Updates on ex-Sox players etc.

[Bellhorn04]

Who's hot, but especially who's not?

 

I'm always checking the numbers for ex-Sox players, Yankees, big-contract guys...anybody I'm hoping is doing poorly, in other words. Schadenfreude, right? And sometimes it's even interesting to see who's doing well.

 

But this has to lead off with the L A Angels $240 million man, Albert Pujols. He is off to a start that I'm sure neither he nor the Angels fans and the people who signed him to that exorbitant deal envisioned in their worst nightmares.

 

26 games

202/245/279

524 OPS

0 HR

5 RBI

 

Wow.

[Spitball]

Papelbon is leading the NL with 9 saves. He has a 0.82 ERA and a 0.818 WHIP. He has given up one run so far.

[Spitball]

Beltre is OPSing at .889 rate.

[Bellhorn04]

Papelbon is off to a great start, which doesn't surprise me at all. I think there's a good chance he'll continue to be one of the top closers in the game over the next 4 years.

[Bellhorn04]

Jed Lowrie has a .927 OPS. Now that ain't right.

[kapsis21]

Jed Lowrie has a .927 OPS. Now that ain't right.

 

on the other side of this world Melancon has an infinite ERA.. what a lopsided deal that is.

[Station 13]

Jed Lowrie has a .927 OPS. Now that ain't right.

 

He'll cool off as he usually does.

[mvp 78]

Scutaro: 0 HR, 1 RBI, OPS .680

[jung]

I figured this thread had to have something about Oil Can Boyd until I opened it, given his blow up this morning on the EEI, Dennis and Callahan show.

 

Not excusing Can for his behavior or his issues but I really do not like D&C and purposely tune them out these days. No question that while they differ sometimes they are really birds of a feather. I guess it was mostly Jerry that got Can to go through the roof this morning but there is no doubt in my mind that they want guests like Can to blow up regardless of the F bombs that result (which get bleeped out anyway). It is part of the D&C schtick.

 

As Can was slamming down the phone Callahan was asking him if he was at home taking this call smoking a joint at the time, I guess manly because Can had in fact finally lost it and somehow Jerry associates losing it like that with smoking a joint. Actually I don't think Jerry is that naive. I just think he wanted to get that in. Good ol' Gasoline Can Callahan must think he has a budding career as a Sox relief pitcher, the way he stoked Oil Can's fire.

 

Surely there was no really good reason for Can to have lost it like that but it was clear that D&C knew where to go to get Can to blow and purposefully went there. Can contends that nobody tossed him from a baseball team because of his drug abuse and I guess he uses the fact that nobody ever specifically pointed to substance abuse as a rational to let him go. At least that is the gist of what I could take from that part of the discussion. Jerry kept picking at it finally asking Can if he thought it unrealistic to think that none of the team management personnel involved did not at least have an inkling of the issues and that was the end for Can. I guess he thought he had answered the question and did not think they would keep picking at it.

 

I should go check to see who has helped Can with this book of his which is the purpose for the PR campaign and associated radio spots.

 

Mods please feel free to move my post if you think it the right thing to do. Did not want to start a thread on the topic and actually thought I was going to find something on Can here before I opened this thread.

[Bellhorn04]

Scutaro: 0 HR' date=' 1 RBI, OPS .680[/quote']

 

Now that's what I'm talkin' about! :thumbsup:

[Bloodsox0]

.275 4 homers 9 RBI for Josh Reddick who kind of kicked our ass in this series:

 

333, 1 homer, 3 RBI, 2 runs, 2 walks.

[mvp 78]

D. Lowe 4-1 2.27 ERA

[kapsis21]

D. Lowe 4-1 2.27 ERA

 

i was just about to put that out there.

[mvp 78]

Rizzo .367 7HR 24RBI at AAA

[mvp 78]

Kottaras .304 3HR 9RBI

[Laser Show]

Bronson Arroyo 1-1 3.03 ERA 127 ERA+

 

Screw Wily Mo Pena.

[kapsis21]

Rizzo .367 7HR 24RBI at AAA

 

its AAA, he was raking in SD too, but couldnt get it working at the bigs.. maybe he needed some Theo love

[mvp 78]

Alex Gonzalez .264 4HR 14RBI and better defense than Aviles

[kapsis21]

Andre Ethier 27 RBI Avg .281 OPS .981

Matt Kemp 25 RBI Avg .398 OPS 1.314

 

edit: didnt read ex sox players..

[mvp 78]

Bedard 2-4 2.65ERA 26K 37K 14BB

[jung]

Isn't Alex and his experience here something of a mystery anyway? the guy played very good defense and was not a complete goose egg at the plate. Sorta' makes you wonder what they will take in a guy that can play defense at SS if the record he amassed here was not good enough. OK so he struck out 29 times and only walked 5 times. His OBP and OPS were not good but when you consider his defense, holy cats!!

 

Alex is my poster child for why I don't think Iggy will ever see any real time in a Red Sox uniform. Take 60-70 points off os Alex's BA and keep his OBP and OPS about the same and you probably have Iggy. If Alex was not good enough when is Iggy ever going to be good enough.

[Laser Show]

Isn't Alex and his experience here something of a mystery anyway? the guy played very good defense and was not a complete goose egg at the plate. Sorta' makes you wonder what they will take in a guy that can play defense at SS if the record he amassed here was not good enough. OK so he struck out 29 times and only walked 5 times. His OBP and OPS were not good but when you consider his defense' date=' [b']holy cats[/b]!!

 

Alex is my poster child for why I don't think Iggy will ever see any real time in a Red Sox uniform. Take 60-70 points off os Alex's BA and keep his OBP and OPS about the same and you probably have Iggy. If Alex was not good enough when is Iggy ever going to be good enough.

 

The only time I've ever heard that phrase is from my Calc professor in Central NY...

[Bellhorn04]

Andre Ethier 27 RBI Avg .281 OPS .981

Matt Kemp 25 RBI Avg .398 OPS 1.314

 

edit: didnt read ex sox players..

 

It's ex-Sox players etc. so any players on other teams.

[kapsis21]

It's ex-Sox players etc. so any players on other teams.

:thumbsup:

[jung]

The only time I've ever heard that phrase is from my Calc professor in Central NY...

 

Yea, that might be an old Tri-states thing....grew up in Fairfield County, CT....enemy territory...behind the lines for to long!

[Bellhorn04]

I liked Alex Gonzalez when he was here. I liked OCab too. I've always thought it was strange how those two keep getting shipped from one team to another. And yes, I know all the OCab rumors...

[jung]

I think it is the SO and BB ratio that teams find intolerable. 2010 he went 117 SO and 31 BB. It is hard to even try to amass those numbers for a ratio not being a power hitter I think. Ya' just about gotta' insist that you are not going to draw a walk to do it.

 

So I think teams sort of resigned themselves to Alex being a fill in, somebody they would use until they found somebody else more tolerant of just taking four balls and walkin' down to first base.

[jung]

As it turns out Mike Shalin is the co-author on the Oil Can book, the same guy that did the Mattingly book I think.

[SoxSport]

Bronson Arroyo 1-1 3.03 ERA 127 ERA+

 

Screw Wily Mo Pena.

 

The deal that brought Epstein down to earth.

[SoxSport]

Alex Gonzalez .264 4HR 14RBI and better defense than Aviles

 

The front office has a history of failure at SS since Nomar. And they are still failing.