Dan Shaughnessy

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Sports Columnist at The Boston Globe

Sports columnist for the Boston Globe. Author. Winner BBWAA Career Excellence Award presented at Baseball Hall of Fame.

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Globe writers tell us what the Patriots should do, and what they will do, with the No. 4 pick in the NFL Draft - The Boston Globe

1 day ago | bostonglobe.com | Chad Finn |Christopher L. Gasper |Christopher Price |Dan Shaughnessy |Tara Sullivan |Ben Volin | +1 more

We asked the Globe’s football cognoscenti to weigh in on what the Patriots should do and predict what they will do when they are on the clock with the No. 4 pick in Thursday night’s NFL Draft. What the Patriots should do: Pounce if the Giants do something stupid. It appears as though the Giants will do the obvious and take Penn State edge-rushing maniac Abdul Carter at No. 3, presuming Cam Ward and Travis Hunter go 1-2.
Was expecting so much more from these Red Sox, but they’ve been frustratingly bad so far - The Boston Globe

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Dan Shaughnessy

What’s up Red Sox? I had faith. After ripping the Sox for five seasons, I took the cheese this spring. Spent nine days in Fort Myers, madly applauded the Alex Bregman signing, felt good about ownership getting back in the winning business, and picked these goofy guys to finish in first place in the American League East. Now this. My bad. I trusted them. I bleeped up.
Bill Belichick shows no love for Patriots owner Robert Kraft in new book, and other thoughts - The Boston Globe

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Dan Shaughnessy

Picked-up pieces while wondering if anybody else is worried about Jaylen Brown’s knee . . . ⋅ Bill Belichick’s new book, “The Art of Winning,” arrived in the mail this past week and I could not wait to pore through it. Imagine. Two hundred and eighty-nine pages of Bill telling us about the secret sauce of 24 seasons at the helm in Foxborough.
Courageous Jarren Duran shows us what true strength is with a message every sports fan should heed - The Boston Globe

2 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Dan Shaughnessy

There’s a lesson here for all of us. It’s a lesson for fans, social media warriors, veteran wiseguy columnists, sports talk-radio barkers, young athletes, bullied children, professional athletes, agents, team executives, political leaders, ballclub owners, and citizens who maybe don’t know or care about the mean streets and back roads of big-time, big-money sports. And that lesson is this: back off. Don’t be so harsh.
‘We got a good team’: Red Sox uplifting Fenway opener one for the ages — and the aged — in a salute to the beloved 1975 World Series team - The Boston Globe

2 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Dan Shaughnessy

And all these years later, the Fenway opener was an homage to Yaz, Pudge, Rico, Rooster, the Gold Dust Twins and El Tiante who thrilled the Fenway masses at our ancient hardball cathedral a half century ago. If you are a baseball fan, be glad that you live in New England. Celebrate your fortunate place in the baseball universe.
Red Sox turning back time to the memorable 1975 season and the best World Series ever, and other thoughts - The Boston Globe

2 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Dan Shaughnessy

They wore two-toned, red-and-blue caps, won 95 regular-season games, swept the three-time defending Series champion A’s in the ALCS, then took the 108-win, Big Red Machine to a seventh game in a Series that temporarily rescued baseball. In a hot Boston summer pepped with busing-stoked racial tension, the colorful and talented Sox gave us daily thrills and a common cause. A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday.
After just one series, Red Sox find themselves in a familiar position

3 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Dan Shaughnessy

ARLINGTON, Texas — The Red Sox are in sole possession of last place in the American League East. After the legit full throttle winter which saw newly-urgent ownership open the vault and Craig Bres-Lowball trading prospects and handing out one-year contracts like candy . . . after the earth-shattering acquisition of veteran leader/winner/Fenway wrecking ball Alex Bregman . . . after newfound love from pundits across Baseball America (some see the Red Sox playing in the 2025 World Series!) . . .
Something’s amiss in Rafael Devers’s move to DH

3 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Dan Shaughnessy

ARLINGTON, Texas — The Rafael Devers DH project did not get off to a great start in Texas. In the galaxy of Boston sports stars, Devers has never been a controversial figure. In seven-plus seasons, he’s been a sweet, silent, savant swinger who smiles and keeps to himself. His nickname is “Carita,’’ which translates to “Baby Face.”See the ball. Hit the ball. Mind your own business. Show up tomorrow and do it again. That’s been the Raffy Devers Way.
Red Sox rookie Kristian Campbell’s first hit will go down in the books, one way or the other

3 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Dan Shaughnessy

ARLINGTON, Texas — Welcome to Major League Baseball. Where a cigar is a cigar, but a hit perhaps is not a hit. Red Sox rookie second baseman Kristian Campbell stroked his first big league hit in his MLB debut in the ninth inning of Thursday’s pulsating, 5-2, Red Sox win over the Rangers. After singling in the ninth inning of Boston’s Opening Day win, Campbell was awarded his souvenir ball in a nifty sanitary stocking, marked “First Hit, 3/27, Texas, Single”.
New guys were fun to watch, the rookie was a hoot, and remember Wilyer Abreu? Red Sox open a season of promise with a victory - The Boston Globe

3 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Dan Shaughnessy

ARLINGTON, Texas — After five seasons of abject mediocrity (353-355, last place three times), an alarming drift toward baseball’s big middle, and fan apathy that has dented a once-stellar brand, there are great expectations for the 2025 Red Sox. Free agents have been procured, some of the coveted kids are ready for the bigs, and a few pundits are picking the upstart Sox to finish first in a suddenly wide-open American League East.

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Articles

Globe writers tell us what the Patriots should do, and what they will do, with the No. 4 pick in the NFL Draft - The Boston Globe

Was expecting so much more from these Red Sox, but they’ve been frustratingly bad so far - The Boston Globe

Bill Belichick shows no love for Patriots owner Robert Kraft in new book, and other thoughts - The Boston Globe

Courageous Jarren Duran shows us what true strength is with a message every sports fan should heed - The Boston Globe

‘We got a good team’: Red Sox uplifting Fenway opener one for the ages — and the aged — in a salute to the beloved 1975 World Series team - The Boston Globe

Red Sox turning back time to the memorable 1975 season and the best World Series ever, and other thoughts - The Boston Globe

After just one series, Red Sox find themselves in a familiar position

Something’s amiss in Rafael Devers’s move to DH

Red Sox rookie Kristian Campbell’s first hit will go down in the books, one way or the other

New guys were fun to watch, the rookie was a hoot, and remember Wilyer Abreu? Red Sox open a season of promise with a victory - The Boston Globe

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