J.D. Drew News

Bay is virtually the same hitter that J.D. Drew was when the Red Sox gave Drew $70 million over five years three years ago.

The envelopes are sealed, but not for long. Major League Baseball's Award season is upon us, and the Red Sox have some players who could well be recognized for their individual accomplishments in 2009.

Now begins the intriguing case of Jason Bay, a man whose contract negotiations with the Red Sox are, in some ways, unprecedented.

Red Sox GM Theo Epstein says he bought low on a player with considerable promise when he acquired Jeremy Hermida .

Wednesday, November 04, 2009 It's tough to get all hot and bothered about the World Series when the Sox don't have a horse in the race.

I.A From 200 to Infinity One of the popular fallacies of the internet is that it is "like cable TV on steroids."A Just as cable had expanded the range of channels from 12 to 50 to 200, the internet would expand the number of information outlets from 200 to something like infinity.A The problem with this analogy is two fold.A For one thing, infinity ...

Major League Baseball doesn't need a mythical national champion. It can generate enough arguments on its own.

Well, this took me a little longer than I expected, but oh well. Continuing in the player-by-player breakdown of who we had in 2009 and what they are to the team in 2010, I give you the batters.

Things happen for a reason. In the case of the reasonable expectations of Johnny Damon, he's four wins from living happily ever after in New York, even if those are his last four here.

First of all let me put this straight: I'm just exploring the Red Sox other options if they don't succeed to resign Bay or land Holiday, a plan B if you will.

Red Sox general manager Theo Epstein spoke candidly about the sudden end to his team's season, his thoughts on moving the club forward, Jason Bay's free agency, J.D. Drew's value, David Ortiz, Daniel Bard, and other players and topics during an interview on WEEI's "Dennis and Callahan" program this morning.

WEEI.com's Rob Bradford reports Boston Red Sox general manager Theo Epstein said OF J.D. Drew is one of the most valuable outfielders in the league.

The Angels have been one of baseball's top teams for almost a decade. But, as this Baseball Prospectus piece observes, this ALCS features an Angels team quite different than the versions we've gotten used to, the ones driven by contact hitters, speed and aggression on the bases, and the dominating back-end bullpen combination of Scot Shields and ...

's worth and how they approach contract negotiations with him in the coming weeks will be one of the more revealing chapters of the offseason.

The 2009 season comes to a close Sooner or later it was going to happen, but no one in Boston thought it'd happen in this fashion.

Subdued and with a flatter affect than usual, Ortiz was ready to put the game, and his notably up-and-down season, into the circular file.

The early action in ALDS Game Three favors the Red Sox. A 5-1 lead thanks, in part, to Dustin Pedroia finally proving the Sox can score runs against the Angels.

J.D. Drew made the most of his opportunity to start on Sunday in Game 3 of the American League Division Series when he hit a fourth-inning home run that gave the Red Sox a 5-1 lead over the Angels.

The Red Sox were one strike away from a win that would have prolonged their season another day.

For their part, the Red Sox are hoping that they purged all of their bad postseason Baseball in a span of about three hours here last night.