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The Red Sox officially offered arbitration to free agent Jason Varitek before Monday's 11:59 p.m. ET deadline, meaning that they will get two compensatory picks in the 2009 First-Year Player Draft if the ...

My 2009 Baseball Hall of Fame ballot arrived in the mail the other day. I gave it a once-over and then put it aside.

Here's the deal. Peter Abraham, my friend who covers the Yankees for the Journal News in New York, wrote a blog post this morning listing, in order, the 20 most important members of the Yankees' organization as ...

The Red Sox appear poised to add to their recent track record of landing Japanese pitchers, as right-hander Junichi Tazawa has reportedly decided to join the franchise that already has Daisuke Matsuzaka and ...

Rocco Baldelli has been voted the winner of the 19th annual Tony Conigliaro Award, which is presented to a Major League player who has overcome adversity through the attributes of spirit, determination and ...

Every now and then, I'll get an e-mail from a Red Sox fan telling me they recognized greatness in Dustin Pedroia way back in 2005, when he was a Portland Sea Dog.

The award goes to the player who played with spirit and determination. Youkilis also won last season.

A day that was supposed to be about individual glory wound up taking an added twist for the Boston Red Sox.

In search of another arm to add to their rotation, the Red Sox may be looking at free-agent right-hander A.J. Burnett.

Posted by Christine E. at 12:52 pm in Baseball , Random Thoughts , Red Sox Holy Buckets! Ita s only been a little more than 3 weeks since there was meaningful baseball? Feels like 24 weeksand in case you were ...

WASHINGTON a ' Olie Kolzig got a warm welcome from the crowd in his return to Washington.

In this crucial baseball offseason for our local teams, the Mets and Yankees still are trying to define themselves as organizations.

Major League Baseball fans announced today that they really miss baseball. It was one of those scattered announcements without an actual press release or local news coverage, the kind that you pick up instead ...

Left-handed pitcher Jon Lester, who came back from an off-season battle with cancer to pitch the winning game for the Boston Red Sox in the 2007 World Series, will receive the 2008 Hutch Award.

Though it was an evening to celebrate Red Sox players of past eras, the men who were inducted into the team's Hall of Fame on Friday were thrilled to do so amid a time period that might one day be looked at as ...

Theo Epstein signed a new contract to remain general manager of the Red Sox in just the fashion he prefers -- behind the scenes.

Why, he was a whopping 10-11 this year. His best years are behind him and those were nothing to get excited about.

Watching the Phillies and Rays slog through a World Series not much better than the ratings it got, it's hard not to think back to the spring, when the Red Sox appeared the best assembled, best managed, best ...

Of the seven Red Sox prospects playing in the Arizona Fall League, Clay Buchholz has garnered the most attention.

The Red Sox exercised Tim Wakefield's $4 million option on Friday. In 2009, Wakefield will become the first pitcher in Red Sox history to pitch 15 consecutive seasons with the team.