Is Saltys problem of throwing back to the mound a mental or physical thing? Although, i hope he works out well...I think Tek should be a good influence on him.
― chrisv2010, Thursday, 12 August 2010 13:54 (fourteen years ago) link
he's not the first catcher with this problem but in the other cases i've heard of the catcher was working through an injury that caused a mechanical change and then he psyched himself out. there doesn't seem to have been an injury with salty.
he caught the 9th last night and looked fine.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 12 August 2010 14:22 (fourteen years ago) link
he's starting today i read. of course we all know theo has a habit of coveting these guys and they never work out....Lugo, Drew, renteria....
― chrisv2010, Thursday, 12 August 2010 14:23 (fourteen years ago) link
salty is more like a hermida (buying low on a guy who was well-regarded at one point and now is having issues) though unlike hermida i think salty is at worst a major-league backup at his position.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 12 August 2010 14:28 (fourteen years ago) link
god hermida was an unbelievably shitty outfielder.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 12 August 2010 14:29 (fourteen years ago) link
there doesn't seem to have been an injury with salty.
he had shoulder surgery in september.
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 12 August 2010 14:31 (fourteen years ago) link
oh really? my bad
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 12 August 2010 14:35 (fourteen years ago) link
hermida was shit all around. one of those fucking guys that i drafted every damn yr in fantasy baseball only to be disappointed each and every time.
― chrisv2010, Thursday, 12 August 2010 14:51 (fourteen years ago) link
wish everyone would shut up about mike lowell...its almost as if people are happy that our best player got hurt since it gave him a spot to play
― ciderpress, Thursday, 12 August 2010 15:18 (fourteen years ago) link
lol
― ciderpress, Thursday, 12 August 2010 19:48 (fourteen years ago) link
PAPELBOMB
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 12 August 2010 19:58 (fourteen years ago) link
he's almost surely getting non-tendered this winter unless he takes a pay cut, redsox are too smart to pay over $10M for a declining reliever, right? right...?
― ciderpress, Thursday, 12 August 2010 20:08 (fourteen years ago) link
nah he'll be back
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 12 August 2010 20:32 (fourteen years ago) link
smdh btw
fucking lovely.
― chrisv2010, Thursday, 12 August 2010 22:20 (fourteen years ago) link
saw Beckett throwing BP to the Rangers earier
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 14 August 2010 02:47 (fourteen years ago) link
lupica is the best at nothing -- except when he dies, then he will be the best at dying, for that day
― be my anchor baby (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 14 August 2010 02:52 (fourteen years ago) link
the problem with Lupica is that he writes in the voice of Bob Costas.
― sanskrit, Saturday, 14 August 2010 03:55 (fourteen years ago) link
noooooooo that is heresy. he writes in the voice of damon runyon!!
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 15 August 2010 10:28 (fourteen years ago) link
LESTER BESTS TEXAS
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 15 August 2010 10:29 (fourteen years ago) link
whereas I write in the voice of the Boston dirt dogs - which hasn't been updated in a few days
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 15 August 2010 20:39 (fourteen years ago) link
guys i don't think we're gonna do it
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Monday, 16 August 2010 16:20 (fourteen years ago) link
by the way there is at least one silver lining which is that shithead josh beckett is currently pitching like a shithead and heaping hate upon himself
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Monday, 16 August 2010 16:21 (fourteen years ago) link
its too late for that, we've already got him for 3 more years
― ciderpress, Monday, 16 August 2010 16:23 (fourteen years ago) link
man, remember back in march when the sox had a championship level team and a top 5 farm system? those were the days...
― ciderpress, Monday, 16 August 2010 16:38 (fourteen years ago) link
i seriously hate josh beckett even more than i hated curt schilling
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Monday, 16 August 2010 16:43 (fourteen years ago) link
1. lester2. buchholz3. doubront4. wakefield5. louis tiant
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Monday, 16 August 2010 16:45 (fourteen years ago) link
wonder when red sox fans will notice that tim wakefield hasn't had a particularly good season since the 90s
― ciderpress, Monday, 16 August 2010 16:51 (fourteen years ago) link
the point of tim wakefield was not to have "particularly good seasons" but to have average, innings-filling seasons for cheap
― call all destroyer, Monday, 16 August 2010 16:54 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah i realize that but people i talk to tend to want him in the rotation over guys like beckett who are way better when healthy
― ciderpress, Monday, 16 August 2010 16:55 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah i hear you--it used to be "you know what yr getting" vs beckett's talent but inability to put it together. now you don't even know what you're getting with wakefield because his body is breaking down.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 16 August 2010 16:57 (fourteen years ago) link
i dunno if beckett's "inability to put it together" has ever been an actual thing beyond health. if people were expecting him to put up the same numbers in Boston as he did in a pitcher's park in the NL then they're just setting themselves up to hate him.
― ciderpress, Monday, 16 August 2010 17:02 (fourteen years ago) link
he sets himself up for me to hate him by being an insufferable douchebag
i'd probably hate him even more if he was winning tbh
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Monday, 16 August 2010 17:06 (fourteen years ago) link
i agree ciderpress tho i do wonder about his conditioning
― call all destroyer, Monday, 16 August 2010 17:08 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah when i say 'health' that includes the fact that he's gotten pretty fat since coming here
― ciderpress, Monday, 16 August 2010 17:09 (fourteen years ago) link
if beckett can stay healthy he would be a pretty great third starter, problem is that he's never healthy and his contract is inane
― be my anchor baby (J0rdan S.), Monday, 16 August 2010 17:10 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah the sox are now paying big bucks to two guys who are mid-rotation starters miscast as aces (the other being lackey)
― ciderpress, Monday, 16 August 2010 17:12 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, i never again want to hear the red sox front office cry about being priced out of a major free agent by $10 million dollars after handing out those two contracts
― be my anchor baby (J0rdan S.), Monday, 16 August 2010 17:15 (fourteen years ago) link
yup
― call all destroyer, Monday, 16 August 2010 17:17 (fourteen years ago) link
sox will probably be favorites to win the division or WC again going into next year but i do worry about them becoming an old team, between those contracts and the huge step back that their farm system has taken this year
― ciderpress, Monday, 16 August 2010 17:21 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't think they'll be favored over the yankees for at least a few years -- we'll see what happens with the rays
― be my anchor baby (J0rdan S.), Monday, 16 August 2010 17:40 (fourteen years ago) link
sox need 2 sign prince
every time you guys get mad at josh beckett just think of hanley
― sanskrit, Monday, 16 August 2010 18:22 (fourteen years ago) link
i think sox are gonna be wary of prince after seeing the tail end of mo vaughn and david ortiz's careers
― ciderpress, Monday, 16 August 2010 19:31 (fourteen years ago) link
David Ortiz had some pretty good years for the Sawks.
― no gut busting joke can change history (polyphonic), Monday, 16 August 2010 19:34 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, i just mean that they've seen firsthand how players with that skillset and body type tend to lose their contact skills quickly in their 30s
― ciderpress, Monday, 16 August 2010 19:44 (fourteen years ago) link
idk i think prince would be a great fit for them -- extremely, extremely high obp guy, lefty, not at all a dead pull hitter like ortiz
― be my anchor baby (J0rdan S.), Monday, 16 August 2010 19:46 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah i definitely like prince to be good for at least another 4 or 5 years but he's gonna be looking for 8
― ciderpress, Monday, 16 August 2010 19:50 (fourteen years ago) link
not that i'm worrying about the 2018 red sox team or anything
― ciderpress, Monday, 16 August 2010 19:52 (fourteen years ago) link
also there's no guarantee prince will hit the FA market yet, someone could trade for him and extend him. not likely with boras i guess but still possible.
― ciderpress, Monday, 16 August 2010 19:59 (fourteen years ago) link