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

joe kelly injured/shut down

we'll always have the 8-game winning streak buddy

Ortiz since the break: .339/.413/.741, 20 HR, 54 RBI. And since 2010, when I figured he was washed up (per 162 games): .289/.380/.551, 38 HR, 115 RBI.

It's kind of amazing how despite all that how little credit WAR gives all those numbers. Bar for DH valueis super high I guess.

Plus the park, obviously. That aside, he really has had a late-career resurgence, especially for the kind of player who invariably starts declining quickly at around 31 or 32.

Why does Boston lead off with Betts and bat Bogaerts third? Wouldn't it make more sense to reverse that? Bogaerts has the higher BA/OBP, Betts the higher SLG.

wondered that myself of late, early in the season his 2014 struggles were fresh in the mind but since then he's skyrocketed and especially now what do they have to lose by trying it

mike hazen is the new gm, if such a position matters under dombrowski

it does matter--hazen has been responsible for scouting and player development and prob deserves a lot of credit for the current group of young players

now featuring an added layer of frank wren

shit.

front office positions: the new market inefficiency

rich fucking hill!

wow what an insane run. good for him, without the durability issues he'd have had a great career.

rich fucking hill!
--johnny crunch

beat me to it man

CG, 2H, 0R/ER, 1BB, 10K.

#worsttothird lets get it

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will gladly listen to his broadcasts next season even if the padres suck

dave d confirms hanley at 1b next year

"Confirms"

I'm high on Porcello and I predict he will have the biggest impact of all new Sox players. Joe Kelly not as much.

― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, February 18, 2015 10:23 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the thing is, this was not an unreasonable thought at the time, and might be true in like 5 years, but it do kinda hurt right now

haha yes, i did have long hair in high school

bullpen successfully purged via waivers/releases - l8er alexi ohgodno and ryan cooked

Lol - been calling him "oh god no" since he came to the majors!

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wha? you always get news 15 mins ahead

ok, news to me

http://www.masslive.com/redsox/index.ssf/2015/12/with_boston_red_sox_season_ove.html

nah, he's in some bowling tournament somewhere

lol mook you sneaky fuck

i got paranoid for all of 30 seconds that dombo had an attack of kuru and made the jose fernandez trade or some shit

how we feel about price?

price is house money/no pick so if you can afford it go for it?

I'm v happy with price, I knew the sox would need one of the big FA pitchers and it's better to pay his cost than pay less for cueto or greinke or samardjiza and have made a less reliable bet by doing so

in theory it seems like his handedness would play better in non-fenway parks, but whatever. (also he's done very well in his 11 career starts there.) seems like good move for a bastard team than can afford him

lollllll

@mookiebetts
Commentating debut tonight on ESPN at 6 central time at the World Series of Bowling! Everybody tune in!!!!

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