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.
01/15/10 10:15 PM EST BOSTON — While most of general manager Theo Epstein's offseason business is finished, there are still some contractual matters to work through. Jonathan Papelbon, Manny Delcarmen, Ramon Ramirez and Jeremy Hermida all filed for arbitration on Friday. If the Red Sox can't agree to new contracts with those players by Tuesday, [...]
01/14/10 6:10 PM EST BOSTON — The passion of Red Sox Nation became clear to John Lackey a few weeks before he took his seat at the head table for Thursday night's Awards Dinner for the Boston chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America. Back in mid-December, when Lackey was in town to sign [...]
01/13/10 1:50 PM EST With the start of Spring Training just five weeks away, the time has come to start sizing up the 2010 Red Sox, piece by piece. MLB.com will go around the horn and break down each area of the Red Sox, beginning today with the catching position. BOSTON — For the first [...]
01/11/10 10:58 AM EST Will the Red Sox sign Josh Beckett to an extension before Spring Training? I think he is gone if they do not. Any word? — Ray C., Londonderry, N.H. The Red Sox and Beckett have both indicated they have interest in extending their relationship beyond 2010. Spring Training is a time [...]
01/11/10 1:00 AM EST SEATTLE — With two World Series titles in the last six years and almost-yearly postseason appearances, the Boston Red Sox don't have much of a reason to take after the Seattle Mariners, who haven't made the playoffs since 2001. Then again, it's 2010, and things are changing in baseball. Take, for [...]
01/09/10 8:31 PM EST BOSTON — Hockey has been the rage at Fenway Park for most of this young new year. But, despite the game that was being played on the rink dominating Fenway's lawn, baseball talk took its rightful place inside the ancient ballpark Saturday afternoon at the Hot Stove Cool Music roundtable. The [...]
01/08/10 1:30 PM EST BOSTON — The glove, the hands and the arm are all weapons that have been there at every turn for Adrian Beltre, who was formally unveiled as the new third baseman for the Boston Red Sox on Friday. But the bat abandoned him badly last year, thanks to a combination of [...]
01/07/10 5:44 PM EST BOSTON — The Red Sox officially signed free-agent third baseman Adrian Beltre following a Thursday physical and will unveil him at a Fenway Park news conference on Friday at 10 a.m. ET. This marks the fourth free agent-acquisition news conference Boston has held this winter, as Beltre follows shortstop Marco Scutaro, [...]
01/06/10 2:25 PM EST BOSTON — The first standing ovation that John Lackey will receive as a member of the Red Sox will likely come at a dinner banquet instead of Fenway Park. The right-hander, signed to a five-year, $82.5 million by the Sox on Dec. 16, will headline the attendees at the 71st annual [...]
01/05/10 5:30 PM EST BOSTON — Just hours after left fielder Jason Bay was unveiled as the newest member of the New York Mets, news filtered out that Jacoby Ellsbury will be patrolling the Green Monster for the Red Sox in 2010. The Providence Journal was the first to report that Ellsbury, primarily a center [...]