BOBBY VALENTINE RUMORS

Jon Lester, Red Sox Have 'Best Stuff of the Year' Despite What Numbers Show

Editor's note: NESN.com is going to tell the story of the 2012 Red Sox in Bobby Valentine's words. Each game day, we will select a Valentine quote that sums up the day for the Red Sox. It's not always about the numbers. The Red Sox have put up plenty of gaudy statistics this year in games that devolved into ugly losses, but as they've hit their stride lately, production...
Via NESN.com  |  1 hour ago

Valentine: Pedroia likely out on Tuesday

According to Bobby Valentine, Dustin Pedroia is likely to miss tonight’s game. “Right now, I don’t think he’ll play Tuesday, if I was a betting man, but don’t bet on it. It’s just swollen. You could tell there’s something there.” He left yesterday’s game with a jammed right thumb in the 6th inning and he is expected to undergo...
Via Bloody Sox  |  1 day ago

David Ortiz reportedly called team meeting to defend Bobby Valentine

It could be a complete coincidence, but the Red Sox have played particularly well since David Ortiz called a players-only meeting for the team back on May 11. Since that day, Boston has gone 12-5 — their best stretch of baseball this season. The most obvious reason for Ortiz’s meeting was that his team was well under .500 and playing horribly. As we recently found out...
Via Larry Brown Sports  |  1 day ago

Who’s on First? Red Sox “Don’t Know”

DATELINE: HUMOR! Bobby Valentine has begun to play the old vaudeville routine of Abbot and Costello’s baseball conundrum ‘Who’s on first?’ In this version Bobby plays all the roles and makes all the jokes. Lately he has been telling the media who’s in right and receiving some bizarre answers, like Podesdnik or Ross or Sweeney or Adrian Gonzalez! If you don’t know who’s...
Via MyTeamRivals.com  |  2 days ago

Bobby Valentine Knows Baseball, From Beanballs to Walk-Offs, and Red Sox Respond

Editor's note: NESN.com is going to tell the story of the 2012 Red Sox in Bobby Valentine's words. Each game day, we will select a Valentine quote that sums up the day for the Red Sox. Say what you will about what transpired Friday night between the Red Sox and the Rays. The plunking, the brawl, the accusations, the explanations -- no one is going to say what really happened...
Via NESN.com  |  4 days ago

Valentine calls out Rays' coaches

Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine has called out the Tampa Bay Rays' coaching staff a day after the teams were involved in a benches-clearing scrum. Valentine said the Rays' staff escalated the situation that arose in the ninth inning of Tampa Bay's 7-4 win on Friday night after Red Sox reliever Franklin Morales hit Luke Scott on the right leg. He called their actions...
Via AP on Fox  |  4 days ago

Sox manager Valentine calls out Rays coaches

BOSTON (AP) -- Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine has called out the Tampa Bay Rays' coaching staff a day after the teams were involved in a benches-clearing scrum. Valentine said the Rays' staff escalated the situation that arose in the ninth inning of Tampa Bay's 7-4 win on Friday night after Red Sox reliever Franklin Morales hit Luke Scott on the right leg. He called...
Via Fox Sports Florida  |  4 days ago

Bobby Valentine Hoping 'Ghosts of Fenway Past,' Bench-Clearing Brawl Will Motivate Red Sox

Editor's note: NESN.com is going to tell the story of the 2012 Red Sox in Bobby Valentine’s words. Each game day, we will select the best Valentine quote that sums up the day for the Red Sox. The Red Sox were engaged in an all out brawl on Friday night -- quite literally. The benches at Fenway Park cleared in the top of the ninth inning, and it was all but an old school barnyard...
Via NESN.com  |  5 days ago
THINKING BIG

Bobby V: Red Sox can win W.S.

Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine is not shy about what he believes his team can accomplish. He has big dreams for his boys.

Via NESN.com  |  7 days ago

Umpire Gary Darling’s gum gets in Bobby Valentine’s face during argument (Video)

Bobby Valentine earned his first ejection as Red Sox manager Friday night. And, boy, was it a doozy. Valentine came out to argue a close play are first base as the Sox were trying to mount a late comeback in the ninth against the Phillies. Umpire Gary Darling disposed of Valentine before long, but not until Bobby V got an incidental face full on Darling’s Bazooka gum mid-expletive...
Via Larry Brown Sports  |  11 days ago
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