ESPN News Services The St. Louis Cardinals, Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs announced ticket refund policies on Wednesday for games not played through May because of the coronavirus outbreak, with some Major League Baseball teams offering plans for cash returns and bonus credit. A day after MLB told clubs they could decide their own ticket refund policies, several did.
The Boston Red Sox on Wednesday announced that they will begin offering ticket holders the opportunity to get refunds, credits or exchanges for home games that were scheduled in April and May before the coronavirus pandemic indefinitely delayed the start of the baseball season. Major League Baseball informed teams on Tuesday that they were free to revise ticketing policies as a result of the pandemic, and the Red Sox didn't wait long to make those changes.
Could Derek Jeter share the stage in Cooperstown next summer with a couple of Red Sox pitching legends?
The latest plan to salvage the baseball season calls for major league teams to begin the regular season in June and eventually play in their home parks without fans under a three 10-team division format, according to a USA TODAY report. Get the latest news and analysis on all of your teams from NBC Sports Boston by downloading the My Teams App For the long-delayed 2020 season, Major League Baseball is considering playing at least a 100-game schedule where three divisions are set up geographicall...
Apparently age is no obstacle to Manny Ramirez, who wants to play professional baseball in Taiwan this year at the ripe age of 47.
Major League Baseball's reported proposal to conduct the 2020 season with three 10-team divisions could be an absolute godsend to the Red Sox. John Tomase explains why a path to the postseason is suddenly much clearer.
Boston Red Sox shortstop Xander Bogaerts is trying to stay busy during the coronavirus outbreak, and he detailed what he's been up to in an interview with GQ.
The two best second basemen in Red Sox history made their debuts almost 70 years apart -- and both spent their entire careers in Boston. John Tomase counts down the Top 5 second basemen in franchise history.
John Henry responded to MLB's findings from its Boston Red Sox sign-stealing investigation and explained what he regrets most about the entire situation.
Major League Baseball is considering a plan that would start the regular season in June or July with the hope of playing approximately 100 games before a modified version of the postseason. Games would likely be played without fans. It’s something that could work for everybody,” said an official who requested anonymity because the plan still has several hurdles to clear including the approval of medical experts.
Ken Healy has been a season ticket holder for eight years, and hopes the team offers a refund for games not played. I’m not looking for a credit next year,” said Healy. I’m still paying for my tickets this year.
MLB officials are optimistic that they can ram the 2020 season through the ongoing public health crisis as early as June, according to a USA Today report. As part of that push, they’re also exploring a new realignment plan that would have every big league team playing in their home ballpark. The home park proposal, which was announced on Tuesday, includes teams like the Yankees and Mets playing in metro areas devastated by the ongoing spread of the coronavirus.
Red Sox 9 Blue Jays 2 Two losses in a row to the Red Sox. Now we are only a half game up on Boston. Matt Shoemaker had another poor start.
The extent to which Pedro Martinez once bucked an entire trend in Major League Baseball is mind-boggling. The Boston Red Sox legend holds a mark ESPN’s David Schoenfield highlighted Tuesday as a “wild” team and MLB record “you probably didn’t know. Martinez in 2000 held hitters to just a .
Alex Cora released a statement after MLB revealed its findings from its investigation of the 2018 Red Sox for illegal sign-stealing.
Well before the focus of the 2020 Major League Baseball season centered around what type of year would be had due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the talk was squarely on the Houston Astros and their cheating scandal en route to winning the 2017 World Series. That of course came at the expense of the Los Angeles Dodgers, who returned to the Fall Classic the following year, only to be defeated by a Boston Red Sox team that also was the subject of an MLB investigation over alleged impropri...
Manfred suspended the Red Sox’s video replay coordinator J.T. Watkins for 2020 and won’t allow him to resume the same role in the organization in 2021. Boston was also docked a second-round pick. The 2020 suspension of then-manager Alex Cora was also announced, but he was banned for his role in Houston’s 2017 illegal sign-stealing scheme.
Do you remember where you were when the Boston Red Sox won the 2004 World Series? The Sox snapped The Curse of the Bambino after 86 years just almost 16 years ago. That postseason run had it all: from the squad’s first-round sweep over the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim to arguably the greatest comeback in sports history after falling behind 3-0 against the New York Yankees and finally the sweep of the St. Louis Cardinals.
There was a bit of news from Triple-A Buffalo: Sean Reid-Foley went on the IL with a strained forearm and will be out about 3 weeks. It is funny, in my OOTP game the Jays starting rotation has been killed off with injuries. In this on the Bisons’ rotation is the one with the problems.
Today’s lineups: MIN: Luis Arraez 2B, Jorge Polanco SS, Nelson Cruz DH, Miguel Sano 1B, Eddie Rosario LF, Josh Donaldson 3B, Mitch Garver C, Marwin Gonzalez RF, Byron Buxton CF, Lewis Thorpe P BOS: Jose Peraza 2B, Xander Bogaerts SS, J.D. Martinez DH, Rafael Devers 3B, Michael Chavis 1B, Andrew Benintendi LF, Alex Verdugo RF, Kevin Plawecki C, Jackie Bradley Jr CF, Ryan Weber P Lefty Lewis Thorpe made his 2020 debut for the Twins, and will be a member of the rotation for the foreseeable future.
Aaron Boone was asked about his thoughts on the matter, and sounded ready to move on from the saga. NY Daily News | Kristie Ackert: Tight end Cole Kmet was taken with the 43rd pick in the 2020 NFL Draft by the Chicago Bears, but before his football career blossomed he garnered some attention for his baseball skills. The comparison that one scout gave Kmet?
Today’s lineups: MIN: Garver C, Polcano SS, Kepler RF, Cruz DH, Rosario LF, Donaldson 3B, Sano 1B, Arraez 2B, Buxton CF, Dobnak P BOS: Downs 2B, Martinez DH, Devers 3B, Bogaerts SS, Verdugo RF, Benintendi LF, Moreland 1B, Pillar CF, Lucroy C, Hernandez, P Darwinzon Hernandez threw 29 pitches and got one out as the opener, before old friend Martin Perez came in as the bulk pitcher and gave Boston six innings. Hernandez loaded the bases in the first inning, but the home team didn’t score.
It’s not as bad because we don’t have so many people, but they’ve locked down almost everything,” Bogaerts said. You’ve got to be home at 9 p.m. If the cops see you on the road, they pick you up.
In the inaugural episode of the NESN After Hours Podcast presented by People’s United Bank, Cealey Godwin and Emerson Lotzia share their thoughts on the NFL Draft, speak with Tim Hardaway on Michael Jordan and “The Last Dance” and have a chat with Pete Abraham of The Boston Globe on the Boston Red Sox about the league’s punishment for the team’s involvement in sign stealing. Listen to the full podcast below or on Spotify or iTunes. https://ift.tt/2S5EqMt
David Ortiz wasn’t happy with the punishment Major League Baseball handed down to the Red Sox for stealing signs in 2018. Appearing on FOX with Kevin Burkhardt and Alex Rodriguez on Friday, Ortiz said he believed MLB’s decision to strip the Red Sox of a second-round draft pick and suspend video assistant J.T. Watkins was too harsh. They were searching trying to find out if anything that happened in Houston happened in Boston,” Ortiz said.
Retired Red Sox slugger David Ortiz says MLB punishment for sign-stealing was 'not fair.'
On Friday, they started up a three-game set in Minnesota against a Twins team that is in third in their division but had won eight of their last ten coming into this game. Boston had Matt Hall on the mound while Minnesota had Blaine Hardy going, a matchup that didn’t seem conducive to a pitchers’ duel. However, that’s what we got.
If that’s what was come up with, then so be it. It’s time to move on. I’m glad that we’re kind of through those situations.
By making low-level advance scout J.T. Watkins the face of the Red Sox sign-stealing violations, MLB puts replay room staffers who work for teams in a difficult position,
Blue Jays 1 Red Sox 4 Hyun-Jin Ryu had another very good start for the good guys. He pitched 7 innings, allowed 9 hits, 2 earned, no walks with 7 strikeouts. He gave up a home run to Christian Vaquez.
MLB has handed out their punishment to the Boston Red Sox for cheating during the 2018 season. And they got off lightly compared to the Houston Astros. From our story by Bill Shaikin: “On Wednesday, three months after sanctioning the 2017 Houston Astros as cheaters, the league cited the Boston Red Sox for the same offense: the illegal use of technology to steal signs.
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Rob Manfred finally releases his report on the Red Sox efforts to steal signs in 2018, the reason for Brady and Gronk’s New England departure is revealed, Percy Harvin announces he’s ready to return to the NFL after a three year hiatus, and with the 2020 NFL Draft beginning tonight, keep it locked right here as Yahoo Sports Draft Live offers coverage of the first round. PLUS Jared quits The Rush to join his brother in the NFL! Okay, not really...or does he?
HOW LONG IT WENT ON From the Astros report: “The Astros continued to both utilize the replay review room and the monitor located next to the dugout to decode signs for the remainder of the regular season and throughout the Postseason. From the Red Sox report: “I find that Watkins used in-game video to decode signs during the 2018 regular season only.
* MLB investigation into sign-stealing concludes on Wednesday * Team’s replay operator is given one-year suspensionMajor League Baseball has completed its investigation into allegations the Boston Red Sox were involved in a sign-stealing operation during their 2018 World Series-winning season, suspending replay operator JT Watkins for one year and stripping the team of a second-round draft pick. The team’s former manager, Alex Cora, is suspended for the 2020 season but only for his part in the Houston Astros’ sign-stealing operation, which MLB had already investigated.The punishment will be met with relief by many Red Sox fans. MLB handed down heavy penalties – including a $5m fine and a loss of first-round draft picks in 2020 and 2021 – after the league concluded the Astros stole signs during their own title-winning season in 2017. The scandal has tarnished the Astros’ reputation and provoked anger from players around the league. MLB commissioner Rob Manfred concluded that Cora was unaware of Watkins’ wrongdoing during the 2018 season. Manfred said that Watkins “on at least some occasions during the 2018 regular season, utilized the game feeds in the replay room, in violation of MLB regulations, to revise sign sequence information that he had permissibly provided to players prior to the game.” However, unlike the Astros, Watkins’ missteps were “far more limited in scope and impact.”Manfred added that Cora, the coaching staff and most Red Sox players did not know “that Watkins was utilizing in-game video to update the information that he had learned from his pregame analysis.”The Red Sox did not contest the findings. “As an organization, we strive for 100% compliance with the rules. MLB’s investigation concluded that in isolated instances during the 2018 regular season, sign sequences were decoded through the use of live game video rather than through permissible means,” the Red Sox president and CEO, Sam Kennedy, said in a statement.“MLB acknowledged the front office’s extensive efforts to communicate and enforce the rules and concluded that Alex Cora, the coaching staff, and most of the players did not engage in, nor were they aware of, any violations. Regardless, these rule violations are unacceptable. We apologize to our fans and Major League Baseball, and accept the Commissioner’s ruling.”MLB’s punishment for the Astros was more severe because it concluded the club had used cameras to steal signs from opposing teams, allowing batters to tell which pitches to expect.
The Boston Red Sox officially made Ron Roenicke their manager for the 2020 season, club chief baseball officer Chaim Bloom announced Wednesday night on a conference call with reporters. Reports circulated earlier Wednesday that the team was removing the interim tag, not long after the team's sign-stealing punishment was handed down by Major League Baseball. Bloom emphasized that Roenicke's contract runs solely through the 2020 season.
The Boston Red Sox have been stripped of their second-round pick in this year's amateur draft by Major League Baseball for sign stealing in 2018. Also, former manager Alex Cora was suspended through the 2020 postseason for his conduct as bench coach with the Houston Astros in 2017. Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred concluded Red Sox video replay system operator J.T. Watkins used in-game video to revise sign sequences provided to players.
Editor’s note: On April 22, 2007, the Boston Red Sox tied a major league record by hitting four straight home runs in a win over the New York Yankees. BOSTON — The Boston Red Sox hit four straight homers to match a major league record and finished a satisfying sweep of the New York Yankees. Mike Lowell hit one of Boston’s four consecutive home runs off rookie Chase Wright in the third inning, then connected for a go-ahead, three-run shot in the seventh that led Daisuke Matsuzaka and the Red Sox ...
Wade Boggs tests negative for coronavirus, clarifies Chris Sale comment Hall of Famer Wade Boggs got what he considered good news this week, a test confirming the illness he had in March was not related to the coronavirus. Boggs said an antibodies test administered by an independent doctor in Tampa was negative, meaning pneumonia was apparently the sole cause of the three to four days in March that the 61-year-old was wiped out by high fever, cough and other symptoms.
Ron Roenicke is just like the rest of us. The Boston Red Sox interim manager sat down with NESN’s Tom Caron on “At Home With TC” on Monday night to discuss all things quarantine, and what to expect with baseball moving forward. Roenicke touched upon his new-found knowledge during a Zoom conference call, as well conversations with Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred among other things.
It took Mookie Betts some time to get used to wearing Dodger blue after being traded away from the Boston Red Sox.
The Red Sox informed full-time employees Monday that their salaries are guaranteed through at least May 31. The decision was made after Major League Baseball informed teams that commissioner Rob Manfred will suspend uniform employee contracts as of May 1. That gives teams the option to furlough baseball operations employees or cut their salaries because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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