09/16 Sox at Pittsburgh

[gojohn99]

The Pirates have the 2nd NL Wild Card spot and trail the Cardinals by 3.5 for the NL Central division.

Pitching matchup Ranaudo (3-2) vs Morton (5-12

[Spudboy]

The Pirates have the 2nd NL Wild Card spot and trail the Cardinals by 3.5 for the NL Central division.

Pitching matchup Ranaudo (3-2) vs Morton (5-12

 

The Pirates are one of the few teams that I can say that I hope will make the playoffs. The Sox can really hurt their chances in this series, though.

 

It sounds as if we will see Castillo tomorrow. That should be interesting!

 

I wonder how Holt is doing? It's a shame that he sustained a concussion but it has given others more playing time.

 

GO SOX !!!1!1

[Palodios]

So far Ranaudo has been pretty mediocre. He hasn't been excellent, but he hasn't gotten shelled either. He's definitely someone we need to see more of.

[Thunder]

I love interleague games. Haven't watched a game since football season began, but I'll turn it on for a while tonight.

[St. Louis Carter]

The Pirates have the 2nd NL Wild Card spot and trail the Cardinals by 3.5 for the NL Central division.

Pitching matchup Ranaudo (3-2) vs Morton (5-12

That is correct! The Sox must give us a hand tonight. The Pirates are breathing down our necks with cutlass's swinging! A friendly tip: DON'T pitch to McCutchen, Marte, Polonco and especially Josh Harrison!

[Spudboy]

Boston Red Sox

Player AB R H RBI TB BB K AVG OBP SLG

M. Betts, 2B 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .289 .365 .444

X. Bogaerts, SS 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .240 .303 .371

D. Nava, RF 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .263 .339 .355

Y. Cespedes, LF 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .258 .302 .453

M. Napoli, 1B 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .250 .367 .422

W. Middlebrooks, 3B 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .185 .254 .262

J. Bradley Jr., CF 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .207 .277 .278

C. Vazquez, C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .207 .274 .255

A. Ranaudo, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000

Totals - - -

Pittsburgh Pirates

Player AB R H RBI TB BB K AVG OBP SLG

J. Harrison, 3B 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .317 .351 .508

T. Snider, RF 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .261 .334 .425

A. McCutchen, CF 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .310 .399 .533

N. Walker, 2B 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .279 .351 .468

R. Martin, C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .295 .410 .428

S. Marte, LF 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .285 .356 .446

I. Davis, 1B 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .231 .344 .365

C. Barmes, SS 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .228 .314 .272

C. Morton, P 0 0 0

[d-money]

These rookie pitchers are overrated.Its sad.Why cant these guys figure it out?

[d-money]

You see these other clubs produce pitchers in their minor league system.I wonder whats going on with these guys

[Bellhorn04]

Middlebrooks + Bradley with 2 men on and no outs = 3 outs in 3 minutes.

[d-money]

Sick of bradley already.His swing is very flawed

[gojohn99]

The Pirates have a good lineup and PNC seems like a great place to watch baseball.

[gojohn99]

Rusney Castillo will be in the lineup tomorrow night. Unless the PawSox are postponed, they are in a rain delay now. Castillo hit a solo shot in the 1st, but the PawSox trail 2-1, it's NBC Sports Network

 

Sick of bradley already.His swing is very flawed

[d-money]

Ranaudo is prone to giving up the long ball.Lousy offense tonight.

[a700hitter]

These rookie pitchers are overrated.Its sad.Why cant these guys figure it out?

THey are just not very talented. The whole generation of our future stars-- Bradley, Middlebrooks, Bogaert, De La ROsa, Webster, Workman and Ranaudo have been tremendously over-rated by the organization. I think changes are needed to our scouting and talent development departments.

[Beecke]

THey are just not very talented. The whole generation of our future stars-- Bradley, Middlebrooks, Bogaert, De La ROsa, Webster, Workman and Ranaudo have been tremendously over-rated by the organization. I think changes are needed to our scouting and talent development departments.

 

But I really don´t get that. It´s not as if the Red Sox have been the only ones trying to tell us how good those prospects are /were, they were hyped by pretty much everyone that cared to make a statement on them. So are they really overrated or is something going wrong when they are brought up to play with the big boys? I really don´t know and I still hope that over time we will see some improvements in at least one or two of them, but to go 0 for on all your hyped up prospects certainly is not a common thing, even if you take statistics out of it.

 

Anyway, shut out again. Listening to these games on WEEI at night I really have a lot of respect for commentating day in day out on this kind of suck without goign apopleptic with rage. When Middlebrooks provided the Pirates with another double play it felt kind of unreal because it was so, so predictable, everyone seemed to just be waiting for it and sure enough he came through. If you don´t laugh you´d have to cry.

[curiousd]

THey are just not very talented. The whole generation of our future stars-- Bradley, Middlebrooks, Bogaert, De La ROsa, Webster, Workman and Ranaudo have been tremendously over-rated by the organization. I think changes are needed to our scouting and talent development departments.

 

XB is hitting much better now. There is reason for optimism regarding XB, in my opinion.

 

But what RS are presently doing with WM and JBJ is surreal.....RS management is surely not playing WM and JBJ to win games, and if RS think they are going to shop those two guys around, this is like a dog and pony show without the pony.

[Bellhorn04]

XB is hitting much better now. There is reason for optimism regarding XB, in my opinion.

 

But what RS are presently doing with WM and JBJ is surreal.....RS management is surely not playing WM and JBJ to win games, and if RS think they are going to shop those two guys around, this is like a dog and pony show without the pony.

 

I think they might end up trading WMB. He'll be easy to trade because he's still pre-arb. They won't get much back obviously, somebody might give up a 'middling' prospect.

[Spudboy]

I think they might end up trading WMB. He'll be easy to trade because he's still pre-arb. They won't get much back obviously, somebody might give up a 'middling' prospect.

 

Or, and it won't surprise me, they may hold onto him and see what he does in spring training and go from there. That could be justified in their minds because WM has been hurt so much over the past few years. I keep saying that power ( or in Wm's case, the promise of power ) is intoxicating.

 

Who knows what they will do?

[Palodios]

How many options does WMB have? No chance they trade him unless they have to, or if they can get a lot for him (or for him and others).

[a700hitter]

How many options does WMB have? No chance they trade him unless they have to, or if they can get a lot for him (or for him and others).

An incentive to trade him in his devalued state is that he would be clogging Checinni's (sp) path at AAA.

[jad]

Thank goodness they got rid of all that deadwood pitching to produce the swat for this 5-hit attack.

[Elktonnick]

The only way the Sox could get anything of value for WMB is if they included Jenny Dell as part of the deal. OOPS they cut DEll from NESN. There goes that idea;)

[Palodios]

An incentive to trade him in his devalued state is that he would be clogging Checinni's (sp) path at AAA.

 

He still has more value in our AA than someone else's AAA. He's exactly the kind of player that is going to leave and immediately figure it out in another organization.