Beecke

Maybe they actually can so the reverse 2011, but by god they have wasted so many chances this season to get something good going under far more favorable conditions (like having a Bit of momentum and not as much pressure). That 2nd Wildcard certainly is a tease, and I really can't decide if I actually like it. I doubt it will happen, but on paper it is not over at all.

I think in the end very few people will pretend they know more or even just close to as much as the Red Sox FO. However, the Red Sox FO have made themselves look really amateurish this season. They were still feeding to the high expectations of contending, but actually were not willing to make any significant moves to prevent the outcome of the last few seasons. Many fans did not buy into that, though. Now the Red Sox FO has only two things to admit to: either they knew this team was not good enough and they were just trying to save face, put a spin on the off-season and get fans to buy into it. But reallythey did not show any ambition towards improving, even if that would have meant admitting to a bridge year. And with not good enough I mean that if you play this season 100 times with this roster the majority of times it would have failed, since they were praying for so many "chances" to come off: Lester, Beckett AND Buchholz all playing CONSISTENTLY and GREAT; Doubront and Bard working out and when they hit their innings limit, DiceK/Cook/Morales stepping right in; the completely new bullpen to work to a tee from the off - that is a whole lot of up in the air variables to account for, and it would be stupid to expect all of them to fall into place to make this team a contender. Or they did not know that this team wasn?t good enough, then they are just not fit for the job. Either way, I don?t like it, because it was certainly plain to see that there were issues and to me it is not recognizable what they were trying to right the ship with a long term perspective. To me it looks like they just hoped things would somehow work out and put a spin on it.

Haha, that is so depressing. All the time when I think about this team and what is wrong and so on I come up with wanting to get rid of a lot of our pitchers, hating the approach on at-bats (which would be a coachin issue too, no?) and being on the fence about what should happen to a few position players like Crawford and so on. So basically at this point this team has issues EVERYWHERE, apparently. And in all that anger about these issues I usually forget to factor in Salty. That just shows how bad it really is, because IMO the question marks are not minor with him and hoping for natural progress doesn?t make me feel comfortable. But then again, does anybody know how the Red Sox view Salty? Is there any indication that they are really happy with him as a catcher? Because I don?t take him being the starting catcher as an indication for that, since the Red Sox FO recently hasn?t been exactly been too ambitious, so I wouldn?t be surprised if they are kind of meh on him, but can?t decide what to do.

Well, where to start. This team is such a clusterf***. It?s not just not a well rounded team, that was to be expected from the start. In the end this is not even a team. No one unit, nothing. The problems regarding the batting approach by the team have been well documented, it seems like everyone is in it for himself, regardless of the specific situation in the game that surrounds every at-bat. And the same is true IMO for the pitching staff. I really don?t get why seemingly it is impossible for guys like Beckett and Lester to just keep the team in it on the scoreboard. It seems like they are battling their own fight, totally seperated from everything else, too. I mean, I get that they suck at the moment, but with our offense why can?t they let themselves get picked up by the runs the offense scores and instead of totally collapsing for 5+ runs in 5 or 6 innnings, at least keep it tight and hand the ball over having somehow limited the damage? To me it looks like in this Red Sox team there just is no cohesiveness and they are totally unable to play together as a team. It?s everyone for himself, sometimes that works out and leads to good results and the accumulated talent comes through one by one, other times it doesn?t and it looks like these don?t even know each other, nevermind the gameplan. So how should I know who should go first? There seems to be quite a huge problem with this team, even before you adress their performances, and I don?t know if just winning would cure that. Maybe this roster needs a complete revamp, and I mean complete. I don?t think people would shed too many tears, I know I wouldn?t. That being said: Beckett Lester Lackey Dice-K I am so sick of all of them.