It’s hard not to notice that 4 of the Sox 5 pitchers tonight - David Pauley, Jermaine Van Buren, Manny Delcarmen, and Jonathan Papelbon - had never pitched in a big league game at this time last year.

Pauley was more or less as expected; rough, but showing some promise. His performance wasn’t as bad […]

Ah, Major League Baseball’s Amateur Draft: the most boring, anti-climactic, and uninspiring of the major sports drafts. While people go gaga over the football, basketball, and hockey drafts - these are almost always televised and commentated - only very recently have you even been able to follow the MLB draft in real time, and […]

The Red Sox have announced that Portland righthander David Pauley will be promoted to Boston to start Wednesday’s game vs. the Toronto Blue Jays. It’s a bit of a surprise selection, as Pawtucket has a number of more advanced starters than Pauley, but apparently Toronto’s heavy RHH’s and Pawtucket’s schedule necessitated Pauley’s promotion. […]

Just a collection of thoughts from the last few days:

Have we begun a bullpen changing of the guard?  With Timlin on the DL with an ominous-sounding shoulder issue, Tavarez and Seanez and Foulke continually ineffective, and the preseason plan generally in shambles, the Sox now have to rely on young [...]

My father and I attended last night’s Yankees - Sox game. It was a fairly chilly night, but that didn’t seem to stop Sox bats at all, with the club pounding out 9 runs against a combination of Chien-Mien Wang, Ron Villone, and Colter Bean. It was a fairly packed house, including Rebecca […]

Sadly, the one that plays on our team remains active.

I still exist. I haven’t been around much lately, as it’s been a pretty busy month, filled almost entirely with very good things - I don’t really expect that to change, and it’s getting harder and harder to come up with actual new stuff to write anyway, so posting here won’t be as frequent […]

This is insane. Seriously. It would be one thing if there was a chance of seeing sun ever again, but the long-term forecast has the best-case scenario listed as nuclear winter. As Jen Tryinin once sang - about snow, but the sentiment applies - I’m thinking of putting two of everything in […]

I’m less pumped for this game than I am frightened, mainly because I have exactly no idea what to expect. It’s Yanks-Sox, for one thing, which means it’s automatically unpredictable. For another, This is Beckett/Johnson - two guys who can be absolutely dominating, but who have struggled this season. Mostly, though, this […]

Over at John Sickels’ excellent site, he runs a new but regular feature called the Crystal Ball. This is where he takes a stab at projecting an entire career for a young player; obviously an almost comic idea made palatable by the fact that a) he’s John Sickels, and b) it’s pretty fun if […]