ground-ball pitchers, pandas, victorino's rickety spine and the hope of mookie betts: your 2015 Boston Red Sox

buchholz threw seven scoreless innings in his first start

after his second start, he now has a 7.84 ERA

it's April, I'm not worried about him yet even if I probably should be

last night's game is unquestionably A Thing That Happened And Sucked

but, yea they are currently ringing zimmerman's goddam bell (thanks mookie) so i think the offense might yknow be juuuuuuust fine

any time

are you posting from the dugout????

FACED

http://i.imgur.com/SZ61xzQ.gif

what if I told you
that early on in the season
the sox's #5 starter joseph kelly jr.
would by far look like the ace

...and also like a complete headcase after 5 innings

hanley leads the league in home runs and RBIs :D

let me get the zing attempts out of the way for y'all if you're so inclined: old, left field, health blah blah blah

*waits for morbs's borderline 9/11 truthery joke about idk hanley on roids or some shit*

era+

joe kelly 84
justin masterson 80
rick porcello 77
clay buchholz 72
wade miley 48

team 83

i don't make jokes about SSS league leaders in APRIL

or even JUNE

xxp i am well aware of teh pitching bud it is decidedly less than optimal

bullpen's been good tho!

Joe&
Justin&
Rick&
Clay&
Wade

on the back: FREE KNUCKLEPUCK

xxp wut the bullpen is kind of a mess, ogando is ok, koji is mostly prime koji, taz is ok against anyone but the blue jays but robbie ross sucks, layne is a coin flip, barnes is still developing...team def needs arms, prob one from a trade and some leaps and bounds by the prospects

swihart day today http://i.imgur.com/GTjafzC.gif

maybe shoulda hung on to lackey

Hanle y is hur t.

:[

day-to-day for now, hopefully not a big deal

first shutout game pitched by a red sock not named clay buchholz, or in other words, by a pitcher (porcello) who's guaranteed to be on the team next year - which clay frankly is not

fun fact: apparently porcello is the nephew of one of my high school lit teachers (jersey stand UP)

pitching coach juan nieves fired

lol

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CEf_jojWIAIRFBM.png

What Happened Next When Juan Nieves Visited the Mound: 10-for-14 with 5 walks

ugh

the Nieves BP podcast today was funny ("maybe they gave him 2 weeks' notice when Adam Jones walked with the bases loaded")

hanle y bac k

ugly

they gotta send miley down and try one of the young kids this is getting ridiculous

more like servantson

*laughs maniacally*

hey but is cutch hitting yet

oh I guess he kind of is well w/e

would not be surprise if masterson is straight up DFAed tomorrow he doesn't have options and there isnt room in the bullpen really

lol xp

I mean tbf for him that's fairly chump change but yes I missed the end of the briefly ballyhooed slump such is the pity

red sox 'moving toward' placing masterson on the DL with 'general fatigue'

the fatigue is from cherington threatening him with literal murder, or he had to listen to a long drawn out equivocating farrell speech about his probs

"fatigued of his shit"

wade miley just went 7 scoreless innings

i give up trying to predict a goddamn thing with this rotation

a's 0-for-14 with risp, basically

jesus christ

The Boston Globe ‏@BostonGlobe 2m2 minutes ago
The @RedSox made Allen Craig available to the 29 other teams and there were no takers http://trib.al/KLIdU76

not that im surprised by that really, just, oooof.

i'm sure there are teams that would give him a shot, but not when he's owed $20m over the next two seasons

that whole trade is looking truly awful

wang.xls

panda whomped on the knee by a pitch, helped off the field :[