Introducing: Bradford on Baseball

In time for the new Red Sox season, here's an addition to the blogs of summer: Bradford on Baseball. Rob Bradford is the Sox beat writer for the Lawrence Eagle-Tribune, and combines a journalist's access, a fan's enthusiasm, and a blogger's obsession with detail to deliver the hottest new Sox-blog of the year.

If you doubt, read rave reviews from Beth ('I have been starved for a source of information of the kind Bradford delivers') and Over the Monster ('It's been pimped before, but I'll say it again: Rob Bradford is THE source for Sox news'). Better still, read some of Bradford's latest:

• Hideki Okajima says he's "willing to be a hero in the dark". Says Bradford, start printing the t-shirts now.
• Dice-K's debut, pitch by pitch.
• You read it there first: "Mike Lowell has become a leader on this team."

The Sox play Philadelphia in Ft. Myers this afternoon.

Red Sox required reading of the day: Pitching coach John Farrell gives Gordon Edes the skinny on Matsuzaka's repertoire, adjustments, and the look of his pitches. If this doesn't make your spine tingle, talk to your physician.