I reserve the middle name “f***ing” for only the worst offenders like Aaron f***ing Boone.
But back to Seanez, I’m of the camp that thinks he was brought in one batter too late last night. And even today I still think he’s the most reliable arm in the pen other than Paps
Seanez is what he is: a decent reliever with a wild streak, and the only option when the relievers (Timlin and Foulke) you’d ordinarily use in high leverage situations aren’t available.
Trupe on the radio was saying that Pauley looks like Greg Brady from The Brady Bunch.
It amazes me sometimes the s*** announcers will talk about during a game in order to fill up time.
Bumping this to talk some more about Beckett.
Last night we saw the ugly meltdown of Beckett. The Yankees were all over his fastball like flies on s***. His curveball seemed like it was missing big time so he stuck to just the fastball, with an occasional changeup that had little differential.
But I’ve also read some accounts that he’s tipping his pitches. Anyone think there’s any truth in that?
Good thing you don’t own a dog.
With hindsight it’s clear that Theo misjudged the depth of the starting pitching, but at the beginning of the season wasn’t Arroyo penciled to be the long man out of the pen?
And like you pointed out it’s early June, not early September. There is every reason to believe that the Sox FO is working on improving the pitching situation. A lot can happen between now and the trading deadline.
Not to be a Yankees ball washer but you do have to give Torre credit. You’d expect a team with that many injuries to key players to struggle. And they’ve done the exact opposite.
It’s not that I want Trot out of Boston, but I don’t see the Sox paying the money that he’ll be looking for after his contract expires, especially given his history of injuries.
The Sox see WMP as their future OF’er so it makes sense that Trot will be the odd man out. Even if the WMP experiment doesn’t work I still don’t see Trot here next year.
Me too. I’ve been questioning Tito’s insistence of batting him 5th or 6th now for weeks. Until his bat gets hot I’d keep him lower in the order. If Tek were in the NL, he would be a typical number 8 hitter IMO.
I found the Sox lineup in the Herald
Red Sox
Coco Crisp, cf
Mark Loretta, 2b
David Ortiz, dh
Manny Ramirez, lf
Trot Nixon, rf
Kevin Youkilis, 1b
Mike Lowell, 3b
Jason Varitek, c
Alex Gonzalez, ss
Glad to see Tek in the 8th spot tonight.
You make a good argument that WMP could be a fit for the Marlins plans for the future…
I agree with your point that the Sox future plan sees WMP in the OF, and Trot not in Boston after this year.
Let’s hope that Lester does develop into a top level major league pitcher, deserving the big money that starters make nowadays.
By the way is Lester represented by an agent?
I can’t see why the Marlins would want a player like WMP, given the direction they are going, and what his contract demands will be next year. A trade doesn't make sense.
From this article it looks like he’ll be pitching the night game:
http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20060604&content_id=1487628&vkey=news_bos&fext=.jsp&c_id=bos