Alex Speier

Red Sox’ rocket ship reaches launching pad in Las Vegas to begin offseason fueling at GM meetings - The Boston Globe Alex Bregman, Pete Alonso, and front-office restructuring will be among the topics for the Red Sox' Craig Breslow and his inner circle as decision-makers from across MLB gather.

Previewing the GM meetings (and building on Trevor Story’s Red Sox rocketship metaphor): www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/09/s...

Red Sox set starter Lucas Giolito free into open market unencumbered by qualifying offer - The Boston Globe The deadline for the Red Sox to make that decision coincided with the official opening of free agency in Major League Baseball. It means an opening in the top half of the starting rotation is for sure...

Catch up on a sneaky-busy day of Red Sox stuff: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/06/s...

Source confirms: Lucas Giolito did not receive the qualifying offer from the Red Sox.

He is a free agent without the QO weighing him down. The Red Sox won't get a bonus draft pick if he signs with another club.

The Red Sox designated Luis Guerrero for assignment, they announced.

On the latest 310 to Left, Trevor Story talked with @tcaron.bsky.social and me about what he characterized as an easy decision to forgo the opt-out and stay in Boston: “We’re finally good.” On his decision, and astronautical ambitions youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Red Sox shortstop Trevor Story explains decision not to opt out of his contract - The Boston Globe “At this point in my career, it’s not about making decisions based on money. It never has been,” Story said on NESN’s “310 to left” podcast, in an interview that will air on Thursday.

Trevor Story, in an appearance on 310 to Left that will air tomorrow, explained the decision not to opt out: "It’s pretty simple. There’s not another organization I want to be a part of. I’m just in love with the place, and got some unfinished business." www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/05/s...

Also worth noting: Duran received a $100K buyout because the Sox declined their $8.4M bonus for next year. As for next year’s bonuses, he gets $25K for reaching each of 3 milestones: 450 PAs, 500 PAs, and 550 PAs.

Jarren Duran and the Red Sox agreed to a one-year, $7.7M deal for 2026. He can make $75K in performance bonuses.

Per source, Lucas Giolito will decline the player side of his mutual option with the Red Sox. Sox now have to decide whether to make him a 1-year $22M qualifying offer.

It’s official.

Hall of Fame announces the 8 players up for consideration by the Contemporaries Baseball Era Committee this year. Dwight Evans is not among them. They are: Bonds, Clemens, Delgado, Kent, Mattingly, Murphy, Sheffield, Valenzuela

Red Sox’ Ceddanne Rafaela, Wilyer Abreu field honors as American League Gold Glove Award winners - The Boston Globe The joint wins marked the first time that multiple Red Sox have been recognized as Gold Glovers since 2018, when center fielder Jackie Bradley Jr. and right fielder Mookie Betts (as well as midseason ...

On Rafaela and Abreu - the anchors of what the Red Sox believed to be the best defensive outfield in baseball - winning Gold Gloves: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/02/s...

And Ceddanne Rafaela wins the AL Gold Glove in center. First time the Sox have had two winners in the same year since 2018 (Betts, Bradley, Kinsler).

Wilyer Abreu wins his second straight Gold Glove as the top AL defensive RF.

Red Sox manager Alex Cora finishes New York City Marathon - The Boston Globe Cora completed the 26.2 miles through the boroughs of New York City along with his partner, Angelica Feliciano.

Is the offseason a marathon? Maybe. If so, Alex Cora opened it appropriately by running his 26.2 in NY today. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/02/s...

It wasn't intended as an actual suggestion so much as a fanciful notion of how to cap a wild postseason that offered so many occurrences we'd never previously seen. The idea that Shohei *can* go from starting pitcher to DH to reliever (with the Dodgers sacrificing the DH) is ... wonderfully strange.

Yoshinobu Yamamoto threw the Dodgers first pitch of the regular season on March 18 in Tokyo and the last pitch in Game 7 of the World Series in Toronto on Nov. 1.

During it all, Yamamoto posted a 2.30 ERA and 0.95 WHIP across 211 combined regular season and postseason innings (and 3,315 pitches).

INCREDIBLE. An all-time great World Series featuring an incredible number of Hall of Fame-caliber players who did Hall of Fame-caliber things…. And where supporting players still managed to overshadow them in many ways. Truly spectacular.

Is it too much to ask for Ohtani to re-enter as a closer?

Will Smith with the first extra-inning home run in a winner-take-all game in World Series history

He is willing himself to become Kirk Gibson in the 22nd inning.

Johnson in Game 6: 7IP, 2R, 104 pitches. In Game 7: 1 1/3 IP out of the bullpen, 4-up/4-down, 17 pitches.

Why are we only talking about Grover Cleveland Alexander without any mention of Randy Johnson in 2001?

That was an amazing and inelegant and consequential sequence of consecutive plays with the World Series hanging in the balance. A wonderful microcosm of this World Series - very flawed and immensely, uncomfortably entertaining.

WHAT

(I don’t know if it would be a ball or strike. Just saying: it will be very different.)

And in a year, we’d be looking at a challenge on the 9th pitch of that outstanding Barger-Snell at-bat.

Has Domínguez warmed in every inning of this game?

4th hit ever and first homer in a World Series Game 7 to wipe out a 9th inning lead, joining:

Yogi Berra groundout in 1960 (before the Mazeroski homer)
Craig Counsell sac fly in 1997
Tony Womack double in 2001

WILD.

Happily, no!