Red Sox Activate Matt Albers, Option Alfredo Aceves To Pawtucket
by Ben Buchanan on Apr 21, 2011 5:18 PM EDT
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Reliever Matt Albers is making his return to the Boston Red Sox' bullpen after a stay on the disabled list, replacing Alfredo Aceves in the bullpen according to Scott Lauber.
Albers, sidelined by a sore lat on April 8, hasn't pitched for the Sox since April 5 against the Indians, and has only thrown two innings for the team so far this year. In two rehab appearances for Pawtucket, Albers threw three scoreless innings allowing just a single hit while striking out two.
Since coming up to replace Albers, Alfredo Aceves has proved quite capable for the Sox, throwing eight innings of two-run ball, striking out five and walking just two.
In fact, Aceves has been so good that it's entirely beyond me as to why he's headed back to Triple-A. Remaining with the Red Sox is Hideki Okajima, who after losing his job in the bullpen between 2010 and spring training, returned to the team Tuesday against the Athletics and immediately showed why he was gone in the first place by giving up three runs while recording just two outs. His ERA sits at 40.50, Aceves' at 2.25.
At some point the Red Sox are just teaching their players that hard work and good results don't pay off.
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Yes, it's hard to fathom Aceves going down here...
However, as much as I’d like to see Okajima sent down… I think you cannot expect them to do it so soon. He’ll get at least one more opportunity to get absolutely lit up (let’s hope it’s at the end of a 10-2 blowout for the Sox against the Angels tonight)… if he gets hammered again, I suspect we’ll see him sent down again (and Theo begin to look for NL teams that would gamble that his delivery would confuse folks in the NL for a while).
Unfortunately, we cannot expect Theo to look at one game, two outs and make the decision that he’s absolutely done. (Otherwise, they’d never have signed him for $1.75 million last offseason. Wait… Why DID we sign him last offseason again??)
To be fair...
… it took a looong time to get those two outs.
"Laser show. So relax."
by nuthinboutnuthin on Apr 21, 2011 5:57 PM EDT up reply actions
Unfortunately... it was only two outs.
That’s the problem, as I see it. Yes, he was horrible… but hard to write him off completely on just two outs after you signed him for $1.75 million last offseason.
All of us wrote him off completely based on career trends, and when they released him, it looked like Boston management had seen the light.
Once they signed him to that contract, though? Yeah, we’re going to have to suffer through him getting lit up at least twice (I suspect, sadly, more than that) and my only hope is that he’s only allowed to pitch in blowouts (and hopefully, blowouts we’re winning) to prove he can get anyone out at all anymore.
It's called a sunk cost.
Ditch him.
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by Ben Buchanan on Apr 21, 2011 7:22 PM EDT up reply actions
Don't get me wrong.
I agree.
I’m just saying I expect we’ll have to wait for that wish to be fulfilled.
between Okajima and Wakefield
we have too many pitchers who are only pitching in blowouts.
Good thing we’re getting blown out so often.
You can't lose 100 games with this lineup unless you have someone who will blow 30-40 games for you
But other than that, I can’t think of a single reason to keep Okajima around.
Hilarious
I love you guys, the ironic wit inherent in these posts makes me laugh my butt off. Let me give it a shot, but I doubt I can be up to your level:
Theo Epstein and Terry Francona, I heartily mock and laugh at the transaction in which you decide to keep a back-end reliever who pitches with his left hand while summarily demoting another back-end reliever who pitches with his right hand while dismissing their recent performances in a very limited and not statistically significant amount of playing time! Your erroneous decision will undoubtedly negatively impact a very limited number of innings in the very near future and I can thereby infer that we will lose many games during the remainder of the season and that neither of you possess the basic experience or mental abilities to perform your jobs, despite any past evidence to the contrary!!
How’d I do?
by AGuinness on Apr 21, 2011 10:59 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Aceves
Actually, they like Aceves (who doesn`t?). They just want to stretch him out to have an extra starter/long reliever. In truth, Aceves has looked vulnerable after an inning or two, and he`s just coming back from injury, so a spell in Pawtucket in a controlled environment might just be the best course of action.
I just think he's more useful in the bullpen
than he is as a 7th or 8th starter. Now if the plan is to just give him a few starts (like 2, 3 max) down there to stretch him out a bit more and then bring him back to the pen, I can get behind that- so we’ll have to see. Just with him in the pen, we have a pretty effective shutdown bullpen with a few guys that can work multiple innings- without him, it suddenly looks a lot less deep.
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