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Quick quiz: what was the Red Sox record after twelve games this season? Answer: 2-10. If you didn’t know that you must be doing something productive with your life. Congratulations. For the rest of us, the tough start to the year has been followed by a very successful 23-11 stretch. That’s .676 ball or a [...]
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It is always incorrect to claim one player lost a game. Often times there are circumstances where the game has led to a fork and a single player chooses, accidentally or not, which tine the team takes. But that is always after many players on both sides, through actions too numerous to count, have brought [...]
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The Red Sox finally pulled out a close one on Sunday. Carl Crawford managed what seemed like his first hit of the season. It wasn’t. It was his seventeenth. The Jed Lowrie was on third base at the time and there were two outs in the bottom of the ninth making Crawford’s hit of the [...]
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We’re not a month into the year and already the Red Sox have seemingly given up on Jarrod Saltalamacchia as their starting catcher. You may recall all the glowing articles about Salty’s defense (“He’s just like Varitek!”) during spring training. Salty spent almost all winter with Red Sox catching instructor Gary Tuck. Tuck gave Salty [...]
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I should start by saying I’m in the tank for Jarrod Saltalamacchia. I love a hot prospect like the next guy but my favorite is when the Red Sox pick some guy up off the scrap heap and turn him into a productive starter or even an All Star. David Ortiz is the prototypical example [...]
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Whether a calculated gamble or one born of necessity, Jarrod Saltalamacchia represents one of the known unknowns on the 2011 Red Sox. Marc’s profile of Salty shows the immense promise of just a few years ago, and the injuries and disappointment which has prevailed since. Still, the Sox are committed to Salty, at least for [...]
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Jarrod Saltalamacchia’s major league career has not been one to remember. The backstop has hit a paltry .248/.315/.386 in his four-year career, though he has barely managed to stay on the field during that stretch due to ineffectiveness and injury. Boston, who has liked Salty for awhile, even attempting to trade for him well before [...]
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I can’t say I’m a Three Dog Night fan, but I did once have a cat named Mr. Pickles who spent much of his time urinating on major appliances. There’s a band name in there somewhere. Link time! The final season of the Albert Pujols drama, One Year To Live (in St. Louis), is filming [...]
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After running it ten thousand times, I project that at this time tomorrow I’ll be sitting here on this couch writing Friday’s Daily Links column. Maybe I’ll have cheetos. Link time! Joe Sheehan of SI.com has ten predictions for 2011. This being Joe Sheehan, it isn’t the normal obvious sportswriter predicting column. You won’t find [...]
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I’ve been as hard on Jason Varitek as anyone over the last few seasons. Signing him to a four-year, nearly $40 million contract was something I was not a fan of at the time given how catchers age, and using a player who clearly should have been a backup catcher as the starter even after [...]
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