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Bay, Lowrie lead Sox in 2-1 extras win
I think he likes Boston. (via d.yimg.com) I love this team. Just watching Jason Bay and Jed Lowrie jumping around after winning the game made me so happy. This is a team that wants to play baseball and wants to win. That was obvious in the later innings. But after Bay crossed the plate for the...
Rivalry Thoughts
"The Thinker: A-Rod edition", via dugoutdiary.mlblogs.com State of the Rivalry So the Yankees come to Boston tonight. Color me nonplussed. It's hard to get too excited about one Sox-Yankee series. In the media they are presented as critical to the division race. But this significance is way...
Sox to trade Alex Cora?
According to the Globe, the Red Sox are in talks with the White Sox to trade Alex Cora for Juan Uribe: A pair of shortstops might be changing their Sox. According to CBS Sportsline's Danny Knobler, Chicago and Boston are "deep in conversations" on a trade that would send Juan Uribe to the Red...
Really. SS. Is this good?
via d.yimg.com Errors suck. Wow. What an obvious statement, right? Errors are not the best way to judge a fielder. And as FP is based upon errors, we can't use that either. What can we use? THT uses a metric called (revised) zone rating, or RZR, and they also attempt to measure the amount of...













