Do the Red Sox have a secret weapon heading into the playoffs? Every baseball team spends a lot of time trying to read pitchers to figure out if they’re tipping anything. But the Sox, apparently, have a reputation around the game for being better at it than everyone else. Whether or not that’s true, just knowing that opposing pitchers are thinking about it is a win for Sox hitters. (Alex Speier, Boston Globe)

If the Sox bats do take it to the Yankees arms, lets hope that Aaron Boone doesn’t trot out either pitch-tipping or sign-stealing as whiny excuses. As it is, he’s already getting a little snippy with Alex Cora, taking issue with the way Cora is portraying the Sox as underdogs and accusing him of playing “the little engine that could” card. And, let’s get real here: the idea that “nob

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