by dpoarch | May 20, 2014 | Fire Brand Poll
Polls are back! We’ve had a brief couple weeks off as I’ve been busy, you know, graduating from college. But now I’m getting back into the swing of things, and your supply of topical Red Sox polls should go unmolested for some time. A couple weeks...
by dpoarch | May 5, 2014 | Fire Brand Poll
Last week, accompanying pieces by Jack Keller and myself, I asked you how concerned you were with the Red Sox defense. Your answers essentially came out to “kind of?” The majority (43%) of you said you were “Moderately” concerned, while 31%...
by dpoarch | Apr 28, 2014 | Boston Red Sox, Daniel Nava, Dustin Pedroia, Grady Sizemore, Jackie Bradley, Jacoby Ellsbury, Jonathan Herrera, Jose Iglesias, Will Middlebrooks, Xander Bogaerts
For starters, let’s be clear: the 2014 Red Sox have not played good defense. Not by any stretch. Right now, this is the 26th ranked team in the league in terms of Ultimate Zone rating, with a mark of -9.2, after a 2013 in which they ranked 10th with a 21.6 mark in the...
by dpoarch | Apr 28, 2014 | Boston Red Sox
Last week, I asked you to qualify your level of concern with Clay Buchholz’s rough start to 2014. To that point, Buchholz had been inconsistent, with two starts of six innings and two earned runs allowed, and two starts with six runs allowed (one of which lasted...
by dpoarch | Apr 21, 2014 | Boston Red Sox, Xander Bogaerts
We got our first look at Xander Bogaerts: Major League Shortstop on August 20, 2013; an 0-for-3 effort against the San Francisco Giants. Bogaerts was fresh off of decimating minor league hitting – as he had been known to do – to the tune of a .374 wOBA in AAA, and we...
