Making official what already was the case in practice, Dave Dombrowski announced Tuesday that the Red Sox will not replace the recently departed Mike Hazen with a new general manager. Instead, the newly promoted Eddie Romero and holdover assistant gene…
Author: Brian MacPherson
Francona’s bullpen usage offers blueprint for Red Sox
Losing Carlos Carrasco and Danny Salazar to injury ought to have been the death knell for Terry Francona’s Cleveland Indians. Instead, Cleveland ALCS MVP Andrew Miller has demonstrated anew that baseball is far different in the postseason.In the …
Rare during the regular season, sacrifice bunts still used in the postseason
Like leaf-peeping and pumpkin-spice coffee drinks, bunting has become a staple only of October. The growth of advanced analytics — and the use of run-expectancy charts in particular — have seen teams all but abandon the sacrifice bunt …
Hazen’s replacement with Red Sox will probably come from within
Dave Dombrowski hired Mike Hazen as his general manager just over 365 days ago to guide him through the process of learning the ins and outs of the Red Sox organization. Dombrowski had come aboard the previous August, making the institutional knowledge…
Catching position has quantity, questionable quality
Nobody expected Sandy Leon to spend most of the season as the full-time catcher for the Red Sox, including all three of the team’s playoff games.So precipitous was his decline late in the season, a crash back to his career norms at the plate, it’d be h…
Diamondbacks hire away Red Sox GM Hazen
Mike Hazen stayed with the Red Sox through the Ben Cherington-to-Dave Dombrowski transition — but only as long as it took to get a chance to run his own team.The Arizona Diamondbacks announced on Sunday the hiring of Hazen as their executive vice…