by charliesap | Mar 24, 2011 | Boston Red Sox, Carl Crawford
So, yeah, I sort of stole this idea from Chip’s article yesterday, but since Carl Crawford and Jacoby Ellsbury are similar hitters (in terms of speed, grounders and BB%), I wanted to take a look and see if we could expect another career high in homers from...
by chipbuck | Mar 23, 2011 | Boston Red Sox
Ever since his days as a prospect, scouts have raved about the raw power Jacoby Ellsbury possessed. Rarely exhibited during game play, Ellsbury typically shows off this attribute during batting practice prior to the game. With young leadoff hitter entering his age-27...
by tim daloisio | Mar 22, 2011 | Fireside Chats Podcast
Episode #98 Hosts: Paul Testa, Tim Daloisio Guests: Jonah Keri, Baseball (and other things) blogger and podcaster extraordinaire, Author of “The Extra 2%: How Wall Street Strategies Took a Major League Baseball Team from Worst to First”....
by charliesap | Mar 22, 2011 | Boston Red Sox, Quick Post, Quick Post
With opening day closing in fast, there will be some final decisions that need to be made over the next couple of weeks. One in particular deals with an open spot in the bullpen for a left-handed hurler to claim. The competition Rich Hill – The new sidearm style...
by darryl johnston | Mar 21, 2011 | 2004 ALCS, 2004 ALDS, 2007 World Series, DeMarlo Hale, Tim Wakefield
photo © 2006 Scott Miller | more info (via: Wylio) Tim Wakefield is a man of perseverance and charity. He is the longest-tenured Red Sox by far (since 1995) and has always been a soldier for the olde towne team. He’s been nominated for the Roberto Clemente Award eight...
by Troy Patterson | Mar 21, 2011 | Daisuke Matsuzaka
After reading Chip’s article on Daisuke Matsuzaka last week I wanted to take one more look at Dice-K. There had to be a reason his numbers before reaching Boston looked so good, but did not translate. There has been more and more Japanese players making the...
by chipbuck | Mar 20, 2011 | Weekend Round-Up
Today, I thought I’d start the links over at the ESPN Sweet Spot. On Thursday (on behalf of Fire Brand) Charlie and I had the opportunity to take control of the mother ship at ESPN. Charlie led us off with an excellent piece about the potential breakout stars for...
by darryl johnston | Mar 20, 2011 | Poll, Quick Post
photo © 2006 Waldo Jaquith | more info (via: Wylio) With the Red Sox hinting at Wakefield making the 2011 Red Sox roster as a long relief/emergency starter, we need to ask the question: Is Wakefield the right choice? Choosing Wakefield give the Sox someone with...
by tim daloisio | Mar 18, 2011 | Quick Post, Trivia
This is the grand finale and a big two point question to the person that gets this right. There have only been six players to hit 35+ home runs in a season without being intentionally walked. There is one Red Sox on that list. Name him for the final two points of this...
by chipbuck | Mar 18, 2011 | Boston Red Sox, Clay Buchholz, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Jon Lester, Josh Beckett
In case you missed it (and you probably didn’t), there was some pretty big news coming out of Fort Myers on Thursday. According to Terry Francona via Gordon Edes of ESPN Boston, the Red Sox have determined the order of their rotation to start the season. ...
