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None of that is really surprising. When you look at the numbers by playoff series for a player who's been in the postseason a lot, you see some hilarious bouncing up and down. Much like you would if you broke the regular season up into 5 game chunks.
Well, watching some of those first 3 games will remind you how s*****, angry, frustrated and depressed you were before the miracle unfolded. It's a reminder of what we overcame and how far we've come since that Game 3 debacle.
Don't forget is right. He was horrible against righties this year - an OBP of .244. Yikes.
My personal preference for next year, unlikely though it may be, would be Bogaerts at third, Drew at short, and Middlebrooks traded.
Unbef***inglievable!
Congratulations 2013 Red Sox you beautiful motherf***ers.
And congratulations to all the Talksox posters here. Especially the mojo masters. The dream season is complete.
1. The year I was hooked was 1969. For no particular reason except that I was a 13-year old baseball fan in search of a team. The Red Sox had first caught my attention with the 1967 team but it wasn't until a couple of years later that I really joined the fold. One cool thing was that I could pick up the games on my AM radio. There was just something about the Sox that drew me in.
2. My favorite team, unfortunately was the 1978 team.
Tiant
Eck
Spaceman
Yaz
Lynn
Rice
Fisk
Dewey
Boomer
Rooster
Remdawg
Carbo
For an appealing group of players nothing could touch those guys. But they were tragic.
3. I'll answer that in a day or two.
Even $100/4 would hamstring the budget for next year though. Taking into account Peavy's 2014 full salary and Lester's option, the Sox are not going to have a huge amount of room under the $189 M threshold. Much also depends on what they do about Napoli, Salty & Drew of course.
They will have so much more flexibility by letting Ellsbury walk.
One other note on Ross: in his last 8 postseason games (7 starts), going back to last year's play-in game with Atlanta, he has 3 multi-hit games, 4 extra-base hits and a .985 OPS.
Personally I'd love to have Napoli and Drew back next year. I'd like to have Ellsbury back too, of course, but re-signing him doesn't make sense economically. Just hope that JBJ is the real deal.