No whole big thing in this post. I just wanted to acknowledge the passing of Coretta Scott king last night. King’s legacy is often overshadowed by that of her late husband, but she is tremendously responsible for continuing that legacy; she pushed for and succeeded in insitutionalizing Martin Luther King Day, has funded […]

The new Miller/Mueller/Millar?

The Sox inked SS Alex Gonzalez to a one-year, 3 million dollar contract today, for some reason that apparently exists. Maybe Alex Cora got hit by a car and no one told us.

In other news, this ever-deepening organization has too many veterans to fit onto a 25 man roster at this point, […]

The ZIPS projection system - one of the more trusted projection systems, invented by Dan Szymborski and run by the Baseball Think Factory - has updated their projections for the three players that recently joined the Sox in the Coco Crisp deal. Here are those projections:

David Riske

W L G GS IP H ER HR BB K ERA

4 3 64 0 71 68 35 10 24 63 4.44

Bard and Crisp

Player AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB K SB BA OBP SLG

Josh Bard 300 33 83 16 0 8 45 28 48 0 .277 .338 .410

Coco Crisp 610 101 196 36 5 14 92 49 76 19 .321 .370 .466

Take all of the […]

The roster and prospect lists have been updated to reflect the Crisp deal.

Once we trade David Wells -which I have no doubt will happen - here are your 2006 Red Sox:

C: Jason Varitek 1B: Kevin Youkilis 2B: Mark Loretta 3B: Mike Lowell SS: Alex Cora LF: Manny Ramirez CF: Coco Crisp RF: Trot Nixon DH: David Ortiz (Happy now, Earl?)

Backup C: Josh Bard CI: J.T. Snow MI: Tony Graffanino 4OF: Dustan Mohr 5OF: Adam Stern

SP: Curt Schilling SP: Josh […]

According to several different sources, including FOX Sports Ken Rosenthal (whose deal with the devil has allowed him to actually start being right about stuff this winter) and the Indians beat writer on MLB.com, the Crisp-Marte deal is on the verge of completion, pending yet another RP physical; the one for Arthur Rhodes, who would […]

The Mascot Top 8 is up at Oleanders, and it’s full of fun and exciting surprises. Though, sadly, no Luis Sojo.

The Sox yesterday inked bench/OF Dustan Mohr to a minor league deal, in order to shore up the backup outfield situation. I’ll go on record as being a big fan of this acquisition; I’ve been hoping the Sox would pick up Mohr for a while now, as he shows signs of having decent on-base […]

Harper Gordek at Oleanders and Morning Glories, all-baseball.com’s Nationals entry, is in the middle of an excellent rundown ranking the mascots of Major League Baseball. The basic criteria seem to be ‘how much they piss Harper off’, which to me is a perfect criteria. I generally despise mascots (yes, even Wally… maybe especially […]

I’ve said what I’m going to say about Theo over at Fire Brand.