4/2 Red Sox (Jon Lester 0-0 9.00) @ Athletics (Rich Harden 1-0 1.50) 3:35pm ET, Oakland, CA
Notes: JD Drew is expected back in the Red Sox lineup today.
Notes: JD Drew is expected back in the Red Sox lineup today.
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4/2 Red Sox @ Athletics Gameday Thread
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Today's lineup:
2B-Dustin Pedroia 1B-Kevin Youkilis DH-David Ortiz LF-Manny Ramirez 3B-Mike Lowell RF-J.D. Drew C-Jason Varitek CF-Coco Crisp SS-Alex Cora Apparently Coco's bunt hit last night must have been very pleasing to Francona. Alternating between Coco and Ellsbury is a terrible idea. Ellsbury is still developing, and sitting every other day won't do him any good. |
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Posts: 3272 04/02/08 2:11 PM |
bosox1025 wrote: ...that and Harden made Coco look worse than usual in Japan. Harden is too good to have Coco in the lineup. Let Jacoby take his lumps against the good
pitchers instead of playing Coco in an effort to keep him quiet.
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TheGoldenGreek33 |
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Posts: 1651 04/02/08 2:19 PM Veteran Member |
Pedroia: 0/3
"On-base percentage, that's fine and dandy. The name of the game is scoring runs. Sometimes, you get so caught up in on-base percentage that
you're clogging up the bases." - Dusty Baker
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TheGoldenGreek33 |
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Posts: 1651 04/02/08 2:42 PM Veteran Member |
Youk will also look to break Steve Garvey's ML record of 193 consecutive errorless games at 1B tonight.
"On-base percentage, that's fine and dandy. The name of the game is scoring runs. Sometimes, you get so caught up in on-base percentage that
you're clogging up the bases." - Dusty Baker
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Posts: 1255 04/02/08 2:54 PM Veteran Member |
TNS wrote: They can't trade Crisp if he is sitting on the bench either. Unfortunately, the effort to showcase Crisp is going to come at Ellsbury's expense in
the early going. I have no explanation to offer for Cora.
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Cem21 wrote: Anyone else think that they should just play Coco in April and let Ellsbury play everyday in AAA? I know this won't do much for his development, but that way he stays fresh and you can showcase Coco for a trade. Alternating them every other day seems like it'd be worse for Jacoby than AAA. Edit: By April, I mean until he reaches, hopefully, peak value...
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bosox1025 wrote:Agreed. It is entirely possible that Coco could be with the Sox for the remainder of the season... there are no obvious trade matches right now, and if a team loses an outfielder due to injury, there's still Kenny Lofton, Jeff DaVanon, and Preston Wilson (among others) who could be rented for cheap money without forking over a prospect. That, of course, is assuming a team would even look outside the organization for help. If this is going to be a platoon, why wasn't Ellsbury just sent to Pawtucket to play everyday until the Crisp situation plays itself out? If nothing else, it would delay his free agency an extra year.
"This kind of inconsistency play goin' up against a team like New England will get you completely blowed
out."- Emmitt Smith
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If they want to throw games and retard Ellsbury's development to try to net a prospect for Coco, that's a mistake. Either put Ellsbury in Pawtucket to
get consistant ABs while Coco stinks up the bottom of the lineup daily or get a set of balls and tell Coco that he's sitting on the bench unless there is
an injury or a trade partner. There is no market for him now and forcing him into the lineup at Ellsbury's expense hurts the team and Ellsbury. Crisp can
be a team player or he can cry up a storm to get let go and end up as a 4th outfielder elsewhere. At least here he'll be part of a winner here. If a team
suddenly needs a CF/LF, Lofton's going to end up getting the first call, not Theo for Crisp.
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Wasn't Oakland one of the main teams rumored to be interested in Coco?
Dude. Leave my man-boobs alone. -dirtydan1977
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Nice debut J.D. that sucked.
Dude. Leave my man-boobs alone. -dirtydan1977
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Could the Sox offense have blown that opportunity in a more gutless manner? Bases loaded with no outs and walking away with no runs.
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ArodSucksAtLife wrote: The Sox getting no runs there was not J.D. Drew's fault. Manny & Lowell laid eggs in their at bats. The Sox as a whole should have capitalized on that opportunity. |
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Cem21 wrote:
Francona has a huge hard-on for AC.
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He's not Mr. 20th pick.
I don't think I've ever liked an Oakland A's player, outside of Jamie Kotsay(and she's gone) it's a completely unappealing franchise.
Dude. Leave my man-boobs alone. -dirtydan1977
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Get in the chat.
"What Mo's Knows, Mo's Goes!"
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Is Jack Cust playing LF?
"What Mo's Knows, Mo's Goes!"
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Beat UM and UF wrote: Yes. Mike Sweeney is at DH with Emil Brown in RF. |
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4/2/08 @ 4:53pm: David Ortiz finally got a hit.
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ORTIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIZ!
Sox up 2-0. |
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Im not watching the game, following on gameday, so can someone explain why Lester was removed? From the box it looks like he was still cruising. Just looking at the stats looks like a good outing, he is realy going to have to cut down on the walks as time progresses though. Edit: I can't get into chat. It keeps bouncing me.
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