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Everything Went Right For The 2018 Red Sox. Are The Champs Destined To Regress?
It’s hard to imagine things going more right for the Boston Red Sox than they did last season. Boston jumped out to a scorching 17-2 start, was 38 games over .500 by the All-Star break, posted the most...
View ArticleThe 2019 Favorites And Breakout Picks For The American League
Welcome to our two-part guide to the 2019 MLB season through the lens of our MLB prediction model. In each division, we’ll outline the key teams in the division race, discuss the incoming players who...
View ArticleUm, The Red Sox May Actually Be In Trouble
It’s a bad idea to read too much into any April baseball games, but this week’s two-game sweep at the hands of the archrival New York Yankees appears to have officially sent the Boston Red Sox into a...
View ArticleThe Red Sox Are (Probably) Going To Be OK
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View Article7 Burning Questions For The MLB Stretch Run
Now that the MLB All-Star Game is over — with hometown favorite Shane Bieber winning MVP (despite not even being the most valuable pitcher on his own team) — the baseball world can finally turn its...
View ArticleThe Red Sox Were The Toast Of Baseball Last Year. Now They’re Just Toast.
If the Boston Red Sox harbored any hopes of returning to the playoffs after last year’s magical World Series run, they knew they’d need to make a very strong push over the regular season’s last couple...
View ArticleMookie Betts Makes The Dodgers Even More Dominant
The biggest trade of the offseason finally went down Tuesday night, with the Boston Red Sox agreeing to send star outfielder Mookie Betts and starting pitcher David Price to the Los Angeles Dodgers in...
View ArticleBaseball Will Be Weird This Year. But The Astros And Yankees Are Favorites In...
When Major League Baseball finally starts its 2020 season on July 23, it will be a very different kind of campaign than any we’ve seen in our lifetimes. Not only will it be much shorter than usual (60...
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Nomar Garciaparra’s Full Career Wasn’t Enough For Cooperstown — But It Was...
If you’d told a Red Sox fan in the summer of 1997 that Boston would win three World Series in the next 16 years — well, first, they’d be beyond ecstatic; the team had infamously not won a title since...
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Take Me Out To The Ballot Box
It’s a familiar sight in Boston in mid-October: a line of people, many decked out in Red Sox gear, stretched down Jersey Street, waiting to pass through Gate A and enter historic Fenway Park. But this...
View ArticleDustin Pedroia Led Some Damn Good Red Sox Teams
It’s time for another installment of the Hall of Pretty Damn Good Players — our tribute to the athletes who won’t be in the Hall of Fame, but who still had a lasting effect on the history of their...
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The Boom-Or-Bust Red Sox Are At It Again
The Boston Red Sox were one of baseball’s great disappointments the past two seasons, going a combined 108-114 in 2019 and 2020 after they won the World Series with a 108-54 record in 2018. While...
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No MLB Team Is Great, And Fewer Are Awful. Is This The Parity We Wanted?
Rewind just a few years, and one of the big themes in baseball — in addition to the ever-present concerns about a juiced ball, greedy owners and games taking forever — was a serious lack of parity...
View ArticleWhat Are The Odds Of Each World Series Matchup?
The 2021 MLB regular season came down to its final day with a lot of potential for chaos — including a possible four-way tie for the American League’s two wild-card slots and contingency plans for...
View ArticleHow Enrique Hernández Went From Utility Infielder To The Hottest Hitter In...
Not long ago, Boston Red Sox center fielder Enrique (Kiké) Hernández was a defensive nomad. After being acquired by the Los Angeles Dodgers in a six-player deal in December 2014, he spent six seasons...
View ArticleThe Red Sox Seemed Unstoppable. Then The Astros Turned The Tables.
Just a couple of days ago, the Houston Astros were in big trouble. Luis García and José Urquidy — the starting pitchers for Games 2 and 3 of the ALCS — got roughed up in consecutive outings, as the...
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Mookie Betts Isn’t Done Being Baseball’s Best Player
MLB Mookie Betts Isn't Done Being Baseball's Best Player By Neil Paine Jun. 7, 2022, at 1:01 PM Mookie Betts is once again one of the hottest hitters in baseball. Harry How / Getty Images The Los...
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Three-Quarters Of Baseball’s Playoff Spots Are Up For Grabs
MLB Three-Quarters Of Baseball's Playoff Spots Are Up For Grabs By Neil Paine Jul. 20, 2022, at 6:00 AM Pete Alonso and the Mets are looking to hang onto the NL East in the season’s second half....
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The Padres Won The Juan Soto Sweepstakes. Will The World Series Follow?
MLB The Padres Won The Juan Soto Sweepstakes. Will The World Series Follow? A FiveThirtyEight Chat Aug. 3, 2022, at 1:11 PM PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY FIVETHIRTYEIGHT / GETTY IMAGES neil (Neil Paine,...
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The Teams That Won, Lost And Confused Us This MLB Offseason
MLB The Teams That Won, Lost And Confused Us This MLB Offseason By Brian Menéndez Dec. 21, 2022, at 6:00 AM Xander Bogaerts’s move from Boston to San Diego made the Red Sox this offseason’s biggest...
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