Red Sox Meet With Boras, Matsuzaka
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The agent for Japanese superstar Daisuke Matsuzaka and the Boston Red Sox are facing a Thursday night deadline for signing the pitching phenom.
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Al Leiter has already met once with the Yankees. Now it&#39;s time to meet with the Mets. Leiter, who is still interested in re-signing with the club, will meet with Omar Minaya, probably either
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The Boston Red Sox and Oakland Athletics are lined up to meet in a Tokyo Dome opener next season.
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Even the uninitiated know the significance of a series between the Red Sox and Yankees. They also understand the importance of keeping the rivalry in perspective, regardless of the enmity. Perhaps easier said than done before you experience it up close and personal, as Jason Varitek and Alex Rodriguez did the last time the teams met.
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NEWPORT BEACH, California  - Pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka has done his homework for next month's spring training with his new Boston Red Sox teammates.
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The Boston Red Sox knew they were getting a big-game pitcher when they paid $103 million to lure Daisuke Matsuzaka from Japan. They got a big-game hitter thrown in for free.
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The Mets had a meeting Wednesday with Scott Boras, the agent for third baseman Alex Rodriguez, staying on the fringes of negotiations for the marquee free agent of the off-season.
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The Boston Red Sox have formed an alliance with Bobby Valentine's team, the Chiba Lotte Marines of Japan's Pacific League, to share player evaluations and statistical analysis.
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FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Daisuke Matsuzaka is among the first group of Red Sox pitchers who will throw bullpen sessions today, when the team takes the field for its first official workout of camp.
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Although Daisuke Matsuzaka would face considerable criticism for going back to Japan because of a squabble over money with the Boston Red Sox, his agent Scott Boras said a return is a strong possibility.
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The Boston Red Sox spent over $50  million just for the rights to negotiate with Daisuke Matsuzaka  and on Saturday the Japanese pitcher will be expected to repay  some of that fee when he takes to the mound for Game Three of  the World Series against the Colorado Rockies.
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Here we go again. Red Sox-Yankees. October. Winner goes to the World Series. Loser goes into an off-season of questions. It all starts Tuesday at the Stadium.
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Pedro Martinez visits the enemy Tuesday, meeting with Yankees owner George Steinbrenner at New York's spring training complex in Tampa, Fla.
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The man with the $100 million arm is eager to add to Boston's rich pitching history. Daisuke Matsuzaka's $52 million, six-year contract was announced Thursday by the Red Sox, who hope he will follow Roger Clemens and Pedro Martinez as an ace on the Fenway Park mound.
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Astros owner Drayton McLane finally got his face-to-face meeting with All-Star center fielder Carlos Beltran and superagent Scott Boras this afternoon in Florida.
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On the eve of the baseball winter meetings in Anaheim, Calif., Red Sox principal owner John W. Henry and CEO Larry Lucchino plan to meet with Pedro Martinez tomorrow morning in the Dominican Republic, though Lucchino insisted last night that the call is more social in nature and negotiations will not necessarily take place.
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In the time it took the plane carrying Daisuke Matsuzaka to cross Illinois at 41,000 feet on Wednesday, the Boston Red Sox unveiled their new shortstop, leadoff hitter and best buddy for All-Star slugger David Ortiz.