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 [...]
There are so many ways of thinking about Jon Lester’s no hitter against the Royals last night. Most obvious is the angle of the cancer comeback. And if Lester’s World Series game 4 didn’t do it, his no-no must certainly label that comeback officially complete. Let this be the last time that the phrase “Jon [...]
The season is 40 games in. One quarter of the season is now behind us, giving us a large enough sample size to think about how to tweek the roster in order to solidify the Sox as the 2008 team to beat. Certainly, there’s nothing I’ve seen in the first 40 games that says “hit [...]
If the sox end up with injry plagued seasons from jd drew, mike lowell and coco crisp the sox typical starting line up would look like this:
cf ellsbury - rookie
sb pedroia - 2nd year
lf manny - old
dh ortiz - old
1st yuke - medium young
rf [...]
April 22, 2008 – 10:32 am
I’ve been reading all about Hank Steinbrenner’s outbust that Joba Chamberlain should be a starting pitcher right now and Brian Cashman’s response. All it has me thinking is that I’m glad the Sox aren’t toying around with Clay Bucholz.
Crundy and I actually disagree on this. Crundy thinks Bucholz should be a bullpen setup guy if [...]
Jed Lowrie mad the first start of his career vs. the Indians Tuesday night. At third base. Has me wondering what his future role with the Red Sox is. Pretty clear the Pedroia is embedded at second for years to come. Lugo has a couple more years at $10 million a year and Lowell is [...]
April 11, 2008 – 10:29 am
Was just listening to ESPN radio and heard a bit about Justin Masterson from Peter Gammons. Apparently, Masterson has made a couple starts in Pawtucket and still has not allowed a ball to be hit in the air. Will Justin Masterson have the same mid season impact on the Red Sox that Joba Chamberlain had [...]
