4/17: Back home
After what amounts to an exhausting West Coast swing, the Red Sox are finally home with Brad Penny on the mound.
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Don’t Panic: The Red Sox will improve.
Sample size, sample size, sample size! Remember the thing that increases the accuracy of whatever the available data happens to…
BOS 5, LAA 4: Bombs away
That wasn't a playoff game was it? Yesterday's match-up between the Boston Red Sox and Los Angeles Angels had everything a fan could ask for in a regular season game.
4/11: Can we stop this skid, please?
Brad Penny wasn't supposed to return this early, but the Opening Day rainout took care of that. He was brutal in 2008 for the Dodgers but a Cy contender in 2007. Time to see if he can hold up in the AL and turn our fortunes around.
A “Penny” for your thoughts…
The bullpen has had to pick up some of the load so far. So hopefully Penny can get some decent innings in. But Brad is still "coming back, so realistically five, maybe six innings is all we should expect.
LAA 6, BOS 3: Weaver earns win for fallen teammate
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.
Fireside Chats #36: Where we get the On the DL with Dan Levy while hoping JD Drew stays off it
You didn't really think that we were going to talk another hour of spring training baseball did you? We only spend 15 minutes on the spring before moving On the DL. Thats just about as much playing time as J.D. Drew before his first trip there himself. But seriously, Paul's a little worried about Drew and what that could mean for the team if he were to miss any extended time this season.
We're happy to have Dan Levy from one of the fastest growing sports podcasts on the web, the On the DL Podcast, as this week's guest. Dan's a Phillies fan and a baseball enthusiast. We cover topics from his recent guest, poker celebrity Annie Duke, to why the northeast pumps out the most passionate fans (it's the traffic stupid). And, oh yeah, we mix in a little baseball talk.
Does Drew/Penny concern you?
Anyone else concerned about J.D. Drew and Brad Penny?
I am. The setback with Penny isn't terribly bad because of the crazy depth the Sox have in pitching and the fact that the Sox have three days off in the first 15 games of the season. It's possible the Sox could go to a four-man rotation and not miss a beat.
Drew, though, I'm concerned about. The team and Drew keep brushing off the concerns, but not for nothing did he head back to Boston and get an injection. If he's out, that means there's a platoon situation with Rocco Baldelli and Brad Wilkerson with Jeff Bailey (probably) on the bench.
If both Drew and Penny are out, it could really weaken the team.
JUNKYARD DOGS, A Season of Redemption . . . and Hope.
17 of the starting 25 Red Sox for 2009 have much to prove this season. Of this number, 15 are rebounding from injuries which plagued 2008.
Sox interested in Derek Lowe; bullpen questions
Pass on Lowe. If the Sox could let him go after 2004 and his postseason heroics due to a concern about his pitching ability and his off-the-field issues, why bring him back four years later at a salary that should be at least $15 million and years not less than four?