Quick, and without looking it up: what major league team has the best non-Yankee offensive production since the All-Star Break?

If you guessed the Boston Red Sox, you are both correct and one of the few Sox fans who isn’t whining on a regular basis about this, the best team in baseball. By a lot.

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Better late than never.

Over the last week, I’ve broken down the major league club and examined its pitching, offense, and defense in detail. Today, however, I’m going to take a step back from the MLB club, and take a look through the minor league system. Boston’s farm has come a tremendously long distance […]

Due to a computer crash this morning, the Looking Ahead entry on the minor league system was cruelly destroyed. So, I’m pushing it back to tomorrow and ditching the Injuries article; most of that stuff was covered in the first three articles anyway. So, for now, content yourself with this picture of Jonathan […]

Over the last couple of days, I’ve taken a look at the new Sox offense and pitching staff. The conclusions I reached were fairly straightforward; the pitching staff will likely improve, possibly dramatically. The offense will likely decline, but not by as much as you might think. Today, however, I want to […]

Yesterday, in the first part of this series, I looked at the 2006 edition of the Red Sox pitching staff, and predicted a small but not insignificant decline in the number of runs allowed from 2005-2006. Today’s column will look at the offense, which has changed dramatically over the past four months.

Astounding as it […]

As previously mentioned, this week I’ll be breaking down the team as we head into March, Spring Training, and ultimately the start of the 2006 regular season. This offseason has been one of the busiest, most tumultuous, and most interesting in Sox history; a 95-win team was essentially dismantled and rebuilt from the ground […]