The 2010 Boston Red Sox Call All Destroyer Tells Us What He Thinks Thread

do you think the sox record would be worse if they had garland instead of lackey right now?

I don't know. It would be slightly easier to provide an educated guess if Garland happened to be having a good season on another AL East team instead of the Padres.

If you were to ask me prior to the season which one would have a better 2010 season for the Red Sox, I would have said Lackey. Garland's last season in the AL wasn't good, and he'd be in a considerably tougher division with that lousy K/9 and horrendous K/BB.

i don't think that the three guys i named are actually better pitchers than lackey, but for the price they paid for lackey, and for what those three guys got on the market, and with the teixeira fiasco illustrating that the red sox don't actually have the unlimited pockets of the yankees, i think they would be better off if they had signed one of those dudes instead

vintage lackey last night

I just don't know about this team. I like Kalish a lot.

in 2010 josh beckett has recorded three (3) outs after the seventh inning

i mean, send the guy to the bullpen already

Stopped watching the game just before the sixth. Wow.

beckett's peripherals are fine, he's the victim of a .345 BABIP against right now. pretty standard small sample size struggle that will wash itself out if they stick with him

he seems to be pitching his way into shape imo--he was great last night and then in the 7th it was just totally gone.

dude we have stuck with him all year. guy can't last more than a few innings. there is a time when your team needs you to pitch well and august when you're 6 back is that time. guy has a 10.0 ERA in his last three starts.

i'm pretty confident that he's one of the 5 best pitchers on the staff right at this moment, probably the 3rd best after lester and buccholz. i'm obviously not gonna convince you though since you hate him from the start.

Lester's totally falling apart here.

lester's ERA up to an embarrassing 3.26

awesome night to be home alone with nothin to do but watch baseball

yeah same here

MLB network is showing SFG/STL i think

Do you guys want Johnny Damon, or what?

indifferent

Damon could play left field, especially at Fenway Park, where he’d only have a short throw to the plate.

"To the plate"??? To Scutaro in short left, more like.

I like Johnny despite his inability to throw a baseball. But do I really want him over Kalish? Not really.

he wouldn't play over kalish, he would play over mcdonald/nava

Yeah you're right. In that case why not? He'd make for a nice pinch hitter or DH too.

Damon has been decent this year with no runners on base. Otherwise? Not so much.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/split.cgi?n1=damonjo01&year=2010&t=b#bases

The other night, he threw a ball in the direction of home plate and it looked like he was playing 500 with the infielders.

i can't even imagine how the crowd would/will react to Damon's first home game as a Red Sox this time around.

they'll cheer, duh

ok - it was a good few years ago when i was last in Fenway - but i saw a few of those 'Damon traitor' 'no beard no soul' type shirts (they were playing the Angels). but i guess those wounds have healed then?

yeah i mean can't really be shocked abt all that because he signed with the yanks, but in a season where the casual fan hasn't had much to get excited about i expect he'll be welcomed.

Looks Like Jesus, Acts Like Judas, Throws Like Mary - best t-shirt to come out of Damon leaving

The other night, he threw a ball in the direction of home plate and it looked like he was playing 500 with the infielders.

― Andy K, Tuesday, August 24, 2010 9:42 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark

loll

he's not coming btw

time to print some new shirts, Boston.

they'll have to find someone who chose not to board the titanic to compare him to

this appears to have triggered an existential crisis of some sort in my city.

haha really

i haven't noticed anything yet but i'm expecting some entertaining panic when we're still 5 out in september

on 98-5 THE SPORTS HUB they were taking it as a huge screw you to the team/fans/city. on the sox board i read they're fully in defensive "he's a pussy/doesn't want to play for a winner" mode.

it's been great, really.

let's be clear: johnny damon is a complete dumbass, he's actually stupider than the average ballplayer. but he's a harmless dumbass and i take him at face value when he basically says hurt feelings are why he won't play here.

what's kind of strange is that i'm still excited for the playoffs even if the sox aren't in them. it's looking like there may be as many as 5 'small market' teams making it this year which is pretty cool.

though i guess minnesota and texas are more 'mid-market' now but still

yeah just gotta off the yanks

Who else but Shaughnessy:

Think about it: For the next five weeks, you could live in downtown Boston and your wife could shop on Newbury Street. Or you could live in downtown Detroit, amid the boarded-up buildings and the proverbial skeleton frames of burned-out Chevrolets. Is this really a tough call?

Really. Why wouldn’t Damon come back to Boston?

Damon was worth every penny the Yankees paid him from 2006-09. He played hard and he played well for the full four years. In his final year of the contract, he hit .282 with 24 homers and 82 RBIs. Think Boston could have used that? It’s better than the sorry numbers posted by J.D. ($14 million per year) Drew.

Drew's Boston numbers: 498 games, 70 HR, 254 RBI, .273 AVG

Damon's NY numbers: 576 games, 77 HR, 296 RBI, .285 AVG

http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2010/08/25/damon_must_have_his_reasons_but_what_are_they/

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JD "Sorry Numbers" Drew's OBP and SLG, btw: both higher than Damon's.

JD also can throw a baseball from the outfield to home plate and has more range

no need to ruin this thread by posting/responding to shaughnessey d00ds

i love how shaughnessey is acting like damon chose to live in uganda or something

apparently detroit is currently a post-apocalyptic wasteland

though i guess minnesota and texas are more 'mid-market' now but still

yeah, but their opening day payroll was like 55M so they're doing things the small-market way successfully. doesn't really matter to me what city they're in, just that they're getting results from a business model that would be sustainable by any of the 30 teams.

they'll probably be able to raise it up towards 100M next year though like the twins did this year

i'm amazed that shaughnessy still gets paid to write for a living. he's not just wrong on facts, he's mean-spirited. he stirs the pot, fantasizing about clubhouse rifts that don't exist. fuck dan shaughnessy forever.

what is the DEAL with beckett? it's the same pattern every time. lights out for five or six innings then total implosion.

i'm starting to wonder if his greenies wear off then.

out of shape

pitchers are too stubborn to take themselves out of the game when they're out of gas

beckett's k/bb ratio is still quite good and that's one of the better predictors of pitching success. he's gonna end up with ugly numbers for this year but he should be ok going forward imo.

well it's the manager's call and fancona has pretty obviously been trying to steal innings with the starters because middle relief has sucked so hard.