Boston Red Sox Thread

[Green Habit]

Glad the Sox are going back to the previous road unis. The ones they were using the last few years were such a drag.

I agree. The recent ones were a nice throwback for a little while but the change gives me fond childhood memories.

[Coach]

Glad the Sox are going back to the previous road unis. The ones they were using the last few years were such a drag.

I agree. The recent ones were a nice throwback for a little while but the change gives me fond childhood memories.

It's a nice change. Here's link for anyone interested:

http://espn.go.com/blog/boston/red-sox/ ... ad-jerseys

[Green Habit]

Glad the Sox are going back to the previous road unis. The ones they were using the last few years were such a drag.

I agree. The recent ones were a nice throwback for a little while but the change gives me fond childhood memories.

It's a nice change. Here's link for anyone interested:

http://espn.go.com/blog/boston/red-sox/ ... ad-jerseys

Funny that they used Ellsbury for the old picture.

[Norah]

He's also a shill for the front office.

so much this

Still a worthy follow. Some journalists "get" Twitter, some really don't get it. Pete gets it.

Agreed

[numbers]

Glad the Sox are going back to the previous road unis. The ones they were using the last few years were such a drag.

I agree. The recent ones were a nice throwback for a little while but the change gives me fond childhood memories.

They looked too much like the Yankees, there was no red in them.

[Coach]

Bah

http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2014/ ... story.html

Jake Peavy sustains injury to pitching hand

FORT MYERS, Fla. — Jake Peavy’s first spring training with the Red Sox got off to a rocky start on Friday when he left JetBlue Park with his right hand heavily bandaged.

Manager John Farrell said Peavy was accidentally struck by a ball during the team’s informal workout.

“Nothing serious as far as I know,” Farrell said.

Still, Peavy emerged from the clubhouse with his palm and right ring finger wrapped in white tape and his index finger encased in a foam ring separating it from his other fingers.

“It’s nothing. I’m fine,” the righthander said. “Fell off the duck boat.”

On Saturday, he did not have his hand bandaged, and said he might take it easy for a few days but the injury was not serious.

Peavy also said a lot of Red Sox players are “holding out hope” that Stephen Drew will return to the team.

Peavy was 4-1 with a 4.04 earned run average in 10 starts for the Red Sox after being acquired from the Chicago White Sox in a three-team deal completed July 30.

Peavy started three games in the postseason and later purchased the duck boat he rode in the team’s World Series victory parade. It was transported to his home in Alabama to be used on a lake.

[Norah]

peavy sucks anyway

[numbers]

I guess dempster has decided to take it to the house.

[Green Habit]

I guess all those articles I was reading about the Sox having too deep of a rotation will go away now.

[numbers]

As little as I thought Dempster would contribute to this team, I am sad to see him go. Seems like a really cool guy.

[Norah]

I guess all those articles I was reading about the Sox having too deep of a rotation will go away now.

The last time we had "too deep a rotation" we traded Bronson Arroyo for Willy Mo Pena and then the rest of our staff fell apart.

[@SkitchP]

shoulda used less Pena, amirite?

[numbers]

Plus is Arroyo is better right now, at his age, than maybe all but 2 of the guys they had in the rotation that year.

[Coach]

This is nice. I didn't expect anything out of Dempster.

[MattA75]

When I heard this, my first thought was that maybe Dempster had talked to them in the middle of last season, and that's why they were so willing to take on Peavy even though he had another year on his deal

Also, Arroyo has benefitted greatly from pitching in that craptastic division for the last decade or so...I'm not saying they should not have traded him, just that his stats are probably not a realistic indication of what they would have been in Boston

[Norah]

Arroyo's stats are legit. Since the trade he has been one of the most consistent players in MLB. Since going to Cincy he pitched less than 200 innings in a season once, and that was in 2011 when he onky pitched 199. Dude's a fucking workhorse, and that's exactly the type of pitcher you want. No one is saying he's a GREAT pitcher, but he's a very consistent, dependable pretty good pitcher.

Remember all those years of trying shit like Aaron Cook and John Smoltz?

[numbers]

He's basically been Derek Lowe without ever getting paid like Lowe did.

[Coach]

Wily Mo Pena. Didn't he have trouble with the curve?

[MattA75]

Arroyo's stats are legit. Since the trade he has been one of the most consistent players in MLB. Since going to Cincy he pitched less than 200 innings in a season once, and that was in 2011 when he onky pitched 199. Dude's a fucking workhorse, and that's exactly the type of pitcher you want. No one is saying he's a GREAT pitcher, but he's a very consistent, dependable pretty good pitcher.

Remember all those years of trying shit like Aaron Cook and John Smoltz?

he absolutely takes the ball every fifth day and that is commendable, and the Red Sox never should have traded him when they did...I'm simply saying some of his stats are helped by pitching in the NL Central, and as such, he becomes a bit more overvalued than he should be

[MattA75]

Also, I really hope they don't take the money saved with Dempster and decide to give Stephen Drew some outrageous 1 year deal