Posts Categorized: Boston Red Sox

As many readers of CLNS Radio already know, I am a resident of the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton area. This morning, while doing my daily glance-over of the local Wilkes-Barre newspapers, I found a headline that caught my eye. Covering Boston sports for a living, any time a local headline appears with Boston Red Sox in it, obviously [...]

The Red Sox compensation for their former General Manager Theo Epstein will undergo elbow surgery to remove bone spurs tomorrow. The Red Sox received minor league pitcher Chris Carpenter from the Chicago Cubs in exchange for Theo Epstein who opted out of his contract with the Red Sox early to join the Chicago Cubs. Negotiations [...]

  The rumors about an expansion of CLNS Radio has been swirling around the net. We have fielded your mailbag questions regarding this exciting news. Now it’s time to make it official! CLNS Radio is very proud to announce that we are expanding our coverage! CLNS is taking their platform to the Philadelphia market in [...]

The last time Daniel Bard was a starting pitcher was four years ago. It was in Single A Greenville. That’s no big deal, pitchers turn into relievers in the bigs all the time, just to make the transition back. But Bard was so bad, they sent him to Hawaii  to change his mechanics. And he never [...]

It’s another week closer to the start of the regular season and we are not that much closer to determining who will be filling some of the holes in the Red Sox starting lineup and more importantly who will fill the 4th and 5th slots in the starting rotation and who will round out the [...]

The youngest, most promising candidate for the starting shortstop role and a player who was once ranked the systems #1 prospect were today optioned down to AAA Pawtucket by Bobby Valentine and the Boston Red Sox.  Jose Iglesias and Lars Anderson were sent down today after very promising spring training results and will be forced [...]

Follow Mike Macchi on Twitter According to multiple reports, Boston Red Sox pitcher Bobby Jenks was arrested and charged with driving under the influence in Florida early Friday morning. When he was pulled over by Deputy Marsha Sutphin, Jenks blamed the taking of an excess of muscle relaxers on him being all over the road [...]

After last years disaster with much of the Red Sox epic September collapse being credited towards a lack of discipline in the clubhouse, most Red Sox fans demanded a disciplinarian to replace Terry Francona,  in that they got Bobby Valentine. From the start, Valentine has been determined to prove that he is the complete opposite [...]

For the first time in a few years, the Red Sox have a stable catching situation. Jarrod Salatalamacchia has proven his ability as a starter, and with a veteran like Kelly Shoppach to back him, and Ryan Lavarnway in Triple A, there should not be many issues going on at the catching position. Farther down [...]

  Follow me on Twitter @CLNS_Sean New Red Sox Manager Bobby Valentine has made a decision as to who his starter pitcher will be when his team takes the field at Comerica Park in Detroit on April 5th against the Tigers. Peter Abraham of the Boston Globe reported the decision earlier today. Of course it [...]