What makes Alex Gonzalez a good fit?

The Red Sox recently picked up Alex Gonzalez and I’ve heard a lot of scuffling from Reds fans. A few Reds fans told me, if you’re expecting the same Alex Gonzalez you had in 2006, you’re going to be extremely disapointed. A-Gon’s range has...

AL Wild Card Update

The longer the Rangers stick around the more I feel like they’re here to stay. With the way Ian Kinsler is swinging the bat he throw the team on his back and carry them into October. With a 27-28 record on the road, the Rangers really need to pull things...

Six All Stars are less than half the story.

Having six 2009 Red Sox All Stars is impressive, and partially explain why they are the Division leaders, and complete their first half with an American League leading 49-32 record. But those six are, literally, less than half of the All-Star story, as the Red Sox now...

2009 Division Champs?

The Red Sox have 92 games left and of those games, 43 are against teams under .500. If we assume that the Red Sox can win 50% of their games against the good teams in the league and win 61% of their games against bad teams (their current winning percentage, the Red...

Satisfied?

Like most of you I expected to hear 1,500+ calls for Hanley’s return, but few materialized. Perhaps the piece about his immature attitude towards the FO, or the Fish announcers defending his lack of hustle, or his 5th E at SS, or poor base running have given...

Where’s the news Tito?

So many decisions for the Sox this week. Although part of me knows they will be carefully made, and will be accompanied by personal discussions with each player before announcements, this team seems so buttoned down I half expected the decisions to be posted when I...

What to do with Clay Buchholz?

After another solid, but hardly perfect, start from Brad Penny yesterday I have to wonder again what to do with Clay Buchholz. In case you had not heard, Clay came within three outs of throwing a perfect game in Louisville (Projo piece on...