2007 is over. The Red Sox were the best team in baseball, best regular season record and a World Series ring. The best part about this is, 2008 is going to look largely the same. Here is a position by position analysis of what the 2008 Boston Red Sox will look like, and what they [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Indians’
October 26, 2007
Red Sox 2 – Rockies 0: The Sox Can’t be Stopped
Ubaldo Jimenez? Really? As someone who generally follows the American League much closer than the National League, I was awfully surprised to hear Ubaldo Jimenez was pitching game 2. I’m just so used to seeing bigger names in postseason play. I didn’t know much about this guy, just that he threw hard.
And throw hard he [...]
October 22, 2007
World Series: Red Sox – Rockies
The Red Sox have done it again. After spectacular pitching performances by Schilling, Beckett, and Matsuzaka, as well as the offence waking up a little, the Sox climbed out of a 3-1 hole against what I think is a lesser team in the Indians.
Yes, I put Matsuzaka in that category. I know he only went [...]
October 2, 2007
Postseason ‘07
October. I love it. This is what baseball fans wait all year for. This year has a completely different look to it. Last year was a year where the Red Sox collapsed due to injury, the Tigers were the young guns proving they belong. Only the Yankees and Padres were in the playoffs last year [...]
September 22, 2007
Beckett for Cy Young
Josh Beckett just pitched himself a Cy Young award.
Beckett just became the first 20 game winner of 2007, and as ESPN keeps pointing out, the first since 2005. I think the “first 20 game winner since 2005″ statement is being
overplayed. It was only one year, last year, that there wasn’t a 20
game winner, and Wang had 19. I [...]
September 12, 2007
2007’s Best Playoff Races
I love September baseball. In recent years, it’s come down to the wire. Every game matters. I expect 2007 to be no different, giving fans a reason to watch right up until playoffs start. Here is a rundown of all 8 playoff races, in order of how good I think each race will be.
#1 [...]
