Screw you. I'm not miserable. Wipe off the Kool Aid mustache and accept rationale commentary for what it is.
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Beaudoin, John <[email protected]>wrote: > The rationale below seems a wee bit …. INSANE to me. > > > > Look at the pitchers injured and the length of the injuries. Before they > went on the disabled list, many of them were pitching horribly because of > their nagging injuries. Thus, ERA rose. > > > > The fact you can’t escape from is that this is one of the top teams in > baseball. Wins don’t lie. It’s about the wins, right? Does anyone want to > disagree about that? > > > > I liked the season except for the injuries. I liked the team except for > the injuries. > > I’ll take the same team next year and like it. > > > > CHEEEEEESE WHIZ!!!!!! This is truly the fellowship of the miserable. This > team was great this year. Fun but tragic. Good, but not great. I really > enjoyed it, though admittedly peripherally because of time doing other > stuff. > > > > John > > > ------------------------------ > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Ray Salemi > *Sent:* Wednesday, September 01, 2010 8:55 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* The Injury Inconsistency > > > > There is no doubt that injures will have cost the Sox something like 5 > games this year (91 wins vs 96 perhaps). > > > > The narrative goes like this, "The Sox would have had a great season > because of their pitching, but were decimated by injuries." > > > > The Sox were 9th out of 14 in ERA this year. So one should look at the > list of injuries and expect to see a lot of pitchers. > > > > Here's what we see: > > > > Pitchers Injured > > > > Clay Buchholz (2 15d) > > DiceK (2 15d) > > Oki (1 15d) > > Beckett (1 d2d, 1 60d) > > Delcarman (1 15d) > > Lester(d2d) > > > > Players injured > > > > Beltre (d2d) > > Pedroia (d2d, 15d, d2d, 15d) > > Patterson(15d) > > JD Drew (d2d, d2d, d2d, d2d, d2d, d2d) > > Ellsbury (15d, 15d, d2d, 15d, 15d) > > Salty (15d) > > Veritek(season) > > Lowrie (60d) > > Hermida (15d) > > Cash (15d) > > Youk (d2d, d2d, d2d, season) > > Cameron(d2d, 15d, 15d) > > Lowell (15d) > > Martinez (d2d, 15d) > > > > > > So this team,built upon pitching, pitched very poorly. But it didn't have > that many pitching injuries to point to. (And, despite all the injuries to > players, the replacement players did a great job. The Sox are 2nd in Runs > Scored.) > > > > So I think all this puts the lie to the idea that this season was lost due > to injuries alone. If that were the case, one might just keep roughly the > same team and try again next year. Instead, I think that this pitching > focused organization failed in its primary strategy this year of delivering > strong pitching, and that is the question that needs to be addressed in the > off season. > > > > Ray > > > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Red Sox Citizens" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<redsoxcitizens%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/redsoxcitizens?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Red Sox Citizens" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<redsoxcitizens%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/redsoxcitizens?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Red Sox Citizens" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/redsoxcitizens?hl=en.
