by evan brunell | Feb 18, 2008 | Daisuke Matsuzaka, Josh Beckett
In all of the chatter about the Red Sox’s 2008 season, there has been one clear trend: people expect Daisuke Matsuzaka to turn into a solid No. 2 starter, instead of the No. 3 he was last year.In his first year in the majors, Dice-K won 15 games while throwing...
by evan brunell | Feb 16, 2008 | Daisuke Matsuzaka Chase, Josh Beckett, Spring Training
NESN’s got live coverage of spring training and clips of players going through the exercises. I just wanted to make one point: Josh Beckett looks perfectly fine. He doesn’t look out of shape, he looks perfectly fit. (By the way, does Dice-K REALLY plan to...
by evan brunell | Feb 15, 2008 | Al Reyes, Alan Embree, B.J. Ryan, Billy Wagner, Bob Wickman, Bobby Jenks, Brad Hennessey, Brett Myers, Brian Fuentes, Chad Cordero, Chris Ray, David Weathers, Eric Gagne, Francisco Cordero, Francisco Rodriguez, J.J. Putz, Jason Isringhausen, Jeremy Accardo, Joakim Soria, Joe Borowski, Joe Nathan, Jonathan Papelbon, Jose Valverde, Kevin Gregg, Mariano Rivera, Matt Capps, Ryan Dempster, Takashi Saito, Todd Jones, Trevor Hoffman, Troy Percival
Every year, I run a feature here at Fire Brand called Saves per Inning Pitched (SIP). It’s a little statistic I made up that in the general scheme of things, probably means nothing. But I like doing it because it tells me what teams utilize their closer as a...
by evan brunell | Feb 13, 2008 | Roger Clemens, Roger Clemens and the Mitchell Report
Boy, Clemens sure took a beating today. Jayson Stark had a fantastic day live blogging the events, and if you want to catch up on it, definitely read over his posts on the subject. By the way, Brian McNamee also took a large beating, but his beating was more of his...
by evan brunell | Feb 11, 2008 | Uncategorized
Who would you take — Matt Garza or Jon Lester? I tackle this very question over at Rays Anatomy. Check it out!
