George Kottaras News

This is not news by now: the Red Sox are likely to need a catcher for the 2009 season and beyond.

Tony Maz keeps saying the Red Sox' priority at the winter meetings will be to sign Mark Teixeira, which, as we discussed earlier , they should do if they can.

Today, longtime Red Sox catcher Jason Varitek filed for free agency from the team.

Jason Varitek back in Boston? Scott Boras won't make it easy. Life without Jason Varitek.

The Red Sox are committed to contending every year, so they don't rebuild, they renovate, and any homeowner who has redone a kitchen knows how hard it is to use something and fix something at the same time.

Sunday night, minutes after the Red Sox [ team stats ] ' season ended in a disappointing Game 7 ALCS loss to the Rays, the subject was broached again.

Boston Red Sox manager Terry Francona fielded several questions about the postseason during a press conference Monday at Fenway Park.

BOSTON - The Yankees followed the time-honored tradition of hazing rookie players on the season's final road trip by dressing theirs like The Village People Saturday as " YMCA " blared in the clubhouse and ...

Yet when you ask Sox manager Terry Francona to share some of his favorite moments from that magical season, he still likes to talk about the night an obscure minor league journeyman named Andy Dominique got his ...

Ouch. There were some bright spots in this one, though. Jacoby Ellsbury and Kevin Youkilis both homered in the first inning.

A trip to the furniture store never worked out so well for Mary Kottaras and family.

Paul Byrd threw 47 of 59 pitches for strikes, but he gave up 10 hits, most of them hit hard.

It's becoming a daily ritual at Fenway Park . Dustin Pedroia does something that hasn't been done in decades, if ever, and another ball has to be retrieved.

George Kottaras made his major league debut in the first game of Saturday's day-night doubleheader against the Blue Jays.

It was a Major League debut without warning, and for George Kottaras, that was part of what made it fun.

Byrd's mid-innings implosion turned this one ugly in a hurry. Travis Snider -- the youngest player in the AL -- drove in five of the Jays' six runs in the fifth and sixth innings, with a three-run dong to right ...

That cheer from York Region during the first half of Saturday's Toronto Blue Jays-Boston Red Sox double header had nothing to do with the Jays winning 8-1. It was for Markham's George Kottaras who scored ...

By GARRY BROWN gbrown@repub.com BOSTON - As the Boston Red Sox celebrated a baseball record for consecutive sellouts - 456 as of Monday night's game - they also had to ponder an interesting question: How long ...

But now, as the 2008 Red Sox close in on a postseason berth, they are finally getting some big league benefit from the Wells deal.

Drew, sidelined since August 18 because of a strained lower back, was hitting .280 with 19 homers and 64 RBIs before the injury.