To the naked eye, it's strange to watch Red Sox hitters like Caleb Durbin and Carlos Narváez walk a few feet away from the cage to consult with a private hitting coach during BP. But in the modern game, everyone involved says it's no big deal. masslive.com/redsox/2026/06/…

Harold Rivas had 3 hits for the FCL Sox yesterday, including a homer & a triple.

I know Rafael Devers is a LHH but it if you look at his 2025 spray chart it seems like he actually has a good swing for Fenway Park. Would be an interesting experiment to see if he could handle hitting in Boston 🤔

This game encapsulates Rafaela PERFECTLY: He has the raw skill and had 2 base hits and some really nice defensive plays, including a nice clutch hit But he also has the IQ of a squash, making a lazy throw to allow throw and continuing to be a base stealing liability

"I don't think the plan was very sound." Adam Ottavino believes the Red Sox "overdid it" with Roman Anthony.

This is the realest thing. The 2 biggest chess pieces you have and you have fucked up communicating their injuries in the same month. It starts with a CBO in the last 2 weeks who's admitted he didn't properly value the importance of communication. Imagine what else goes on...

Looking at Durbin's swing, the contact point jumps out. When he's catching the ball out in front, he's making much better use of his great attack angles. Did this well in 2025, but tailed off at the end of the year and carried that over into his cold streak to start the year

The Red Sox and Craig Breslow have invested $295 million in Roman Anthony, Ceddanne Rafaela, Kristian Campbell, and Brayan Bello over the last two years. $115 million of that money is sitting in Triple-A and doesn’t seem anywhere close to returning to the big leagues. Usually, teams get praised for locking up players like this with pre-arbitration extensions, but you can’t increase the cap hits for unproven players while also having the horrible contracts of Story and Yoshida on the books. It’s just a bad model.

Per @ChrisCotillo, Craig Breslow nearly became a part of the organization after the 2018 season (brought up by @JustinMLB in our latest episode of @PodByTheRiver): “The Red Sox went into the sit-down with high hopes of hiring Breslow before he — according to an industry source with knowledge of the conversations — irked club executives by presenting a self-made job design for a powerful, broad role within the organization and came off as inflexible instead of being open to other roles the team might have had in mind. Boston’s team of experienced, championship-winning officials quickly realized there wasn’t a fit for Breslow, who some in the organization thought had asked for too big of a role considering his complete lack of front office experience.”

The internal rift in @RedSox is blowing up. 🚨 Lance Dobbins—father of former Red Sox pitcher @HunterD_20 just absolutely torched @CraigBreslow and the front office on social media. He didn't hold back, fiercely defending pitching coach Andrew Bailey while placing 100% of the blame for the team's struggles and pitching limitations on the analytics department. According to Dobbins, "people behind computers" are dictating the pitches, forcing the coaching staff to operate "with one hand tied behind their backs." He completely slammed the organization's heavy reliance on Driveline, calling it "the answer to everything, but winning games!" Most notably, he pointed out that the constant wave of pitcher ailments and hitter wrist/hand injuries (like Roman Anthony's torn finger ligament) isn't "pure bad luck"—it's a direct byproduct of the front office's rigid, spreadsheet-driven training methods. Meanwhile, Hunter Dobbins was traded to the Cardinals for Willson Contreras and immediately found success after throwing his sinker again. The pressure on Breslow's analytic-heavy culture is officially reaching a boiling point. 💣 #RedSox #DirtyWater #BostonRedSox #CraigBreslow #FenwayPark #MLB #Baseball #Driveline #Boston #SportsNews #BaseBallLife #MLBNLI

Are the Red Sox better off now than when they hired Craig Breslow? A deep dive into the state of the organization: pitching and hitting development, Ivy League Breslow vs. big league Breslow, free agency, Theo, records/spending, lots more. bostonglobe.com/2026/06/01/s…

James Tibbs III smashes his second HR of the game, this one off All-Star closer Josh Hader 🔥 The @Dodgers' No. 10 prospect records his third multihomer game of the season for the Triple-A @OKC_comets:

In case you were wondering how big a focal point the Dodgers would be in labor talks, here are some graphics sent by MLB to help make their case for a salary cap …

Roman Anthony today: “It’s a partially torn ring finger ligament in my ring finger CMC to be exact.” Sam Kennedy on 5/22: “There’s no evidence of a tear. The imaging is negative.”

The NBA makes an unprecedented move in American pro sports league by punishing the very worst teams in the draft lottery and creating a new system to incentivize winning — after months of meetings and conversations among league, ownership and team stakeholders. A radical response from the NBA to radical behavior, with nearly 8-to-10 teams jockeying for lottery odds down stretch of this season. The new “3-2-1” lottery starts next Draft and lasts through at least 2029.