Josh Beckett Not Coming Off Disabled List Just Yet
by Randy Booth on May 30, 2010 11:40 AM EDT
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Josh Beckett is eligible to come off the disabled list Thursday, but Terry Francona and pitching coach John Farrell haven't deemed him ready to go. Beckett will stay on the disabled list for the time being:
"We’re going to slow him down a little bit,’’ Francona said. "The thinking involved is he’s not able to repeat his delivery consistently enough and that worries us. He starts changing arm angles. You can run into some problems that we don’t need to run into.
"So until we’re a little bit more comfortable, and he’s more comfortable, we’re going to just slow it down a little bit. How much that is, I really don’t know. That’s kind of where we are right now. There’s just a little bit there that concerns us.
"Again, we’ve got this guy for a long time. We know him well. When he’s trying to compete and there’s a little bit of uncertainty, it’s just not going to work as well as it should. We sat down, kind of at length about it, and I think he’s actually in agreement with it and trying to use good judgment.’’
As bad as Beckett has been this season, it will be hard for the Red Sox to try and make the playoffs without Beckett in the rotation. (I'm speaking of the good Beckett, of course). He's a bulldog that sets the tone for the staff and the Red Sox will need that. It may not seem like the Sox need that now, but they will.
Although he's not the most important pitcher for the Red Sox (eyes are on you, Lester), he is still very important. I think this is a good move by the Red Sox to hopefully turn Beckett's game around. Is it really a mechanics issue? Probably, but it may be more than just this injury that cropped up. This may be about correcting an issue that was effecting him before the injury.
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"This may be about correcting an issue that was effecting him before the injury."
Please enlighten us about just what that issue might be??
Type Josh Beckett into the injury tool below
and take your pick:
Link: http://www.baseballinjurytool.com/injury-tool.php
He’s been much better with the blister issues as of late but over the years he’s had his share of 15 day visits: upper back, lower back, elbow, shoulder, trunk, foot, groin, neck.
He hasn’t been right yet this year. He shouldn’t come back until he’s 100% even if it becomes July or August. Let’s hope he gets right.
RE:
Yeah, sucking. Essentially.
He probably had some problems with mechanics or what not before he was injured, thus him sucking. So they might be trying to a) get him healthy and b) take care of whatever problems to reduce the, uh, sucking.
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by Randy Booth on May 30, 2010 12:31 PM EDT up reply actions
To expand the tension a bit,
did Sox management know about these “other” non-injury issues before the big contract extension?? Assuming the answer to that is “yes”, was this big, expensive, tenacious contract a wise more or another Lugo disaster??
RE:
Well, the Sox obviously know about ALL of Beckett’s injury history. Theo & Co. are pretty savvy when it comes to injuries and working clauses and such, so the Sox not knowing something before extending the contract offer would be a surprise.
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by Randy Booth on May 30, 2010 12:50 PM EDT up reply actions
"Sox not knowing something before extending the contract offer would be a surprise."
LUGO?? Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Lugo wasn't injured. He just sucked.
And there’s no reason to assume it was there before the extension. Beckett has had his share of sucking in April before, after all, and had plenty of good innings along the way.
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by Ben Buchanan on May 30, 2010 10:20 PM EDT up reply actions
But they did extend that offer to Lugo,
and now they are still paying for his crap. Point is the Sox management does not know or are not evidently as savy as you claim!
Sorry, that is some terrible analysis
Sometimes you can bet on something with overwhelming odds in your favor and still lose.
This results based analysis is crap. There was a good thought process behind those moves.
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I claim the Sox management usually makes the right decision with the information they have at the time.
Lugo was one of the exceptions. Beckett? Not really, no.
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by Ben Buchanan on May 30, 2010 11:03 PM EDT up reply actions
there is a difference between making informed decisions and omniscience
Every contract signed, every trade made is a risk. There is no club in history, and never will be, with a 100% success rate for every contract they sign. They have made some bad decisions and they will make more, but the vast majority of decisions and moves they make are well-informed, intelligent decisions.
But it does reflect very badly on one's
judgment/research when like the moment you sign someone to a long term, very cost deal they crap out in what may be a long term manner. If Beckett fell down and broke something, I would understand and hold back. However, I have no idea what is really going on with him, and he seemed to be on the decline even before this big contract was offered, so the signs were there. This POSSIBLY failing, long term expensive pitcher may be a bigger boondoggle that Lugo, and that does Not reflect well on management doing their homework and acting responsibly given the above way Beckett seems to be checking out!
by NG on May 31, 2010 8:14 AM EDT up reply actions
It reflects badly
IF
1) It is a long-term crap out, and not just a knee-jerk reaction by a knee-jerk fan.
2) It was something that could be seen coming in medical reports or scouting.
3) These risks outweighed the reward of Beckett’s willingness to take a below-market deal.
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by Ben Buchanan on May 31, 2010 12:05 PM EDT up reply actions
non-injury issues
Pitchers are always changing mechanics and almost all of them have to adjust at some points. If he was having mechanical problems (which it appears to me, but I’m no pitching coach), it should not be something that affects him long term and therefore should not a be reason not to resign him long-term.
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