I like a lot of the individual players on the 2025 Red Sox. As a team, they've been hot fucking garbage.

Sean Newcomb has been traded to the A's for Cash Considerations. Honestly, the Red Sox getting anything back for him is a positive considering what he was thought of when Spring Training started. He did a good job in the role he was given.

Red Sox 2025 season hasn't been without its positives. In no particular order, here are my five most pleasant surprises. -Narvaez's bat -Crochet living up to the hype. -Chapman pitching like an All-Star. -Dobbins' rise. -Just how much better a hitter DH Raffy is than 3B Raffy.

It's objectively very funny that despite his incredibly slow start, Triston Casas has still hit two more dingers than Vladdy Jr.

Short sample size but some remarkably bad luck for Zack Kelly so far on the season- 6.30 ERA to a 2.72 FIP and a 3.47 xERA per Fangraphs. Just 10 IP. He's throwing plenty of strikes (2 BB/11 K) which was more his problem last year. Stuff looks nasty as ever. It'll balance out.

Not sure if this is a popular or unpopular or lukewarm take but I don't really think coaches have much of an influence in shorter stretches and you have to wait a few months and look at the numbers to really evaluate their success.

Things I am pleased with not having to talk about next offseason. -Garrett Crochet extension -Pursuit of Vladdy Jr -Kristian Campbell trade rumors

The humiliation conga line that Elon Musk is going through is not enough. We need more.

Hogdale fan art.

Roman Anthony is already knocking on the door. Can't keep him in AAA forever. Conversation is going to come sooner rather than later. Without injuries, how do you work out the OF situation?

Roman Anthony went 2-for-3 with two home runs (2), two walks, a three RBI (4) in today's 12-0 Worcester Red Sox win.

Five Old Friend Updates for 3/28 1. Mookie Betts (LAD): 3-for-5, 2 HR, 4 RBI 2. Luis Urias (ATH): 1-for-1, HR 3. Danny Jansen (TBR): 0-for-2, BB, 2 K 4. Manny Margot (DET): 1-for-2, RBI 5. Xander Bogaerts (SDP): 1-for-4, 2B, RBI

@redsoxstats.bsky.social Casas should be in the league’s early access for ABS, Seattle series was just like this for him too

People assume you throw enough money at a guy, it makes everything ok. Not everyone operates that way.

Jack Leiter getting hit in the nuts by that catcher's return throw about to be on every blooper real for the next few decades.

"Motherfuckers thought I was joking when I said this was a 95-win team. I'm not joking. I think this is a great baseball team. Not a good team. Great. Hard great like Tony the goddamn Tiger."

Notes from WooSox Media Day: A thread

Your Opening Day 2025 Boston Red Sox- A Thread

“Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.” -Fred Rogers Happy 97th birthday to the greatest American to ever live.

While I'm still personally in favor of a Raffy 3B/Bregman 2B/Masa DH or LF arrangement, I'm also in favor the Red Sox winning as many games as possible. Nice to be in a position where winning the most games possible is the argument. We'll see what they go with.

Smily Puggy

If nothing else, social media has proven just how many people out there peaked in high school.

Very little brings me more joy than a sad Elon Musk.

Hogdale vs the Lame Stream Media

We had a productive conversation with MassLive Red Sox beat writer Chris Cotillo. A bit headier than our usual lighthearted baseball talk with some deep diving into the nature of journalism, media, aggregation, and the effect that social media has had on trust. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNyp...

Mikey Romero put a charge into this wall-ball double soxprospects.com/players/rome...

Zoe pug.

Very fun prospects lineup today featuring Kristian Campbell, Miguel Bleis, the Password, Mikey Romero, and Nathan Hickey!

Great read from the always great Alex Speier!

"Devil in the Family: The Fall of Ruby Franke" is one of the more upsetting documentaries I've watched. Deeply unhinged sociopaths at the center of the story paired with perhaps the single most cucked man in America. Genuinely surprised there's such an audience for family vlogs to begin with.

Any good podcasts out there for someone looking for a sliver of hope that everything's gonna be ok?

ngl he was cooking

Hogdale always shoots from the hip!

Just completed my top Houston Astros prospects… gotta say, that system is kind of dire

Have to be impressed with Hunter Dobbins in his first outing of the season for the Red Sox. Had 3 strikeouts and was touching 97 MPH. He’s a name to monitor as spring rolls on.

Luis Guerrero making a very strong claim at an opening day roster spot thus far. Looks real good just as he did during the end of the 2024 season. Closer potential.

To say that @hogdale.bsky.social thinks the odds of Masataka Yoshida playing any leftfield this year are low is a contender for understatement of the century. He's not even sure he'll be seeing time as a DH, so certain is Hoggy that the team hates Yoshida and all that he represents.

I get the feeling one of Austin Adams, Adam Ottavino, and Matt Moore ends up with a spot on the Red Sox opening day roster just based on the current state of the 40-man roster. Move Penrod to the 60-day IL and voila.

I like it here, but the community is a lot less active than on Twitter. How can we remedy that?

Joe Kelly still a free agent. Wouldn't mind seeing the Red Sox add him into the veteran non-roster invite pool alongside Adam Ottavino, Austin Adams, and Matt Moore.

Neat getting to see former Red Sox prospects Eddinson Paulino and Cutter Coffey in today's Spring Training game. They were traded at the last deadline to Toronto for catcher Danny Jansen.

Red Sox roster update- 2/23

You know the drill. Friday night. Maybe I'm sober, maybe I'm not. AMA baseball related or otherwise.

Roman Anthony was scratched from the lineup because he was hit by a pitch in his right elbow yesterday and is sore. Alex Cora wasn't concerned, and Anthony told me he feels good.

Pug n Penny

Top 10 remaining free agents-2/20 1. Jose Quintana- SP (#32) 2. Jose Iglesias- UT (#35) 3. Alex Verdugo- OF (#38) 4. David Robertson- RP (#41) 5. Kyle Finnegan- RP (#52) 6. Lance Lynn- SP (#61) 7. Kyle Gibson- SP (#65) 8. Spencer Turnbull- SP (#70) 9. Andrew Chafin- RP (#85) 10. Phil Maton- RP (#99)

We used to just call that "eccentric".

Boston media returning to its glorious late-90s form was NOT something I expected to be triggered by the Bregman signing but here we are!