Though the clinching’s circumstances merit such a disclaimer, don’t tell anyone from the Red Sox that they backed into the American League wild-card berth. Yes, they’ve lost five straight games, and yes, players left Fenway Park after Tuesday night’s 8-7 loss to Toronto and then returned to celebrate the Angels’ 5-2 win over Texas in [...]

It is tempting, in the afterglow of a 10-0 win in which Clay Buchholz worked seven shutout innings and the Red Sox walloped six home runs, to believe that all is swell and that the Texas Rangers are destined to disappear in the rear-view mirror.
Well, such happy thoughts need to come with a large disclaimer: The [...]

In almost every trade discussion the Red Sox have had recently, Clay Buchholz’s name has routinely been shot down as a potential bargaining chip. Now, yahoo.com sports is reporting that the Red Sox have offered Buchholz, pitching prospect Michael Bowden and outfield prospect Ryan Westmoreland for Blue Jays ace Roy Halladay.
If such is the case, it would [...]

This just in: Bronson Arroyo mysteriously disappeared from the probable starting pitchers listed for Tuesday’s games. Could he and his guitar soon be headed back to Boston? The Bronx? Philadelphia?
By Friday afternoon at 4, thankfully, the tidal wave of speculation will end. The deals will be done or put off until winter  . . well, [...]

 
Clearly, Adam LaRoche may just be a pre-trade deadline appetizer. Or, as one baseball pundit suggests, insurance in case the Red Sox fail to land one of the much larger fish they have been pursing, most notably Indians catcher Victor Martinez.
At any rate, as summarized at boston.com, Theo Epstein fully grasps the reality that the [...]

Now tangled in their worst offensive meltdown of the season, the Red Sox have a one-game deficit to show for their eight wins in eight tries against the Yankees. No wonder the mood in the visitors clubhouse in Arlington, Texas was so somber after Tuesday night’s 4-2 loss to the Rangers.
“I ain’t got (anything) to [...]

One of the more maddening annoyances of otherwise healthy baseball discussion usually begins with “Why don’t the Red Sox get …”
That blank will always be filled with someone who is not on the market, free agent or otherwise, or whose value is such that any trade would prove so costly as to make it a wash, at best. [...]

Arguably, the worst thing to happen to Clay Buchholz in his professional baseball career was throwing a no-hitter in his second big-league start. While it provided him a wonderful keepsake, it also raised the bar of expectations to ridiculous levels, hardly a difficult feat when it comes to New Englanders and Red Sox prospects.
Remember the [...]

Brad Penny, John Smoltz, Rocco Baldelli - and, if you want to toss in a man with no known physical ailments but a large case of the blahs, Clay Buchholz - have all arrived in Fort Myers, ready to break their rear-view mirrors and begin their careers anew.
If any one or two of them succeed, [...]