The Usual Suspects: Red Sox Fall to Royals Thanks to Stranded Runners, Bullpen Failure

Is with Wakefield not getting a totally deserved start, it means he’s more likely to stick around than he would otherwise, with the record coming up.

Took me 20 minutes to come up with anything positive from that game.

Remember that trying to judge your team season after 1/40 of the season is like judging your NFL team after 24 minutes of the opener!!!
Go Sox

Painful to watch the bullpen give that game away. And the runners left in scoring position. Beat Greinke tomorrow and take the pain away please.
Go Sox. Win this series.

If only Rich Ankiel was still a pitcher instead of a hitter strong enough to break his bat and still muscle a ball into the outfield.

what is that ?…………….let me know when we have one will ya

I know these were the alternates, but I like these road unis better than the Yankee-ish ones they switched to last year.

When you build a building, you should first start with the foundation before going to the roof. I’m curious if the Sox management maybe built this current edifice/team without a bottom up plan, but maybe not.

How would folks around here build a great team, or what areas would you concentrate on before building others. Obviously I am referring to the bullpen problems in light of the “new” built team on offense-defense-starters. Where SHOULD the bullpen fit in on the priority logical building plan??

his pitches seem higher.

his stuff isn’t all that powerful – he needs a delivery trick and/or correct calls from the ump.

the offensive run production has been under quality – of 5 runs per game. hitting and on base has been good (9 hits and 3 walks is about average) but driving in the runs poor.

does the lefty/ righty batting order strategy really work?

i was thinking of changing the line up strategy.

presently, there seems to be a standard line up and a lefty righty strategy.

assumption: thinking that lefties don’t necessarily struggle against left handed pitchers, etc, vises versus.

make a new batting order every game based on the pitcher and/or pitchers we expect to face that given game. have consecutive batters that hit the given pitcher well in a group and unfortunately, hitters that don’t hit the pitcher well. the make hay while the suns out. the thinking being that we would be more likely to score runs in bunches. and maybe leave less runners on base.

of course, the converse would be true – more 1-2-3 innings. and flexibility may be cut down.

the sox, generally score 800 plus runs, so they may know something and make a strategy change moot.

however, like you mentioned, we could probably use a tweak here and there. and drew and paps may be good choices to move around.