Checking in on Marcelo Mayer, Roman Anthony, Kyle Teel, Zach Penrod, Wikelman Gonzalez, Richard Fitts and more top prospects to see how they're doing in the early part of the season
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A look at the Red Sox farm system and how some of its top prospects are performing in the early going theathletic.com/5429792/2024/0…

Red Sox starting Rafaela at SS again today. No Devers, Yoshida back at DH

Red Sox also make it official adding lefty reliever Cam Booser to the bullpen and DFAd Joe Jacques

Also last night they acquired RHP Vladimir Gutierrez for cash from Milwaukee and optioned him to Triple A

Some news: After 10 incredible years, today is my last day at the Boston Herald.

I'm forever grateful that the Herald gave this Taunton kid a chance and a seat at the table to cover Boston sports for a living. The last decade has been an absolute dream.

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Booser is a really unique story. He quit baseball for several years to be a carpenter. I wrote about this in Spring Training.
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Last spring the Red Sox almost removed Tanner Houck from the rotation.

He asked for one more chance.

“I knew what I could do. The past few years I definitely feel I haven’t lived up to it”

On Wednesday he lived up to his rotation potential and then some
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NEWS: Legendary Yankees broadcaster John Sterling is expected to hold a press conference Friday with retirement a strong possibility, The Athletic has learned.

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Diamond Baseball Holdings' outsized influence in a rapidly evolving industry has people questioning whether minor-league baseball can thrive within a massive corporate structure.

More from Chad Jennings, Evan Drellich and Sam Blum ⤵️

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MLB took control of the minor leagues in 2020. Since then, one new company has purchased more than a quarter of all minor league affiliates.
Who are these guys? Why are they doing this? And what does it mean for the future of minor league baseball?
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Over the past seven days, the Red Sox defense has committed 12 errors accounting for 16 unearned runs. Their 16 total errors on the season are tied for most in the majors.

“Obviously, we want to put up more of a fight than we are right now.”
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Here we go. Holliday’s debut, batting ninth and playing second base. An infield of draftees: Mountcastle, Holliday, Henderson, Westburg and Rutschman. And an OF of 2 homegrown and a former Rule 5. DH O’Hearn only one of 9 to have played in MLB for another org.

ICYMI: Here’s Chad Jennings with a terrific profile on Jackson Holliday theathletic.com/5404368/2024/0…

In the fall of 2010, our college had a series against the Longhorns for a 3 game set. Our hitting coach at the time was Josh Holliday and his brother, Matt, brought his kid to our early practice. I remember watching his son Jackson Holliday with a sweet lefty swing. Go get em’ kid!

Title teams are inextricably linked, remembered brought back to town for round-number anniversaries. The 2004 Red Sox are forever.

Of the players missing on Tuesday two stood out – for opposite reasons. On Wakefield, Schilling and a team forever connected
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A day that started with so much love and promise ended with a shortstop in tears, a rotation in flux, and the Red Sox discussing another sloppy loss. Here's Jen McCaffrey on a sometimes wonderful, too often terrible home opener at Fenway.
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Jackson Holliday is the most highly touted prospect in baseball. It’s as if he’s been doing it his entire life.

Because he pretty much has.

Jackson carries the Holliday name forward, writes Chad Jennings. And he's ready to meet his big-league moment.

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Tuesday’s pregame ceremony at Fenway Park was about triumph and sadness, reunion and loss. It was about memories, not bullshit.
Stephen J. Nesbitt, Jen McCaffrey and I wrote about the man the 2004 Red Sox dearly missed.
And the one they didn’t.
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From plastic bats in the Rockies clubhouse to his imminent debut with the Orioles, Jackson Holliday’s life combined two inevitable truths of his famous last name: pressure & privilege.
Or, as he learned it: pressure is a privilege.
Now, his time has come.
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Alex Cora woke up at 4 a.m., excited for the team’s home opener.

His club was finally coming home after a 7-3 West Coast trip. The Red Sox had one of their signature pre-game ceremonies planned.

Then a deluge of bad news arrived. On a tough day at Fenway
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Here’s Steve Buckley with a terrific piece on Brianna Wakefield and what this day meant to her and her family.

“The grip that I chose was my dad’s grip. I was trying to throw a knuckleball.”

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