Rob Bradford
@bradfo
I host a wildly popular @audacysports podcast - @bbisntboring - and write and talk about the Red Sox for @WEEI. Also ..buy this book: http://amzn.to/3TepSqQ
Walker Buehler used the All-Star Break to go to the Maven Baseball Lab in Atlanta. He credits their biochemists with helping him spark ideas and find ‘a couple of cues that made everything feel a little bit more normal.’ (via @bradfo)
"What does it take to be No. 1? Two is not a winner and three nobody remembers. What does it take to be No. 1?" - Nelly audacy.com/weei/sports/re…
Rich Hill is officially back and almost hit 90 mph on his very first pitch
Alex Cora, before the game, when asked if he was intrigued by how Kyle Schwarber's free agency was going to go: "Very. Very intrigued." How intrigued? "Very."
Red Sox pitcher Lucas Giolito told @bradfo he's getting messages from disgruntled bettors "after every game." So he took his concerns straight to the commissioner: newsweek.com/sports/mlb/red…
.@byJulianMack identifies who the one untouchable on the Rockies is heading into the trade deadline ...
Morning podcast: @bradfo and @byJulianMack are ranking the most important trade deadline teams. Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ran…
Looked to my left while finishing up a story on a walk-off catcher’s interference and was reminded of something … @BBisntBoring
Red Sox succumb to the most bizarre walk-off of the season dlvr.it/TM329m #RedSox
Morning podcast: @bradfo and @byJulianMack are ranking the most important trade deadline teams. Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ran…
Lucas Giolito talked to the Commissioner yesterday
It's a @BBisntBoring on the Go: Lucas Giolito talked to Rob Manfred today about the growing problem with gambling-induced threats in MLB Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bib…
"I keep seeing all the stuff guys starting playoff games. At this point, I’m not a guy who can do that. ... I think that’s kind of the goal, to stay in that conversation, to start playoff games when we get there." audacy.com/weei/sports/re…
One takeaway from the postgame: Narvaez referenced his need to be accountable four times, no matter the weirdness of the situation. That was a sign of a player who gets it. audacy.com/weei/sports/re…
Carlos Narvaez explained that the Red Sox's catchers are instructed to move a bit up or a bit back with the team charting swings of opposing hitters. He said Sosa wasn't a hitter they moved up on.
Per Elias, since 1920 leaguewide, there’s been just one prior instance of a walk-off catcher’s interference: Aug. 1, 1971 (Dodgers vs. Reds)
Walk-off catcher's interference win for the Phillies
It's a @BBisntBoring on the Go: Lucas Giolito talked to Rob Manfred today about the growing problem with gambling-induced threats in MLB Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bib…
Anything for the great game of baseball
We don't ask for much, @bradfo, but if you can engineer a reprisal of this from the Phanatic, we'd be endlessly grateful.