by mike scandura | May 9, 2010 | Boston Red Sox, David Ortiz, Dusty Brown, Jason Varitek, Luis Exposito, Mark Wagner, Tim Federowicz, Uncategorized, Victor Martinez
Fact: As a catcher, Victor Martinez makes a good first baseman – and a D.H. Fact: Jason Varitek, at 38, is on the down side of a once brilliant career. Fact: Both players’ contracts expire after the 2010 season. Question: Who will comprise the next generation of Red...
by mike scandura | May 2, 2010 | Boston Red Sox, Uncategorized
When a Hollywood movie director says “Cut!” it usually means he wants a scene repeated — which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. When a baseball manager or minor league farm director has said “Cut!” to Pawtucket Red Sox outfielder Daniel Nava, it’s always been a...
by andrew lipsett | Apr 28, 2010 | Uncategorized
As of this writing Tuesday evening, the 2010 Red Sox stand 20 games into their season. With a record of 9-11, the Red Sox sit in fourth place in the AL East, and this is already the latest they’ve been under .500 since 1996 (a season in which they finished with...
by mike silver | Apr 26, 2010 | Darnell McDonald, J.D. Drew, Jeremy Hermida, Tim Wakefield, Uncategorized
What Needs to Happen: JD Drew The bad starts just keep piling up… and keep continuing, causing some real problems in the lineup and some real frustration for the millions of Fenway Faithful. J.D. Drew’s poor April just keeps on coming, which has only added to the...
by andrew lipsett | Apr 14, 2010 | Uncategorized
For the second straight start this year, Jon Lester has looked quite unlike the pitcher we’ve come to rely on over the past two seasons. As Troy pointed out in yesterday’s quick post, Lester’s control has been fairly poor to this point, though his...
by lee perrault | Mar 7, 2010 | Uncategorized
With opening day less than one month (wooo!) away, I wanted to highlight some points in the season to pay a little more attention to. Every season has easy stretches, tough road trips, and high leverage situations. Monday April 12th @ Minnesota The Red Sox play guests...
by Troy Patterson | Mar 4, 2010 | Uncategorized
Monday saw the Red Sox claim Casey Fien from the Detroit Tigers. Of little note is the dropping of Gaby Hernandez to clear a spot. I am a bit shocked to see a pitcher with such solid peripherals in the minors given up on by the Tigers. Perhaps there is something they...
by lee perrault | Feb 21, 2010 | Uncategorized
Fooled you! Anyway, they only 80s I wanted to talk about were the 80 million dimes given to Johnny Damon by the Detroit Tigers, and how it relates to our favorite rivals 210 miles south. Personally, I was hoping teams would continue to stonewall Damon. With his...
by evan brunell | Feb 12, 2010 | Mike Lowell, Uncategorized
Mike Lowell was the proud winner of the All-Aughts Team of the Decade honorable mention at 30 percent of the vote, and its easy to see why. After all, Lowell not only has provided above-average offensive seasons each year he wore the Boston uniform (and sans 2009,...
by Troy Patterson | Jan 15, 2010 | Uncategorized
I don’t want to use this as another debate about how good or bad Jacoby Ellsbury is or anything, but this is a chance to look at the different metrics and where they come from. I’m going to center on four major metrics and what they attempt to measure as...
