As the advent of spring training games are upon us, I thought I’d kick off everyone’s favorite little exercise by providing my own personal predictions as to how I think the season will shake out. Now, before I do so, a word of caution: predictions can change daily based on events. Heck, my predictions change multiple times a week. But I’ve gotta make predictions at some point, right? Point being, I might disagree with my own predictions a week from now. Most of the time, these kind of predictions are an exercise in fallacy, but it’s not going to stop me from trying.
I don’t know why I made things harder on myself, but I set out to present an exact record. This means I had to go into a spreadsheet and make sure all the wins and losses totaled the correct amount of games while also balancing out to a .500 record. Took me a while, but dadgum it, I did it. One thing I did not control for was the unbalanced schedule (in a total record sense), but I already strained my tenuous math skills, so I wasn’t about to complicate it further.
Click “read more” or the headline to find my predictions.
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Today, two extremely puzzling trades occurred. Check out the trades and my reaction to them.
Then, just be happy you’re not a Royals or Mets fan.
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Call it a second chance.
Call it a shot at redemption.
Call it whatever you want but for Javier Lopez and Hunter Jones, their return to Pawtucket shows that the Boston Red Sox haven’t given up completely on the two left-handers.
But they might have been justified in doing so with Lopez.
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With Kevin Youkilis and David Ortiz sidelined, the Boston Red Sox are starting to feel the affects.
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After struggling to score runs — let alone win games — the Pawtucket Red Sox ended one of the more painful droughts in franchise history.
The PawSox entered Saturday’s game against the Buffalo Bisons having lost five of last seven games and having been blanked in three consecutive games.
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Javier Lopez could use a mulligan.
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Slowly but surely, everything is coming together for the Boston Red Sox.
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The Angels do not get on base much, and they haven’t hit for all that much power of late. I am a stat-guy. So I believe that an offense needs to do these things to score enough runs. There is only so much that can happen as a result of “hit and runs” and taking the extra base. Now, taking the extra base is great, and often overlooked–as is baserunning in general. But a team must get on base enough, in order to score enough.
The Abreu acquisition was great. For that amount of money, the team put aside their philosophy of having only players who can play defense, and sacrificed “it” for a little offense. There is no risk in signing Abreu, and he should still hit for average, get on base, and flash enough power to make him a quality all-around player.
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Sean McAdam and the Boston Red Sox had one thing in common last night. Both of their performances were terrible.
With that said, thank goodness for Rex Hudler in the third and fourth innings.
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Any questions about Josh Beckett returning to his 2007 form were answered against the Tampa Bay Rays. At least for one start.
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