Jacoby Ellsbury News

The show, currently benched for November sweeps, returns Dec. 4. That "Keeping up With the Kardashians" babe Kim Kardashian has cancelled her appearance at tomorrow's Gypsy Bar anniversary bash due to a filming conflict.

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

In the Nation, we tend to get impatient...a lot. This tends to escalate in offseasons following disappointing campaigns, but then again, our version of disappointing would make about 80 percent of the rest of baseball angry considering the Red Sox's run of success over the past decade.

The Red Sox retained one of the key members of their minor league system yesterday when director of player development Mike Hazen declined to join the San Diego Padres as assistant general manager.

It's not even the hot stove yet, but damn it, don't tell that to Bill James! After the jump is a sneak peak at what the Bill James Handbook has to offer for the 2010 Boston Red Sox .

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.

Jacoby Ellsbury moving to left field? For the heck of it? There are days where you have to incur the statheads' wrath.

It's the Big Apple vs. the City of Brotherly Love as the Fall Classic is ready to treat baseball fans everywhere with a memorable World Series matchup.

Michael Silverman of the Boston Herald wrote yesterday that he thinks the Red Sox should trade for the Met's center fielder Carlos Beltran to improve their outfield defense.

So what does this have to do with the 2010 Red Sox? While they see Ellsbury maturing into an excellent center fielder, they also have mulled moving him to left field, where they believe he would be outstanding.

Boston has been to the playoffs five times, winning two championships and coming just one win short of reaching two additional World Series.

But given that Bay and the Red Sox already have had plenty of opportunities to work out a contract extension for the outfielder, how meaningful will those next five weeks be? ``It's very unusual for a player not to take the opportunity to at least listen, if he's come this far, to what other teams have to say,'' general manager Theo Epstein said ...

Jacoby Ellsbury wove his way through a crowded clubhouse, carrying above his head one of the bases he was awarded while breaking the team's single-season stolen base record.

The early commentary on the Red Sox/Angels ALDS included the notion that Jered Weaver ought to be reserved to home starts, where his career 3.27 ERA is almost a whole run lower than his career 4.17 ERA on the road .

Share + Oct 8, 2009 10:09 pm US/Eastern Read: Dan Roche's Blog The Red Sox will be in Anaheim on Thursday night to begin their series against the Angels in the American League Divisional Series.

Brian Anderson was given the last spot on Boston's playoff roster, over Rocco Baldelli.

The Red Sox have an Angel of their own pulling for them. View full size photo uploaded October 6, 2009 Just like with the Angels and Yankees, we continue our series "Two Truths and a Lie" with the AL Wild Card-winning Sawx.

Boston center fielder Jacoby Ellsbury walked through a crowded clubhouse carrying a base he was awarded for breaking the team's single-season stolen base record.

John Lackey pounded the ball into his glove when he spotted Angels manager Mike Scioscia coming out of the dugout in the eighth inning last night.

Jered Weaver did his usual routine against the Boston Red Sox on Friday. Yet the day was anything but routine.