The Epstein/Francona tree is beginning to bear fruit
It took seven years, but the Red Sox tree has finally begun to shed a couple of its valuable leaves.After building up one of the best organizations in Major League Baseball and winning a pair of World Series titles together, Theo Epstein and Terry Francona have constructed quite the baseball machine with structure and success working in concert on the field and an impressive collection of baseball minds putting the pieces together off it.It was only a matter of time before Boston finally began to lose some of their coaching and

Delcarmen's Fifth Annual Bowling Event
Boston Red Sox Pitcher Manny Delcarmen to “Bowl Strikes for Schools” During Fifth Annual Charity EventThe Pride of Hyde Park to “Roll” With a Line-Up of Boston Sports Stars to  Raise Money for Boston Public Schools at Kings Back Bay  WHO: Boston Red Sox star Manny Delcarmen; members of the 2008/2009 Boston Red Sox team; local celebrities & personalities; children from Boston Public Schools; sports fans of all ages. WHAT: The homegrown hero returns to host his fifth annual “Bowlin’ Strikes for Schools” fundraiser at Kings Back Bay. Manny will trade in his cleats for a pair of bowling shoes to roll out a day of

Red Sox have plenty of work in store this winter
The Red Sox front office became well acquainted with the ballclub’s flaws during the 2009 baseball season, and then watched as they all mercilessly appeared while Boston was quickly swept by the Angels during the ALDS. Boston was prone to long, uninspiring slumps while away from Fenway Park and no longer bragged the kind of dynamic middle-of-the-order power bat capable of punishing Major League Baseball’s best pitching. Boston’s team defense isn’t quite what it used to be, and some of their aging stars – Mike Lowell and David Ortiz chief among them

Papelbon, Red Sox simply didn't get it done
Jonathan Papelbon had always been some sort of playoff Terminator throughout his career with the Red Sox.The 29-year-old reliever entered Sunday’s Game 3 with a string of 26 scoreless postseason innings through his first 17 playoff appearances, and openly revealed that the record was “very near and dear” to the outspoken closer. Well, it’s time for the four-time All-Star to start a new record after sitting at the center of an epic Sox bullpen collapse in Sunday afternoon’s Game 3 loss to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.It wasn’t just the Boston closer, obviously, as the Sox fell with hardly a whimper to the Halos in a three-game ALDS sweep, and finished thin

Ortiz's simple message: "We are troopers"
David Ortiz has a couple of messages for his Red Sox teammates now that his team stands on the brink of elimination down 0-2 to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.The first is pretty simple: “Hit the damn ball.”The second is more a team-wide rallying cry after things went about as bad as they possibly could have against an Angels team they’d dominated over their last three playoff meetings. Nobody is saying much about 9 out of the last 10 now. The Boston hitters looked eerily similar to the impotent outfit that carried a 31-inning scoreless streak