BOSTON STRONG -
THE ROAD TO REDEMPTION
Ryan Braun finally admits to
taking PEDs in 2011

August 22, 2013 ... No game scheduled.  One year ago today, the Red Sox were on the verge of completing a nine-player trade with the Dodgers that stunned all of baseball.  Josh Beckett, Carl Crawford, and Adrian Gonzalez, three All-Star players with enormous contracts, cleared waivers and were sent to Los Angeles in return for a package of prospects.  With the money saved by the trade, the Red Sox signed righthander Ryan Dempster, shortstop Stephen Drew, outfielder Jonny Gomes, first baseman Mike Napoli, backup catcher David Ross, and reliever Koji Uehara.

The Mets signed former Red Sox righthander Daisuke Matsuzaka to a one-year contract and plan to start him in the opener of a weekend series against the Tigers. 

Ryan Braun has admitted taking performance-enhancing drugs during his NL MVP season of 2011. The suspended Milwaukee slugger said, in a statement released by the Brewers, that he took a cream and a lozenge containing banned substances while rehabilitating an injury.