The David Price v. the Boston media war rages on. This story simply won’t go away. It is dumb from so many angles. Nevertheless, I jumped into the fray early on with my column at BP Boston. Rather than just rehashing how childish Price’s actions...
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Wanting Kimbrel to be Father Goose
This week at BP Boston I had the audacity to ask the team’s best reliever, Craig Kimbrel, to do more for the team. Traditionally, at least since the early 1980s, teams have used their best reliever in the Closer role. Closers are responsible for getting...
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Anticipating the Season's Latter Half
This week at BP Boston I continued my work examining the Red Sox’s offense. With the first half of the season in the books – it is actually more than half, but half is the term used in the weird baseball sense that the All-Star...
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Roster Inflexibility and the Platoon Advantage
This week at BP Boston I wrote about how the Red Sox have had the platoon advantage – that is, opposite-handed batter-pitcher matchups – the second least often of any team in major league baseball. Gaining the platoon advantage often can have a real benefit...
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Adding Numbers to the Facade
On Friday night (June 23, 2017) the Red Sox retired David Ortiz’s number 34. It was a special honour for a special player. Some will still gripe that he only contributed on one side of the game, but so does Tom Brady and nobody is...
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The Red Sox's Contact-Heavy Approach
This week at BP Boston I followed up on the piece I wrote last week about the slow pace of the Red Sox offense. Within that article I touched on the fact that while the Red Sox are really slow between pitches, they tend to...
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Taking (a lot of) Time Between Pitches
This week at BP Boston I wrote about the Red Sox’s offense and its slow pace of play. As it turns out, the Red Sox’s batters have been the slowest in the game, according to FanGraphs Pace measure. They take, on average, 25 seconds between...
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Don't Need Frazier! Don't Need Frazier!
At BP Boston I got a jump on trade rumour season by making a case against the Red Sox trading for Chicago White Sox’s third baseman Todd Frazier. There is no doubt that third base has been an unmitigated disaster for the Red Sox the...
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The Red Sox Need to be Better with their Gloves
This week at BP Boston I wrote about an often overlooked but very important part of the game: defense. Thus far in the 2017 season, the Red Sox have been very sloppy on the defensive side of things (32 errors in their first 38 games)...
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Getting Two-Strikes but not the Third.
My lastest work for BP Boston went up at the site on Tuesday. I looked into a puzzling trend that has emerged when Joe Kelly pitches: He fairly regularly gets to two-strikes on opposing batters but is then unable to retire them via the strikeout....
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