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The Boston Red Sox are an American professional baseball team based in Boston. The Red Sox compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) East Division. Founded in 1901 as one of the American League's eight charter franchises, the team's home ballpark has been Fenway Park since 1912. The "Red Sox" name was chosen by the team owner, John I. Taylor, c. 1908, following the lead of previous teams that had been known as the "Boston Red Stockings", including the Boston Braves.
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The Red Sox held their annual end-of-season press conference Monday, with team president Sam Kennedy, chief baseball officer Craig Breslow and manager Chad Tracy spending nearly an hour addressing the media at Fenway Park.
Fitzy already took you through the highlights (such as they were) from yesterday’s press conference. We’ve gotten plenty used to the front office telling us about how pained they are by failing to meet their goals, so there wasn’t much actual news in that sense. But we did get some actual substantive information…
Willson Contreras didn't mince words after the Boston Red Sox were swept by the New York Yankees in the Wild Card Round, seemingly taking aim at analytics in particular after Sonny Gray was pulled in the fifth inning of Game 2 despite throwing just 70 pitches and giving up just two earned runs.