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Movin' on up by Jared Carrabis
Lars Anderson promoted to Pawtucket
According to Dan Barbarisi of the Providence Journal, once highly touted Red Sox prospect, Lars Anderson, has been promoted to the Red Sox triple-A affiliate, the Pawtucket Red Sox.
In 2009, his second year with double-A Portland, Anderson greatly underachieved, hitting .233, with 9 HR and 51 RBI in 119 games. The previous season, split between single-A Lancaster, before being promoted to Portland, Anderson hit .317 with 18 HR and 80 RBI in 118 games.
His stellar 2008 earned him a pre-2009 ranking among baseball prospects at number 17 by Baseball America.
Knowing that he needed a hot-start to redeem himself in the eyes of the organization that drafted him in the Amateur Draft back in 2006, Anderson did just that.
Anderson hit .355 in 17 games for Portland this season, with 5 home runs in 62 at bats. The lefty bat his belted five doubles, driven in 16 runs and has slugged his way to a 1.086 OPS. Certainly the...READ MORE!
Published on April 29, 2010 See Comment(s)
Lights out Lester by Jared Carrabis
Lester dazzles in personal best outing of season
It's hard to believe that these two teams combined to score 25 runs in the series opener.
Since that night, the Red Sox have scored four runs, and Boston has held the Blue Jays to just one run. Fans have been waiting for this whole "run prevention" method to kick in, and it has been like night and day this series.
Jon Lester took the mound, coming off his best start of the season. It was a start in which the left-hander held the Baltimore Orioles scoreless over 5.2 innings, striking out seven. Lester would outdo his previous outing and then some.
Lester was strong from start to finish, striking out two in his first inning of work. He struck out at least one batter in each of his seven innings of work, including inning-ending strikeouts in six of seven frames.
The left-hander allowed a leadoff double to Vernon Wells in the bottom of the second, and would retire fourteen consecutive batters following the two-bagger. Lester cruised through the Jays' lineup, needing 119 pitc...READ MORE!
Published on April 28, 2010 See Comment(s)
He's baaaaaaack by Jared Carrabis
Red Sox call up LHP Alan Embree
Personally, I was surprised when the Red Sox called up lefty Fabio Castro prior to Tuesday's middle-game against Toronto instead of Alan Embree.
Castro didn't throw a single pitch for the Red Sox before being sent back down to the Pawtucket Red Sox in favor of Embree. Embree, who is now 40-years-old, has been very patient with the Red Sox. The left-hander informed the team that if he was not added to the 25-man roster by Friday, then he would opt out his contract with the Red Sox in hopes of making it back to the big leagues elsewhere.
Embree last pitched for the Red Sox on July 18, 2005. To that point, Embree had appeared in 43 games for the Red Sox that season, pitching his way to a 1-4 record, 2 blown saves and a 7.65 ERA. The left-hander struck out 30 batters in 37.2 innings, while allowing eight long balls, before the Red Sox decided to part ways with him.
On July 30, Embree traded his red socks for pinstripes, and after a horrible season with Boston, no one seemed to c...READ MORE!
Published on April 28, 2010 See Comment(s)
Just what the manager ordered by Jared Carrabis
Buchholz saves reeling bullpen, goes 8 strong
From one extreme, to the other; the Red Sox and Blue Jays give us a slugfest one night, and a pitcher's duel the other.
The Red Sox came into Tuesday night's contest feeling a little indifferent. Optimistic because Red Sox starter Clay Buchholz's numbers against at the Rogers Centre were great (2-0, 1.54 ERA), but if the right-hander faltered, it would have been a nightmare situation.
The Boston bullpen has been absolutely taxed in the previous five games entering Tuesday night, thus forcing the Red Sox' hand to call up Fabio Castro and send down Scott Atchison.
Buchholz was coming off a start in which he set a career high in strikeouts with ten, but got a tough-luck loss after a sloppy seventh inning and zero run support. In fact, Buchholz entered his Tuesday night start as the only starter on the Red Sox staff with an ERA under 5.
After putting up 12 runs and taking a loss the night before, the Blue Jays didn't waste any time in getting on the scoreboard. An RBI...READ MORE!
Published on April 27, 2010 See Comment(s)
Pitching and defense? by Jared Carrabis
More like, "Offense and offense."
For months, we were being sold on the idea that this team was built around pitching and defense.
Well, I want a refund.
After Josh Beckett's abysmal outing, in which Red Sox fans watched their ace last just three innings, yielding eight earned runs on nine hits, the cumulative ERA of all Boston starters shot from 5.06 to 5.56.
Monday night was the quickest that Beckett had gotten the hook since way back on Dustin Pedroia's birthday, August 17 of 2008. Coincidentally, it was also against the Toronto Blue Jays. The right-hander lasted just 2.1 innings in that start, giving up eight earned in that start as well.
"The numbers tell everything, and they're not good," said Beckett.
What numbers you ask? In Beckett's last two starts, he has an alarming ERA of 13.50 and has given up five earned runs or more in three of his five starts this April.
However, he's not the lone ranger on the Red Sox' pitching staff who is struggling. For Boston, it was the first time since 1946 t...READ MORE!
Published on April 27, 2010 See Comment(s)
One man's trash is another man's treasure by Jared Carrabis
Youk turns Beckett's garbage start into golden walk-off
On Monday, this team has never looked so flat, so dead.
Here we are, just two days later, and this team has never looked so alive. The wins may not be pretty, but wins are wins. Heading to the mound with intentions of building on a seven-inning outing, where the right-hander gave up zero earned runs, Josh Beckett has his fair share of struggles.
Just four batters into the game, Beckett found himself in trouble. With two outs and a man on in the top of the first, Vladimir Guerrero shot an RBI double out to the 379-marker in left-center field.
With a 1-0 lead in the top of the second, the Rangers would widen the margin. With one out and a runner on first, Julio Borbon shot an opposite field base hit into left that skipped under the glove of Darnell McDonald. The ball would roll all the way to the Green Monster, allowing the run to come home to make it 2-0.
The RBI triple put Borbon just 90 feet away from home plate, as he would later score on a sacrifice fly by Michael Youn...READ MORE!
Published on April 22, 2010 See Comment(s)
Old McDonald hit a bomb by Jared Carrabis
Darnell McDonald ties it, then wins it
On Fenway Park's 98th birthday, the legendary ballpark celebrated in style.
There hasn't been much to celebrate as of late here in Red Sox Nation. The Red Sox have lost six straight at home and five straight overall. Prior to Tuesday's series opening against the Texas Rangers, the Red Sox placed not one, but two, outfielders on the 15-day disabled list.
On the shelf went Mike Cameron and Jacoby Ellsbury and up from Pawtucket were Josh Reddick and Darnell McDonald. Prior to being called up, Reddick was having a rough start to his season, batting .179, after an impressive spring. Meanwhile, McDonald was on fire. The outfielder was hitting .341 for the Paw Sox and arrived at Fenway Park just an hour before first pitch.
The Red Sox needed to bring out all the stops in this one, as the lineup at the end of this contest was far from what it was at the beginning.
Much like the season has been for Boston, the start to this game wasn't pretty. The Rangers jumped out to a 1-0 lea...READ MORE!
Published on April 21, 2010 See Comment(s)
Lightning in a bottle by Jared Carrabis
The Sox may have something in Jeremy Hermida
331 at bats into the 2009 season, Dustin Pedroia hit his fourth home run of the year.
Just 31 at bats into the 2010 season, Pedroia hammered his fourth home run of the 2010 season. By the time Pedroia had hit his fourth long ball last season, all of us here in America had already had our 4th of July barbecues. When it seems like there's nothing left for Boston's second baseman to accomplish, he raises the bar for himself again.
Certainly the Red Sox aren't asking him to be a power-hitter, but it couldn't hurt to have Pedroia reach that 20 HR plateau.
Making his first road start in a Red Sox uniform, John Lackey took to the mound looking for his first win on the young season. But before Lackey could even toe the rubber, Pedroia provided the big right-hander with a 1-0 lead by shooting an RBI double to left.
An RBI single by Marco Scutaro, who was filling in for Jacoby Ellsbury in the leadoff spot, upped the Red Sox's lead to 2-0.
The potent Twins offense got the ...READ MORE!
Published on April 15, 2010 See Comment(s)
Targeted by Jared Carrabis
Twins top Sox in Target Field's grand opening
After a tough outing from Jon Lester, the Red Sox fell to 0-5 when playing in a game in which the opposing team was opening a new ballpark.
As bad as it sounds, it's not as bad as it looks. The last time that the Red Sox lost in a home opener that was played in a brand new stadium, Babe Ruth went deep. Taking that into perspective, that game was a 4-1 loss to the New York Yankees in the very first game ever in the historic Yankee Stadium.
"I just stunk," Lester told reporters after Boston's 5-2 loss to Minnesota. Simply put, the left-hander went on to say, "I didn't execute pitches. There was a ball that bounced off two gloves, another one hit a bag and it cost me runs. You can look at it as bad luck, but I don't really look at it that way. I look at it as executing my pitches, and I've got to do a better job."
The evidence is certainly there to support Lester's claim, as just 59 of his 107 pitches went for strikes. When his pitches were in the strike zone, the Twins' offens...READ MORE!
Published on April 13, 2010 See Comment(s)
Little man, big stick by Jared Carrabis
Pedroia's four-hit day leads Sox to victory
For Dustin Pedroia, it was just another day at the office.
On Sunday, Pedroia chipped in with an impressive four-hit performance, which was his first of the 2010 season. It was his first four-hit game since May 8 of 2009, as Pedey had just three four-hit games all of last season.
Among Pedroia's four hits was a solo home run in the fourth inning, his third of the season, which at the time gave Boston a 6-3 lead against the Kansas City Royals. The four hits shot Pedroia's batting average from the low .200's to .360 to finish the day.
Also contributing in a big way at the plate on Sunday was Boston's new third baseman, Adrian Beltre. Batting out of the six-hole, Beltre contributed with three hits of his own, driving in three.
Pleading his case to be included in the Red Sox lineup should manager Terry Francona choose to sit down the mightily struggling David Ortiz, Jeremy Hermida knocked a two-run double after lifting a solo shot on Saturday night. As it stands, Hermida is b...READ MORE!
Published on April 11, 2010 See Comment(s)
Lars Anderson promoted to Pawtucket
According to Dan Barbarisi of the Providence Journal, once highly touted Red Sox prospect, Lars Anderson, has been promoted to the Red Sox triple-A affiliate, the Pawtucket Red Sox.
In 2009, his second year with double-A Portland, Anderson greatly underachieved, hitting .233, with 9 HR and 51 RBI in 119 games. The previous season, split between single-A Lancaster, before being promoted to Portland, Anderson hit .317 with 18 HR and 80 RBI in 118 games.
His stellar 2008 earned him a pre-2009 ranking among baseball prospects at number 17 by Baseball America.
Knowing that he needed a hot-start to redeem himself in the eyes of the organization that drafted him in the Amateur Draft back in 2006, Anderson did just that.
Anderson hit .355 in 17 games for Portland this season, with 5 home runs in 62 at bats. The lefty bat his belted five doubles, driven in 16 runs and has slugged his way to a 1.086 OPS. Certainly the...READ MORE!
Published on April 29, 2010 See Comment(s)
Lights out Lester by Jared Carrabis
Lester dazzles in personal best outing of season
It's hard to believe that these two teams combined to score 25 runs in the series opener.
Since that night, the Red Sox have scored four runs, and Boston has held the Blue Jays to just one run. Fans have been waiting for this whole "run prevention" method to kick in, and it has been like night and day this series.
Jon Lester took the mound, coming off his best start of the season. It was a start in which the left-hander held the Baltimore Orioles scoreless over 5.2 innings, striking out seven. Lester would outdo his previous outing and then some.
Lester was strong from start to finish, striking out two in his first inning of work. He struck out at least one batter in each of his seven innings of work, including inning-ending strikeouts in six of seven frames.
The left-hander allowed a leadoff double to Vernon Wells in the bottom of the second, and would retire fourteen consecutive batters following the two-bagger. Lester cruised through the Jays' lineup, needing 119 pitc...READ MORE!
Published on April 28, 2010 See Comment(s)
He's baaaaaaack by Jared Carrabis
Red Sox call up LHP Alan Embree
Personally, I was surprised when the Red Sox called up lefty Fabio Castro prior to Tuesday's middle-game against Toronto instead of Alan Embree.
Castro didn't throw a single pitch for the Red Sox before being sent back down to the Pawtucket Red Sox in favor of Embree. Embree, who is now 40-years-old, has been very patient with the Red Sox. The left-hander informed the team that if he was not added to the 25-man roster by Friday, then he would opt out his contract with the Red Sox in hopes of making it back to the big leagues elsewhere.
Embree last pitched for the Red Sox on July 18, 2005. To that point, Embree had appeared in 43 games for the Red Sox that season, pitching his way to a 1-4 record, 2 blown saves and a 7.65 ERA. The left-hander struck out 30 batters in 37.2 innings, while allowing eight long balls, before the Red Sox decided to part ways with him.
On July 30, Embree traded his red socks for pinstripes, and after a horrible season with Boston, no one seemed to c...READ MORE!
Published on April 28, 2010 See Comment(s)
Just what the manager ordered by Jared Carrabis
Buchholz saves reeling bullpen, goes 8 strong
From one extreme, to the other; the Red Sox and Blue Jays give us a slugfest one night, and a pitcher's duel the other.
The Red Sox came into Tuesday night's contest feeling a little indifferent. Optimistic because Red Sox starter Clay Buchholz's numbers against at the Rogers Centre were great (2-0, 1.54 ERA), but if the right-hander faltered, it would have been a nightmare situation.
The Boston bullpen has been absolutely taxed in the previous five games entering Tuesday night, thus forcing the Red Sox' hand to call up Fabio Castro and send down Scott Atchison.
Buchholz was coming off a start in which he set a career high in strikeouts with ten, but got a tough-luck loss after a sloppy seventh inning and zero run support. In fact, Buchholz entered his Tuesday night start as the only starter on the Red Sox staff with an ERA under 5.
After putting up 12 runs and taking a loss the night before, the Blue Jays didn't waste any time in getting on the scoreboard. An RBI...READ MORE!
Published on April 27, 2010 See Comment(s)
Pitching and defense? by Jared Carrabis
More like, "Offense and offense."
For months, we were being sold on the idea that this team was built around pitching and defense.
Well, I want a refund.
After Josh Beckett's abysmal outing, in which Red Sox fans watched their ace last just three innings, yielding eight earned runs on nine hits, the cumulative ERA of all Boston starters shot from 5.06 to 5.56.
Monday night was the quickest that Beckett had gotten the hook since way back on Dustin Pedroia's birthday, August 17 of 2008. Coincidentally, it was also against the Toronto Blue Jays. The right-hander lasted just 2.1 innings in that start, giving up eight earned in that start as well.
"The numbers tell everything, and they're not good," said Beckett.
What numbers you ask? In Beckett's last two starts, he has an alarming ERA of 13.50 and has given up five earned runs or more in three of his five starts this April.
However, he's not the lone ranger on the Red Sox' pitching staff who is struggling. For Boston, it was the first time since 1946 t...READ MORE!
Published on April 27, 2010 See Comment(s)
One man's trash is another man's treasure by Jared Carrabis
Youk turns Beckett's garbage start into golden walk-off
On Monday, this team has never looked so flat, so dead.
Here we are, just two days later, and this team has never looked so alive. The wins may not be pretty, but wins are wins. Heading to the mound with intentions of building on a seven-inning outing, where the right-hander gave up zero earned runs, Josh Beckett has his fair share of struggles.
Just four batters into the game, Beckett found himself in trouble. With two outs and a man on in the top of the first, Vladimir Guerrero shot an RBI double out to the 379-marker in left-center field.
With a 1-0 lead in the top of the second, the Rangers would widen the margin. With one out and a runner on first, Julio Borbon shot an opposite field base hit into left that skipped under the glove of Darnell McDonald. The ball would roll all the way to the Green Monster, allowing the run to come home to make it 2-0.
The RBI triple put Borbon just 90 feet away from home plate, as he would later score on a sacrifice fly by Michael Youn...READ MORE!
Published on April 22, 2010 See Comment(s)
Old McDonald hit a bomb by Jared Carrabis
Darnell McDonald ties it, then wins it
On Fenway Park's 98th birthday, the legendary ballpark celebrated in style.
There hasn't been much to celebrate as of late here in Red Sox Nation. The Red Sox have lost six straight at home and five straight overall. Prior to Tuesday's series opening against the Texas Rangers, the Red Sox placed not one, but two, outfielders on the 15-day disabled list.
On the shelf went Mike Cameron and Jacoby Ellsbury and up from Pawtucket were Josh Reddick and Darnell McDonald. Prior to being called up, Reddick was having a rough start to his season, batting .179, after an impressive spring. Meanwhile, McDonald was on fire. The outfielder was hitting .341 for the Paw Sox and arrived at Fenway Park just an hour before first pitch.
The Red Sox needed to bring out all the stops in this one, as the lineup at the end of this contest was far from what it was at the beginning.
Much like the season has been for Boston, the start to this game wasn't pretty. The Rangers jumped out to a 1-0 lea...READ MORE!
Published on April 21, 2010 See Comment(s)
Lightning in a bottle by Jared Carrabis
The Sox may have something in Jeremy Hermida
331 at bats into the 2009 season, Dustin Pedroia hit his fourth home run of the year.
Just 31 at bats into the 2010 season, Pedroia hammered his fourth home run of the 2010 season. By the time Pedroia had hit his fourth long ball last season, all of us here in America had already had our 4th of July barbecues. When it seems like there's nothing left for Boston's second baseman to accomplish, he raises the bar for himself again.
Certainly the Red Sox aren't asking him to be a power-hitter, but it couldn't hurt to have Pedroia reach that 20 HR plateau.
Making his first road start in a Red Sox uniform, John Lackey took to the mound looking for his first win on the young season. But before Lackey could even toe the rubber, Pedroia provided the big right-hander with a 1-0 lead by shooting an RBI double to left.
An RBI single by Marco Scutaro, who was filling in for Jacoby Ellsbury in the leadoff spot, upped the Red Sox's lead to 2-0.
The potent Twins offense got the ...READ MORE!
Published on April 15, 2010 See Comment(s)
Targeted by Jared Carrabis
Twins top Sox in Target Field's grand opening
After a tough outing from Jon Lester, the Red Sox fell to 0-5 when playing in a game in which the opposing team was opening a new ballpark.
As bad as it sounds, it's not as bad as it looks. The last time that the Red Sox lost in a home opener that was played in a brand new stadium, Babe Ruth went deep. Taking that into perspective, that game was a 4-1 loss to the New York Yankees in the very first game ever in the historic Yankee Stadium.
"I just stunk," Lester told reporters after Boston's 5-2 loss to Minnesota. Simply put, the left-hander went on to say, "I didn't execute pitches. There was a ball that bounced off two gloves, another one hit a bag and it cost me runs. You can look at it as bad luck, but I don't really look at it that way. I look at it as executing my pitches, and I've got to do a better job."
The evidence is certainly there to support Lester's claim, as just 59 of his 107 pitches went for strikes. When his pitches were in the strike zone, the Twins' offens...READ MORE!
Published on April 13, 2010 See Comment(s)
Little man, big stick by Jared Carrabis
Pedroia's four-hit day leads Sox to victory
For Dustin Pedroia, it was just another day at the office.
On Sunday, Pedroia chipped in with an impressive four-hit performance, which was his first of the 2010 season. It was his first four-hit game since May 8 of 2009, as Pedey had just three four-hit games all of last season.
Among Pedroia's four hits was a solo home run in the fourth inning, his third of the season, which at the time gave Boston a 6-3 lead against the Kansas City Royals. The four hits shot Pedroia's batting average from the low .200's to .360 to finish the day.
Also contributing in a big way at the plate on Sunday was Boston's new third baseman, Adrian Beltre. Batting out of the six-hole, Beltre contributed with three hits of his own, driving in three.
Pleading his case to be included in the Red Sox lineup should manager Terry Francona choose to sit down the mightily struggling David Ortiz, Jeremy Hermida knocked a two-run double after lifting a solo shot on Saturday night. As it stands, Hermida is b...READ MORE!
Published on April 11, 2010 See Comment(s)
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