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New York Yankees (29-23) For all the dithering and complaining that's been going on in the Bronx, the Yankees have the second-best record in the American League, propelled by the best offense in baseball. Russell Martin (.253/.363/.479) has been ...

Mariano Rivera has apparently re-upped with the Yankees for two more seasons, undoubtedly leaving Yankees fans wondering why some are so easy and so so difficult. According to the Daily News, the deal came together quickly: Thursday night, R...

With Victor Martinez an All-Star, thanks to the players (and by the way whose brilliant idea was that, to let the players vote?), it's yet another great opportunity to wonder where Martinez will be in 2011. Nick Cafardo with the guts: Earlier this ...

Larry Lucchino went on the radio in Boston, and of course it's the David Ortiz stuff that everybody's talking about. But this is the part that got me thinking: If Larry Lucchino were commissioner for a day, what would be the one or two things yo...

Hey, Wednesday night was a good night for David Ortiz. But it was just one night, and the Red Sox need more of them. Dan Barbarisi on this sticky situation: Yet the Sox can't afford to wait forever for Ortiz to figure out whether he's going to be g...

This is the second part of my 30-part project to divide the histories of every major league franchise into distinct (if sometimes messy) eras, with each era connected to a single player. Sometimes this is easy. Sometimes it's not. Sometimes you will ...

Today's links are going on strike immediately and won't return to work until Alex Rodriguez hits another home run ... • There have been dozens of tributes to Ernie Harwell already, and it's hardly fair to single out just a few of them ... bu...

Are David Ortiz's days in Boston almost over? Dan Shaughnessy thinks they might be. His big finish: Papi issued a warning to those looking for him to burst out of the blocks. "I'm not a beginning guy, I'll tell you that right now," he said. "I'm...

Which decade produced better players, the 1990s or 2000s? At least in this simulated series, the old guys get the last laugh.

Playing off a Larry Stone post (which plays off the Joe Posnanski post I linked to this morning), David Pinto makes a Hall of Fame case for Edgar Martinez: Let me get the party started. With stats by position going back to 1974, we have the careers...

Quick Quiz: Who's more valuable, Jason Bay or Mike Cameron? Dave Cameron says it's Mike Cameron, even considering the age difference, and he makes his case well ... Yet Bay is going to get a three to five year deal for something in the neighborh...

Posted by Alex Belth I was talking to a friend last week after the David Ortiz news dropped and he took comfort that, at the very least, it would give this weekend's series between the Red Sox and the Yankees some added juice, pardon the expressi...

My favorite part -- and it comes at the very end -- of the New York Times' story about Red Sox sluggers David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs in 2003: In 2007, Ortiz said that he used to buy a protein sha...

Well, this is weird: Dejan Kovacevic of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is reporting that the Red Sox have traded for first baseman Adam LaRoche of the Pittsburgh Pirates. LaRoche is a power-hitting first baseman who has averaged 24.5 homers over the pa...

Amalie Benjamin has tonight's Red Sox lineup, and there's a (sort of) new name in there: The Red Sox today placed Mike Lowell on the 15-day disabled list with a right hip strain (retroactive to June 28), recalling Jeff Bailey from Triple-A P...

I love this quote -- in the wake of a double play that wasn't turned -- from Terry Francona (via Sean McAdam): "Evaluating our shortstops in May, for public consumption - I don't know that helps our cause. I watch the games. But it'...