MLB Betting Guide and Betting Strategies

Now that we are finally past the lockout and uncertainty of the season actually happening, we are just days away from baseball season. Opening night is upon us, and with that comes making money betting on the MLB.  OddsJam has MLB odds from over forty sportsbooks, including FanDuel and DraftKings. This screenshot above highlights one […]

Can you Place Bets on the Boston Red Sox from Massachusetts?

It’s baseball season again, that means one thing for fans of the Boston Red Sox – betting on games! In this blog post, we will discuss the best places to bet on Boston baseball games, as well as some tips to help you win more often! If you’re looking to place bets on the Red […]

Boston Red Sox Through April 17, 2021

After getting swept by the Baltimore Orioles to start the 2021 MLB season, the Red Sox have gone 10-1 including a 9-game winning streak (in tribute to late Red Sox Hall of Famer Ted Williams who wore # 9). After those first three games, Red Sox fans were already out for blood, saying how new […]

Will Addition of Betts Put the Dodgers Over the Top?

After much anticipation and grimacing by Boston Red Sox fans, the hammer finally dropped on All-Star OF Mookie Betts being traded away from the Red Sox in what can only be termed as a salary dump. Much to the chagrin of the rest of Major League Baseball, Betts will be joining the Los Angeles Dodgers […]

The Boston Red Sox 2020 Team: who’s staying and who’s going

In this article I will give the facts about who is no longer an official member of the Boston Red Sox as well as the rumors I have heard floating around about potential off-season trade candidates.  Baseball, like gambling, is based on Risk vs Reward! Who do you keep? Who do you trade? Is it […]

SOX STUFF: GET READY FOR 2019 (Part II)

Such sensational reactions to Part I, here is the promised follow up. Enjoy –and send those reactions in. Wade Boggs, he could swing that bat (9)           Legend of the Green Monster It was not originally green until 1947. Before that it was blue and covered with advertisements. Originally constructed to block the view of […]

SOX STUFF: GET READY FOR 2019 (Part I)

Excitement for all major league teams builds in the spring. It is a time of looking forward and also looking backwards. Herewith for your reading pleasure are some BoSox nuggets to savor. Enjoy… The “X” in Red Sox The Boston Americans became the Red Stockings in 1907, a name referring to the socks the team […]

The Rivalry Continues: Red Sox Mockingly Sing Yankee Theme Song

Feeling it after winning another world championship, champagne soaked Boston players let it all hang out as some sang along off-key the Yankee theme song “New York, New York” that blasted forth from a boombox.   It was just the latest salvo in the great rivalry – Yankees versus Red Sox. The first game at […]

Red Sox Flashback: The First World Championship

With the Sox on the cusp of winning another World Series, with fans all over New England savoring the time, a look back to 1912 provides a marvelous historical treat. Business in Boston virtually shut down on September 23,1912 as  100‚000 cheered the Red Sox returning from a western trip by train  into South Station. […]

2018 League Division Series

As we inch towards the 2018 Fall Classic, we have already experienced historic events! Before we could even get to the Wild Card games, the National League gave us something to talk about … not one, but two teams tied for first place in the Central and West divisions causing a game 163 for all […]

YAZ, SOX, OCTOBER

Another October, another post-season, another rush by teams to win the World Series. So many have October baseball memories. LENNY MEGLIOLA:   For Tom Yawkey, Yastrzemski was almost like an adopted son. And Yaz took advantage of that.  He was, after all, the best player on the team. He had a director’s chair in the Red […]

Remembering Ted Williams: Selected Oral History

This is the centennial week of the birth of Ted Williams, August 30, 1918. The Splendid Splinter did it his way. From the Frommer archives please enjoy memories of those who had the pleasure of experiencing him. JON MILLER:  “Geez,” they said, “We have this great left-handed hitter and he keeps losing home runs out […]

Fenway Flashback

The glory days are back at the Fens as the 2018 season heads down the home stretch. There is a lot of excitement about the real possibility of another world championship for the Sox. Royal and loyal rooters, though, still have in their memory bank images of a sad long ago time when life at […]

Rivalry: Red Sox vs Yankees

Throughout the 2018 season the Yankees and the Red Sox have kept their eyes on the ball and the standings as baseball’s greatest rivalry plays out again. Coming up another series between the two rivals, another head to head confrontation in the “blood feud.”             Wa back then, as the story goes, there was a get-together […]

FENWAY PARK FLASHBACK

The joy and passion and full houses  and winning ways now on parade at Fenway Park all are a sharp contrast to the way things once were at the little ballpark in most of the 1960s. There are still those around who recall that time, some with mixed emotions. Sam Mele: I came into Fenway […]

Remembering Ted Williams

He was called “the Splendid Splinter,” “the Kid,” “Teddy Ballgame” and other unmentionable names. But Ted Williams was always something else. There was the love-hate affair fans at Fenway Park had with Ted Williams.  He dropped a fly ball in the first game of a doubleheader. Raucous razzing followed.  In the second game, a ball […]

Not Just Another Game

Rivalries fuel sports. They pump up the players and fans alike while attracting nationwide media attention. They are the games you circle on your calendar and wait for all year. You need a few things to fall into place to develop a good ole rivalry, however. First and foremost, the teams must be good. Nobody […]

FLASHBACK: First Opening Day at Fenway Park

By Harvey Frommer  It was damp and chilly throughout New England for most of the spring of 1912, and in Boston, it took a few tries before baseball at a brand new ballpark could be played in decent weather. On April 9th, the Red Sox and Harvard’s baseball team met in an exhibition game in […]

Remembering Tom Yawkey

With the news out everywhere that the Boston Red Sox have filed a petition with the city of Boston to rename Yawkey Way, a road outside Fenway Park named after Tom Yawkey, who reportedly resisted integration efforts in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The goal is to restore the original name of the street, Jersey […]

BoSox Sidebars: Spring Training, “The Kid,” Tom Yawkey & more

With the Super Bowl behind us thoughts turn in New England to perhaps the area’s most beloved sports team –the Boston Red Sox. Herewith for your reading pleasure, snippets about the Old Towne Team. Enjoy.       Ted Williams and Yogi Berra MEL PARNELL:  I was 25-years old in 1947 when I went to spring […]

World Series Odds as we enter September

It just so happens, every year I am asked at about this time in the season who I think will make the playoffs and what are the odds of those teams making it to the World Series. So without further ado, here are my predictions entering September … The American League In the American League […]

The top 3 MLB Championship picks for 09/02/17

As the most part of the tournament is over, there are still quite some matches left for the baseball lovers which cannot be missed. with a lot of great matches in the ongoing week, another Sunday is coming where you can actually witness some of the greatest matches of this tournament. More than anything, you […]

The Rivalry: Yanks vs Red Sox

Babe Ruth at Fenway Back then, as the story goes, there was a get-together in the woods. A  Red Sox fan, a Cub fan and a Pirate fan were there. They all wondered when their team would make it to the World Series again and decided to call on God for advice. The Cub fan […]

Book Review: Mind Game

Sabermetrics almost seems old hat now. It doesn’t have the cache it did even just a decade ago when it seemed like it was still being shunned by some in the baseball community. While the new age statistics are now widely accepted and pretty much everyone has accepted that using them is the way to […]

9 Innings/Questions on the RedSox

 If you like what you read below, check out more from Tyler at his site,  Tyler’s Think Tank.   This is a continuation of our series of articles where I ask fellow bloggers from the Baseball Bloggers Alliance (BBA) 9 innings worth of questions about their team. The goal is to do this for as many teams as […]

Retooling the Red Sox Bullpen for 2016

It has begun! On Friday, November 6th, the Red Sox outrighted RP’s Alexi Ogando (who I was going to tag as a keeper for the 2016 pen) and Jean Machi. That same day, the Cubs claimed RP Ryan Cook. So, with those moves already done, we plow forward with my thoughts for how I think […]

The Boston Red Sox Search for an Ace

The one thing, besides hiring a new GM, Dave Dombrowski needs to do this off season is to get an Ace for the staff. Realistically, he only has two ways to do this seeing that there currently isn’t an internal option. He can either trade for the new Red Sox ace or sign one of […]

Boston Red Sox 2016 Holes to Address in the Infield

First off, let’s just say right up front that the Red Sox are all set at the middle infield positions with Dustin Pedroia at 2B and Xander Bogaerts (his 2015 numbers can be seen below) at SS! That leaves question marks at 1B, 3B and Catcher, not because they don’t have guys to play all […]

What Dave Dombroski Needs to do to Fix the Boston Red Sox

Ben Cherington had a heck of a ride as GM of the Boston Red Sox. He came into an organization that was in shambles in 2011, acquiesced when ownership insisted on hiring Bobby Valentine to replace fired manager Terry Francona, booted Valentine after a horrific 2012 season, set out to rebuild the team in 2013, […]

The Jason Bay roller coaster has finally idled to a complete stop

It looks as if the career of OF Jason Bay is finally coming to an end. As many would say (particularly fans of the New York Mets), it will probably be three years too late. It is self explanatory to describe the drop in Bay’s production; which saw a six year run with the Pittsburgh […]

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