Or not so quick.
Anyway, another day, another new feature here at wicked clevah. Bringing you the news quickly. If not succinctly.
Bullpen Breakdown
Firebrand of the American League: I’ll be taking my own look at the roster - probably after we have more to go on, say midway through Spring Training - but in the [...]
There is a light at the end of the tunnel, and it’s the headlights of an 18 wheeler. But a good 18 wheeler, not like that one with the goblin head from the crime against film that was Maximum Overdrive.
I don’t care what that frigging groundhog said: truck day means spring is at hand. [...]
So we’re getting Sean Casey. While I can’t really say that I have strong feelings on the subject one way or another, it’s a Red Sox transaction and thus must be documented. In excessive detail. Here we go.
Q: What’s the nature of the transaction?
A: One year deal at $700K according to the Great Gammons. Edes [...]
I have to be honest, when the Google Alert arrived saying “red sox trade for pitcher,” David Aardsma’s not exactly who I was expecting. To say the least. But Theo and the gang saw something in him, so I guess it’s worth a brief Q&A on the trade.
Q: Who the hell is David Aardsma?
A: [...]
By now, you’ve all probably seen that the good folks over at Baseball America rated our farm system second to Tampa’s stellar stable. So we’ve got that going for us. Which is nice. And while my enthusiasm is tempered by the realization that should the Santana trade be completed we’d slide back south of 10th, [...]
Over lunch today, I happened to mention to Alex that after looking at Matsuzaka’s strikeout rate, I was reasonably optimistic that the Japanese pitcher would step up and perform closer to the level of a #2 starter. At which point he asked the question I should have: what were his first half/second half splits?
That, ladies [...]
Following the $100M+ the Red Sox shelled out for Daisuke Matsuzaka last offseason, I - like many Red Sox fans - was besieged with claims from (jilted) Yankees fans that “we were just like them.” That by virtue of that single capital expenditure, we were at once on equal financial footing with the Evil Empire. [...]
By now, most people are aware of the brutal start times for our season opener - which are, for marketing reasons that I don’t happen to agree with - being held in Japan. The A’s/Sox contests over there will begin at 6:07 AM, which is bad for the Boston folks, but positively brutal for those [...]
Look, if we end up with Johan Santana - and sign him - I’m not going to complain. Pick your metric, he’s been the best pitcher in the league for several years now…by a wide margin. And of course I’m just as geeked about the possibility of slotting Beckett/Santana/whomever in a potential playoff series [...]
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Game 4: Lowell scores in the 5th, originally uploaded by guano.
Item #1: Mike Lowell’s wife’s name is “Bertica.” For serious. See the quote here. Wikipedia confirms, which is important as it’s Cafardo.
Far be it [...]
Yankees phenom Phil Hughes had an interesting year last year, beginning the ‘07 season as the near unanimous top minor league pitching prospect and finishing it with a very respectable 4.46 / .235 BAA line in 72.2 innings, during which he K’d 58 against 28 free passes. All in all, despite some injury setbacks, you’d [...]
Though the writing’s been on the wall for a while now, the occasional New Yorker still seems perplexed by Rudy’s also-ran status. Well, fortunately we have an explanation for you: it’s all about the Red Sox.
Well, ok, as John Stewart covers in the tail end of the video over on the Huffington Post, it’s [...]
Like every front office in the league, the folks who call Yawkey Way home have their pluses and minuses. I confess to never understanding, as an example, the affection they had - for some years - for Julio Lugo, who is not a bad player but to me undeserving of that level of attention. Let [...]
Or perhaps it doesn’t, but frankly I’m above such concerns.
Welcome, all of you, to the inevitable end state of a life more or less derailed by baseball. Born and raised as a Red Sox fan far behind enemy lines in New Jersey, for many years I suceeded in keeping the madness within at bay. [...]
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