Gray, Crochet and swing away - your 2026 Boston Red Sox

This team gonna prevent the hell out some runs is what I heard

boring

What would you have written hotshot

I’ve jinxed the last two years so nothing 🥺

Nothing will ever top 'Sale, Price, Abad Deal' my crowning achievement on ILB and the cherry on top was that it annoyed Dr Morbius lol

Pain of 86 eh? I think that was one of the first things you ever told me about baseball, the appeal was the pain

I think he just hated the pun

I meant your pain of 86…Mets won that one

Oh I just enjoyed annoying Morbius on principle

Pretty wild that Early cracked the rotation, I’m stoked to see him on the reg

was it that much of a surprise? (honest question)
small sample, but he looked great when he got a chance last season. i was going after him in my fantasy leagues like he was a near lock to land a rotation spot.

Yeah it’s true I guess just usually when a GM trades for a guy (Oviedo) pride dictates that the guy plays

Chris Cotillo cautioned on reading too much into this this early in the season, he said that they wanted another arm who could give a few innings to piggyback Suarez and Bello as both didn’t pitch much in the WBC

Alex Cora on today’s game: “The tying run was on deck”

really annoyed at Cora hardmanning Narvaez yesterday for some unspecified reason, sitting him on a day Crochet pitches. Narvi is Crochet’s preferred catcher. so that’s great, thanks Alex. he also sits Roman and Marcelo. but then brings them in to PH in the 9th against one of the toughest closers in baseball. lol, no pressure fellas. of course Anthony promptly hits a dinger. huh wonder if that might have been useful earlier in the game, AC?

so sick of these chuckleheads taking 3-4 weeks to warm up every season, sick of the low baseball IQ, sick of the cute lineup games AC plays. it would be one thing if the Sox were 1-5 and playing okay but they’re playing really bad in most aspects of the game. they’re chasing bad pitches and striking out at crazy rates. you see guys like Contreras and Raffaella up there swinging before they even know what kind of pitch it is, just hoping their bat path magically meets the ball.

Rafaela has always been a free swinger, at this point he is who he is, players don’t tend to change their approach at the plate much because it really seems to be intrinsic

lol I always double the wrong letters with him, something in my brain has broken with that.

Is it April? Or is it Early May?

will crochet be announced as having 'forearm soreness' tomorrow y/n

: /

They just fired like 2/3 of their coaching staff

Lmao

my man charlie montoyo is available

people all like, it wasn’t cora, it’s breslow!! and i’m like

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it’ll take at least a year to get the mentality up to speed around fundamentals, baserunning, hitting the cutoff man, etc and that’s IF tracy or whoever actually focus on these things. Every single year the sox have a flat first few weeks of the season where it feels like they’re all learning anew how to play the game. so i don’t hold out huge hope for a big turnaround this year. the problems run deep. re the OF logjam, the yoshida problem, the lefty problem… idk man.

it’s so sad, this used to be a serious team

they all seem like very brittle alpha male types. people unable to have a conversation.

With all the young/youngish talent and Sonny Grey, I thought this was a team that could surprise people this season. Turns out the surprise was a different one

kind of weird to see trevor story acting like a team leader. dude has hit .243/.296/.405 in 4+ seasons with the sox while averaging 80 games a year

(tbf i have no idea who else might fill that role!)

Trevor Story is a team leader, the fact he’s off to a shitty start isn’t relevant to that.

Crochet on what Breslow and Kennedy told the team: “They made it very clear that we get paid to play baseball, and we need to just focus on playing baseball.”

ah the famed golden FO touch at Fenway, really warms your heart

it does seem quite possible looking at what people have said that a few hitting coaches were set to be fired and Cora said if they go i go. And Vtek maybe does the same. which suggests that Cora really was as checked out as he seemed like he was and took a chance to jump ship.

xp that was Whitlock, not Crochet.

so many Garretts

trevor story - why is he so bad and hated?

because he'll swing at anything as long as it's a foot off the plate outside, plus he's blocking the young maestro marcelo mayer from truly arriving at his best position.. and next year he might be blocking franklin arias. can't believe the team opt-out doesn't kick in until 2028 😭

None of which would matter if this team were willing to pay down some of his contract btw

I have never disliked Story fwiw

I don't dislike him! but at this point he's old and in the way

Old and in the way, hmm-mmm
Old and in the way, yeah, hmm-mmm

Once you hit 50, principals try to gently impart that message to you.

can't make b-ref do the full ballpark splits, but story has hit .303/.369/.603 in 375 games at coors field, .263/.326/.485 in 1092 games overall, and .243/.296/.405 in 347 games with boston

honestly not trying to bury the guy -- and it's admirable that as a veteran he stepped up to speak for the players with the media -- but jeez he's on a bad (6yr/$140m) contract

in any case, despite having spent 12 major league seasons with seven different clubs it kinda seems like craig breslow has somehow never dealt with actual people before? (also why even have john henry in the room if he's not going to say anything?)

john henry could be a full on weekend at bernie's situation for all we know

The only person associated with the Cora “regime” I can find who has left any kind of message to the fans is…. Catherine Varitek

maybe it’s because i live for messy red sox drama but cotillo’s take on this has the ring of truth

https://www.masslive.com/redsox/2026/04/as-red-sox-deem-clear-alex-coras-firing-a-craig-breslow-decision-it-was-also-an-act-of-self-preservation-chris-cotillo.html

cora has form here in having a direct line to the top brass. he shanked bloom so breslow shanked him first

that it might have been the right move at this point for the team is circumstantial

This comment also struck me

“Thinking about all those little league games Bloom and Breslow hung out at over the offseason and their "great relationship" and "very interesting conversations".
We laughed about how the Gray and Contreras deals were probably planned then, but there was probably a whole lot of bitching about Alex Cora too.”

2-0 in the chad tracy era

Mayer hitting line drives, walking, Narvaez hit an absolute laser over the fence as well, probably visualised Cora's face on the ball lol

literally the first time this team has been watchable all year

Mayer saying “we lost some guys we really love but we gained some guys we really love” lmao he fucking HATED Cora (and he was right)

Also, remember when Marcelo injured his wrist last year, on an old injury that they’d let heal without surgery, and wanted to get surgery to fix it? Cora was out there going on about how Mayer CHOSE to get surgery. Yeah because he wants to continue playing and not prematurely shorten his career by fucking up his wrist for good?

obviously not news but it remains *amazing* that they fired alex cora when he got suspended, then fired his replacement a year later and rehired him when he was reinstated

that is all-time; could only be improved if they'd instead traded him to the phillies for a prospect last weekend

btw manager ron roenicke has been out of baseball since guiding the sox to a 24-36 record in the covid season

alex cora has this peter mandelson like ability to never be completely flushed away. would anybody actually be that surprised if during the upcoming offseason he’s announced as craig breslow’s replacement?

more seriously, it seems Crochet has told reporters that the reason he’s injured is because he didn’t prepare properly in spring training? this is the guy who declined the WBC in order to… *checks notes* prepare properly in spring training. what in the samhain is going on over there??

What in the Samhain? What?

What exactly is Andrew Bailey doing over there?

WOOF
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Awooooo

Contreras said it probably doesn’t help that the lineup has a number of young players who don’t have much experience in dealing with slumps, and minutes later, Marcelo Mayer seemed to take exception to that explanation.

“To me, that’s just kind of an excuse: blame the young guys,” said Mayer. “But at the end of the day, we’re all playing baseball, we’re all pros. We all know what we need to do. I don’t think we’re doing a good job with runners in scoring position. When you don’t do that, you don’t score runs.

“We had a lot of opportunities. We want to win every series and that’ one we thought we should have had. A lot of runners left on base. Just not good overall.”

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oh stop it cmon

although

an almost unbelievable fact about this team -

when trailing at ANY POINT in the game, they have come back to win only twice.

One month passes...

gyac says this team is "unlikeable"

Me, I think there are fewer pleasures more unalloyed than watching a team that was in the coffin, the nails battened down, six feet of dirt piled on top and grass starting to grow, suddenly stir - and not because of expensive reinforcements, not because of daddy riding to the rescue, but because of some dudes who would not crack a starting lineup absent a whole raft of key injuries stepping into major league uniforms and just wilding out - your Anthony Sieglers, your Andruw Monasterios, your Jake Bennetts and such. your Boston Seadogs, as it were. quad-A and proud, baby

this season the Sox have gotten absolutely nothing from:

- Crochet
- Anthony
- Mayer
- Campbell
- Story
- Duran
- Casas

all the heartthrobs and superstars, future and present - zilch. But we move

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Tracer Hand
Posted: 20 July 2026 at 10:25:37
gyac says this team is "unlikeable"

Bruh???? They are!

no accounting for taste

Chapman - Woman beater who allegedly informed on people for the Cuban government which led to their torture (https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=ac14a977-719d-4790-a4f0-b0e27307f65f)
Contreras - hair trigger temper, known shithead
Duran - homophobe, hair trigger temper

i saw monasterio play against the mets last year on the brewers, liked him a lot. happy he’s getting some quality playing time

very likeable dude :)

"Caleb Durbin is the first Red Sox third baseman to have 10+ HR and 10+ SB in a season since Joe Foy in 1968."

I don't know a thing about Caleb Durbin, but anytime Joe Foy makes his way back into the conversation, the world is automatically a better place.

young guy, came over from milwaukee along with monasterio and siegler in the kyle harrison trade. he’s got great hands but was as bad as bad could be at the plate until he went outside the organization looking for help and linked up with narvaez’s hitting coach. he’s been a beast ever since and a big reason the sox have been on this roll. safe to say nobody’s missing bregman’s “veteran presence” right now

early to nats for aussie curtis mead. don’t hate it!

nice to see an old-school baseball trade - not a salary dump just a straight up trade for both teams to fill a need

surprised they would part with early. thought mead was sort of a bust, but he's doing alright this year and BABIP doesn't point to it being a fluke.

chase and whiff are both really good. and he hits the ball a long way. the red sox always need a steve pearce type of guy which is the best case scenario for him imo

As a Nats fan, the thing that scares me about the trade is the extent of how bad Early's injury is.

Mead exits after a HBP on his left hand in his second BoSox AB. 😬

RIP the Curtis Mead era

Well I used to wake up before refreshing the Globe home page
Searching for some good news, some out of left field trade
Yoshida for a bullpen arm, Duran for an eighth of weed
Never thought that Breslow’d go for a man named Curtis Mead

Initially diagnosed with a bruised left wrist but nope, fractured left wrist.

July 2026: 21-4

(was nice to see them beat up on the Dodgers in LA tonight)

Red Sox after 108 games

2023: 57-51
2024: 57-51
2025: 57-51
2026: 57-51

doug mirabelli catching strays in the 33⅓ book on 'double nickels on the dime'

(unfortunately it does not go on to explain that no one else could catch wakefield)

When it came time to sequence Double Nickels, the Minutemen drew
straws to determine the order in which they’d pick songs for their
respective sides. George won the draw and got to pick first, followed by
Watt, then D. Boon. With George’s first pic, he chose “You Need the
Glory,” his solo song, featuring a bunch of drums and a scat solo. Boon
and Watt were astounded. Out of all the songs Hurley could have chosen,
he picked his own, a song that featured him pounding on oil cans and
singing nonsense syllables.

At first Hurley’s selection might seem a little bit silly, like having the
first pick in a baseball fantasy draft and selecting Doug Mirabelli.

(xpost) Khris Davis-level amazing.

there's a lesson in there about too-topical references

This is starting to get ridiculous

unstoppale

Tied with Los Yanqs in the loss column

this team is rather tenacious!

Unreal.

ok ok they're getting me to watch a little bit

that game last night was nuts

The series-opening win on Friday was the 27th for the Red Sox in the last 30 games. They’re just the 10th team since 1900 to go 27-3 or better in a 30-game span within a season. They joined Cleveland in 2017, the 1977 Royals, 1953 Yankees, 1947 Yankees, 1941 Yankees, 1936 Giants, 1916 Giants, 1909 Pirates and 1906 Cubs.

https://www.mlb.com/news/red-sox-on-historic-27-3-hot-streak

TENACIOUS!!!

alas... never a dull moment.

thinking back to the time this team literally only had like one come from behind victory in the first two months of the season, to now, when they can go into the 9th losing 7-2 and still make it interesting (with their best hitter clearly still gassed from the flu, and yoshida not available)

gasper, tony siegs, sogard.. who needs a trade deadline eh

5 back of TB with 30 to play