Chris Duncan News

It's not even the hot stove yet, but damn it, don't tell that to Bill James! After the jump is a sneak peak at what the Bill James Handbook has to offer for the 2010 Boston Red Sox .

With little or no negotiation, his family ordered the "Bronx Bomber," a pizza usually loaded with pepperoni, sausage and fistfuls of vegetables, exactly the way John Mozeliak likes it - without the mushrooms, onions and green peppers inconveniencing the meat.

What nobody could have predicted was that neither player would lock up the position, or that Nick Green, who came to Fort Myers hoping to latch on as a utility player, would end up with more starts at short than anybody else on the team.

If it seems like your baseball team's play-by-play man jabbers endlessly at 1,000 words a minute, well, he doesn't. But the St.

St. Louis Cardinals pitching coach Dave Duncan isn't sure if he wants to return to the club for a 15th season in 2010.

Chris Duncan, acquired from the Cardinals in exchange for shortstop Julio Lugo less than a month ago, was released on Thursday night, according to The Providence Journal.

HIGHLIGHTS: Time after time this season, the Pawtucket Red Sox have rolled over and died when faced with adversity.

After the rash of signings, we've finally got some guys showing up as Brandon Jacobs and Miles head make their professional debuts.

Chris Young, his season derailed last year by a fractured skull, will miss the rest of this season.

Jake Peavy speaks to the media after going 3 innings for the Charlotte Knights. Minor-leaguers can't touch prized pitcher's stuff in rehab debut Phil Rogers On Baseball August 14, 2009 FORT MILL, S.C. -- Jake Peavy's unofficial White Sox debut in one word? Wow.

PAWTUCKET Memories of high school pranks and conquests on the diamond were rekindled when Brian Anderson and Chris Duncan became PawSox teammates last week.

The Portland Seadogs will take on the Orioles' Double-A affiliate, the Bowie Baysox, in Game 1 at 12:05 p.m., followed by the Pawtucket Red Sox against the Norfolk Tides in Game 2. PawSox manager Ron Johnson feels the Futures at Fenway game is the highlight of his team's season.

The man might be getting underbilled of late. It seems he tended to be considered "the extra piece" in a lot of the pre-deadline rumors or hopes--mine included--but perhaps that deserves some re-evaluation. In his 115 Salem at bats this year, Kalish had an OPS right around .930. He certainly started off slow in AA, and even as late as July was in ...

He may have been a visiting player for the Norfolk Tides, but David Pauley felt right at home in his return to Pawtucket on Thursday night at McCoy Stadium.

Julio Lugo is happy again, and that's made all the difference in his baseball world.

Hitting just .140 with one home run and four RBI through his first 13 games with Pawtucket, Chris Duncan hasn't yet turned things around for himself offensively since arriving from St.

St. Louis Cardinals Chairman Bill DeWitt Jr. has no intentions of letting Matt Holliday play two months with the Cardinals and bolt to another city.

The Cardinals stood pat at the non-waiver Trade Deadline on Friday, not because they had to, but because they could.

It will take time before we find out if these moves were good or bad, but at least the front office is trying.

Posted by Christine E. at 7:05 pm in Baseball , Random Thoughts , Red Sox Some numbers to run around in the thought locker on this badly needed day off A 6-Game Road trip, ending with a record of 1-5-ONE AND FIVEthe only win they would eke out was the 1st game back, against Toronto-and the Sox have been be able to do NOTHING since 13 runs = the ...