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

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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

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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 :[

no serious injury, just sore false alarm

napoli is fuckin cooked

^^^naturally I say that and he gets one homer in an otherwise humiliating 12-5 beating by the angels one day and gets two homers the next

and another 2-run homer just now lol

he's streaky as heck.

BROCK HOLT ladies and gentlemen!!

jesus fucking christ kelly couldn't make it through 2 innings today

napoli is fuckin cooked

AL player of the week

well we can't all be right all the time now can we

in the meantime, wade miley is currently the best red sox pitcher, nothing makes any sense

so b-ref has hanle y at +0.6 WAR and fangraphs has him at -0.7

it seems that quantifying his defense is proving problematic

it bad

^^^^ that is me quantifying it

bringing him back early from that injury was a mistake

eduardo rodriguez's pitching line in his MLB debut: 7.2 IP, 3H, 0 runs earned or otherwise, 2 walks, 7 strikeouts

hanle y homered for the first time since late april

@DavidLaurilaQA
Wade Miley and Joe Kelly are playing whiffle ball in concourse outside Red Sox clubhouse at Fenway. Miley's got good stuff.

practicing for their future

that start by rodriguez practically the only bright spot in a fucking abysmal may

it was a really bright spot though. and the fact that he was throwing heat makes me think maybe batters won't "figure him out" right away?

i hope you're right. i'm having rubby de la rosa flashback vibes - rubby had a phenomenal opening start and then became thoroughly ordinary and/or bad depending on the start - but tbf rodriguez shut out a much better offense than the rays offense that got 1 run off of rubby in the start to which i'm referring.

there are more worrisome examples of young sox flameouts (rubby wouldve been a respectable #4/5) but we will not speak of d-n--l b-rd now or ever its too sad

overall i will be more positive than negative about eduardo until further notice

eight hits in his last 2.5 games for xavier bogartes

eduardo sure looked like the real deal today

ladies and gentlemen your scrappin', scrapin', small-ball red sox!

did farrell literally tell everyone to choke up an inch? some satisfyingly slappy singles today, ty cobb would have approved