Podcaster Alex Cooper Said She Fooled Around With A Red Sox Player In College, And Fans Think They Know Who

Brace yourselves, I'm about to dive into an Alex Cooper story. I'm not sure she's ever been featured here at OutKick, but I reckon now is the time. 

Why, you ask? Well, she returned to Fenway Park last night to throw out the first pitch at the Red Sox game. 

And now you're asking … why do we care? And that's fair. 

Well, Alex Cooper is not only an ex-Barstool Sports podcaster who turned her Call Her Daddy podcast into one of the most popular podcasts in this country. Nope. Not even close. 

She's also a former Boston University soccer player who claims to have famously dated a mystery Red Sox player (who she calls ‘Red Sox Man’) after the team won the 2013 World Series. That, obviously, made her return to Fenway last night all the more newsworthy. 

Cooper, who also dated Noah Syndergaard back in his heyday (what a track record!), told the story of her fling earlier this week, which was a whirlwind in itself. Last night, the Fenway faithful – led by Cooper's podcast followers, known as the Daddy Gang – gave Cooper a Standing O before she fired a PISS MISSILE across the dish. 

Let's dive in:

Who is ‘Red Sox Man’ that Alex Cooper claims to have dated in college?

Whoaaaaaaaaaa Nellie! Y'all get all that? No chance, right? Luckily for you – not me – I sat through most of it. Well, at least the parts that I just shared. The rest, I've gathered from a couple Google searches. 

Again, you're welcome. 

So, basically, Alex Cooper claims to have been fooling around with an unnamed Red Sox player from the 2013 team while she was a sophomore at Boston University. 

Things started out hot and heavy, he came over and had a "sleepover," which sounds just awful, but then things went off the rails, and they eventually split up. She later claimed things really ended after he was traded in 2015. 

Obviously, she's made quite the career for herself in the decade since. Cooper became a household name (not to my demographic, but to Gen-Zers) at Barstool, then left, joined Spotify and now has her own podcasting empire called The Unwell Network. Like her or hate her, you have to respect the grind. Fair is fair.  

Earlier this year, she tied the knot with movie producer Matt Kaplan. 

Whew. There. You're all caught up. Now, why the Red Sox had Cooper throw the first pitch last night, I have no clue. She's obviously very popular and a Boston girl, so I'd assume they just took a chance because it was an otherwise slow night in June.

It's rare you see someone throwing out a first pitch get a standing ovation, so I'd say it paid off. 

The pitch itself was awful, but that's neither here nor there. 

Anyway, the last question here is obviously the most pressing, and it's the one that the internet has been asking for a week now: who is this mystery ‘Red Sox Man'?

Before I even looked at the comments, my first thought was Mike Napoli. I lived in Boston during their 2013 World Series run. Mike Napoli was an absolute legend. He was INSANE that season. His beard became a rallying cry for the rest of the team. He was also a loose cannon:

See? The best. 

Anyway, right on cue, the internet seems pretty convinced Mike Napoli is/was ‘Red Sox Man,’ but Cooper has never revealed his true identity. 

It’s Mike Napoli. He got traded in 2015, his salary was 16 mil in those 2 years, and he’s got a beard," commented one follower. 

And how about this one from another internet sleuth?

"I know nothing about baseball but I did some detective work, beard? ✅
salary in 2014&2015 16 million? ✅
13 years older than Alex ? ✅
Got traded in 2015? ✅
I think Mike is our boy."

That's Big J journalism 101 right there. Nice job. 

Whew. How's THAT for a Thursday history lesson? Don't know if you needed one, but you got one. Again, you're welcome! Or … I'm sorry. Either way. 

PS: re-gifting the Michael Kors set that was clearly just some gift basket he was given at some event that he had no use for is PEAK guy stuff. I do that every single December when I'm out of options and out of time. 

PPS: I feel so much better sifting through the comments knowing that I'm not the only one who had to do Alex Cooper research this morning: