NEW YORK — Boston pitcher David Price has won the AL Comeback Player of the Year award and Atlanta reliever Jonny Venters has earned the NL honor. Price, a 33-year-old left-hander, was 16-7 with a 3.58 ERA in 30 starts for the Red Sox, who won their fourth World Series title in 15 seasons. […]
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Returning to Red Sox a ‘no-brainer’ for Steve Pearce
BOSTON — World Series MVP Steve Pearce says it was a “no-brainer” to return to the Red Sox for another year. “This was the place that I wanted to be,” he said on a conference call Monday, three days after agreeing to a $6.5 million, one-year deal with the defending champions. “The chemistry we had […]
World Series MVP Pearce staying with Red Sox for $6.25M
BOSTON — World Series MVP Steve Pearce is staying with the Red Sox. The journeyman first baseman agreed to a $6.25 million, one-year contract with Boston on Friday. The 35-year-old Pearce was a free agent after completing a $12.5 million, two-year deal that he got from Toronto in December 2016. He earned an additional $150,000 bonus […]
Red Sox’s Mookie Betts wins AL MVP; Brewers’ Yelich earns NL award
NEW YORK — Mookie Betts is ready to become an ambassador for baseball, now that he’s won a batting title, World Series and Most Valuable Player award with Boston. “I enjoy being kind of a face around the game. I’ve kind of used this pedestal or whatever you want to say to spread knowledge that […]
Manager Alex Cora gets new deal from Red Sox through 2021 season
BOSTON — Alex Cora brought a new voice and culture to the Boston Red Sox that helped propel them to their latest World Series title. The Red Sox rewarded him for bringing home a championship in his first year with the team by giving him a new contract with an additional guaranteed year through the […]
Red Sox get 3 Gold Glove winners
Mookie Betts and the Boston Red Sox just keep winning. Betts, Jackie Bradley Jr. and Ian Kinsler won Gold Gloves for the World Series champion Red Sox on Sunday night, and the Atlanta Braves also were recognized for their fielding excellence this season. The 26-year-old Betts won for the third straight year. He also is […]
Alex Cora arrives in Puerto Rico as fans celebrate Red Sox’s World Series win
CAGUAS, Puerto Rico — Hundreds of arms stretched into the sky in the hometown of Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora on Saturday as fans took pictures and video of the first man from Puerto Rico to lead a team to a World Series championship. Cora held up the trophy that he had been cradling […]
Red Sox look to offseason with goal of repeat championship, staying together
BOSTON — The last time Dave Dombrowski built a World Series champion, he had to start dismantling it before the celebratory champagne had a chance to dry. He’s hoping to defend the title for real next year. “It is significantly different than the last time,” he said on Thursday, four days after the Red Sox won […]
Parade fetes Red Sox’s World Series championship; trophy, manager Cora hit by beer cans
BOSTON — Confetti cannons boomed and huge crowds of fans cheered wildly on Wednesday as the Boston Red Sox rumbled through downtown aboard duck boats to mark the team’s fourth World Series championship in the past 15 years. One of the team’s championship trophies and team manager Alex Cora were hit by flying cans of […]
Three days after World Series gem, David Price says he’s staying with Red Sox
BOSTON — Three days after a World Series victory that transformed him from a postseason flop to an October hero, Red Sox left-hander David Price said at the team’s victory parade Wednesday that he would stay in Boston rather than opt out of his contract and become a free agent. “I’m not going anywhere,” Price […]