Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images The latest news and notes from around Red Sox Nation. Honestly, why do I even bother with these Meet The New Guys? Infielder Zack Short, a new guy we only just met last week, has already moved on to another team. The Red Sox traded him to the Braves while the team was still in Atlanta in exchange for cash considerations. At least he already had his bags packed and didn’t have to get on a plane. (Sean McAdam, MassLive) Garrett Cooper is still though. But unfortunately he has yet to do much to help out his new team. Hopefully his nightly video study will help h ..read more

Photo by Barry Chin/The Boston Globe via Getty Images Admit it, you laughed Happy Weekend. What a mess. But it’s time for a fresh start against a new opponent: the Red Sox have three games against the visiting Washington Nationals. The Sox are just 7-9 at home vs 12-9 on the road so a sweep of Washington could give Fenway a home field advantage again! Friday May 10: Patrick Corbin vs Tanner Houck at 7:10 PM ET on NESN. Saturday May 11: Jake Irvin vs Cooper Criswell at 4:10 PM ET on NESN. Sunday May 12: MacKenzie Gore vs TBD at 1:35 PM ET on NESN. Talk about what you want and be good to one ano ..read more

Photo by Billie Weiss/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images After a couple of days off this week, now’s a good time to stop and asses. Now that we’re nearing the quarter post of the season and getting some on-field results, we’d like to check in with the Over the Monster community to gauge fan opinion on how the Red Sox organization is being run. Below are three polls asking about the job performance of the front office, ownership, and the manager. Your job is to express your approval or disapproval of them based on everything that’s happened so far. Going forward, we’ll try to run these polls every thr ..read more

Photo by Jaiden Tripi/Getty Images Plus, an inside look at the Red Sox pitching factory. So what’s going on with Masataka Yoshida’s hand? Weirdly, not even the Red Sox seem to know. Yoshida saw another specialist in Atlanta yesterday — and the swelling apparently has gone down — but we still lack clarity on both what caused the injury in the first place and how long he’ll need to recover. (Julian McWilliams, Boston Globe) Injuries aside, the story of the 2024 Red Sox so far is unquestionably the outstanding performance of the starting pitching. How exactly has this group turned things around s ..read more

Photo by Maddie Malhotra/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images And Portland continues to hit top to bottom, albeit in a loss. The Red Sox struggled to bring guys home Wednesday, just as they did Tuesday. Down on the farm, one pitching staff got shellacked, and two familiar faces in the infield (Enmanuel Valdez and Marcelo Mayer) continued to mash. Worcester, Game 1: L, 2-11 (BOX SCORE) Oof, not a good start to the double header. The Buffalo Bison (Jays Triple-A) got to the WooSox early and often. In just seven innings, the WooSox pitching staff allowed twelve hits and five more Bison reached due to wal ..read more

Photo by Kevin D. Liles/Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Jake, Keaton, and Bob reassess the Red Sox’ league-leading pitching staff, a tough week with the bats, and check in at each of the minor league levels. Welcome back to The Red Seat Podcast, episode number 315. On this week’s episode, Jake Devereaux, Keaton DeRocher and Bob Osgood reassess the Red Sox pitching at the quarter-turn, discuss the struggles with the bats over the past week, and check in at each of the minor league levels. To open the show, we discussed the pitching staff, which is getting closer to full strength. Nick Pivetta retur ..read more

Photo by Kevin D. Liles/Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Welp. That wasn’t great. Happy Thursday anyway. After a reversed call the Red Sox simply imploded Wednesday night against the Atlanta Braves. Good thing it’s an off day today to reset. After a disappointing road trip the Sox return to Fenway Park 19-18 with the suddenly hot-ish Washington Nationals in town for three games. Then it’s the slumping Tampa Bay Rays for four (plus three more next week) if the Sox want to try and hang around in the division. Remembering 2004 After 37 games Boston improved to 22-15 on the back of s strong start by Br ..read more

Photo by Jaiden Tripi/Getty Images See why Cooper Criswell is an important part of the Red Sox pitching staff. Welcome back to another edition of The Anatomy of An Inning. My name is Jacob Roy, and I pretend to know pitching better than the pitchers themselves. If you’re new here or need a reminder of what this is all about, I take an inning from the previous week or so and break it down, one pitch at a time. Each pitch should have a purpose, I’m looking at each individually to try to go beyond the box score and tell the full story. Stop me if you’ve heard this before: the Red Sox rotation has ..read more

I know you! | Brett Davis-USA TODAY Sports Chris Sale whips his old team six ways to Sunday. The Red Sox have been good enough and all but on Wednesday night they faced a Braves team that could have given a flying fuck about it and got pounded halfway back to Boston. With Chris Sale pitching. It was, for Sox fans, a whole deal. With Nick Pivetta on the mound in the bottom of the first, America’s sweetheart* Marcell Ozuna went yard on him for the fifth time in 25 at-bats, making it 3-0 Braves: Marcell Ozuna mashes a first inning three-run homer! He's now tied with Shohei Ohtani and Kyle Tuck ..read more

Photo by Brandon Sloter/Image Of Sport/Getty Images No injury for Sale…yet Last night was the Red Sox leaving baserunners all over the place. Tonight, can they do better? Connor Wong is back in the lineup and hitting second. Nick Pivetta is off the IL to pitch. (While Brayan Bello rehabs). Chris Sale has the ball for the Atlanta Braves. First pitch is at 7:20 PM ET on WEEI and NESN ..read more