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Frankly, next year I'll take Nick Sogard over Trevor Story. He's been better at the plate and in the field, and he's improving. Red Sox, trade Story this offseason if you can, put Sogard in at Short, have Romy Gonzalez and one other guy as your infield bench, and bring in Arias when he's ready.

Cam Booser, you just made it to the World Series. Gotta feel good for this guy. www.milb.com/news/cam-boo...

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Is your MLB team's fan base clamoring for more power bats? Have them note that the 3 teams that have gone the farthest in the playoffs this year all finished the regular season in the bottom 20% in Isolated Power. However 2 of them are top 8 in the all-important OPS, thanks to very high OBP's.

Advice for New England Patriots fans: don't start watching games until week 4.

The Red Sox offseason mantra should be this: it is better to tank in July and dominate in September than it is to dominate in July and tank in September. They need to figure out how to have late-season success if they're going to go anywhere in the playoffs next year.

Now that the Red Sox have been eliminated, TNT should consider adding Payton Tolle to their on-air team for the broadcast of the Rays-Yankees series. He may not be great or polished at it, but he sure would be a lot more interesting to listen to than Rizzo.

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Here's my Red Sox starting 9 for the playoffs: C: Rutschman IF: Durbin, Story, Gonzalez, and Contreras if able (otherwise Sogard at 2B and Gonzalez at 1B) OF/DH: Duran, Rafaela, Abreu, Anthony (in the chart, red is above average, blue below)

The Red Sox best 3 players lately have been Caleb Durbin, Jarren Duran, and Adley Rutchman. Yes, that's right, Jarren Duran. (in the chart, red is above average, blue below) Wilyer Abreu should have Sunday off, for 3 straight days of rest - the kind of rest that's turned his bat hot in the past.

Gasper is out. Contreras is out. No reason left for the Red Sox to not bring up Romy Gonzalez. Put him at first base - it's his best defensive position, and he's actually pretty good there. If he's not too rusty from inaction this past week, he could really boost this somewhat stagnant offense.

Patrick Sandoval - 40 pitches in that first inning, and a heck of a lot of those were uncompetitive. Looks like they're gonna ride with him until he reaches his pitch count, regardless of outcome.

Has Brayan Bello taken Jake Bennett's place as the probable #4 starter for the Red Sox in the playoffs?

The Red Sox clinch a playoff berth with a win tomorrow. Or with an Astros loss. Or with a Rangers loss. Anyone giving you a more convoluted scenario for this has it wrong. (And that happened a lot yesterday.)

In NESN's pregame show for today's Red Sox game, they said the Red Sox clinch today if the Sox win and the Blue Jays beat the Rangers. This is incorrect. The Red Sox hold the tiebreaker over the Rangers, and a Red Sox win would clinch the tie, and thus the wild card spot.

A win today gets the Red Sox into the playoffs. They cannot "back in" to the playoffs despite a loss today, because that would only happen if both the Blue Jays and the Rangers lost today, and those two teams are playing each other today.

What it will take to get the Red Sox into the playoffs.

The winner of next week's 3-game Red Sox/Guardians series takes the season tiebreaker between these teams. It's a simple criterion with a very complex explanation. An explanation I give you here: baseballsphere.com/2026/09/17/t...

The winner of tonight’s Red Sox-Rangers game takes the season tiebreaker. While that criterion is simple, determining it is not as simple. baseballsphere.com/2026/09/17/t...

Romy Gonzalez was pulled from a game a week ago Tuesday with an injury that nobody ever explained. He finally returns a week later, and doesn't miss a beat, with a double and a walk. Over his last 7 games: 14-for-26, 3 doubles, 2 HR .538/.567/.885 slash line 1.451 OPS Call him up!

In the 6th inning of last night's Red Sox game, I asked myself, will they be saying "Olds holds" or will they be saying "Olds folds"? They said "Olds holds". :)

If the Red Sox win 5 of their remaining 12 games, they are in the playoffs (in a wild card spot). If they win just 4 of their remaining 12 games, there's a 99.99999924% chance they'll make the playoffs. I think they can pull this off.

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT ROMY GONZALEZ'S INJURY IS, AND HOW LONG HE'LL BE SIDELINED? Kristian Campbell and Romy Gonzalez got pulled from the same game with injury, and we know all about Campbell's, but frustratingly nothing about Gonzalez's.

How many immaculate innings have had at least 8 swings? Someone please let me know. Because there was only 1 taken pitch in Payton Tolle's immaculate inning last night.

OMG, I love the smile from Payton Tolle when he got to one pitch shy of the immaculate inning. And then he put away the smile and focused.

Romy González in his last 5 games for the AAA Red Sox: 13-for-22 with 2 HR, 2 doubles, a walk, and a stolen base, for a 1.538 OPS. In 19 games since returning to AAA: 87 PA, .385/.425/.564, .989 OPS. Still want them to bring him up now.

Romy González in his last 3 games for the AAA Red Sox: 9-for-14 with 2 HR, a double, a walk, and a stolen base, for a 1.810 OPS. In 17 games since returning to AAA: 78 PA, .371/.423/.557, .980 OPS (Yes, I'm implying they should bring him up and send Monasterio down.)

If he goes on the IL, I wonder if they bring up Kristian Campbell, who has been swinging the bat well in AAA for the past 2 months.

Players called up from AAA Worcester since Sunday (Anthony, Story, and Gasper) have produced most of the Red Sox total bases since then (38 out of 72). And that's without Gasper playing on Sunday.

I think all of us Red Sox fans have have to evaluate whether we've been mistaking "He's-playing-through-injury" Trevor Story for "He's-over-the-hill" Trevor Story. I'm glad he stopped playing though injury, because "He's-playing-healthy" Trevor Story looks pretty darn good.

They need to make a new statistic in baseball, called the "Hug Out", or HO for short. Here is what the league leaders for that stat in 2026 would look like right now:

Back-to-back multihit games for both of them. Coming through in the late innings with BIG hits. Okay, you've convinced me Red Sox, Roman Anthony and Trevor Story were ready to come back.

Meanwhile in Worcester today, Kristian Campbell and Romy Gonzalez both go 3-for-4 with a walk; Campbell homered twice, and Romy had a double.

The Red Sox don't need to remove any position players from the current roster to make room for Trevor Story and Roman Anthony, so long as their rehabs stretch into next week. But eventually they'll need to remove 1 to 3 guys, depending on some choices they'll face. baseballsphere.com/2026/08/28/w...

Bunt for hits against Schlittler tonight, Red Sox. Bunt for hits. Go get 'em.