Tag Archives: Pedoria

Pedroia: MVP

On May 5, 2007, I sent an email to Crundy.  The entire contents of which were as follows
I think Dustin is finished.  Cora is playing too good to sit on bench

At the time, Dustin Pedroia was hitting something like .210.  This followed up a late 2006 callup performance where he showed …well, not too much [...]

Some last thoughts on the ALDS

Let’s be honest.  The Red Sox did not beat an Angels team playing at their best.  Game 4 offered a lot of evidence to support that.

Howie Kendrick still looked totally overwhelmed by the moment
Bad baserunning by Torri Hunter
And the fatal blow, the failed squeeze play

I give Scoscia tons of credit for trying the squeeze play.  [...]