by Troy Patterson | May 4, 2010 | Boston Red Sox, Clay Buchholz, David Ortiz, Jason Varitek, Josh Beckett, Victor Martinez
Heading into 2010 it was a fairly easy choice that we wanted Victor Martinez to supply the offense we needed from the catcher position and give adequate defense behind the plate. So far though there has been some early results that might be good reasoning to place...
by Troy Patterson | Apr 29, 2010 | Boston Red Sox, Jason Bay
A little over a week ago fangraphs.com updated their UZR calculations with the first batch of 2010 data. This update included some work on arm skill as well as changes for quirky stadiums including Fenway Park. This change was done to include previous seasons and now...
by Troy Patterson | Apr 27, 2010 | Adrian Gonzalez, Albert Pujols, Boston Red Sox, Ryan Howard
I’ve never thought the Red Sox had much shot of adding Adrian Gonzalez this past off-season or any year before his free agency year. So far this season though, Gonzalez and the Padres have made a deal even harder as he is off to a huge start and the Padres are...
by Troy Patterson | Apr 22, 2010 | Boston Red Sox, Jason Varitek, Josh Beckett, Ramon A. Ramirez, Scott Atchison, Tim Wakefield, Victor Martinez
Giving up a stolen base can sure seem like a big deal and when you give up nine of them you would think that is a huge number. It isn’t something you want to give up every night, but it’s not as big of a problem as our pitching staff’s inability to...
by Troy Patterson | Apr 20, 2010 | J.D. Drew
Something we aren’t used to seeing in Boston is JD Drew not getting on base over 35 percent of the time. So far in 2010 he has only walked 12 percent of the time and struck out 42 percent of the time. For a career rate around 22 percent that is a huge jump....
