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The Boston Red Sox are struggling this season and if things continue on this path, they may be in a situation where they have to shed salary as the season goes on. One of those trade chips could be long-time third baseman Kevin Youkilis.

Will Youkilis injured, prospected Will Middlebrooks [...]

The Red Sox have the runner-up in the AL MVP Award returning in Center Field in Jacoby Ellsbury. He had a monster year in 2011 hitting .321 and a breakout year with power with 32 home runs, throw in 105 RBI’s and name another lead-off hitter to have those kind of numbers? Also add in [...]

Ozzie Guillen is up to his old shenanigans and Bobby Valentine has been told what’s up. Guillen was ejected from Monday’s Grapefruit League game against the Boston Red Sox for what else but arguing a call. Then, as the new Miami Marlins skipper exited the field, opposing manager Valentine gave him a sarcastic wave adios [...]

Former Boston Red Sox pitcher, Oil Boyd, revealed during an interview with WBZ Radio that he was a frequent cocaine-user during his MLB career. Boyd has an autobiography coming out called, “They Call Me Oil Can: My Life in Baseball,” in which he talked about his use of the drug. “Oh yeah, at every ballpark. [...]

On Friday, we took a very early look at some National League postseason predictions, so it’s only fitting that we take a look at some early American League postseason predictions. American League East 1. Z – Tampa Bay Rays: A full year of Matt Moore and Desmond Jennings and Evan Longoria, B.J. Upton, and David [...]

Has Billy Beane completely lost his mind, or is he using his “money ball” magic to rebuild the Oakland Athletics and improve on their future?

The team traded closer Andrew Bailey and outfielder Ryan Sweeney [...]

I, for one, am not happy in the slightest about the direction that the Red Sox organization are heading. The future isn’t so bright and the front office are all too blame for this! So far, this offseason they have cleaned house with the coaching staff and with some of the higher ups in the general manager’s office, they went on a managerial search that took over 2 and a half months to name a guy they already had pegged for the job, [...]

According to ESPN’s Karl Ravich, sources are saying that Gene Lamont is no longer a candidate to manage the Boston Red Sox. Ravich also then went on to say that Bobby Valentine has not been offered the job yet, but it appears “imminent.”

I wish the Red Sox would just end this already and pick a guy. This has been way too long of a process. [...]

According to this tweet from SI.com’s Jon Heyman, the Baltimore Orioles have a new general manager. (No word on whether white smoke appeared above Camden Yards.) Dan Duquette has agreed to become orioles gm. Announcement tuesday Duquette has been out of baseball so long that his job-before-last was as general manager of a team that [...]

After what seemed like weeks of wrangling, the Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs announced a deal that will send Theo Epstein to Chicago. Though the move has long been rumored, there was reportedly a hang-up over compensation. But now, on the first off-day of the World Series, the two sides came to an agreement, [...]