Made a tier list to better organize my thoughts on the state of the 2026 Red Sox roster. Figured I would share. Thoughts?

Today's Boston Red Sox projected affiliate starters: 5/14 Bennett, Blake, Brown, Barrett, & Berny Gameday Thread 🔗 buff.ly/T10sc9x

Boston Red Sox bullpen Trust-o-Meter- 5/12 Samaniego threatening to pass Whitlock --- Shadow Realm: Ryan Watson >:( --- 7. Greg Weissert --- 6. Zack Kelly 5. Jovani Moran 4. Justin Slaten 3. Tyler Samaniego 2. Garrett Whitlock 1. Aroldis Chapman

Very good outing for lefty Jason Gilman yesterday for Salem: 2.1 IP, 4 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 7 K Boston selected Gilman in the 16th round of last years draft out of Kean. Had a delayed start to his season due to an oblique injury. Intriguing name to follow.

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Per usual, Private Equity is the death of everything it touches

I honestly had no idea this was even a thing until I saw this and now I’m looking up pitchforks and torches on the Lowe’s app.

In 2019, MLB started to allow private equity firms to own partial minority stakes in franchises. The Red Sox were among the first teams to take on these investors. No coincidence that this is where things really started to change. @joon.bsky.social's explanation makes a lot of sense.

This is my ideal lineup for this Red Sox roster atm. No, I do not expect it to happen. 1. Masataka Yoshida- DH 2. Willson Contreras- 1B 3. Roman Anthony- LF 4. Wilyer Abreu- RF 5. Ceddanne Rafaela- CF 6. Marcelo Mayer- SS 7. Carlos Narvaez- C 8. Trevor Story- 2B 9. Caleb Durban- 3B

Red Sox prospect Dylan Brown had another good start for Salem yesterday. 5.2 IP, 3 H, 0 ER, 3 BB, 7 K, 16 whiffs Brown, Boston’s 8th round pick last year, now has a 2.31 ERA with 32 K’s over 23.1 IP in 2026.

Inside Craig Breslow’s stunning Red Sox house cleaning: ‘It’s his show’ www.nytimes.com/athletic/723...

Retrospectively, it makes sense that Craig Breslow had such a lengthy MLB career with some very good seasons despite not having particularly good stuff. Dude's an absolute sociopath. Those guys make for the best relief pitchers.

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Game 4 is on Limewire.

Percent of months running the Red Sox with an offense above a 100 wRC+ 81% - Epstein 63% - Cherington 75% - Dombrowski 67% - Bloom 54% - Breslow* Above a 110 wRC+ 61% - Epstein 25% - Cherington 38% - Dombrowski 38% - Bloom 23% - Breslow* *8 games left in April

First time in a while, my frustration has bubbled up to this extent. My distain for Craig Breslow has reached a new high as we see what happens when a roster needs someone to get hurt to function correctly beyondthemonster.substack.com/p/a-roster-b...

Don't think Cora is the right manager for this team anymore, but hard not to feel for him given the roster is basically built to require an injury to one of your regulars to function properly.

I wanted Pete Alonso. I am very pleasantly surprised with Willson Contreras. Hell of a first impression he's made.

Contreras is going to be on the IL with a pulled groin if they don't start getting the ball up

Sox still way too spooked about challenging. Missing Tristan Casas's unshakable confidence in his knowledge of the strike zone right now.

Juan Valera, the Red Sox prospect who left his last start with an elbow injury, will indeed get an MRI.

Good morning the red sox remembered how to play baseball!

I hope Grokipedia never fixes this because I'm thinking of letting this fact be considered semi-canon.

Been pretty obsessed with this track recently, "Fracture" by Stephan Moccio. One of the more beautiful instrumental songs I have heard in quite a while. www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7nP...

I don't work for Barstool. I do not want to work for Barstool unless they were to pay me an enormous shitload of money.

My first episode back with Hoggy after six months. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZVR...

Very pleased to report that I have joined Barstool's Dirty Water podcast with my friend/little-brother-figure Hogdale (aka Grant), and the great Mike Mutnansky.You can follow the youtube account in the link.

If that fan said what Jarren Duran says he did, the latter's response *was* disappointing. He should have flipped the double bird, not a mere single.

My therapist asked me what I thought about Garrett Crochet's start yesterday. That was a first.

I got very excited about the Tsung-Che Cheng AAA cycle and needed Brady to know.

New PBR Link- open.spotify.com/episode/4fDS...

Even get streaming complaints from my own kids.

"I’ve got to be all in on this, because I’m leaving something so good behind." Inside Connelly Early’s ‘hardest decision of my life’: leaving West Point for baseball (and eventually the Red Sox) www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/09/s...

There was a time about 13 years ago when journeymen like Devin Sweet were the only thing I wanted to write about. Very happy to be doing it again. beyondthemonster.substack.com/p/the-ballad...

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Very sharp inning of relief from Zack Kelly: 10 pitches, 9 strikes in a perfect eighth inning.

Andruw Monasterio pinch hits for Jarren Duran and battles Adrian Morejon in a nine-pitch at bat. He grounds one to the mound that could have been an inning-ending 1-4-3 double play, but Cronenworth can't turn it cleanly and Rafaela scores to tie it at 2-2.

That was an impressive at-bat by Monasterio and something Boston has been lacking in the last few years. Have to make contact in that situation. Story was basically the worst guy possible before him. Duran a ton of swing and miss which is why he was pinch hit for. Really nice situational hitting.

Boston Red Sox bullpen Trust-o-Meter- 4/3 Ch-ch-changes! 8. Tyler Uberstine (NEW) 7. Ryan Watson (-1) 6. Zack Kelly (NEW) 5. Greg Weissert (+1) 4. Jovani Moran 3. Danny Coulombe 2. Justin Slaten 1. Aroldis Chapman

This will be fun.

Very enjoyable episode with @iancundall.bsky.social for those who are looking to hear about Red Sox baseball but not the current MLB struggles. open.spotify.com/episode/5b3a...

Today's Worcester Red Sox projected starters: 3/31 🔗 WooSox in the Twin Cities: buff.ly/jOwvFDI

The Sea Dogs starting rotation is sneaky good, particularly the two lefties at the top of it. beyondthemonster.substack.com/p/portland-s...

It no longer surprises me when the self-proclaimed best fans in sports collectively crash out four games into a 162-game season.

After mulling it over a bit, these are my top 5 sci-fi movies since I graduated high school (2007). 1. Moon 2. Arrival 3. Project Hail Mary 4. Interstellar 5. The Martian

As well deserved a hire as you're going to see. Ian is one of the few people in the Red Sox reporter/influencer ecosystem that I find to be uniquely worth listening to. A lot of information, you can find from one several sources. What he provides, you are not getting elsewhere.

Boston Red Sox lineup 3/30 1. R. Anthony LF 2. T. Story SS 3. J. Duran DH 4. W. Contreras 1B 5. W. Abreu RF 6. C. Durbin 3B 7. M. Mayer* 2B 8. C. Narváez C 9. C. Rafaela CF SP- R. Suarez

I still sometimes look back and cringe at my most embarrassing public moment: the time I called into the wrong St. Louis radio station for a radio spot, somehow got put on the air, and then spent an incredibly awkward five minutes being the only person who realized that I was not the guest.