Stop Snitchin' - Your 2012 Boston Red Sox

2012 regular season W-L vs:
  AL East:          40-32
  AL Central:       25-15
  AL West:          17-15
  Interleague:      13-5
  NYY (18), TB (18), DET (10), LAA (6) and TEX (8): 30-30
 
Daniel Bard 2012 regular season:
  GS: 26
  IP (as starter): 167
 
2012 regular season PA:
  Ryan Lavarnway:   330
  Jose Iglesias:    85
  Kevin Youkilis:   503
 
2012 SLG PCT (home games only):
  Adrian Gonzalez:  589
  David Ortiz:      475
  Cody Ross:        555
 
Over/Under on total regular season games managed by Robert John Valentine as RS skipper:
                    486
                    OVER (reserving judgment but not looking forward to any of this)
 
MVP of 2012 ALCS: 
  Dustin Pedroia
 
2012 OPS+:
  Mike Trout: 126
  Mike Carp: 99
  All other AL position players with fish surnames: 63

those all looked reasonable until Cody Ross

i have a feeling i'll be thinking that a lot this season

this is your dad's handiwork? bless him

Hey when is opening day? I panicked on my way in that it was today and I'd be screwed for parking. I need to know because I'm gonna take it off and surely it must be soon?

I think the stats are by TH's SABR friend?

The funniest thing I read by a saberhater on another board was that WAR was "a made-up stat."

sox's home opener is friday the 13th

war is kind of a made-up stat? and fangraphs and bref made it up differently?

ross slugs .563 career vs lefties, if they have a strict L/R platoon split b/w him & sweeney, ross could get somewhere in the neighborhood of .550 slugging when he's got the monster to play with

not that i would bet on it, but it's not insane

Thx, M. I realized I could have just consulted the old Google but saw the thread and figured someone would know. Friday the 13th, tho? Ruh-roh.

"I let the monster out, you gon' do what it wants."

xposts

I am posting this on several threads because it's awesome:

GUESS WHOSE WIFE IS SINGING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM WITH A SMALL GROUP AT THE RED SOX GAME ON THE 14TH

why isn't her husband singing too?

next time hold out for a blue jays game -- o canada is nice

because one of the guys who put the group together is a bass, and the other bass they are using has Boston theater credits

if someone wants to slip one of them influenza I would be eternally thankful

I guess I thought all stats were "made up" when someone invented them.

DJP, you can confirm the common rumor that the singer(s) always do(es) a recording first, then either lip-sync or do not.

bailey out 3-4 months. wouldnt be surprised if bard gets plugged back into the pen..

i think they already announced that?

wasn't Bard just appointed 5th starter?

oh ya, looks like i'm wrong.

i was thinking of Chapman.

yeah, i think melancon is the default closer for now

i can't imagine them putting bard back in the pen unless things get really dire - the lazy joba comparisons are too easy to make

(then again, things this season could certainly get really dire)

Aceves is the closer.

huh

and the Js inch just a little closer to the 2nd wild card.

Bobby V to do weekly NY radio gig w/ Michael Kay, o the lolz

after all these years during the Tigerse opener I finally realize why Tito's voice is so familiar. he sounds like the older brother of this guy:http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1b1b3QIY21r4d0mlo2_250.jpg

cool

Lester gives up back to back doubles in the 7th and then..... comes in to pitch the 8th? where he promptly gives up a triple and a sac fly?

"interesting"

2-2 game in the 9th and your closer........ sits on the bench until two runners have reached?

"interesting"

i actually predicted before this game that beckett would give up 5 solo HRs, no lie

P.U.N.T.O. is leading off today.

Oritz has been destroying the ball.

the savior, he has risen
http://blogs.eagletribune.com/smittyonbaseball/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Vicente.jpg

ortiz looks like an old-school ceylon with his shades

Rough start for Aceves: hit by pitch, (game-ending) single; single, single, (game-tying) home run

LOL WALKOFF

Two walk-offs and a beatdown.

this is gonna be another fun year isn't it

every time i watch the sox now i just think of that eagles fan youtube video where the big dude is like "this team sucks dick"

eatdatpussy445

yeah yeah but

M Rivera
ERA - 54.00
WHIP - 15.00

kelly shoppach just stole his first career base. it was v. weird

uh oh, a lead. Who will close?

I am guessing DJP's wife got a bigger hand than the uniformed personnel today.

http://gif.mocksession.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/KELLY-SHOPPACH-SLIDE.gif

aforementioned shoppach slide

haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

just gotta delay that synapse another 20 feet

everything about kelly shoppach is hilarious

Boston Red Sox center fielder Jacoby Ellsbury left Friday's game holding his right arm to his body with a shoulder injury after he was injured sliding into second base in the bottom of the fourth inning.

for a brief shining second I thought I'd be at tomorrow's game to watch my boo sing the National Anthem but then the ppl I was going to go with remembered that they hate baseball and the "affordable" tickets all sold out

too bad she's not doing it on a weeknight--tickets for like next wednesday are unbelievably cheap

one more diva for Hollywoodland

well he's right about Sunday night games

i haven't been playing too close attention but i don't really understand why A-Gon's a "bum"

Kind of amazing how many dumb/whiny quotes could be avoided by stat knowledge. Seems apparent that, given the way his quote begins, that he was asked something like, "What took your power away?" (San Diego slugging percentage: .514; Boston slugging percentage: .513.)

no, he was supposed to hit 50% more home runs, you see, because Petco is 800 feet down the lines

A-Gonz isn't a bum but had a ~.725 OPS for the first half of the season. That's pretty rough for a $21mn-per 1B and when it lasts that long it remains in the public's memory even if you start hitting again (as A-Gonz has).

It's like you can't even have half a a mediocre season in Boston without being torn to shreds. Imagine if Pujols had started the year in Boston instead of LA.

can't wait for Greinke to be ground into a fine dust by the Boston media.

I don't think Greinke will sign with Boston/NY/LA.

red slolx

http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/08/29/can-someone-please-fire-bobby-valentine-now

pretty sure they're not going to gut Valentine until the offseason, to avoid a spectacle.

any chance of Grady Little?

yes because the red sox are clearly all about avoiding a spectacle

Buster Olney ‏@Buster_ESPN
Over the last five days, Alfredo Aceves has made four relief appearances and thrown 143 pitches, as @ScottLauber notes.

being outscored 33-3 over 2 1/2 games in oakland lol

Aceves was asked if everything is "good" between him and Valentine?

"I'm good, yes, thank you," said Aceves. "I'm good. Ask him if he's good. I don't know."

"'This is the weakest roster we've ever had in September in the history of baseball. It could use help everywhere.' -- Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine"

http://espn.go.com/boston/mlb/story/_/id/8379248/weakest-roster-red-sox-history-bobby-valentine

jose iglesias home run?!

An X-ray taken before Monday night’s 10-2 loss to the Yankees revealed that Pedroia suffered an avulsion fracture of his left ring finger, a team source has confirmed to the Herald. Thus, Pedroia won’t play in the Red Sox’ final two games.

break finger in meaningless game? DEFINITION OF SCRAPPY

yet he's in the lineup 2night

GRITTY

Alex Speier ‏@alexspeier

Valentine on Big Show: Do you think all your coaches have been loyal to you? 'No.' Have they undermine you. 'Yes.'

@DKnobler
Asked what he would have done differently, Bobby said: "I would not have made the Youkilis comment."

@JonHeymanCBS

#redsox plan to fire Valentine soon after season ends. "no comment,'' responds Ben Cherington.

rip gyroball

No. of times Bobby Valentine's teams finished 4th or worse: 8. No. of times they have finished first: 0.

MLB teams, obviously

he did win a pennant in Flushing, and usta be fine the first few years with low-expectations teams. Nothing left, it appears.

aaaann.. he's done. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/05/sports/baseball/red-sox-fire-bobby-valentine-after-one-season.html

@Ben_ESPN
On Bobby V inquiries: We're happy with our current roster of MLB commentators and haven't discussed options for 2013 at this time.

amazing to think that none of this would have happened if not for game 162 last year.

well it was a fait accompli w/ "my coaches undermined me," you don't say that unless you know yer done.

Maybe Japan will have him back, but I can't but think he's crapped in his own cistern Stateside.

herald headline - that's a wrap! ?

He kinda burned some bridges in Japan too. His owner fired him despite being beloved by the fans. Musta been something there.

one of the most genuinely unlikable public figures i have ever witnessed.

well in his Mets days he LOVED pissing off dumb media guys on camera, so that went a long way with me.

bobby v is totes hilare imo

he is arrogant, blunt, unfeeling about players' images sometimes, but all of that was ameliorated when you win. NAGL when the team crashes.

he basically acted like a dumb media guy the entire time he was here. he did their jobs for them.

i just wish the yankees had inexplicably hired him tbh.

La Russa in 2013

well, even the Mets didn't have to deal with the Boston media shark tank, unchanged since praising the cabbie who ran over Casey Stengel in the early '30s.

the narrative is garbage and has been for years!

EVERY single nasty story about the 2012 sox was broken by a national writer!

ok, maybe so. I'm not disagreeing that he was no help and is done managing by any sane standard.

"Schilling may be forced to sell sock"

haha

He kinda burned some bridges in Japan too. His owner fired him despite being beloved by the fans. Musta been something there.

― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Thursday, October 4, 2012 1:59 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

crucial reading:

2005 Japan League Series - Chiba Lotte Marines vs. Hanshin Tigers

oh, jeez

The Japanese coaches, uncomfortable with Valentine's approach, sometimes countermanded his instructions

hahaha

http://screen.yahoo.com/sports-friends-jacoby-ellsbury-dustin-000000437.html