Jason Varitek is doing is best right now to grin and bear it. The Boston Red Sox decided on the nuclear option on Saturday, firing manager Alex Cora and several other top coaches.
Sitting in front of a Baltimore Orioles-themed backdrop, Boston Red Sox CEO Sam Kennedy and head of baseball operations Craig Breslow explained on Sunday morning why manager Alex Cora and several members of his staff were fired Saturday.
Boston Red Sox players do not appear happy with the team’s decision to fire manager Alex Cora, or the way they went about it. The Red Sox fired Cora on Saturday with the team off to a 10-17 start, prompting a great deal of surprise around the baseball world.
Some things appear clear when it comes to Baseball Hall of Fame voting. The PED guys aren’t going to get in, or at least the hitters, and the rubric for starting pitchers has to be reconstructed on the fly.
It’s a new era of Red Sox baseball with Chad Tracy at the helm for his first game. While we won’t know for sure what will look different with Tracy in charge, here are a few quick takeaways from the lineup.
In Baltimore on Sunday morning, the Boston Red Sox addressed a stunning early-season decision, as Chief Baseball Officer Craig Breslow and President/CEO Sam Kennedy spoke to reporters following the firing of manager Alex Cora.
Following a 10-17 start to the season, the Boston Red Sox parted ways with manager Alex Cora and five coaches. Cora failed to make the most of an admittedly flawed roster.
Speed is more important than ever in MLB with recent rule changes promoting stolen bases. These were the 25 fastest players for the 2026 season, as recorded by the Statcast sprint speed metric.
He’s Chad Samuel Tracy and he comes from the land of baseball lifers. While he is decidedly not the Chad Tracy who spent the bulk of a mid-sized career with the Diamondbacks in the early part of this century, this Chad Tracy has spent his entire life around the game.
The dust is starting to settle after the Boston Red Sox shocked the baseball world on Saturday by firing manager Alex Cora, as well as a handful of other coaches.
The Boston Red Sox endured a terrible start to the 2026 campaign. They are languishing at the bottom of the American League East after the opening month of the season.
The Boston Red Sox barely had a chance to enjoy a big day of success on the field before there was an overhaul of the coaching staff. They'll go into Sunday afternoon's series finale against the host Baltimore Orioles with Chad Tracy as interim manager after the firing of Alex Cora was revealed hours after Saturday's game.
It’s no secret that the Boston Red Sox’s season so far has been dismal. And that is putting it gently. Coming into Saturday’s road matinee against AL East rival Baltimore Orioles, the Sox ranked last in the American League in team hits and 2nd-to-last in runs scored.
Garrett Crochet pitched six shutout innings and Andruw Monasterio drilled a late-game grand slam as the Boston Red Sox snapped a four-game losing streak with a 17-1 victory against the host Baltimore Orioles on Saturday afternoon.
The daily routine for Boston Red Sox fans is becoming more ingrained than ever this week -- and infinitely more unpleasant. Wake up the day after a brutal loss.
Brayan Bello's start did not go according to plan on Friday night to say the least. The Boston Red Sox starting pitcher allowed eight runs on 13 hits in 3 and 1/3 innings on the mound against the Baltimore Orioles in the game.
The Red Sox have promoted pitching prospect Brandon Neely from Low-A Salem to High-A Greenville, according to the club’s MiLB.com transactions log. Neely, 22, was originally taken by the Red Sox in the third round (86th overall) of the 2024 draft out of Florida.
The Boston Red Sox’s list of five greatest outfielders in history is a tough one to make. Not both for the players, because there are so many great ones, but also for whoever writes the list, again, because there are so many great ones.
The Red Sox are calling up left-hander Payton Tolle to start Thursday’s series finale against the Yankees, per Chris Cotillo of MassLive.com. It’ll be the touted young lefty’s first major league action of the season and just the fourth big league start of his career.
Like other members of Major League Baseball’s 2025 international signing class, Red Sox infield prospect Dorian Soto is expected to make his stateside debut when the 2026 rookie-level Florida Complex Season begins on May 2.