by dpoarch | May 24, 2013 | Andrew Bailey, Boston Red Sox, Daniel Bard, Daniel Nava, Felix Doubront, Franklin Morales, Jacoby Ellsbury, Terry Francona
I’ve seized the opportunity to commandeer Fire Brand’s regular links post from the tyrant Brett Cowett, since Brett is writing today’s column. As a result of that, today’s links have become 125% more awesome. Let’s get started. He’s baaaaack! Terry Francona made his...
by dpoarch | May 12, 2013 | Boston Red Sox, Dustin Pedroia, Jacoby Ellsbury, Shane Victorino
With 37 games down in the 2013 season, now seems like a good time to revisit my Ellspocalypse series. For those of you who forgot, Ellspocalypse is a periodic series looking at the performance of Jacoby Ellsbury as the season goes on. As we all know, Ellsbury is a...
by dpoarch | May 5, 2013 | Boston Red Sox, Clay Buchholz, Jack Morris, Jarrod Saltalamacchia, Jose Bautista, Spitball Controversy, Toronto Blue Jays
You’ve probably already heard, but Jack Morris, a not-quite-Hall-of-Fame former pitcher and current Toronto Blue Jays broadcaster, came out this past week to accuse Clay Buchholz of throwing a “spitball,” conveniently right after Buchholz dominated his Blue Jays to...
by dpoarch | Apr 28, 2013 | Andrew Bailey, Boston Red Sox, Clay Buchholz, Daniel Nava, David Ortiz, Dustin Pedroia, Jackie Bradley, Jacoby Ellsbury, Joel Hanrahan, Jon Lester, Mike Napoli, Ryan Dempster, Will Middlebrooks
I like stats. Don’t you like stats? Let’s talk about stats. (Not included: Saturday’s game against Houston. The stats sites haven’t updated as of yet, and let’s face it: I’m not good enough at math to calculate these things myself.) 99.1 – Innings pitched by Jon...
by dpoarch | Apr 21, 2013 | Andrew Bailey, Boston Red Sox, Clay Buchholz, Daniel Nava, David Ortiz, Jacoby Ellsbury, Joel Hanrahan, John Lackey, Jon Lester, Junichi Tazawa, Koji Uehara, Ryan Dempster, Shane Victorino, Will Middlebrooks
The Red Sox won their seventh consecutive game today as Daniel Nava hit a go-ahead three-run homer in the eighth. It’s been quite a while since we’ve watched a Red Sox team play quite this well, and as such, I wanted to list out the aspects of this season that have me...
