Yes, but we're 29-14, a winning % of .674.
The 3 Red Sox teams that won the World Series in our lifetimes had average winning %s of about .600.
We can't control what the Yanks are doing. They're a really good team and they had a hellacious hot streak just like we did before that.
Slasher says that Dombrowski should just hand Mookie a blank contract and tell him to fill in the numbers. I added that they should do this on live TV like they did when Lebron took his talents to South Beach.
OK, but if we're talking about something that's subjective, like art, you can't 'know it when you see it', either, so the statement still doesn't make sense.
IMO the problem with advanced fielding metrics for the average fan is that they lack transparency-in fact they're pretty much invisible.
If you want to find exactly why JBJ's UZR is what it is this season, good luck with that.
With hitting and pitching stats the event logs are right at your fingertips.
Or am I wrong about this?
The Red Sox under Francona also had stretches of mediocre to bad baseball.
As moon has pointed out, the 2004 Sox played .500 ball for 3 months running!
If that doesn't convince you not to overreact to a few weeks of it, I don't know what will.