I haven't posted in a while because the Sox were off yesterday and my son had his final LL All Star game last night, so I took a personal day from blogging to recharge the batteries.
But there has been quite a bit going on with the team since I last posted, so let me run through what I failed to cover.
-Schilling surgery successful, could throw again by January
Curt Schilling underwent surgery to his ripped right shoulder, and by all accounts the procedure was a smashing success. I won't go into details, as you can get that kind of shit anywhere, but suffice it to say that things went so well that Curt could be back throwing a baseball by the beginning of next year if his rehab works the way it's supposed to.
Now Schill is so giddy, because it's obvious that he and his doctor were right while the Sox brass was wrong regarding the course of action the injured ace should take to heal his wounded wing, that he says he might indeed play again, either with Boston or somewhere else.
"It's what I do. It's what I've done my whole life. It's what I enjoy doing. (But) If I come out of rehab and I'm throwing 84 miles per hour, it's over."
Translation: if I can pitch effectively, I'll be back.
I'm not going to get too deep into this because there is so much that could happen between now and then. But if and when Schill decides to play again, there will be so many words written about it it will make War and Peace look like a pamphlet.
Just as long as you don't go to NY, Schill, we'll be cool.
-Big Papi improving, can smell return to lineup
After taking some swings at a ball on a tee at Fenway the other day, David Ortiz declared he could be ready to play in 2-3 weeks, once again if all goes according to plan.
He has already had the hard cast he was sporting on his injured left wrist removed and now wears a removable splint thingy, and although he wasn't impressed with barely being able to do something my son's team executes with regularity, soft- tossing and hitting off a tee, he knows he gotta take baby steps before he can walk.
Barring setbacks Papi could be back with the team in a couple or three weeks, which would put him on track for a possible post-All Star game return. Boston opens up a series with Toronto at Fenway on Friday after the break, and wouldn't it be nice to see Ortiz in the lineup to kick off that home stand?
Fingers crossed.
-Sox bid adieu to Interleague play after this weekend
Boston travels to Houston to play the explosive Astros starting tonight, and thankfully this will be the final time pitchers have to bat for the Sox.
Granted Boston has had some success playing the senior circuit this season, posting a 10-5 record despite losing 3 of its last 6 IL contests, but I for one am looking forward to playing teams I know and hate like New York and the Rays.
-Hot and not hot Sox
Heading into this series with the Astros, here's a look at the Sox who are lighting it up or stinking it up at the moment. (based on the last 10 games)
Smokin Sox:
-Dustin Pedroia 20-43 (.465), 3HR, 5BI, 8R
The Little Big Man is swinging the hottest stick on the Sox by far right now; he's had multi-hit games in 6 of the last 10 contests
-Mike Lowell 13-36 (.361), 2 2B, 1HR, 5BI, 8R
Good to see the WS MVP getting back to his old self after spending time on the DL
-Coco Crisp 12-35 (.342), 3 2B, 1 3B, 3HR, 7BI, 6R
Looks like the Raysbrawl sparked the part time center fielder's bat. Too bad he'll have to sit out his suspension for his part in the brawl pretty soon, possibly this weekend
-Kevin Youkikis 11-36 (.305), 4HR, 9BI
Only a ball to the eye could slow down the Cincinnati Crusher
Stinkin' Sox:
-Jason Varitek 3-33 (.090), HR, 4BI
The Captain did have the game-winning hit the other night against Arizona, but this has been one of the worst slumps of his career
-Manny Ramirez 7-33 (.212), 0HR, 1BI
The slugger hasn't homered since June 10th (12 games), leading one to believe his hammy is bothering him more than he's letting on. We'll have to see how much he plays with no DH this weekend
-J.D. Drew 10-38 (.263), 4HR, 8BI
Started to cool off the last week after a torrid start to June; is only 2 for his last 19 at bats
-Jacoby Ellsbury 10-42 (.238), 1HR, 1BI, 1BB, 5R
The average would be okay if he were walking and scoring runs, which you can see for yourself, he is not
That's about it for updates. Gotta get ready for the series preview post.
GO SOX!
6.27.2008
Sox Drawer: Injury updates, news & notes
6.20.2008
Sox Drawer: Schilling done for the season, career may be over, too
His shoulder unresponsive to rehab, Curt Schilling will go under the knife for what could be a career-ending surgery .jpg)
Today, on WEEI's Dennis & Callahan Show, Schill admitted it most definitely is the end of his season and quite possibly of his Hall of Fame career.
With the rehab not having the results he and the team had hoped for, Schill admitted it " got to the point where we had to make a decision." When asked "does this end your season?", Schill responded with a soft but definitive "yeah, yeah it does."
The team brass had originally though rehab was all that would be needed to get Schill back on the mound this year, but after a recent setback this weekend, Curt and several doctors, including the one who will perform the surgery, Dr. Craig Morgan, and the team all agreed to go ahead and have the procedure done.
In what sure sounds like a career-ending operation, Morgan will perform a procedure that involves relocating his biceps muscle (ouch!) and "some other stuff", which presumably doesn't include attaching a bionic limb.
Assuming that doesn't happen, it looks like for all intents and purposes the career of one of the greatest big game pitchers ever to play the game is officially over.
So now the retrospectives can roll in. Schilling has been beloved in Boston and Arizona, where he and Randy Johnson helped bring a championship to the desert, but vilified most everywhere else, mainly for his outspoken opinions and willingness to put his foot directly in his mouth, athlete etiquette be damned.
But there's no denying his impact on the game. He leaves (if he is done pitching) after pitching for 20 seasons with 216 victories, 3,116 strikeouts, 3,261 innings pitched and a lifetime ERA of 3.46.
Throw in an all-time best 11-2 playoff record, two World series Championships, one World Series (co) MVP award and one historic bloody sock, and what you have is simply one of the greatest, gutsiest, clutchest (?) pitchers in baseball history.
Forget about all the other bullshit. Sure he was outspoken, said some things he probably shouldn't have (and he regrets) and had a tendency to rub many people the wrong way.
Bottom line he was a one of a kind, a supremely talented athlete who wasn't prone to speaking in cliches and soundbites, who believed in living life the way he wanted, whether it involved making brash statements or writing a blog that opened him up to even more criticism.
Love him or hate him Schill was a blessing to watch and listen to. He didn't care what people thought, he spoke his mind and he gave it his all every time he was on the mound.
And if the last time he ever pitched in the major leagues was last October 25th in Game 2 of the World Series in Colorado, so be it.
He won that game, by the way, and what a fitting way for a future Hall of Famer to go out.
As a winner on the biggest stage the game knows.
Good luck, Curt, and thanks for everything.
6.03.2008
Sox Drawer: Sox limp back to Fenway without Papi & Dice K
A 4-6 road trips ends with a depressing defeat and the team trudging home to take on the 1st place Rays without two of its top players.
To all the fans of clubs that are wallowing in mediocrity and blaming a rash of injuries for their team's current crummy state, I only have one thing to say:
STFU!
With yesterday's revelation that David Ortiz, arguably the possessor of most lethal bat in the lineup as well as being the unequivocal leader in the clubhouse, will miss at least a month but most likely more due to a freak wrist injury, Boston has now lost six key players from the roster at some point this season.
A quick recap of the current and past walking wounded:
-SP Daisuke Matsuzaka: currently on the DL due to a shoulder problem; able to return next Wednesday, June 11th, but status uncertain
-SP Josh Beckett: missed the first two weeks of the season with a back injury
-SP Clay Buchholz: just reactivated from the DL due to a cracked fingernail; currently refining his game at Pawtucket
-3B Mike Lowell: missed 17 games in April with a sprained thumb
-1B Sean Casey: key reserve missed 12 games in late April/early May with a hip strain
-DH David Ortiz: out indefinitely with a torn tendon sheath in his left wrist
I don't know about you but that's an awful lot of offensive and pitching firepower to have go down in just over 1/3rd of a season.
Yet here the Sox are, just a game and a half out of first place with the fourth best record in the majors despite the plethora of ailments, and no one is whining and complaining that the losses have robbed the team of any chance of being competitive this year.
Why?
Because thanks to a terrific farm system and shrewd off season deals by Theo this team has more depth than an Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu film, which has allowed the boo birds to remain at bay while Tito plugs holes and fills gaps in the roster, biding time until the day the team is at full strength again.
That's not to say it hasn't been tough to juggle lineups and shuffle players up and down from Pawtucket on what seems like a weekly basis. But the depth does allow the backup players and minor leaguers get a chance to prove their worth, and for the most part almost every single fill-in has performed at or above expectations.
Take Justin Masterson for example. The kid who began the season at Double A Portland will make his third spot start tonight in place of Dice-K, and his excellent efforts in his two prior starts (5H, 2ER in 12.1 IP) have earned him a promotion to the Pawsox and put him on a fast track to become next year's Jon Lester or Buchholz.
Brandon Moss hit a homer in the first game of the year, went back to the minors the next day, came back up when Casey went down, hit another homer in a game against Tampa Bay in early May, had an emergency appendectomy the next night, and was just named the IL Player of the Week for last week when he hit .400 with four homers.
He's now a leading candidate to take Papi's spot on the roster.
Now that's what I call depth.
Of course no one, especially a rookie with 21 career major league games under his belt, is going to be able to replace one of the greatest clutch hitters of all time, but the fact is this team is built to withstand temporary losses to the lineup without sinking into the depths of the cellar of the division like some other clubs we know and hate.
Yup, I'm talking about you, New York.
Hopefully they can just keep plugging holes and plugging along, and if and when this team does get back to full strength, there will be no stopping them from capturing title #3 of the new millennium.
6.01.2008
Game Preview: Sox @ Orioles GM3
Colon (2-0, 2.25) vs. Burres (4-4, 4.15)
Game 3 of 4 1:35 @ Camden Yards
Just as the excitement of Manny Ramirez joining the 500 home run club starts to subside the Sox are hit with more depressing injury news as David Ortiz will miss today's game and possibly more due to a wrist injury he incurred while swinging the bat in the 9th inning last night.
An X-ray after the game proved negative but the wrist is sore and Papi says he will need to have an MRI to determine the extent of the injury.
So we can add his name to those of Daisuke Matsuzaka and Clay Buchholz as key members of the club who are currently injured.
On the bright side Boston goes for its third win in a row today when Bart Colon goes for his third consecutive win since being called up a couple of weeks ago from Pawtucket.
In his first two starts with the Sox he has gone from decent (5IP, 6H, 2ER, 2BB, 4K) in his first start to superb in his last one (7IP, 5H, 1ER, 1BB, 4K), flashing a 95 mph fastball while hitting his spots and limiting any potential damaging innings.
Which means he's about due for a letdown.
His mound opponent on the afternoon is the struggling lefthander Brian Burres. In his last outing Burres was tagged for 8 runs and 10 hits in 3 2/3 innings against the Stanks in a game Baltimore came back to win, 10-9 in extra innings.
Before that start Burres had been pitching well, allowing 3 runs and 10 hits over 14 1/3 innings in his previous two starts, and in 8 appearances against Boston he has surrendered 14 hits and 5 runs with 9 walks and 9 Ks in 14 2/3 innings.
Hopefully the euphoria over Ramirez' milestone will carry over to today's contest and the Sox can overcome the loss of Ortiz and the probable letdown of Colon to take Game 3 of this series.
Maybe they'll steal six more bases and Baltimore will make six more errors.
NOTES:
-Bailey to start: with Ortiz sitting out and Manny most likely spent from celebrating #500 last night Jeff Bailey will get the nod and make his first ML start since last July this afternoon. Bailey will play left while Manny slides to DH
-Tito out again: Terry Francona will miss another game as he attends his daughter's high school graduation today. Brad Mills will take the helm for the third time against the O's and 5th time this season.
-Bradford bitter about 500: Baltimore reliever Chad Bradford wasn't too concerned with his historic homer he allowed to Ramirez, basically blowing it off as another bad pitch that got hit out of the park and not something that will consume him. Yeah, right. Not until he hears "the man who surrendered Manny Ramirez' 500th homer" for about the 5,000th time
5.30.2008
Sox Drawer: Still undecided on Dice K, Sox call up Bailey
That decision will come after the results of Dice K's MRI are examined this morning.
Bailey, who had a cup of coffee with the big club last summer and even hit a homer off Detroit's Nate Robertson, has been one of the hottest hitters in the International League over the past few weeks.
He is currently 8th in the league in hitting (.318), 3rd in homers (16) and 2nd in RBI (44) after a recent power surge in which he's hit 6 long balls and knocked in 14 runs in his last eight games. That includes three multi homer-games and three games in which he had at least 3 RBI (he had five in one game).
But the big news is not the addition of yet another talented position player ready to step in and contribute at the major league level, a la Brandon Moss, Jacoby Ellsbury, Jed Lowrie and Joe Thurston.
The main concern is obviously Dice K's shaky shoulder and the probability that he will have to miss at least one start if not more. Just how bad is the shoulder - skip Tuesday's turn bad, or miss a couple of weeks and cross fingers & toes that it all goes away in that time bad?
That is the $101 million dollar question facing the Nation right now.
Stay tuned.
5.28.2008
Sox Drawer: Dice K has shoulder injury
Daisuke Matsuzaka leaves the field last night in Seattle after tweaking his shoulder before the 5th inning of Boston's 4-3 loss (AP photo) When Sox starter Daisuke Matsuzaka was removed from last night's game against Seattle after tossing a couple of warm up pitches prior to the 5th inning, it was assumed he had a problem with either his side or back.
Turns out it could be a lot worse than that.
The official diagnosis from the front office is that Boston's 8-0 ace has what is commonly referred to as "shoulder fatigue", which in turn sounds both potentially benign yet incredibly ominous.
Evidently this problem has struck the 27-year-old righthander a few seasons into his professional career in Japan. And with a kid who once threw 250 pitches in a game and then pitched again the next day, is it any surprise that he would have arm troubles?
And therein lies the problem. Although he is relatively young, there are so many pitches already on his arm that he is a candidate for a major shoulder injury at any time. And it's not like he's keeping his pitch count down this year, either.
Not only does Dice lead the league in wins, he also leads the league in walks and is 13th in total number of pitches thrown with 1,121.
That number is magnified because 10 of the 12 pitchers ahead of him are in the top 20 in innings pitched, while Matsuzaka has accumulated his large tally as the 32nd place hurler in innings pitched.
In other words he's thrown a shitload of pitches compared to the amount of time he's actually in the game.
The team has sent the pitcher back to Boston to have an MRI on his shoulder, and Francona refused to declare whether or not he will make his next scheduled start Monday in Baltimore.
But let's be frank, here. The Sox have $101 million invested in this guy, and with a past history of shoulder trouble and as many pitches as he's thrown this year, they almost have no choice but to rest him for a week or so, get him some therapy and rehab and hope and pray that this goes away and is never a problem again.
Because the alternative - throw him out there Monday and then have him suffer a full-blown major injury - is just too much of a risk to take.
In other words, look for Clay Buchholz or Justin Masterson to get the start against the O's. Read More......
4.26.2008
Game Preview: Sox @ Rays GM2
Buchholz (1-1, 4.79) vs. Jackson (2-2, 4.63)
Game 2 of 3 7:05 Tropicana Field
If the Sox are going to get back on the winning track, they will have to do so without the services of two of their best hitters tonight.
The Globe is reporting that David Ortiz was a late scratch from tonight's lineup, with the possible reasons ranging from a mild cold he's been battling, to his sore, surgically repaired right knee, to his 0-6 performance in last night's 5-4 extra inning loss.
Although the o-fer dropped Papi's average to .177, his RBI production (17 ribbies in the last 10 games) has made his presence in the lineup invaluable the past few weeks.
On top of that news it appears 1B Sean Casey, who has filled in admirably since Mike Lowell went down, strained a hip flexor while scoring in last night's game and is headed to the DL. Boston called up Opening Day hero Brandon Moss to replace Casey on the roster, so a move appears imminent.
As if all that news wasn't bad enough tonight's game will feature two starting pitchers, Boston's Clay Buchholz and Tampa Bay's Edwin Jackson, who are like Forest Gump's proverbial box of chocolates: every time they take the mound, you never know what you're gonna get.
Buchholz, the lanky 23-year-old with the no-no under his belt, has been shaky at times this season (10ER & 14 hits allowed in 8.2IP in losses to New York and Toronto) and spectacular at others (1ER & 9 hits in 12IP against the Stanks and Texas.)
But the righty has struck out 18 batters while walking only 8, and his last outing, a 5-hit shutout performance in 6 innings against the Rangers last week, was more reminiscent of his no hit stuff than his early season struggles.
Jackson, meanwhile, has also been more up & down than a congressional page. His first two starts of the season, he was lights out (7H, 1ER in 14IP), winning his first two games against the Stanks and Seattle.
Since then he's allowed 11 ER and 11 hits in losses to the Stanks and ChiSox, pitching just 9 innings over those two starts while watching his ERA balloon from 0.64 to 4.63.
So needless to say it's anybody's guess how these two young studs are going to fare tonight.
The Sox are in desperate need of a win or they will see their division lead shrink or disappear depending on what the Orioles do in their doubleheader today, while the Rays, winners of 4 in a row, would love nothing more than to take another game from mighty Boston, a victory that would pull the upstarts to within one game of the AL East lead.
Crazy times.
Hopefully not too crazy.
4.24.2008
Game Preview Angels @ Sox GM3
Saunders (3-0, 2.15) vs. Masterson (NR)
Game 3 of 3
1:35PM Fenway Park
The revolving rotation continues as Sox tap AA pitcher Justin Masterson to start today
The come up, they go down. And the "who's gonna start?" wheel spins 'round & 'round.
With Sox starters being scratched two days in a row Tuesday and Wednesday Terry Francona and the Boston brass have had to scramble to realign the rotation and provide fill-ins for Josh Beckett (stiff neck) and Daisuke Matsuzaka (flu.)
On Tuesday PawSox righty David Pauley made his first major league start start since 2006 and didn't exactly set the world on fire (4.1IP, 7H, 5ER, 2BB, 3K, HR), and last night Jon Lester moved up a day to replace the ailing Matsuzaka, and those results were less than stellar (5IP, 9H, 4ER, 2BB, 1K, 2HR) also.
Today the team will try something completely different, calling upon Double A hurler Justin Masterson to fill the empty spot in the rotation made by Lester pitching a day ahead of schedule.
Masterson, a 23-year-old who was Boston's 2nd round draft pick in 2006, will use his large frame (6' 6") and heavy sinker to attempt to baffle the hot-hitting Angels, who have racked up 12 runs and 24 hits, 12 for extra bases, in two games against Boston.
Although this will be Masterson's first major league start, he has lit it up at Portland (19IP, 2R, 14H, 23K, 5BB), and the combination of his specialty pitch and the fact that the Halos have never seen him could give the youngster an advantage Pauley and Lester did not have.
At least that's what the team and the Nation are hoping.
To make room on the roster for Masterson the team sent Craig Hansen, who was called up yesterday afternoon and ended up taking the loss last night when he surrendered a 6th inning home run to Casey Kotchman, back to Pawtucket.
The move to bring up Masterson allows Francona to keep his rotation in tact for this weekend's series against the Rays. Tim Wakefield will start the opener here tomorrow night, followed by Clay Buchholz on Saturday, and if all goes well, Beckett will take his regularly scheduled turn on Sunday. (Fingers crossed)
In other illness/injury related news, Jason Varitek will sit out the 5th straight game today as he's still recovering from the flu, and with Wakefield throwing tomorrow night, Kevin Cash will accomplish the ultra-rare feat (in the Tek era) of starting for a full week.
Coco Crisp, who has been nursing a bad hammy, will make his first start in a week today against Angels' lefty Joe Saunders, and Kevin Youkilis is back in the lineup after sitting out last night's game with a stiff back.
After today's getaway matinee the Sox should have most of their regular lineup back intact for the series at the Trop, but in the meantime they will have to rely on replacements and kids like Masterson to patch the holes created this week.
No pressure, kid. It's just the first place defending World Champs you're playing for.
4.23.2008
Game Preview: Angels at Sox GM 2
Garland (2-2, 4.81) vs. Lester (1-2, 5.06)
Game 2 of 3
705 Fenway Park
Daisuke Matsuzaka won't start due to the flu
For the second straight night the Red Sox starter has been scratched from the lineup just hours before his scheduled start.
Last night Josh Beckett had to bow out when a neck spasm flared up unexpectedly. Tonight the situation isn't as dire, but does put the Sox in a bind regarding the rotation for the next few games.
On top of that item Francona got word earlier that Kevin Youkilis, one of the league's hottest hitters, will not be in the lineup because of a sore back that he incurred while making a play at third base in last night's 7=6 Boston win.
Ay yay yay!
The flu that is going around the Boston clubhouse had claimed numerous players and personnel, with captain Jason Varitek set to miss his third consecutive game because of it. Now Dice-K, the American League co-leader in wins (4), and 2nd in strikeouts (28) will have to miss his 5th start, and that puts Terry Francona in a tough spot regarding the rotation.
For tonight Jon lester will move up a day and get the start against Anaheim's Jon Garland, and Beckett is scheduled to start Sunday down here against Tampa. But who gets the nod tomorrow and Friday has yet to be determined.
Francona could move Tim Wakefield from Friday to Thursday, but he absolutely slaughteres the Rays at the Trop, so that option seems highly unlikely.
The more likely scenario, according to the Globe, would be bringing up recently demoted reliever Kyle Snyder for a spot start, or double promoting AA prospect Justin Masterson for a one game audition.
Either way the situation around the Fens is not so hot right now, 6-game win streak or not.
You've got Tek, Delcarmen and Dice-K ailing, Youk, Coco and Beckett stiff, Lowell and Cora on the DL and no starter for tomorrow night.
No worries, though, as we know whoever is in that lineup will do everything in their power to keep the winning streak going.
Even if it means staging another dramatic, late inning comeback.
NOTES:
-Happy Birtday, Tito: Francona celebrated his 49th birthday yesterday, and his club gave him the only present a major league manager could ever ask for- a win!
-No sophomore slump: Don't look now, but the Little Big Man, Dustin Pedroia, has climbed all the way to the top of the American League in batting (.364), thanks to an 11-game hitting streak in which he is hitting a scalding .477 (21-44) with 9 doubles, 11 RBI and 10 runs scored.
-Ex-Sox shortstops: there's an intriguing and enlightening article about former Sox shortstops Edgar Rentaria and Orlando Cabrera on ESPN.com today. It seems that the products of soccer-crazed Colombia have less than an amicable relationship, for reasons rooted in national pride and bitter jealousy. It's a good read for Sox fans especially.
5.18.2007
Beckett goes on the DL for 10 time in career, 1st with Boston
As reported last night after the game, Red Sox ace Josh Beckett will be placed on the disabled list due to a skin tear of the right middle finger of his pitching hand.
All together now, RSN: FUCK!!@!!#$*&^%$#!!!
Of Beckett's nine previous trips to the DL, all with the Marlins, six of those visits were the results of similar injuries to the same digit, and one of those stints, in July of 2004, forced him to miss nearly a month while the injury healed.
This time the problem isn't believed to be as serious as in the past, and the Sox report that Becks should only miss a couple of starts. But with his history, who can be sure this thing won't be a recurring nightmare for the rest of the season?
Devern Hansack will be recalled from the PawSox to pitch tonight vs. the Braves in Beckett's place, and other subs for his services include Kason Gabbard, Kyle Snyder or the immortal Runelvys Hernandez.
Not exactly a group of guys who will strike fear in the heart of the opponenet.
Let's just hope this injury is a minor one, because if Beckett and his 7-0 record have to spend a month on the bench, that 9 1/2 lead over the Stanks could get slim pretty quickly.
On the bright side, there is rain forecast again tonight in the Hub.
5.16.2007
Sox Drawer: Beware the injury bug!
Drew fought the wall and the wall wonFirst it was all-everything starter Josh Beckett suffering a tear of the skin on his middle pitching finger, a pesky problem that could eventually land him on the DL and at the very least should cause him to miss his next start on Friday.
Now J.D. Drew could be out of action for a few games after his nasty run-in with the low green wall separating rightfield from the bullpens. Drew smashed, back-first, into the padded partition, and the force of the injury and the location-directly across the middle of his spine-made it look like a chiropractor's special.
No one is going into full-blown panic mode, yet, but the way the 2006 season was derailed by a rash of devastating injuries (Papi, Tek, Manny-well, maybe Manny) the feelings of jubilation for the Sox 8-game division bulge have to be tempered a bit.
Boston is in the midst of one of its toughest stretches of the year, with series against some of the best, or most explosive, teams in the game- Detroit, Atlanta, Texas, Cleveland and two series with the Stanks at the end of the month. In other words, now is not the time to go through a wave of ailments that could affect the chemistry, and rhythm of this team.
Or is it.
I mean what's worse, getting injuries when it's still early in the season and your squad possesses the largest lead of any division leader in baseball, or going through it in a later month like AUG/SEP of '06, when a terrific season was spoiled by those injuries to key players combined with the hammer effect of the Boston Massacre II?
I say if these guys are gonna miss time, do it now. And if the Stanks are breathing down our necks by the time guys like Drew & Beckett return, well they damn well better not hit .248 or allow a slew of gopherballs when they do.
Get healthy soon, boys! Read More......
5.15.2007
Sox encounter first bump in the road
Beckett's blister could spell a trip to the DL for the dominating hurler
Call it an avulsion. Call it a blister. Call it a torn flap of skin.
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