8/30 @ Angels

[wyo-sox]

Boo, Boo, BOOOOOO!!!

[jung]

Clay could be a 2.....that could be....it would be a mistake to think of him as a 1....sort of a version of the same mistake we made this year. Lester is maybe a 4 unless he really turns it around. He could turn it around but it will take an off season anyway.

 

Thank God for Buch...at least we could build around that but we must end up with a solid 1 at some point cause we don't have one for next year and did not have one this year.

[wyo-sox]

I'm not sure Lester should be a 5

[jung]

Lester is pretty screwed up at this point. I do give him some credit though cause I think he is exerting a tremendous amount of concentration to pitch at all given where he is. When he slips into some of the bad habits he has developed he just gets creamed or can't find the plate at all....sometimes both. He has to get straightened out so he can just pitch again.

[Station 13]

Bard has too much poison whispered in his ears.

[wyo-sox]

Good news Sox fans.... we may be able to afford Ells down the road.

[jung]

By the time his client is done, Boras will be begging the Sox to sign him....please guys...."baby needs new shoes"

[wyo-sox]

Yeah he has really hurt his value this year.

[jung]

Our new strategy at work. I think the game plan is to play boring enough to put the other team to sleep and then we pounce like a stalking tiger! Sure we will....our pounce is more like meow meow....scratch my belly please....meow meow.

[Station 13]

Iggy, Kalish, Lavarnway are no Middlebrooks, who produce the 1st day he played.

[wyo-sox]

Aviles hitting better recently

[jung]

No Jerry...right back to the warning path...not the wall....poor Jerry groping for something good to talk about

[NativeBostonian]

Couldn't they have made that wall 5 feet closer

[wyo-sox]

Iggy, Kalish, Lavarnway are no Middlebrooks, who produce the 1st day he played.

 

I've not seen anything that gets me excited about those three. I will be the one Sox fan that does not get Iggy wood.

[a700hitter]

I've not seen anything that gets me excited about those three. I will be the one Sox fan that does not get Iggy wood.

I agree. Those guys are very ordinary. The next Ozzie Smith has done little to impress me. Maybe he should start doing back flips.

[a700hitter]

Greinke has looked pretty good. He is doing well for the Angels.

 

Lester is at most a # 3 for next season.

[redsoxbeatz]

Not worth it... Leaving the game now. Driving back to Pasadena.

[wyo-sox]

Is Padillia to old to pitch as a starter?

[wyo-sox]

Not worth it... Leaving the game now. Driving back to Pasadena.

 

Sorry for the luck friend.

[NativeBostonian]

Greinke has looked pretty good. He is doing well for the Angels.

 

Lester is at most a # 3 for next season.

 

Maybe we should sign him and have him not live up to his contract like everyone else.

[wyo-sox]

Well Cody is the guy I want at the plate here.

[NativeBostonian]

I've never seen that

[wyo-sox]

What did I miss?

[jung]

Lester probably had to go back out there... V trying to do everything he can to perverse the tired pen.

 

Lavarnway is looking steadier behind the plate than Salty has...of course that is like saying Lavs is steadier than an earthquake back there but none the less, considering the diff in experience that is a bit of a surprise.

 

I have been surprised at how overpowered Iggy has been at the plate so far. I know it is not that many games or at bats etc etc but it is hard not to notice that he has just been so overpowered as a hitter.

 

As for Kalish although apparently still recovering from his surgery, there just does not seem to be much game there. Even when a player is recovering from something usually you can tell that there is an underlying game there that is worthwhile. I have had a hard time finding it from Kalish.

[jung]

Well the boring the other team asleep part of the new strategy I had mentioned earlier seems to be working as the A's have surely fallen asleep after getting ahead. However now we get the meow meow part that I also mentioned earlier. The A's might be asleep but we are just plain toothless.

[wyo-sox]

Lester probably had to go back out there... V trying to do everything he can to perverse the tired pen.

 

Lavarnway is looking steadier behind the plate than Salty has...of course that is like saying Lavs is steadier than an earthquake back there but none the less, considering the diff in experience that is a bit of a surprise.

 

I have been surprised at how overpowered Iggy has been at the plate so far. I know it is not that many games or at bats etc etc but it is hard not to notice that he has just been so overpowered as a hitter.

 

As for Kalish although apparently still recovering from his surgery, there just does not seem to be much game there. Even when a player is recovering from something usually you can tell that there is an underlying game there that is worthwhile. I have had a hard time finding it from Kalish.

 

Whatever people think Lavs is doing behind the plate so much better than Salty..... it sure ain't making a bit of difference with the pitching.

[wyo-sox]

Gross

[jung]

The pitching is still God Awful. By steadier I mean Lavs is just that...steadier...less prone to having balls bouncing all over creation......off his shins...off his chest protector....off his glove....he is definitely quicker out of his crouch on balls in front of the plate. I hope we get to see a play at the plate as that is one of Salty's real weak points...he is just terrible taking throws, blocking home and successfully tagging the runner. That is one of those walk and chew bubble gum sorts of things and it definitely escapes Salty.

 

Lavs does appear to give the pitchers a better target but I have not mentioned it cause I am waiting to see more of Lavs with more different pitchers before I comment on whether I think he is giving a better target than Salty across the board. Calling games is sort of the same deal. I just have not seen enough of Lavs to have a comment worth making at this point.

[Bellhorn04]

Lester probably had to go back out there... V trying to do everything he can to perverse the tired pen.

 

[a700hitter]

Maybe we should sign him and have him not live up to his contract like everyone else.

Good pitching costs money and the Red Sox are very short on good pitching. It would be helpful if they did not sign a pitcher with known arm troubles. As for pitchers acquired by the Sox for big contracts, they really have not done too much of that . The last 2 pitchers that they acquired in that manner were Dice K who had never thrown a major league pitch and Lackey who had known elbow issues. It's not like they made ver wise choices.