Alex Speier

Are there reasons to think this Red Sox offseason will be different? Last week, team officials vowed it was time to end a years-long run of mediocrity and idle Octobers.

Brainer Bonaci , a Red Sox prospect who was suspended for the entire 2024 season after violating the minor league domestic violence, sexual assault, and child abuse policy, has been released, according to a major league source.

“We are ballerinas. We are dancers.” — Bill Lee If pitchers are dancers, then Luis Tiant was baseball's Baryshnikov, a performer whose movements and presence commanded the stage like few others.

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In his first three pro seasons, Dobbins mostly sat at 93-95 mph while flashing the ability to get to velocities a couple ticks above that. But this season he challenged himself with a proposition: What if he lived at the top end of that scale?

On the surface, the 2024 season represented a solid step forward for Red Sox prospect Mikey Romero. There were flashes of power and two-way impact that he hadn't shown during an injury-riddled 2023 season.

No matter what happens in the World Series, the winner will claim the title of most-expensive champion in MLB history — a designation that the 2018 Red Sox, who spent $251.5 million, held for five years.

As part of a restructuring of their front office, the Red Sox have hired Rays executive Taylor Smith as an assistant general manager, according to major league sources.

There has been significant restructuring since Breslow was hired a year ago, and all of that groundwork appears to be done.

Globe sports reporter Alex Speier answered questions about the current state of the Red Sox, 20 years after the Curse of the Bambino was broken.