Sean Casey News

Scuffling Jason Bay, who went 0 for 4 and whose average is down to .259, shuffles off after an eighth-inning strikeout.

Friday night, NESN had a very special treat up in the broadcasters booth as Sean Casey, "The Mayor," returned to Boston to color commentate with Don Orsillo... by Amanda Bruno 9 reads Game Recap Friday night, NESN had a very special treat up in the broadcasters booth as Sean Casey, "The Mayor," returned to Boston to color commentate with Don ...

Over the last few years, the Red Sox have done a solid job bringing in role players who accept their duties as bench guys.

During his 12-year Major League Baseball career that included stints with the Indians, Reds, Pirates, Tigers and Red Sox, Sean Casey had a .302 batting average, clubbed 130 home runs and had 735 RBIs.

The Reds had a 3-hour and 54 minute, nine-inning game with the New York Mets. It's time for baseball, the only major sport without a clock, to concentrate all its energy on adding rules to quicken the game.

Brandon Moss gravitated to one teammate in particular last season when he was still playing for the Boston Red Sox.

Imagine that. Imagine every single player in the big leagues, all 750 of them, "Being Manny." Crazy? Sure.

So often, the passage of time changes our perception of the past. The warts fade away and the good times magnify, creating this hilarious reality we live in now, where no one in baseball other than Steve Howe, Pete Rose and the Black Sox did anything unseemly before 1988.

One man's injury is another's opportunity. Brad Wilkerson was without a contract for 2009 and the Red Sox [ team stats ] didn't have much to offer after re-signing outfielder/first baseman Mark Kotsay in ...

Sean Casey, a University of Richmond graduate who played major league baseball for 12 years, announced his retirement on Jan.

Curt Schilling has spoken out on his blog 38 PITCHES. He wants the powers-that-be to release ALL the names of the supposedly confidential survey that listed the players who tested positive for steroids.

Unfortunately for their pennant hopes in 2009, there is the very real danger that all of them will be delivering less at the plate, but to make a bad situation worse, the organization has only one possible ...

A day after Alex Rodriguez was linked to steroids, another All-Star offered this suggestion: Make public the entire list of players who failed drug tests.

'I'd be all for the 104 positives being named, and the game moving on if that is at all possible,' former Boston ace Curt Schilling wrote on his blog Sunday.

'In my opinion, if you don't do that, then the other 600-700 players are going to be guilty by association, forever,' he wrote. 'It appears that not only was it 104, but three of the greatest of our, or any, generation appear to be on top of this list.'

First baseman and legendary nice guy Sean Casey recently announced his retirement , hanging up his cleats and transitioning to a career in television, where his personality will receive much more exposure.

The scenario's been described a thousand times if it's been described once: There's a smiling, gracious Sean Casey, sticking around long after a game to greet the last fan, sign the last autograph and inspire ...

Sean Casey is saying goodbye to the baseball field and the field will never be the same - quieter and with a lot less class.

Two days into his life as an ex-major leaguer, Sean Casey took some time to recall the days when he was a future major leaguer.

Sean Casey has few regrets in his 12 years in the big leagues. But it sounds as if the biggest one is the 1999 Reds not being able to break though to the playoffs.

During his 12-year career, Sean Casey's most endearing trait became his most enduring.

Jason Varitek filed for free agency more than three months ago. By Saturday, it should become known whether the Red Sox catcher and captain will be returning to the team this season.