Ellsbury is showing the kind of power that is usually reserved for people who are candidates to get 50 game suspensions (note: I'm not implying nor do I think that he's on PEDs). Crawford is still slow coming out of the gate, but hopefully his RBI double today will propel him to start hitting again. Sooner or later he will come around - even the best players go through hitting slumps. It's just easier to hide it in the middle of the season than at the start, but I'm not worried. The pitching had me worried, but with Beckett and Dice showing they can still pitch at ace like levels, and Lester being the ace we can count on I think Red Sox Nation can collectively relax. John Lackey has looked shaky, but if he ends up being the 5th best starter on the team, we don't need much more. Buchholz hasn't duplicated last year's unsustainable success, but I didn't expect him to. He just has to be good, not great.
April 18, 2011
Thank you, Toronto!
Ellsbury is showing the kind of power that is usually reserved for people who are candidates to get 50 game suspensions (note: I'm not implying nor do I think that he's on PEDs). Crawford is still slow coming out of the gate, but hopefully his RBI double today will propel him to start hitting again. Sooner or later he will come around - even the best players go through hitting slumps. It's just easier to hide it in the middle of the season than at the start, but I'm not worried. The pitching had me worried, but with Beckett and Dice showing they can still pitch at ace like levels, and Lester being the ace we can count on I think Red Sox Nation can collectively relax. John Lackey has looked shaky, but if he ends up being the 5th best starter on the team, we don't need much more. Buchholz hasn't duplicated last year's unsustainable success, but I didn't expect him to. He just has to be good, not great.
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