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8/14-8/15 Red Sox @ Phillies Series Thread
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Aug 14, 2018 9:09:46 GMT -5
Cashman got burned. He made the move to keep him away from the Sox getting Britton. He did us a favor so far. Britton has been the Yankees' version of Eric Gagne. Should be fun watching Sanchez when he gets back trying to block those pitches in the dirt Britton throws. When it comes to Britton, I can't help but wonder - will he ever be anything close to what he once was or is that totally over now? Sometimes it just takes time for guys to get it back and sometimes it never happens. He'll be an interesting gamble for whoever picks him up this offseason. Hard to want to invest a lot of money in him. Can't imagine his performance is helping his stock. Perhaps if the Sox do the internal closer route thing and let Kimbrel go, he might make sense if the price isn't too high as he could be a safety net closer who could suddenly be the healthy version of himself or maybe a useful lefty reliever in the late innings. He's a huge question mark at this point. My guess is somebody will gamble on him at a higher $ figure than makes sense, but we'll see.
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Post by kingofthetrill on Aug 14, 2018 9:13:46 GMT -5
Cashman got burned. He made the move to keep him away from the Sox getting Britton. He did us a favor so far. Hypothetically, could Britton have performed better in Boston with different catching, pitching coaches, and perhaps most importantly, a different infield defense? Not saying it was a good trade, but I wonder if Britton would have been a little better in Boston than in New York.
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Post by garygeigercounter on Aug 14, 2018 9:14:46 GMT -5
And when the legitimate concern back at the ASB was that the Yankees had an easier second half schedule, they just went through possibly the softest 8 game stretch of that schedule (although the Blue Jays-Marlins-Orioles stretch in September could give me an argument) ,went 8-2 and still lost a game in the standings. Not to urinate in anyone's breakfast cereal but teams with the best record in baseball since the wild card was introduced have frequently struggled in the post season.Be happy but be concerned.
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Post by gregblossersbelly on Aug 14, 2018 9:19:14 GMT -5
Cashman got burned. He made the move to keep him away from the Sox getting Britton. He did us a favor so far. Britton has been the Yankees' version of Eric Gagne. Should be fun watching Sanchez when he gets back trying to block those pitches in the dirt Britton throws. When it comes to Britton, I can't help but wonder - will he ever be anything close to what he once was or is that totally over now? Sometimes it just takes time for guys to get it back and sometimes it never happens. He'll be an interesting gamble for whoever picks him up this offseason. Hard to want to invest a lot of money in him. Can't imagine his performance is helping his stock. Perhaps if the Sox do the internal closer route thing and let Kimbrel go, he might make sense if the price isn't too high as he could be a safety net closer who could suddenly be the healthy version of himself or maybe a useful lefty reliever in the late innings. He's a huge question mark at this point. My guess is somebody will gamble on him at a higher $ figure than makes sense, but we'll see. If we let Kimbrel walk, I'd take Britton on a 1yr prove it deal. 1YR/8-10M.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Aug 14, 2018 9:32:01 GMT -5
Britton has been the Yankees' version of Eric Gagne. Should be fun watching Sanchez when he gets back trying to block those pitches in the dirt Britton throws. When it comes to Britton, I can't help but wonder - will he ever be anything close to what he once was or is that totally over now? Sometimes it just takes time for guys to get it back and sometimes it never happens. He'll be an interesting gamble for whoever picks him up this offseason. Hard to want to invest a lot of money in him. Can't imagine his performance is helping his stock. Perhaps if the Sox do the internal closer route thing and let Kimbrel go, he might make sense if the price isn't too high as he could be a safety net closer who could suddenly be the healthy version of himself or maybe a useful lefty reliever in the late innings. He's a huge question mark at this point. My guess is somebody will gamble on him at a higher $ figure than makes sense, but we'll see. If we let Kimbrel walk, I'd take Britton on a 1yr prove it deal. 1YR/8-10M. I would, too, but I think another team might top it and it wouldn't be worth it to gamble and overspend on him.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Aug 14, 2018 9:42:39 GMT -5
I've gotta say - what an amazing season it has been.
My little boy has now started to look at the standings every day as his interest in baseball has developed this summer (watching Red Sox games with Dad is better than going to bed early!).
It reminds me when I first started looking at the standings. I remember collecting them daily - the first day was July 12, 1980 and the Sox were 42-38, 5th place, 10 games behind NY. They slipped to 50-50, 13 games out in 6th place before getting hot and peaking at 72-56,3rd place around Labor Day, 6.5 games out before nose diving to a 4th place tie at 83-77, a whopping 19 games out.
Meanwhile my boy gets to look at the standings and see the Red Sox at 85-35, playing .708 baseball, an obscene 50 games above .500, and owning a double digit lead over the hated NYY and everybody else in baseball for that matter. He even got to witness the Red Sox treat the hated Yankees to an agonizing (for them, hahaha!) 4 game sweep.
He now probably thinks that this game of baseball is easy, that the Sox win just about every day, that playing .700 ball is routine, that the Sox always treat the Yankees as shabbily as they treated them last series.
I told him to memorize these standings. This just doesn't happen every year. Don't think he understands where I'm coming from but that's ok. Knowing how my boy likes numbers he just might memorize them the way I memorized those mediocre 1980 standings.
I like the way he's growing up better than the way I grew up!!!
Why not? My kid has already seen the Patriots win the Super Bowl (don't know if he remembers it, though) and whatever he hasn't seen, there are tons of videos, etc showing his teams winning it all! That certainly didn't exist when I was his age.
How cool is that? Thank you 2018 Boston Red Sox for providing the most exhilarating and fun regular season I've ever seen. I hope they can take it all the way and put to rest any debates about the greatest Red Sox team evah.
And while we're at it, I'm dreaming of a new Yankee Stadium chant when the Sox come to NY. How about fans chanting 20....18 (clap, clap, clap, clap). Somehow I don't think New Yorkers would enjoy that as much as those 1918 chants.
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Post by ancientsoxfogey on Aug 14, 2018 10:03:10 GMT -5
I've gotta say - what an amazing season it has been. My little boy has now started to look at the standings every day as his interest in baseball has developed this summer (watching Red Sox games with Dad is better than going to bed early!). It reminds me when I first started looking at the standings. I remember collecting them daily - the first day was July 12, 1980 and the Sox were 42-38, 5th place, 10 games behind NY. They slipped to 50-50, 13 games out in 6th place before getting hot and peaking at 72-56,3rd place around Labor Day, 6.5 games out before nose diving to a 4th place tie at 83-77, a whopping 19 games out. Meanwhile my boy gets to look at the standings and see the Red Sox at 85-35, playing .708 baseball, an obscene 50 games above .500, and owning a double digit lead over the hated NYY and everybody else in baseball for that matter. He even got to witness the Red Sox treat the hated Yankees to an agonizing (for them, hahaha!) 4 game sweep. He now probably thinks that this game of baseball is easy, that the Sox win just about every day, that playing .700 ball is routine, that the Sox always treat the Yankees as shabbily as they treated them last series. I told him to memorize these standings. This just doesn't happen every year. Don't think he understands where I'm coming from but that's ok. Knowing how my boy likes numbers he just might memorize them the way I memorized those mediocre 1980 standings. I like the way he's growing up better than the way I grew up!!! Why not? My kid has already seen the Patriots win the Super Bowl (don't know if he remembers it, though) and whatever he hasn't seen, there are tons of videos, etc showing his teams winning it all! That certainly didn't exist when I was his age. How cool is that? Thank you 2018 Boston Red Sox for providing the most exhilarating and fun regular season I've ever seen. I hope they can take it all the way and put to rest any debates about the greatest Red Sox team evah. And while we're at it, I'm dreaming of a new Yankee Stadium chant when the Sox come to NY. How about fans chanting 20....18 (clap, clap, clap, clap). Somehow I don't think New Yorkers would enjoy that as much as those 1918 chants. Not only doesn't it happen every year -- it doesn't happen ANY year. I've followed baseball at least peripherally since the 1955 World Series, and been a Sox fan since 1957 (hmm, wonder what attracted me about the team in THAT particular year??!!) I've NEVER seen the team win 100 games in a season, and along with the Titles, my one remaining rooting interest was for the Sox to have one really dominant year where they rolled over people and won 100+ games. This looks to be the year, so now I can die happy, regardless of whether or not the Sox go all the way in the playoffs. Think about it: The Sox can go 15-27 the rest of the way and still win 100. Now THAT is banking wins. In a way, if one wants the Sox to put up the greatest record they can this year, we ought to be rooting for the Yankees, because the better they do, if they don't slip completely out of the rear-view mirror (which they aren't yet), the more they will keep the Sox's nose to the grindstone. I could see, if the Yankees go on a losing streak and the Division becomes a total formality, that the Sox may cruise in and let some games slide next month.
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Post by bluechip on Aug 14, 2018 10:05:24 GMT -5
Britton has been the Yankees' version of Eric Gagne. Should be fun watching Sanchez when he gets back trying to block those pitches in the dirt Britton throws. When it comes to Britton, I can't help but wonder - will he ever be anything close to what he once was or is that totally over now? Sometimes it just takes time for guys to get it back and sometimes it never happens. He'll be an interesting gamble for whoever picks him up this offseason. Hard to want to invest a lot of money in him. Can't imagine his performance is helping his stock. Perhaps if the Sox do the internal closer route thing and let Kimbrel go, he might make sense if the price isn't too high as he could be a safety net closer who could suddenly be the healthy version of himself or maybe a useful lefty reliever in the late innings. He's a huge question mark at this point. My guess is somebody will gamble on him at a higher $ figure than makes sense, but we'll see. If we let Kimbrel walk, I'd take Britton on a 1yr prove it deal. 1YR/8-10M. Greg Holland got 1 yr six million after missing an entire year. He was okay, then got a one year 14 million dollar contract.
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Post by jimoh on Aug 14, 2018 10:11:18 GMT -5
I've gotta say - what an amazing season it has been. My little boy has now started to look at the standings every day as his interest in baseball has developed this summer (watching Red Sox games with Dad is better than going to bed early!). It reminds me when I first started looking at the standings. I remember collecting them daily - the first day was July 12, 1980 and the Sox were 42-38, 5th place, 10 games behind NY. They slipped to 50-50, 13 games out in 6th place before getting hot and peaking at 72-56,3rd place around Labor Day, 6.5 games out before nose diving to a 4th place tie at 83-77, a whopping 19 games out. Meanwhile my boy gets to look at the standings and see the Red Sox at 85-35, playing .708 baseball, an obscene 50 games above .500, and owning a double digit lead over the hated NYY and everybody else in baseball for that matter. He even got to witness the Red Sox treat the hated Yankees to an agonizing (for them, hahaha!) 4 game sweep. He now probably thinks that this game of baseball is easy, that the Sox win just about every day, that playing .700 ball is routine, that the Sox always treat the Yankees as shabbily as they treated them last series. [...] I starting following baseball when I was 7, in 1967, so I was that boy.
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Post by FenwayFanatic on Aug 14, 2018 10:22:38 GMT -5
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Post by ericmvan on Aug 14, 2018 10:54:28 GMT -5
What a wild game. I had to look up who Dario Veras (first guy out of the Sox pen) was, as I'd completely forgotten him, and that led me to the mystery of the Jim Leyritz trade, which I'd temporarily forgotten. They'd made a nice trade for Leyritz the previous winter and he was rocking a 129 wRC+ platooning at DH with Reggie Jefferson when they dealt him to the Padres in late June for two relievers they ended up releasing (Veras and Carlos Reyes) and a C for Pawtucket. It came as a shock and had to be motivated by off-the-field stuff.
They tried former Dodger backup OF Billy Ashley in Leyritz's role before making a very good deadline deal for Mike Stanley, who was great for us the rest of the year and the next. This was less than a year after they had traded Stanly to the Yankees for hot prospect Tony Armas, and you all should know where he went that winter. (They also got a pretty good setup guy, Jim Mecir, as the PTBNL in that deal, and he went to the Rays in the expansion draft.)
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Aug 14, 2018 11:20:21 GMT -5
What a wild game. I had to look up who Dario Veras (first guy out of the Sox pen) was, as I'd completely forgotten him, and that led me to the mystery of the Jim Leyritz trade, which I'd temporarily forgotten. They'd made a nice trade for Leyritz the previous winter and he was rocking a 129 wRC+ platooning at DH with Reggie Jefferson when they dealt him to the Padres in late June for two relievers they ended up releasing (Veras and Carlos Reyes) and a C for Pawtucket. It came as a shock and had to be motivated by off-the-field stuff. They tried former Dodger backup OF Billy Ashley in Leyritz's role before making a very good deadline deal for Mike Stanley, who was great for us the rest of the year and the next. This was less than a year after they had traded Stanly to the Yankees for hot prospect Tony Armas, and you all should know where he went that winter. (They also got a pretty good setup guy, Jim Mecir, as the PTBNL in that deal, and he went to the Rays in the expansion draft.)
I could be wrong but I think Leyritz had a falling out with Duquette. I think it was over playing time. I'm trying to go from memory, so I could be totally wrong. I just remember there being some hard feelings. I do remember that Jimy Williams had some options on his bench early in the season and was using them successfully.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Aug 14, 2018 11:22:24 GMT -5
I've gotta say - what an amazing season it has been. My little boy has now started to look at the standings every day as his interest in baseball has developed this summer (watching Red Sox games with Dad is better than going to bed early!). It reminds me when I first started looking at the standings. I remember collecting them daily - the first day was July 12, 1980 and the Sox were 42-38, 5th place, 10 games behind NY. They slipped to 50-50, 13 games out in 6th place before getting hot and peaking at 72-56,3rd place around Labor Day, 6.5 games out before nose diving to a 4th place tie at 83-77, a whopping 19 games out. Meanwhile my boy gets to look at the standings and see the Red Sox at 85-35, playing .708 baseball, an obscene 50 games above .500, and owning a double digit lead over the hated NYY and everybody else in baseball for that matter. He even got to witness the Red Sox treat the hated Yankees to an agonizing (for them, hahaha!) 4 game sweep. He now probably thinks that this game of baseball is easy, that the Sox win just about every day, that playing .700 ball is routine, that the Sox always treat the Yankees as shabbily as they treated them last series. [...] I starting following baseball when I was 7, in 1967, so I was that boy. No memories of any 100 loss seasons or being under .500 for 8 straight years. Rebirth of the Red Sox. Great timing.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Aug 14, 2018 11:27:41 GMT -5
I've gotta say - what an amazing season it has been. My little boy has now started to look at the standings every day as his interest in baseball has developed this summer (watching Red Sox games with Dad is better than going to bed early!). It reminds me when I first started looking at the standings. I remember collecting them daily - the first day was July 12, 1980 and the Sox were 42-38, 5th place, 10 games behind NY. They slipped to 50-50, 13 games out in 6th place before getting hot and peaking at 72-56,3rd place around Labor Day, 6.5 games out before nose diving to a 4th place tie at 83-77, a whopping 19 games out. Meanwhile my boy gets to look at the standings and see the Red Sox at 85-35, playing .708 baseball, an obscene 50 games above .500, and owning a double digit lead over the hated NYY and everybody else in baseball for that matter. He even got to witness the Red Sox treat the hated Yankees to an agonizing (for them, hahaha!) 4 game sweep. He now probably thinks that this game of baseball is easy, that the Sox win just about every day, that playing .700 ball is routine, that the Sox always treat the Yankees as shabbily as they treated them last series. I told him to memorize these standings. This just doesn't happen every year. Don't think he understands where I'm coming from but that's ok. Knowing how my boy likes numbers he just might memorize them the way I memorized those mediocre 1980 standings. I like the way he's growing up better than the way I grew up!!! Why not? My kid has already seen the Patriots win the Super Bowl (don't know if he remembers it, though) and whatever he hasn't seen, there are tons of videos, etc showing his teams winning it all! That certainly didn't exist when I was his age. How cool is that? Thank you 2018 Boston Red Sox for providing the most exhilarating and fun regular season I've ever seen. I hope they can take it all the way and put to rest any debates about the greatest Red Sox team evah. And while we're at it, I'm dreaming of a new Yankee Stadium chant when the Sox come to NY. How about fans chanting 20....18 (clap, clap, clap, clap). Somehow I don't think New Yorkers would enjoy that as much as those 1918 chants. Not only doesn't it happen every year -- it doesn't happen ANY year. I've followed baseball at least peripherally since the 1955 World Series, and been a Sox fan since 1957 (hmm, wonder what attracted me about the team in THAT particular year??!!) I've NEVER seen the team win 100 games in a season, and along with the Titles, my one remaining rooting interest was for the Sox to have one really dominant year where they rolled over people and won 100+ games. This looks to be the year, so now I can die happy, regardless of whether or not the Sox go all the way in the playoffs. Think about it: The Sox can go 15-27 the rest of the way and still win 100. Now THAT is banking wins. In a way, if one wants the Sox to put up the greatest record they can this year, we ought to be rooting for the Yankees, because the better they do, if they don't slip completely out of the rear-view mirror (which they aren't yet), the more they will keep the Sox's nose to the grindstone. I could see, if the Yankees go on a losing streak and the Division becomes a total formality, that the Sox may cruise in and let some games slide next month. Exactly (to your statement that I bolded)! When I was a young fan I enjoyed Yaz's hot start to the 1982 season when he was 42 years old. He had a hot April and was among the league leaders in HRs. I think he had 8 of them. I remember him taking Doc Medich deep in a comeback win midseason that year and he played very well until they stuck him in CF in August. He wound up at ..275, 16 HRs, 72 RBIs, and a good OBP. He was productive. But compared to what YOU saw in 1957? Do you remember if Ted Williams actually got above .400 at any point late in the season? I mean, at age 39, to bat .388 is amazing. To bat .388 in any year is amazing, forget age 39, and of course that's not even his highest batting average as we all know. I always wished I could have seen Ted Williams hit. The closest parallel that anybody from this generation can understand is seeing 40 year old David Ortiz terrorize pitchers in his final season when he batted .315 with 48 doubles, 38 HRs, 127 RBIs, a .402 OBP and a .620 SA. I love it when old guys rake!
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Post by gerry on Aug 14, 2018 11:32:56 GMT -5
I've gotta say - what an amazing season it has been. My little boy has now started to look at the standings every day as his interest in baseball has developed this summer (watching Red Sox games with Dad is better than going to bed early!). It reminds me when I first started looking at the standings. I remember collecting them daily - the first day was July 12, 1980 and the Sox were 42-38, 5th place, 10 games behind NY. They slipped to 50-50, 13 games out in 6th place before getting hot and peaking at 72-56,3rd place around Labor Day, 6.5 games out before nose diving to a 4th place tie at 83-77, a whopping 19 games out. Meanwhile my boy gets to look at the standings and see the Red Sox at 85-35, playing .708 baseball, an obscene 50 games above .500, and owning a double digit lead over the hated NYY and everybody else in baseball for that matter. He even got to witness the Red Sox treat the hated Yankees to an agonizing (for them, hahaha!) 4 game sweep. He now probably thinks that this game of baseball is easy, that the Sox win just about every day, that playing .700 ball is routine, that the Sox always treat the Yankees as shabbily as they treated them last series. I told him to memorize these standings. This just doesn't happen every year. Don't think he understands where I'm coming from but that's ok. Knowing how my boy likes numbers he just might memorize them the way I memorized those mediocre 1980 standings. I like the way he's growing up better than the way I grew up!!! Why not? My kid has already seen the Patriots win the Super Bowl (don't know if he remembers it, though) and whatever he hasn't seen, there are tons of videos, etc showing his teams winning it all! That certainly didn't exist when I was his age. How cool is that? Thank you 2018 Boston Red Sox for providing the most exhilarating and fun regular season I've ever seen. I hope they can take it all the way and put to rest any debates about the greatest Red Sox team evah. And while we're at it, I'm dreaming of a new Yankee Stadium chant when the Sox come to NY. How about fans chanting 20....18 (clap, clap, clap, clap). Somehow I don't think New Yorkers would enjoy that as much as those 1918 chants. Not only doesn't it happen every year -- it doesn't happen ANY year. I've followed baseball at least peripherally since the 1955 World Series, and been a Sox fan since 1957 (hmm, wonder what attracted me about the team in THAT particular year??!!) I've NEVER seen the team win 100 games in a season, and along with the Titles, my one remaining rooting interest was for the Sox to have one really dominant year where they rolled over people and won 100+ games. This looks to be the year, so now I can die happy, regardless of whether or not the Sox go all the way in the playoffs. Think about it: The Sox can go 15-27 the rest of the way and still win 100. Now THAT is banking wins. In a way, if one wants the Sox to put up the greatest record they can this year, we ought to be rooting for the Yankees, because the better they do, if they don't slip completely out of the rear-view mirror (which they aren't yet), the more they will keep the Sox's nose to the grindstone. I could see, if the Yankees go on a losing streak and the Division becomes a total formality, that the Sox may cruise in and let some games slide next month. I was in kindergarten for the 1946 WS so I don't remember much other than the euphoric sense of excitement of the time. Everything was baseball. Everything was exciting. Everyone was a GM. Everyone was celebrating a return home after the war and the Sox made it even more poignant. Growing up, the 1946 season was a core element of conversations for years within my large extended family, friends, neighbors. Everyone had shoeboxes full of baseball cards and trading was brisk. Games were on every radio in Boston and could he followed wherever we walked or, later, rode our bikes. So much so that it has long been difficult for me to separate what I heard from what I experienced at Fenway during the decade following 1946. Even today, when I talk with my older brothers about that season, when they practically lived at Fenway and were totally caught up in every nuance of the game, their eyes light up, their chests go out and they grow a couple of inches as they remember; and they act just the same when talking about this 2018 incredible team. All this to say we are very lucky to experience this remarkable season. Someday, maybe 70 years from now, someone currently in grade school will share similar precious memories. Baseball is good for the soul.
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Post by jimed14 on Aug 14, 2018 11:51:41 GMT -5
I left Red Sox country when I was 8 (Merrimack NH). I remember in 2nd grade, they played the radio broadcast of game 163 in 1978 over the school intercom. I moved to VT after that, where it was split between Yankees and Red Sox fans.
My girlfriend told me stories about her family cabin on a lake in Maine. Whenever a big play happened, you could hear everyone screaming around the lake. Everyone listened to the games on the radio all summer long. That must have been pretty awesome.
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Post by pedrofanforever45 on Aug 14, 2018 12:21:27 GMT -5
www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BOS/BOS199906040.shtmlarticles.latimes.com/1999/jun/05/sports/sp-44453"Pedro Martinez threw one pitch after another past the frustrated Atlanta Braves. When he was finished, he had his best game in a brilliant season. A career-high 16 strikeouts. A three-hitter. His second complete game. And several major league-leading marks--11 wins, 133 strikeouts and a 1.91 earned-run average." This was my first game at Fenway. Pedro's first 16 strikeout game. He made a speach after the game. I'd never forget it and well, it's part of the reason why my name is what it is around here.
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Post by pedrofanforever45 on Aug 14, 2018 12:25:25 GMT -5
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Post by pedrofanforever45 on Aug 14, 2018 12:30:28 GMT -5
It's too bad Johnson didn't get the chance to hit on Wednesday, but he still keeps his rotation spot and will make the start on Friday.
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Post by jimed14 on Aug 14, 2018 12:36:03 GMT -5
It's too bad Johnson didn't get the chance to hit on Wednesday, but he still keeps his rotation spot and will make the start on Friday. He got hurt the last time he ran the bases, didn't he? Really, not getting hurt is the best possible scenario when it comes to AL pitchers hitting. I don't care about anything else than that.
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Post by mobaz on Aug 14, 2018 12:47:25 GMT -5
I seem to remember Porcello showing off his power against the Nats, so maybe we'll be okay.
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Post by soxfansince67 on Aug 14, 2018 12:48:15 GMT -5
Ah, memories - I grew up in Pawtucket RI - lived there until heading for grad school in Hanover NH (Dartmouth) in 1978 - first game was in 1967 watching John Wyatt pitch on a small black and white TV - we were at a beach house with my dad's parents - I was 11. That's all it took....kept my obsession during our year in Seattle (1983), then watched Philly fans be so hard on the Mike Schmidt Era team as I focused on the Sox from afar - was there from 1984-1992. (I remember watching part of the Sox Cincy world series with the dad of a girlfriend in Brockton MA.) Part of the Raleigh area Red Sox Nation since then, watching pretty much every game I can (except the mlb.com black outs). For the magic of 2004, I watched a few games at Cape Cod, then series games with my wife's dad in Tewksbury MA, and with my dad in Pawtucket. Been to Fenway a handful of times - once when Tiant pitched 9 shutout innings - Petrocelli won the game in extras with a home run. We've gone to Baltimore for a few games as well - last time, sadly, during the Crawford team collapse (Lavarnway hit a home run - thinking 2? - for the game we attended).
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Post by voiceofreason on Aug 14, 2018 12:55:32 GMT -5
This team is incredibly deep. Kinsler and Swigart are ready to comeback. E-Rod and Vazquez soon after. Sept callups are almost here too. Here’s the pen on Sept 1 Kimbrel Barnes Kelly Brasier Pomeranz Brian Johnson Hembree Workman Velazquez Poyner Scott Behind a rotation of; Sale, Price, Porcello, Eovaldi and E-Rod. This team will win 110 games easily That list of pitchers along with maybe Eovoldi is the reason DD didn't trade for a BP piece at the deadline and I agree with that decision at this point. With Britton sporting a whip over 2 and an era over 7 DD looks pretty smart.
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Post by bluechip on Aug 14, 2018 13:00:16 GMT -5
He was out of options and they really don’t need a third catcher.
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Post by FenwayFanatic on Aug 14, 2018 13:41:31 GMT -5
It's too bad Johnson didn't get the chance to hit on Wednesday, but he still keeps his rotation spot and will make the start on Friday. He got hurt the last time he ran the bases, didn't he? Really, not getting hurt is the best possible scenario when it comes to AL pitchers hitting. I don't care about anything else than that. Except for that one time Beckett hit a home run for us.
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