My Interview with Felt Tip Pen Illustrator Extraordinaire Neal Portnoy
I met Neal at Boston Sports Blogapalooza II at the Baseball Tavern in November of 2010 and was fascinated by his work. I have since, with his permission, used one of his illustrations in an article written on the late, great Jackie Robinson. It can be found at the bottom of the article if you […]
February in New England Is the Harbinger of the Best Time of Year
February in Pittsburgh was never good. I only marginally followed the Pirates, and generally was a sport-hater, as my brother and father were sports-obsessed, and screaming at the television and listening to sports radio made me want to scream. Then I moved to New England. I worked at a company where I bought […]
How to Hit a Knuckleball (Video at the bottom)
We saw the Phillies get completely embarrassed by two knuckleball pitchers last month. We see the terrible swings guys have at the ball. We see even the best of catchers look foolish trying to simply catch a knuckleball (see Red Sox catcher Jason Varitek). We know it’s coming very slow and it doesn’t look like […]
2010 Red Sox Charity Wines Launch Party
Yesterday I was fortunate enough to be invited to the launch party of Zinfandellsbury (a Red Zinfandel from Ellsbury) and Chardon-K (a Chardonnay from Beckett) which are charity wines from Longball Cellars. If you are not familiar with the Red Sox charity wines the players do not profit a single dime; rather, 100% of their […]
BOSTON BASEBALL CHARITY WINES RETURN
JACOBY ELLSBURY & JOSH BECKETT MAKE ROSTER OVERVIEW Debuting from Longball Cellars are charity wines for Boston baseball stars Jacoby Ellsbury and Josh Beckett. The players do not profit a single dime. Instead, 100% of their proceeds will raise big league dollars for local charities: Jacoby Ellsbury: ZinfandEllsbury – benefiting the Navajo Relief Fund, Project […]
Nomar Garciaparra Signs with Red Sox, Quickly Announces Retirement
Nomar Garciaparra signed a minor league deal this morning with the Boston Red Sox, then promptly announced his retirement at a 10:30 AM press conference. Joining Nomar at the press conference were President/CEO Larry Lucchino and Executive Vice President/General Manager Theo Epstein. Several friends and family members of Garciaparra were on hand, including wife Mia […]
Baseball News, Tweets & More…Wednesday pm
@ESPN_baseball: Source: Beckett eager to get deal wrapped up – http://tinyurl.com/yh3qpj8 [it would be great to get a Beckett deal done before the start of the season and have him, Lackey, Lester & Dice-K locked up with Buchholtz (sp) under team control for a while. What other team could boast a rotation like that under […]
Former Phillies Player, Dave Hollins, Tell His Diabetes Story
I have recently decided that Baseball Reflections will start broadening our horizons just a bit. Call it one of our 2010 resolutions. We will now be bringing you selected videos in a more frequent basis than we have in our previous two years of operation. We hope this ads to your enjoyment of this site! […]
Jason Varitek’s Pre-Season Workout Video (2009-2010)
If you are anything like me, you wonder what catchers have to go through in the offseason to prepare for a season of 162 games. Well here’s a video showing us a typical day in Red Sox captain and part time catcher (I am having problems calling him a back up after all of these […]
2009/2010 Free Agent Tracker: Catchers
Like last year, this year’s most fruitful market for catchers is the trade market, rather than the free agent market. The Texas Rangers, who traded Gerald Laird to the Tigers last season still have two worthy trade candidates in Jarrod Saltalamacchia and Taylor Teagarden, while Ronny Paulino could be on the move again. Especially in […]
A Look at the Red Sox Minor League Catchers 2009
With Jason Varitek not getting any younger, George Kottaras not looking like a # 1 starting catcher and not having much confidence in newly acquired Victor Martinez as a longtime solution ( I see him at 1B once Lowell’s contract is up), I decided to look into the Red Sox minor league system for a […]
Red Sox Reflections
Here’s a few notes concerning recent Red Sox news… Boston signed 1B/3B Kevin Youkilis to a a four-year contract with a club option for a fifth year for around $41M (not including the 5th year option). In order to make room on the 40 man roster for some of the moves they’ve made this off […]
It’s Just Boras Being Boras
Image by Getty Images via Daylife Although this shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone in the world of baseball, but if this report is true, super agent Scott Boras hasn’t been returning the Red Sox phone calls concerning free agent catcher Jason Varitek per this article from Boston.com over the weekend. It was recently thought […]
