Not From Boston

This week, Bennett and Harry break down the significant sweeps of the Nationals and the Rockies, how the offense and rotation have seemingly started to click, and what all of that means as the Red Sox head into a four-game series with the Rays, followed by the All-Star Break.

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Bennett and Harry breakdown the Red Sox and their consistently inconsistent performance in the run-up to their 4th of July series with the Washington Nationals.

They also talk about the stupid-ass decision of visiting the President at the White House on Thursday.

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Bennett and Harry discuss all of the new details that have emerged surrounding the Rafael Devers trade. They talk a little about what the actual team was up to this week against the Mariners, but this was another Devers/Breslow-centric episode.

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Bennett and Harry talk about the Rafael Devers trade. That’s kind of it. Happy Father’s Day

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Well, this is a LONG episode, and with good reason! The Red Sox have taken two series in a row, one against those damn Yankees, and one against the (Devil) Rays. Along the way, the Red Sox finally called Roman Anthony up to the Big Leagues, reuniting the Big Three and making Red Sox Nation happy for a change (albeit briefly).

However, things aren’t all sunshine and rainbows for the boys in red stockings, and that’s what our hosts get into this week. While the Red Sox are playing more cohesive baseball, Bennett and Harry debate whether this slight upward trend will continue or not. They also dig into the laughably convoluted construction of the team’s roster, and how chaotic it will become once certain players recover from injuries.

Finally, in the latter third of the show, Bennett and Harry talk about the latest player poll from The Athletic, how players’ opinions on sports betting have changed, and how umpires may have increased their diva behavior this season…on purpose?

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On this week’s episode, Bennett and Harry continue to dissect the problems surrounding the 2025 Red Sox season, and how utterly underwhelming it has been.

On the bright side, they spend most of the episode doing what most baseball media publications have been doing lately, putting together rosters for their respective MLB All-Quarter-Century Teams! Looking back at the last 25 years of baseball, Bennett and Harry choose the best of the best to pitch and play on their fantasy teams. Check out our Instagram page @notfrombostonpod this weekend to see what we came up with.

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So, this is what we get for taking a week off. The Red Sox are sinking faster than the Titanic, losing Alex Bregman to an injury, half of the lineup to a capital-S Slump, all while Alex Cora and Craig Breslow mismanage the roster. Meanwhile, Roman Anthony is tearing the cover off the ball in the minor leagues. He should’ve been promoted a million years ago.

Anyway, Bennett and Harry are tired and frustrated, so in this week’s episode, they mostly kvetch about watching this awful stretch of Red Sox baseball. As the title would suggest, this is probably our most profane episode. Sorry, but also not sorry.

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We are so excited to bring you this episode despite the Red Sox’s recent sub—500 performance. We’re excited because this week, Not From Boston has a guest: The Athletic’s Red Sox reporter, Jen McCaffrey! After we talk with one another about the disappointing series against the Detroit Tigers, we sit down with Jen as she shares her thoughts on the current state of the Red Sox and what may happen if they continue down this path of mediocrity. Discussions ranged from the first base situation to the high probability that Alex Bregman will opt out of his contract at the end of the year to Alex Cora being in the hot seat if the Sox miss the playoffs yet again. Those last two surprised us, to say the least. You can follow Jen McCaffrey on Twitter or read her work here: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/author/jen-mccaffrey/.

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Surprise! It’s an emergency episode of Not From Boston! Bennett and Harry sit down days after Rafael Devers publicly rejected the notion of playing at first base to discuss how the situation was handled, who was right (or wrong), and where the team goes. They also get a little carried away, talking about the recent three-game series with the Royals, and what to expect for the rest of the month. Not From Boston will be back for its regularly scheduled episode on Friday.

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After a difficult week, the Boston Red Sox fell from 17-15 to 18-18, and then 18-19 (and now 20-19 since recording this episode). This isn’t exactly where you’d expect a playoff caliber team to be in early May. Well, Bennett and Harry feel the exact same way. Exasperated by the lack of urgency from manager Alex Cora and the Front Office, and exhausted by nine losses in one-run games, Bennett and Harry try to dissect what’s going wrong, how the team can get back on track, and they try their best to keep their cool (with limited success).

At the center of this episode is the debate of who plays first now that Triston Casas has gone down with an unfortunate season-ending injury. Should it be filled with bench players taking turns? A trade with another club? Or should it be Raffy Devers? Either way, here’s hoping that the Red Sox can rally, turning the season around before it’s too late.

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