Sam

Huge Red Sox fan. Roost request me: Sambirdy

[Gordo @BOSSportsGordo]

Willson Contreras: “We need more talent.”

(via @TheBeatwriter)

[✴︎ @finchertino]

. @letterboxd STAY INDEPENDENT 🩷

[Ian Rapoport @RapSheet]

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At last: The #Eagles are trading star WR AJ Brown to the #Patriots, per The Insiders.

It’s a 2028 first-round draft pick and a 2027 fifth-round pick going to Philly, as Brown reunites with coach Mike Vrabel. One of the NFL’s longest runnings sagas ends with a splash.

[Pat Brown @PatBrown954]

If the Sox were a league average offense (4.5 runs per game) their record would be....

32-14

[Buster Olney @Buster_ESPN]

Re: Red Sox, rival evaluator: “How does it make it better to fire one of the best managers in the game?”

[Jack Bardsley @bb4jbards]

Alex Cora didn’t trade Mookie Betts.
Alex Cora didn’t miss out on multiple big-name free agent signings.
Alex Cora didn’t lowball Alex Bregman.

Alex Cora was asked to manage a team whose “leader” is a 22 year-old kid with 9 career homers.

Sell the team.

[Jeff Passan @JeffPassan]

The Boston Red Sox fired manager Alex Cora, hitting coach Peter Fatse, bench coach Rámon Vazquez and game-planning coach Jason Varitek, sources tell ESPN.

While the Red Sox won today, they are 10-17 and in last in the American League East. Massive change is coming in Boston.

[Boston Celtics @celtics]

Injury Report for tomorrow vs. DAL:

Jayson Tatum - Right Achilles Repair - QUESTIONABLE

[Jared Carrabis @Jared_Carrabis]

I just need to keep reminding myself that I don’t hate the Dodgers. I hate all the other owners for normalizing an unwillingness to commit to winning on the same level as the Dodgers have.

[Jared Carrabis @Jared_Carrabis]

Tell me you didn’t love the contract or the defense at third. Fine. But trading Rafael Devers in a salary dump just to accommodate a one-year pillow contract for Alex Bregman before he signed elsewhere will go down as one of the biggest fuck ups in professional sports history.

[Mark Feinsand @Feinsand]

The Red Sox are acquiring Sonny Gray from the Cardinals, per source. @JonHeyman was on it.

[AT @BaseballWRLD_]

The Reds essentially have one of the most talented pitchers in the sport under a 4 year $61 million dollar contract and they’re already thinking about trading him after just making the playoffs

Shift more of your frustration away from the Dodgers on to owner’s like this.

[Red Sox @RedSox]

YOUR BOSTON RED SOX ARE POSTSEASON BOUND!

[Gordo @BOSSportsGordo]

BREAKING: Red Sox top prospect Payton Tolle will make his MLB debut tomorrow at Fenway against Paul Skenes and the Pirates, according to @Ken_Rosenthal.

[Jeff Passan @JeffPassan]

BREAKING: Outfielder Roman Anthony and the Boston Red Sox are finalizing an eight-year, $130 million contract extension, sources tell ESPN. The deal, which is pending a physical, includes a club option and will keep Anthony under team control through 2034.

[Sarah Langs @SlangsOnSports]

Wilyer Abreu is the 6th player to hit an inside-the-park home run AND a grand slam (separately) in a game, joining:

8/3/58 Roger Maris
7/4/39 Jim Tabor
8/4/30 Charlie Gehringer
7/4/1923 Everett Scott
6/5/1890 Jocko Fields

h/t @EliasSports

[Shams Charania @ShamsCharania]

BREAKING: The Boston Celtics have traded Jrue Holiday to the Portland Trail Blazers for Anfernee Simons and two second-round picks, sources tell ESPN.

[Jeff Passan @JeffPassan]

The San Francisco Giants are acquiring All-Star slugger Rafael Devers from the Boston Red Sox, sources confirm to ESPN. An out-of-nowhere blockbuster deal. Boston is getting RHP Jordan Hicks and more. First on the news was @ByRobertMurray.

[Jeff Passan @JeffPassan]

The Boston Red Sox are calling up outfielder Roman Anthony, the best prospect in baseball, sources tell ESPN. Anthony, 21, is expected to join the team today.

[Jesse Morse, M.D. @DrJesseMorse]

Awful would be an understatement.

The is one of the most devastating injuries in all of orthopedics.

The patellar tendon attaches the kneecap to the shin.

It is most commonly partially/fully torn in offensive lineman in American football.

There are 2 different versions: partial tear and full thickness tear.

This is a gruesome surgery and absolutely exhausting rehab.

Despite that, unfortunately the data post surgery is quite poor, at least for elite athletes (most of the data is from the NFL).

Realistically 1 year recovery, if not longer.

The worse part is that this is a completely fluky play.

I can’t even comprehend the mechanism to tear the patellar tendon falling like he did.

Wishing him the best of luck in his long arduous journey.