9/20/ Red Sox @ Rays

[Station 13]

It seems like these September low scoring games take 3+ hour to play. The game Doubront started lasted 4hour.

[Laser Show]

Iggy has looked like Willy Mays (Hayes) tonight!

[Station 13]

FFS Bailey

[RedSoxfanforlife305]

Bailey: "Wait, we're winning? That's not right"

 

I know these games don't mean s*** but this is a really really really bad team. Holy s*** please lose now instead of embarrassing yourselves even more.

[Station 13]

Disgusting. Our BP is battered.

[RedSoxfanforlife305]

LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[jung]

Bailey you stiff....what an outing. He does get a save though....might have just saved the Rays season.

 

Although tonights performances highlight something I mentioned recently. While many are thinking we have the makings of a really good pen for 2013, we still have nobody that can actually come in and put out fires.....Padilla certainly did not do it tonight. We have a bullpen chock full of guys that can come in and start fresh innings but we really have nobody that can come in and be a true fireman.

[Laser Show]

That game completely sums up our entire season.

[DocHolliday]

I know the season is over and has been for a long time. But that was pathetic.

 

This team had a perfect opportunity to end the Rays season for good with 3 outs to get and a 3 run lead.

 

Literally from day 1, this team has been walked off on a regular basis.

[RedSoxfanforlife305]

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[jung]

I guess we can wonder what V would have done if this was a really meaningful game to the Sox...although V has been the kind of manager that does not hook relievers quickly. Bailey sucked from the minute he walked to the mound and was wild both in and out of the strike zone. To be honest I expect that V would have left Bailey out there regardless.

[Taz]

http://www.talkceltic.net/forum/images/smilies/31.gif FFS... Yet another blown save!!!

 

Buchholz so deserved the W tonight, after pitching 7 scoreless inning.

[a700hitter]

Bailey not looking like Paps successor.

[DocHolliday]

It is almost as if the Sox are the opposite of the Orioles this year when it comes to closing out games.

 

Atleast the organization appears to be heading in the right direction to fixing this perpetual pitching problem. Lucchino mentioned today that the team would be looking to add a dedicated pitching evaluator for the entire organization and another senior advisor to Cherington in the near future.

[v2freak]

Wow. 5 runs and only 1 out??

[a700hitter]

Wow. 5 runs and only 1 out??

In 6 years as Red Sox closer, Papelbon never gave up 5 earned runs in an outing-- not once. Bailey is off to a great start breaking new ground. I guess he feels that he belongs now that his ERA has been inflated to almost 7.

[TylerD]

Didn't see the game..... We lost.... Clay played well.... I have zero emotions. I have be come a psychopath when it comes to the Red Sox

[SCM33]

Papelbon was overpaid remember?

[RedSoxNC84]

Jesus, we need bullpen help this offseason too, old Ben's got a laundry list of s*** to do this winter.

[Bellhorn04]

Papelbon was overpaid remember?

 

And, as Palodios keeps pointing out, he's only mid-tier.

[RedSoxfanforlife305]

.....and still overpaid.

[Palodios]

And, as Palodios keeps pointing out, he's only mid-tier.

 

In all fairness, he is:lol:

[a700hitter]

In all fairness, he is:lol:

Are there mid-tier Hall of Famers, because in the end, he could make it there?

[a700hitter]

As much as I would like to see the Sox ruin Showalter's season, I'd rather see the Y*nkees suffer. This whole season has been one big s*** sandwich. We will probably be subjected to watching the Skanks clinch against us in the last series of the year.

[Bellhorn04]

.....and still overpaid.

 

Some of these overpaid guys can be pretty useful. Overpaid Ortiz had the highest OPS in the league when he got hurt.

[RedSoxfanforlife305]

I'm not saying he wouldn't be useful because I love Papelbon. That contract though was ridiculous.

[a700hitter]

Some of these overpaid guys can be pretty useful. Overpaid Ortiz had the highest OPS in the league when he got hurt.

If a team pays a guy expecting a certain level of production and the guy produces to that level for the life of the contract, it is hard to argue that he is overpaid.

[Bellhorn04]

I'm not saying he wouldn't be useful because I love Papelbon. That contract though was ridiculous.

 

I'm not so sure it's ridiculous. We paid him 12 million last year. The AAV of his contract with the Phillies is 12.5 million. 4 years is long for a reliever, but Papelbon has proven himself to be very durable, and this year is no exception.

[Station 13]

I'm not so sure it's ridiculous. We paid him 12 million last year. The AAV of his contract with the Phillies is 12.5 million. 4 years is long for a reliever, but Papelbon has proven himself to be very durable, and this year is no exception.

 

He'd be useless with the team rebuilding.

[a700hitter]

He'd be useless with the team rebuilding.

How long do you think the team will be rebuilding before it goes back to the playoffs?