August 6, 2008 – 10:34 am
Let’s get the obvious out of the way: Manny Ramirez would make the 2008 Red Sox a better team and give them a better chance of winning the championship this year.
More obvious stuff: Manny Ramirez was a major part of winning two titles this decade and without his involvement, there’s a good chance the sox [...]
In the wake of the Angels acquiring Mark Teixeira from Atlanta (great move for the Angels, btw) and the Yankees making upgrads to their team with Nady, Marte, and Pudge Rodriguez…I’m wondering about past world series winners and the correlation between a trade deadline deal and winning the World Series.
Certainly, the Red Sox title years [...]
92 Wins. That’s what sox are on pace to finish the season with. It is enough?
Hopefully what it means is the current team hasn’t put it all together yet to play their baseball of the season. And from what I’ve seen, I would say that’s exactly right. Let’s hope all the pieces fall together in [...]
My original title for this post was “The Manny Situation”. But Manny seems like the name of a guy that you would be buddies with. He’s the guy you call to meet you in a downtown bar when you get off work early on a Friday. On the Red Sox, Manny would be the borderline [...]
Papi returns to the lineup tonight, and with it comes the wondeful dilemma of how to set up the batting order. Things are not as they were when Ortiz got hurt. Pedroia is the hottest hitter in the league. Drew picked up the slack in a big way. And Ellsbury is struggling a bit.
Here’s my [...]
By mess, I’m referring to the fact that they almost ran out of pitchers because the managers are (justifiably) worried about overusing arms that aren’t theirs to overuse. Even 12 pitchers isn’t enough.
So my idea to fix this would be to add the entire bullpen of a single team in each leagues. In fact, you [...]
Sox are fading. No doubt about it.
Not having Papi around is most likely starting to catch up with them.
The bullpen continues to suck.
The Rays keep piling up the wins.
And, of course, sending this team on the road never helps.
So, here’s the glass half full approach to things
Sox are home at Fenway tonight. Masterson is getting [...]
It’s that time of the year. July. Time talk trades. The deadline is at the end of the month and the big name that will get tons of media attention is CC Sabathia of the Cleveland Indians.
Let’s assume that trading for him means being able to sign him to a long-term contract. No short term [...]
We interrupt the regularly scheduled Red Sox obsessions you can normally find out here to talk a little NBA. Since Crundy just sent me an email basically asking “Is Baron Davis worth a 5 year $65 million contract? The answer is no.
At least not for the Warriors and about 20 other teams
Mind you, I think [...]
What are we to make of Charlie Zink? That would be the 28 year old knuckleball pitcher who (at the time of this writing) has a 7-2 record with a 2.21 ERA at Pawtucket. Amazingly, we never talk about him. We project the sox pitching staff in numerous ways that involve up and comers like [...]
