MLB draft is a month away. Here are the players most closely connected with the Red Sox this spring: High School Bo Lowrance (3B, HS) Jared Grindlinger (LHP/OF, HS) Trevor Condon (OF, HS) Brody Bumila (LHP, HS) Taj Marchand (SS, HS)

The Red Sox continue to pursue Isaac Paredes. He had a league average start to the year but has got hot in June. He's played a bad third base, as expected, and has 1 year of control remaining. The Red Sox have some of the worst DH production in baseball and could possibly have a 1B opening soon.

Eventually things get tragic enough to circle back to comedy. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/06/11/s...

It looks like the Sox are getting swing-the-bat instruction June: 19th - strikeout rate 20th - power 26th - runs per game 26th - slugging percentage 28th - batting average 29th - wOBA 30th - xwOBA 30th - wRC+ 30th - on-base percentage 30th - walk rate

The Red Sox are 27-39. Only one team in baseball history (excluding the 1981 split season) has ever reached the playoffs after that bad a start: The 1914 Miracle Braves. These Sox do not appear primed for a miracle. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/06/10/s...

Matz was spamming changeups to Rafaela because coming into the at-bat, against lefty changeups, he had a .146 xBA and 41% whiff rate. Seeing a bunch, then getting a bad one, didn't work out too well for him.

In the Red Sox last 50 innings, they have scored 12 runs, 2.2 R/9. They have scored in nine of the innings. 1 run in six and 2 runs in three.

Sox face Drew Rasmussen this afternoon, who's been awesome. He's the closest thing to Schlittler & Tolle in terms of hard pitch usage (4-seam + sink + cutter). 94th percentile in pitching run value, 96th in walk rate, and 88th and 84th in ground ball rate and hard-hit avoidance.

Since the coaching changes, Red Sox run scoring has decreased by 9.9% per plate appearance and 10.5% per game.

Got jumped by a couple of teams, so the Sox wake up today with the 4th lowest winning percentage in MLB. 4.5 games back in the AL wild card, but would need to climb over 8 teams. Playoff odds a new low at 15%.

is this the worst camera angle a major league game has ever been broadcast with?

Sox swept the Tigers and followed that up with a 3-6 record. Then they swept the Royals and have proceeded to go 5-10. The Globe is reporting the GM isn't in trouble, and the owners are making trade calls offering to eat bad contracts. Back to 10 games under .500. All's Well.

Over the past 1 month, Mayer's quality of contact (xwOBAcon) ranks 211th/212 MLB batters with at least 50 batted balls. I dunno 🤷‍♂️

Since his extended break, Durbin's come back with a bit more uppercut in his swing at contact, and he's just swinging the bat much more often in general. Big sample of being bad and unlucky, small sample of being average and lucky.

With that homer, Willson Contreras moves into the top 10 in wRC+ in MLB. Yordan, Rice, Soto, Shohei, Baldwin, Kurtz, Schwarber, Carroll, Wood, and Willson

With Bello gone, if the Sox turn to Bennett, they will have a rotation of Gray followed by four lefties... and Crochet isn't even in it.

Here are Tracy's answers about Bello

Bello’s pitch mix this year is a guessing game. Preseason curveball hype? Recently Abandoned. His changeup? Recent resurgence. The cutter? A ton, slashed, and back, who knows?

Out of every Red Sox prospect in May with at least 50 plate appearances, Jack Winnay led in both isolated power and walk rate BY A LOT. Incredible month worth mentioning. .290/490/623, 7 HR, 26 BB.

Raffy commentary has died down recently because he raked in May

Been thinking about Cotillo's comments on Fenway Rundown about how FSG has always made their big moves before you would have expected. Getting to the point where you need to nuke and clear the entire house for whichever new person is in charge, exorbitant contract in hand.

Here are the player profiles closest to and furthest from 2026 Marcelo Mayer. The results right now are bad. But is he potentially a ticking time bomb?

Ceddanne Rafaela's 2026 breakout (.283/.347/.440, 119 wRC+) is driven by a huge change in swing philosophy. He's cut his chase rate from 46% -> 42% -> 36% & flattened his attack angle from 14° -> 12° - >10°. Resulting in a career-high 77% contact rate and a 24% line drive rate.

Here are the ten starting pitchers that have the most fortunate combination of BABIP and Left On Base Percentage through the first two months of the season.

Marcelo Mayer's quality of contact ranks 243rd/257 batters in the month of May. He is tied with Caleb Durbin. It's been a lot of ground balls, a lot of weak flies, a handful of flares, and a handful of sold singles. Season isolated power: 196th/207

The Red Sox offense is now approaching 50/50 playing time before/after the firings. There has been an 18% decrease in scoring runs. xwOBA has shifted from .306 to .310.

Inherited Runners Score Percentage 30% - League average 33% - Red Sox bullpen total 50% - Greg Weissert

Watching this team is a truly fucking miserable experience. Has the backchanneling to Brandon Gomes begun?

The top story on the Globe's site right now is a call for the Sox to become sellers: www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/23/s... Find buyers for Chapman, Duran, Gray, etc "The Sox are not legitimate contenders. The focus should be on changing that for next season. The sooner they get started, the better."

Third 3-game win streak for the Sox this year, have yet to reach 4. Day off, then home for Minnesota, who are throwing three guys pitching well. After that series, a month-long schedule gauntlet will bring us to late June with a clear picture of July’s direction.

LHP Hayden Mullins, currently in his second Double-A season, will turn 26 this fall. YTD: 33 IP, 15 H, 1 HR, 18 BB, 49 K He's rated in the 20s on the Sox BA list, projected as a reliever or possible swingman. Guys like this, I wish they'd move to the pen and let them fire for 1 IP stints.

Kyle Harrison tonight: 6 IP, 80 Pitches, 1 H, 1 BB, 10 K YTD: 44 IP, 1.81 ERA, 58 K, 14 BB, 1 Oof He's doing it with 2 pitches:

546 minor league pitchers with 25+ IP this year. Anthony Eyanson 1st – ERA 1st – WHIP 3rd - Batting Average 3rd - xFIP 4th – K% 4th – K-BB% 9th – FIP He’s going toe-to-toe with Seth Hernandez in resumes so far.

There have been 60 team months this year (30 teams, 2 months each). The rarity of Red Sox batters coming through in big moments is incredible. High Leverage: April: 48th/60, 94 PA, .221/.287/.291, 61 wRC+ May: 59th/60, 65 PA, .140/.219/.263, 31 wRC+

Midseason Top 30 from Baseball America today. Eyanson 13 -> 2, Delzine 24 -> 11, Rivera UNR -> 12 Bleis, Castro, Garvia, and Taylor dropped out. Outside the top 10, it starts looking weak quickly.

Bello's strikeout rate is now 103rd/109 pitchers with 40+ innings. 26 BF with 1 K today.

Over the course of his career, Bello has slowly crept from the 3B side of the rubber to the 1B side, ending up at the extreme end through most of this year. He's had a dramatic shift back in his last two appearances. So following an opener wasn't the major tweak to his pitching.

Tracy moved Abreu to 3rd in the batting order a couple of weeks ago. His OPS before and after are very similar. The only issue is he's gone from 12% of his plate appearances being with 2 outs and none on, to 29%.

Great, bizarre Tolle night: 8 innings, 6 swings and misses, 20 air balls, 4 ground balls.

Monasterio should play every day in Story's absence for the time being. He's locked in this month, with a 19% chase rate and 71% zone swing / 87% zone contact. He's hitting the ball hard nearly half the time this season while continuing last year's low groundball rate.

8 games under .500 ties the low water mark for the season (Apr 24, May 3).

Early went a long stretch before giving up his first home run, but has now given up 7 in his last 33 innings.

Idk if there is a better way to look at this, but Baseball Reference has the Red Sox 30th in strength of schedule so far, and Tankathon has them with the hardest remaining schedule in the American League.

The Red Sox offense has major work to do to prevent their 7th consecutive week with a wRC+ below the league average of 100.

147 starting pitchers have thrown at least 20 IP this season. Here are the Red Sox starters' rankings in run support: 45. 5.3 R/9, Sonny Gray 77. 4.6 R/9, Brayan Bello 84. 4.4 R/9, Connelly Early 95. 4.2 R/9, Garrett Crochet 136. 2.8 R/9, Payton Tolle 144. 2.2 R/9, Ranger Suarez

Garrett Whitlock had 4 meltdowns in a 5-game stretch at the end of April into early May last season. Since then, in the last 365 days, 64 games, 34 shutdowns, and 4 meltdowns. WPA: 1. Whitlock 4.4, 2. Mason Miller 4.3 Absolute beast.

One broadcast turned up the crowd mics and then acknowledged the "Sell The Team" chants at Fenway tonight.