The Advanced Scout – Seattle Mariners

by | Jul 8, 2013 | Aaron Harang, Allen Webster, Andrew Miller, Boston Red Sox, Dustin Ackley, Endy Chavez, Felix Doubront, Franklin Gutierrez, Hisashi Iwakuma, Jason Bay, Justin Smoak, Kendry Morales, Kyle Seager, Michael Morse, Mike Zunino, Raul Ibanez, Ryan Dempster, Seattle Mariners, Shane Victorino

And now the Red Sox leave the warm confines of Southern California to head north to Seattle, home of grunge, Starbucks and we’ll even give them the honor of inventing “rain that never stops”. Why not. I’ll give Seattle some credit, though,...

Red Sox Hot Stove Round-Up #2

by | Nov 19, 2012 | Asdrubal Cabrera, B.J. Upton, Boston Red Sox, Cody Ross, David Ross, Derek Jeter, Dustin Pedroia, Ian Kinsler, Jarrod Saltalamacchia, Jason Bay, Josh Hamilton, Kevin Youkilis, Marco Scutaro, Melky Cabrera, Mike Napoli, Nomar Garciaparra, Ryan Lavarnway, Stephen Drew, Torii Hunter, Xander Bogaerts

Welcome to the second weekly edition of Red Sox Hot Stove Rumors. From here on out, we’ll be synthesizing everything Red Sox hot-stove related into one, nice, neat , steaming pile of crap for you to smell every week. We’ll mildly speculate, grandstand, posture and...

GM Meetings Rumor Recap

by | Nov 11, 2012 | 2012 General Managers Meetings, Adam LaRoche, Anibal Sanchez, Grady Sizemore, Hiroki Kuroda, Jacoby Ellsbury, Jason Bay, Joakim Soria, Joe Blanton, Josh Hamilton, Josh Johnson, Justin Masterson, Kyuji Fujikawa, Mike Napoli, Nick Swisher, Ryan Dempster, Stephen Drew, Torii Hunter, Zack Greinke

Ben Cherington and the Boston Red Sox delegation returned from the GM Meetings this past week with much to consider. The GM meetings are seen by most as a time to begin feeling out other teams, consider trades and engage in discussions with agents. The Red Sox did a...

Left, Since Manny Left

by | Sep 2, 2010 | Boston Red Sox, Jason Bay, Manny Ramirez

The buzz in Chicago is all about a dread-locked slugger who wears the number 99. No, Ricky Vaughn didn’t grow his hair out and learn to hit the long ball.  You know him, you love him/hate him. Manny Ramirez is back in the headlines.  This got me thinking. What...

Jason Bay is now average defender

by | 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...

Interview at Mets Paradise

by | Feb 16, 2010 | Jason Bay, New York Mets, Quick Post

Last week I answered some questions for Scott Wallace at Mets Paradise.  You can check them out today.  There was some good questions about the roster and a few on front office and the farm system.  Of course there was also the obligatory question about Jason Bay and...

Ignoring conventional wisdom

by | Jan 2, 2010 | Jason Bay

Since the introduction of Sabermetrics many concepts and terms have started to enter the main stream. OBP is now a regular on the NESN broadcast and OPS is often a common term in any presentation. That has not led to a change in much of the conventional wisdom that we...

Jason Bay the designated hitter

by | Dec 26, 2009 | Jason Bay

There has been talk that Jason Bay has come back to the Red Sox asking if they could still resign him. Obviously there are a ton of problems with resigning him, but that isn’t what I wanted to discuss here today. There are a few of things to take into account...