from back surgery, but that didn't take away any enthusiasm from Red Sox knuckleballer Tim Wakefield as he held court with the media in a conference call on Thursday. Though a herniated disc reduced Wakefield from a walk to a limp throughout the entire second half, [...]
At last there is relief for Tim Wakefield. The knuckleballer, who spent the entire second half of the season limping because of a loose fragment in his lower back, underwent successful surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital on Wednesday. Wakefield's herniated disc was repaired and the fragment removed, setting up the right-hander to have a productive [...]
CINCINNATI — It was arguably the greatest game of what many consider the greatest World Series ever played. Author Mark Frost discovered that there was even more to the drama that made Game 6 of the 1975 World Series between the Reds and Red Sox so memorable. The game concluded with one of baseball's all-time [...]
Welcome to the offseason, which means I will try to take time once each week to answer all of your questions. Here is the first of what should be many installments over the next few weeks. I heard a recap of the Red Sox season, and they said that Jonathan Papelbon could be traded. Could [...]