Peter, one of my (and others’) most loyal readers/commenters, has started up a blog of his own: peteronall.blogspot.com. This happened a while ago, and I’m just now getting to updating stuff, but you should still check it out.

After the craze of last week, things appear to be quieting down in the run-up to the […]

After a few weeks of promise but no action, this week has been a whirlwind. It began with the Josh Beckett sweepstakes - and of course, we know how that turned out. Since then, there have been two major trades, one massive FA signing, and some inexplicable moves by Chicago clubs. I […]

The deal that everyone’s been talking about for two days - the deal that was to send Josh Beckett and Mike Lowell to Boston in exchange for Hanley Ramirez, Anibal Sanchez, and minor-league reliever Jesus Delgado - has been made official, with one minor change: The Red Sox have also acquired talented reliever Guillermo […]

The Red Sox have a habit of coming into aces this time of year; in 1997 it was a scrawny Dominican kid named Pedro, shipped south of the border by Montreal who became, for a short time, God. Then it was Schilling, wooed over Thanksgiving dinner and a year later a part of thanks […]

Assuming this trade goes through in the next couple of days, the Red Sox will have three players under contract whose last names are also the names of MA towns: Tim Wakefield, Mike Lowell, and Josh Beckett.

When was the last time there were three individual Sox players who also fit this category?

I’ve updated the Top 20 Prospects list to reflect the changes from the Beckett deal. The top of the list looks a little more barren, but…

We have Josh Beckett.

The first massive rumor of the offseason is in full swing, and it impacts the Red Sox in a major way: the Marlins are shopping 25 year old ace Josh Beckett, as long as the buyer is also willing to take Mike Lowell off their hands. Until quite recently, the deal seemed to have […]

The Winter Meetings, coming up in a couple of weeks, represent the sort of informal beginning of baseball’s mad dash to create a viable roster for the upcoming season. Almost annually, the meetings are the site of major deals or signings, as teams address their holes and those of others and see where matches […]

I think it’s only fitting that my first post from my now not quite so new apartment be the story - far more entertaining and ridiculous than you might think it could be - of how the internet arrived in my little corner of the world today, and exactly how close it came to giving […]

More Jere’s territory than mine, but:

Name the 5 GM’s who currently have GM-or-equivalent jobs (as of this writing) who have held the same position or equivalent (main personnel decision-maker) for a different MLB club in the past.

There may be more than 5, but if there are I don’t know them.

Also, quick update: as of about […]