CrespoBlows

:what: You got more than just Escobar, right?

BRACKET ONE Babe Ruth (New York Yankees) vs Joe DiMaggio (New York Yankees) Mickey Mantle (New York Yankees) vs Tris Speaker (Boston Red Sox) BRACKET TWO Ty Cobb (Detroit Tigers) vs Reggie Jackson (Oakland Athletics) Hank Aaron (Milwaukee Braves) vs Willie Mays (San Francisco Giants) BRACKET THREE Ted Williams (Boston Red Sox) vs Carl Yastrzemski (Boston Red Sox) Stan Musial (St. Louis Cardinals) vs Frank Robinson (Cincinnati Reds) BRACKET FOUR Pete Rose (Cincinnati Reds) vs Ken Griffey Jr. (Seattle Mariners) Ricky Henderson (Oakland Athletics) vs Manny Ramirez (Boston Red Sox) For the record, I don't know how Rose could be voted over Bonds, Yaz over Snider, and Jackson over Mel Ott.

Pauley to AAA. Foulke to DL.

I'd say about four of those players have starter potentials. The rest are bench players.

Replacement for Foulke?

Pedroia adds another double. He's been en fuego in June. .364 average .943 OPS.

Agreed. Where would he play? He'd be a downgrade at SS, and Loretta is hitting near .300 at 2B.

I got to admit, I know less about Tennis, then Coco Disciples knows about writing sports articles.

He looks like Mark Anthony? Or maybe he is? http://www.manmademultimedia.com/magazine/features/former/delahoya/markanthony.jpg http://soxprospects.com/players/images/crespo.cesar.jpg :dunno:

How'd did that guy ever get 76 AB's for the Red Sox? How did a team with Crespo on it ever win a World Series? Baseball's a weird game, no?

Dustin Pedroia is 2-3 today with a double, raising his average to .277. David Murphy is 2-3 with a double as well, raising his OPS to 1.116.

AAA- Pawtucket (Marc Deschenes 2-2 4.14) v Richmond (Ricardo Rodriguez) 7:05pm AA - Portland-offday A+ - Wilmington-offday A - Greenville (Ryan Phillips NR) @ Charleston (Eric Abreu) 7:05pm (Courtesy of jsinger over at soxprospects.com) I thought this could be an idea, we could start a new thread everyday so we could discuss the daily progress of our prospects. If it isn't too popular, I'll just kill the idea.

:shock: :shock: Your idea----> http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39339000/jpg/_39339680_rings300pa.jpg

What's Federer's record against Roddick? I know Roddick hasn't been able to beat him recently. Oh, and is Agassi still playing? That US Open matchup between him and Federer was extremely entertaining. (For the first two sets, anyway)

I guess no one cares about Ryan Phillips. :dunno:

Can we delete post 32?

Not surprised they were pasted. The Czechs were ranked number two by FIFA.

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So Ghana, Czech Republic, or Italy have to go 1-2 for us to advance. Odds: Yankees win WS: 200 - 1 USA soccer advances: 100 - 1 Elton John sleeps with female: 5 - 1

Wow, just awful.

You can't expect a rookie to come in a seemlessly make that jump. The only rookie that is ready for the show is Delcarmen, who won't be sent down in the near future. Hansen hasn't pitched that much in professional ball, and probably needs until August to get prepared for his role on the big-league club. (a la Papelbon 2005) I haven't at all been impressed with JVB, he doesn't have a whole lot of control, and only seems to have a fastball. The veterans haven't been terrible, either. It was just yesterday, that Seanez went a month without allowing a run. Pitchers who have those kind of streaks, seem to be a good options out of the bullpen. Seanez has pretty good strikeout numbers, and his career statistics indicate that he can prevent hits, I'd keep him around. Tavarez has been badly misused by Terry Francona, arguably you could say his ERA would be under four, if Francona realized that middle relief pitchers can't throw 30 pitches on back to back days. As for Foulke? We'd have to eat over seven million dollars to discard him. Maybe we can work out a trade to a park that is friendly to fly-ball pitchers. (the Dodgers?) I'm just as excited as everyone else is to see our prospects worked into our big-league club, but the Red Sox shouldn't panic when the are 1.0 game up on the Yankees for first place. The goal should be trying to develop Eric Gagnes, instead of Ryan Wagners. The best way to accomplish this is to have them improve at AAA, then when they get the expirence, they can be called up. Oh, and USA soccer sucks.

USA getting pasted 2-0 to the Czecks.

There is no hope for US Men's Tennis. Roddick keeps hitting a wall called "Roger Federer", and I don't know much about Blake, but is he in the same class as Federer or Nadal?

JVB: 8 BB's 3 K's. I don't how this is better then Seanez or Tavarez?

I don't know if I start releasing everyone because of one loss. Knee-jerk reactions don't often help teams. The Red Sox are still in first place, and Mike Timlin will help stablize the bullpen. Seanez, and Taverez both sport ERA's over 4.5, and frankly I can't say I'm surprised. Though, in fairness to both of them, the two of them could both go on stretches where the can be dominant. I'm surprised so many people forgot that Seanez went exactly 38 days without allowing a run. Tavarez, was one of St. Louis' most dependable relievers for the last three years, both of them should be allowed to pitch until they show us they can't do it anymore. The best way to work in our rookie relievers is the way they are pitching right now. Have Delcarmen, and Van Buren pitch in the 5th and 6th innings.