Brad Penny News

If you haven't heard, Alex Gonzalez signed a one-year contract with the Toronto Blue Jays.

Jon Paul Morosi is a national MLB writer for FOXSports.com. He previously covered baseball for the Detroit Free Press and Seattle Post-Intelligencer. He began his journalism career at the Bay City Times in his native Michigan.

Now, he may be one of their first targets in free agency. According to a major league source, the Sox met with the right-hander's agent at the GM meetings earlier this week in Chicago.

Pedro Martinez has to take the ball in the Bronx tonight and cut and curve and quick-pitch the overhyped Yankees hitters into knots.

Will Victor Martinez be the full-time catcher next year and will Jason Varitek still be around? -- Liam R., Roslindale, Mass.

John Smoltz. Brad Penny. Bartolo Colon. Joel Pineiro, for God's sake. The Red Sox took a flyer on all of these folks - mostly on minor league deals - in the last three years.

The most promising aspect, going forward, is that the Red Sox have money to spend again.

This guy has a lot of work to do. Whew, I just got back from an abortive effort climbing Mt.

Phillies fans are going to hate this. They're going to hate me for saying it. And they shouldn't. Here goes: The National League still isn't anywhere near as good as the American League.

Brad Penny 's move to California has been money for the formerly beleaguered Red Sox [ team stats ] hurler, who found his winning ways on the Left Coast - and some hot action with "Dancing With the Stars" hoofer-temptress Karina Smirnoff ! Penny, 31, who the Sox released in August after he went 7-8 on the mound with a 5.61 ERA, went 4-1 after being ...

Long widely and casually assumed, the concept of the Yankees' hegemony and its sheer inevitability has been ravaged since the memorable autumn of '04. So when the Bronx bullies ran roughshod over the Fenway pets the last couple of months it was easy for "the Nation" - " its collective mind gripped by group-think, like that of any other cult - " to ...

Still, the idea of dipping into the free-agent well for similar low-cost, incentive-based deals for pitchers coming back from injuries or with long histories of injuries is still a possibility this offseason.

Neither deal worked out particularly well. Penny won seven games for the Sox, but from May 9 until his release in late August, won only twice.

He failed to pitch. He s--t the bed. He treated the LA A of A as if he was pitching to Omir Santos.

John Farrell, towel in hand, is wiping down the padded bench inside the home dugout where errant spray from the grounds crew has turned everything sopping wet, a sodden site for a scheduled interview.

Well, this certainly seems familiar. One of the reliable features of a divisional playoff slate that involves twice as many ballclubs and wild-card teams makes for a few rematches, so it's not too much of a surprise that we get to see the and Angels square off for a fourth time in six years in October.

Randy posted a link to a Ken Rosenthal article predicting an LA victory in the ALDS.

NAHEIM, Calif. - So they meet again. For the third year running, and fourth time in the last six Octobers, the Red Sox [ team stats ] and Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim are poised to meet in the American League Division Series.

There are reasons to be hopeful about the Diamondbacks offense in 2010. They are named Justin Upton, Mark Reynolds and Miguel Montero.

They defeated Arizona 4-1 Wednesday night as Brad Penny ended a six-start audition with his first complete game since 2005.