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Sports Central October 14, 2004 Piet Van Leer |
Paterinty Test Revealed: Yanks Are Pedro's Daddy Management is different, the players are different, the game is different, but the Red Sox remain unchanged. Maybe there really is a curse. Or maybe Vegas and the prognosticators were wrong, and the Yankees really are the better team. |
Sports Central October 1, 2004 M. Edward Guest |
Pedro and Boston: One Last October? The distinguished hurler for the Boston Red Sox has posted 16-9 record with a 3.90 ERA, for a team that recently clinched a spot in the postseason. Yet, Martinez is a frustrated man, witnessing the worst season of his career. |
Sports Central October 2, 2006 Joe Pietaro |
Peanut Brittle Pedro For what it's worth, signing Martinez did help the Mets in many other ways other than wins and losses on the field. |
Sports Illustrated September 6, 2000 Tom Verducci |
Making a case for Pedro Martinez With 16 wins, Pedro Martinez has a shot at winning 20. What does he have to do to win the Cy Young award? I thought he was already the clear frontrunner, but the mailbag brought some disagreement. |
The Motley Fool October 12, 2004 Bob Bobala |
Boston's Hottest Stock Are the Red Sox a stock on the rise, or will the Yankees do them in again? |
Sports Illustrated April 4, 2002 Stephen Cannella |
Cheer up Pitching woes aside, Red Sox have reason to be optimistic... |
Sports Central November 4, 2004 Vincent Musco |
Questions For Theo Epstein The "new curse" of the Boston Red Sox may be free agency -- with 17 roster players eligible to ink new deals. How will the team's wheeling-dealing general manager deal with that? |
Sports Illustrated September 18, 2000 Jack McCallum |
Missed opportunity Why isn't Pedro baseball's premier pitchman? |
Sports Illustrated April 20, 2000 Tom Verducci |
Home runs getting you down? Baseball Q&A: Dave Stieb... bored with home run after home run?... why isn't anyone hitting .400?... etc. |
Sports Illustrated March 19, 2003 Tom Verducci |
Inside Baseball: The Fights of Spring Two bench-clearing brawls showed that bad blood and retribution can flare up even in exhibition games. |
Sports Central September 16, 2005 Chris Cornell |
Sox Take a Look in Rearview If the Boston Red Sox thought they could just cruise into the playoffs without getting a fight from the Evil Empire, they'd better think again. |
Sports Illustrated July 9, 2001 Jack McCallum |
Magic show Red Sox fans will still be cheering come October... |
Sports Central May 26, 2006 Isaac Miller |
Red Sox and Yankees: Rethinking the Rivalry If this is the most storied rivalry in all of baseball, where was it from 1918 to 1967? |
Sports Central October 12, 2004 Piet Van Leer |
It's Deja Vu, All Over Again Red Sox fans share a common belief, that this is their year. |
Sports Central January 12, 2005 Diane M. Grassi |
Never Say Never With Yankees Many new faces will be showing up to the Yankees' Legends Field in Tampa this February, so much so that combining this offseason with last year's offseason, even an avid Yankee fan may have to think twice to name the entire place setting at this point. |
Sports Central March 3, 2005 Diane M. Grassi |
Yankees Hopeful Winter Deals Pay Off The Yankees appear substantially better off for the 2005 season, given their pitching acquisitions, but doubts still remain for the long haul in center field and at first base. |
Sports Illustrated June 6, 2002 Stephen Cannella |
High on Lowe The hurler's emergence could put Boston over the top. |
Sports Central December 18, 2004 Martin Hawrysko |
Pedro to Mets: What Were They Thinking? There is no problem in signing Pedro, if the deal was for one year or two at the most. Three years is too much, but four? It is safe to assume that Pedro's better days are behind him. |
Sports Illustrated May 24, 2000 Tom Verducci |
The trouble with starting young The next Golden Age of young starting pitching was on display at the 1997 All-Star game.... |
Sports Illustrated July 9, 2001 Tom Verducci |
Chat Reel To recap the first half of the year, discuss the All-Star Game and make some predictions for the remainder of the season... |
Sports Central December 5, 2014 Jeff Kallman |
Three For the Hall, First Ballot Let's begin a Hall of Fame Class of 2015-to-be examination with a look at the new ballot arrivals. |
Sports Illustrated November 26, 2002 Tom Verducci |
Challenging times Astros pitcher Richard Hidalgo has to rebound from poor seasons and being shot. |
Sports Illustrated June 13, 2001 Tom Verducci |
Interleague played-out Baseball's experiment may have run its course... |
Sports Illustrated July 5, 2000 Frank Deford |
Back to 2000 -- and reality -- in Boston Oh, Y2K looked so much like ours. And then the season started, and whaddya know, whatever the millennium, it turned out to be just another Boston baseball season, like any other. |
Sports Illustrated August 21, 2002 Tom Verducci |
Striketalk I just have a feeling, nothing more, that the two sides will play their game of chicken until the very end. And only when the game of Baseball is shut down will they realize what a catastrophe they've created. |
Sports Illustrated October 25, 2001 Tom Verducci |
Opening act Games 1 and 2 will decide the Fall Classic... |
Sports Central June 26, 2008 Sean Crowe |
Schilling Most Important Pitcher in Sox History If any athlete shouldn't be forgotten in any city, it's Curt Schilling in Boston. |
Sports Illustrated April 3, 2002 Tom Verducci |
Give Pedro some time The best young pitcher I ever saw was Dwight Gooden. But as he grew heavier and stronger after rehabbing his shoulder, he lost some of that natural looseness in his arm and consequently lost some of the late life off his fastball. Is that happening to Pedro now that he's gained 15 pounds? |
Sports Central September 5, 2004 Diane M. Grassi |
Yankees' Failures Not News You don't need to be a rocket scientist to see what may be coming. But whatever the outcome this season, the team's 2004 legacy will be mostly about its failed management and ownership, not its players. |
Sports Central September 28, 2004 Jeff Kallman |
Yanks/Sox: "It's Like a Disagreement in a Family" "It's a heated rivalry," said Boston"s Dave Roberts. "There's respect between the teams, but there's no love lost." |
Sports Central May 3, 2008 Sean Crowe |
How the Yankees Became the Red Sox The formerly loveable loser Boston Red Sox have become the new Evil Empire. |
Sports Central June 12, 2004 David Martin |
The AL in Brief Read about all the current highlights in baseball's American League. |
Sports Central March 30, 2005 Adam Russell |
Top 10 Questions For Opening Day Despite the flurry of activity surrounding Major League Baseball's drug policy, the offseason had a number of events that raised an even larger number of questions heading into the first games. |
Sports Central December 24, 2012 Jeff Kallman |
2012: Mime and Reason A look back at some of the odd occurrences during the 2012 baseball season, and players that passed away this year. |
Sports Central January 14, 2005 Venkat Ganesan |
Is 2005 the Year of the Mets? The Mets, for some reason, have always remained an afterthought among sports teams in New York. They have been a coda to a musical symphony, if you could call, often landing over-priced and over-sized starts, who were well past their prime. |
Salon.com April 25, 2001 Allen Barra |
The golden age of pitching is now When you consider what today's hurlers have to deal with, our low opinion of them is way off-base. Plus: Does God answer NASCAR prayers? |
Sports Central June 1, 2004 Hank Waddles |
Rivera Closing in on Cooperstown In an era when closers don't typically pitch more than the ninth inning, Rivera has set himself apart with frequent two-inning saves, especially in the playoffs and World Series. This is only one of an impressive number of lines on a resume which will surely land him a spot in the Hall of Fame. |
Sports Illustrated April 26, 2000 Tom Verducci |
Vlad, undervalued? Believe it Baseball Q&A: Who is over/under rated?... Considering how thin starting pitching is, why don't managers entertain the idea of returning to the days of four-man rotations?... Are the Braves interested in acquiring A-Rod in the off-season?... etc. |
Sports Central October 13, 2005 Diane M. Grassi |
What Happened to the Yanks? The 2005 postseason for the New York Yankees followed one of the most challenging of all regular seasons for manager Joe Torre. |
Sports Illustrated September 10, 2002 Stephen Cannella |
Boston Blues After a promising start to the season, the high-priced Red Sox have inexplicably fallen out of the playoff race. |
Sports Illustrated March 12, 2002 Tom Verducci |
Little doubt The Boston Red Sox realized their new manager was the perfect fit... |
Sports Illustrated February 26, 2001 Tom Verducci |
Pitchers strike out Umps will call 'em high, but Maddux is down and out... |
Sports Central January 13, 2005 Vince Grzegorek |
Back to the Future Sunday April 3, 2005. The Yankees and Red Sox officially kicked off the 2005 MLB season tonight in a highly-anticipated rematch of last year's ALCS. |
The Motley Fool June 30, 2004 Roger Friedman |
A Boo for the BoSox A glowing press release about the generosity of some Red Sox gives insight into the value of context. So the next time you receive a come-on for an investment opportunity, take a minute and figure out the context. |
Sports Illustrated July 5, 2000 Tom Verducci |
Rumors, rumors Trade talk heats up as July 31 deadline approaches |
Sports Illustrated May 8, 2002 Tom Verducci |
The toughest out Patience makes Bonds more dangerous than Sosa... |
Sports Illustrated May 9, 2001 Tom Verducci |
Addition by subtraction Doing away with downtrodden teams is the way to go... |
Sports Central October 22, 2011 Bob Ekstrom |
Sox One Rally Beer Short of a Six-Pack Boston has been the Mecca of baseball conscience throughout the postseason, as off-field hijinks on Yawkey Way have made the Red Sox an October equivalent of the on-field train wreck they were in September. You just can't take your eyes off them, and no one is. |
Sports Central August 27, 2004 Vincent Musco |
Cy Johan: AL Cy Young Breakdown Minnsota Twins' pitching ace Johan Santana is stacking the stats to be the American League's Cy Young winner. But he has some uncontrollable factors against him -- such as pitching in Minnesota. |
Salon.com November 16, 2002 Allen Barra |
Strength in numbers A conversation with Bill James, the famed statistical baseball analyst just hired by the Red Sox. |