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#1,827
#1,827
Definitely an emergency left fielder only, that game against the yankees was a disaster, no two ways about it.

I don't think the NL would be the best fit for him, unless its home to Cincy to play third. Ideally, he would go to a situation letting him play first and DH.
 
#1,829
#1,829
Troof. He went from being underappreciated for his skillset to overrated for being tha youka in Boston
 
#1,830
#1,830
Hey I give him credit, he went from being a career minor league player to working his tail off and being an MLB All Star. But its true, he has now become overrated. Despite that, there has to be a decent list of teams that would take him for something like $6 mill the rest of this year. I can't imagine it would be very hard to find a trade partner if the Sox are willing to pick up a good chunk of his money.
 
#1,833
#1,833
Middlebrooks back in the lineup tonight.

Carl Beane, the voice of Fenway Park, died in a car crash today.
 
#1,836
#1,836
All I'm gonna say is Josh Beckett had better throw a damn good game tonight and turn this nonsense around. Too bad I can already picture Asdrubal Cabrera going like 3-4 with 2 homers.
 
#1,837
#1,837
Cherrington needs to pull a Billy Beane type move like the movie Moneyball. Walk into his office & start trading everybody. Blow this thing up, none of these guys care.
 
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#1,839
#1,839
Guy behind home plate wearing a brown bag on his head haha that about sums it up so far!

Edit: kicked out or made him take the bag off already
 
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#1,843
#1,843
Sox have gotten 3 quality starts in a row from their pitchers. Hopefully Lester can make it 4 in a row tonight. After the early struggles it looks like the bullpen has finally settled in. Hill & Miller have added a lot out there.

The offense has woken up too, Nava has came up & added some pop & speed in the OF. Ross continues to crush balls. Middlebrooks is just on fire, I don't see any way that they can give Youkilis his job back of Middlebrooks keeps this up. He needs to be the everyday 3B.

Pedey has a 14 game hitting streak going into tonights game.
 
#1,844
#1,844
jmoore_21 said:
Sox have gotten 3 quality starts in a row from their pitchers. Hopefully Lester can make it 4 in a row tonight. After the early struggles it looks like the bullpen has finally settled in. Hill & Miller have added a lot out there.

The offense has woken up too, Nava has came up & added some pop & speed in the OF. Ross continues to crush balls. Middlebrooks is just on fire, I don't see any way that they can give Youkilis his job back of Middlebrooks keeps this up. He needs to be the everyday 3B.

Pedey has a 14 game hitting streak going into tonights game.
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Bam, how's that for keeping the momentum rolling!
 
#1,845
#1,845
Good article on Middlebrooks...

Will Middlebrooks knows he belongs in the majors - ESPN Boston

Some updates:

Youk heading to rehab on Wed to DH, then progress to 3B
Ortiz taking grounders at first and Gonzo shagging balls in RF in anticipation for the series in Philly

Just when things start to level out, its Beckett's turn in the rotation on a rainy "Thanks, Wake Day" in Boston and Youk and interleague play right around the corner. The storylines never end in beantown!
 
#1,849
#1,849
Over the next few weeks we are going to find out if this team will be able to compete for a playoff spot IMO. They need to at least stay close enough to make a run when/if Ellsbury, Crawford, & Bailey come back. These next 2 weeks we play Tampa Bay, Philly, Baltimore, Detroit, & Toronto.
 
#1,850
#1,850
jose iglesias had been hitting like crazy since the last day of april, but the 22-year-old shortstop had been spraying line drives around the park. Even during a stretch of 11 games that included seven multi-hit contests, he had totaled just two extra-base hits.

And so, tuesday represented a notable milestone for iglesias. The shortstop cleared the left-field fence for his first homer of the year, lining a fastball off of rays prospect (and umass alum) matt torra just over the left field wall in durham. It was part of a 3-for-5 night in which iglesias matched a season high for hits while delivering just his second career homer, the continuation of a stretch in which iglesias has gotten the best results of his career.

Since april 30, when iglesias collected a pair of hits to nudge his average up to .200 for the season’s first month, the shortstop has been on a tear. In 12 games, he’s hitting .388 (fifth in the international league in that stretch) with a .423 obp (10th in the league), .510 slugging mark and .933 ops (11th). For the first time, he’s showing in a sustained stretch — dating to even before the start of the hot streak — that he has adjusted to the level of competition in an advanced league that features pitchers with legitimate breaking balls and, in many cases, big league experience.

For the season, iglesias now has a line of .262/.322/.315/.637. It’s not a spectacular performance, but it nearly replicates the league average (.250/.326/.376/.702) at a level that features much older competition. And the more recent performance — which is also noteworthy for the fact that iglesias has struck out just four times while walking three times over this stretch of 52 plate appearances — lends credence to the notion that the shortstop can be more than a defensive hitter who is a zero in the lineup.
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- weei
 
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