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Big out on Peralta.

Nova tends to settle down as the game gets along. The Tigers had better get him now.

Good AB by Mags.

What do you want from me. I agree with you that he is a very good pitcher, a top pitcher, a very valuable commodity, but this season he can claim to have been clutch. Clutch pitchers hand the ball directly to the closer with the lead. He didn't go deep into crucial games. That ain't clutch. If you think that he was clutch, your standards must be very low.

If he was clutch maybe he would have pitched a complete game shutout or gone 8 innings.

Rookie is gets hammered by back to back batters in the 1st.

I'm not complaining about Lester. He is a very good starter- a very valuable commodity, but your standards for clutch are obviously lower than mine.

No dead manager could claim it either.

Clinching a World Series with 5 innings of work when your team is up 3 games to none doesn't make the cut as clutch. He lost the deciding 7th game against the Rays in 2008. Oh, I forgot. He was outpitched. No, he lost.

Pumpsie, you crazy like me and Iortiz. Lol!!!

He had a few good years for the Angels and one for the White Sox. He hasn't done much since, because he's almost as old as Wakefield.

You are diverting the discussion. SFF said that the difference between the Sox and Tampa was heart. I disagreed and said that the difference was pitching and mentioned that some combination of Lackey, Wakefield, Miller and Weiland were going to the mound 3 out of 5 days with little hope for success. That was the difference-- pitching and pitching depth. You are wandering off topic.

Paul Byrd's price would be very reasonable. Lol! I'm all for signing a couple of these low value pitchers as depth In the minors or the major league bullpen, but first, they need to stock the rotation with reliable major league arms. And no, Wakefield doesn't fall into any category. He's got nothing left.

In return for the second highest payroll in baseball, we have gotten a competitive team that has not been good enough to win the World Series since 2007. They have not been good enough to win a playoff game since 2008 nor make the playoffs since 2009. We also have very little premium talent at the upper levels of the minor leagues. He has had a terrible run for the last 3 or 4 seasons in light of his resources. All will not be lost if he is replaces. Despite what u may think, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to be a good GM.

No, the difference between the Sox and the Rays was starting pitching and pitching depth. We were running Wakefield, Miller, Weiland and Lacey to the mound three out of every 5 games with virtually no chance of winning. Does the whole roster need to be plown up? No, but there was an organizational failure that needs to be addressed. The FO and management team needs to be blown up. Are they a long way from winning ? No, but you should have some good talent assembled for $174 million. It is no feather in their cap that they won 90 games for $174 million. Someone else can take the core of this team and fine tune it to get it to the next level.

He stuck with rthe Angels for a good number of years, and there is a reason why he keeps showing up on the rosters of contenders. He's a solid SS.

During the last series against the O's, the team was shell shocked. By that point, they look stunned and defeated. They had done so much losing up to that point that they were running out of explanations and positive statements, so they beat it out of the clubhouse. I mean really what could they say at that point. They probably were expecting the worst, but couldn't say it, so they bailed. It wasn't the right thing to do, but I understand why they did it.

True Lucchino could also be on thin ice, but the next level up is ownership, and they don't get fired.

Some one call the Commissioner's Office immediately and tell him that there has been a mistake. The Red Sox are supposed to be in the playoffs and probably the World Series. All of the predictive models prove it beyond a shadow of a doubt. We wuz robbed!! You are making less and less sense as you go on trying to prove that Theo did a bang up job. You blame the players, but now you are saying that there isn't that much wrong with the team and that it doesn't need an overhaul. By saying that they were not good enough, I am not simplistically explaining the reasons for the failure of the 2011 team. I have been repeating that in response to all of the cop out excuses of injury, poor attitude, and drinking light beer. Of course there are a lot of reasons for the failure and of course numbers and statistical models will be used to fix a good deal of it, but the complexity of the problem doesn't change the responsibility for it. Theo is responsible for the failure. You are the one arguing in circles to exonerate him. As to your assertion that the team is pretty close to being a winning team, this is not even consistent with your prior attempts to get Boy Wonder off the hook. When you were scapegoating players on alleged attitude issues, you were willing to say that they should weed out the problems going forward. You were assuming that Youk and Ortiz were bad for team chemistry, and there were the stories of the light beer drinking pitchers. Assume you were right about the bad seeds, you don't think it would be a major overhaul to part ways with the teams cleanup hitter and it's #5 hitter, guys who routinely have OPS around .900? Add to that parting ways with one of the starters for drinking-- even if that starter is Lackey. We'd have to get 2 major sticks and a starter at the very least before they even start building a bullpen. Those are major changes. You are not even being consistent in your arguments, because you are still trying to do anything you can to exonerate the Boy Wonder. BTW: He's now almost the Middle Aged Wonder.

Yes, and they do such a great job of keeping their pitchers healthy.

Even if Crawford becomes Carl Crawford again and Youkilis is healthy for the entire season, other injuries will happen-- to position players and pitchers. When is the last time that the Sox had a rotation where at least one starter didn't miss a good chunk of the season? 2004 was the last time. Getting the injured guys healthy for next year will put us in the same situation when other guys go down next season. They need to get deeper. A few BP pieces will not do the job. I think it is laughable that you don't think they have significant work to do this off season.