A Cy Young Award for Joba Chamberlain?
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*Cough cough* no. Joba is good, but he isn’t All-Star good. Yet. And the Yankees rotation isn’t very dominating. CC Sabathia was grossly overpaid and pitched well in the inferior NL. He will be lit up by every AL East team other than Baltimore, not to mention other teams in the AL. And does anybody remember how the Red Sox lit him up in 2007? I sure do.
Heh heh heh...
Wang is also good but he isn’t as good as the media has portrayed him as.Wang is also very hittable. Burnett had one good year—2008, a contract year. He was also well overpaid and he has never pitched under pressure. Chamberlain has great stuff but he has never pitched out of the rotation in the big leagues. 5+ innings is much different from the 1-2 innings he pitched before. And he will get thrown out many times if he continues to act the way he likes to—throwing two straight pitches at a batter’s head, like with Kevin Youkilis. And Pettite is old. He will be average at best this year.
But the Red Sox rotation is a different story. This rotation has the perfect balance of youth and veterans. Josh Beckett is both young and a veteran and he should have won the Cy Young in 2007. Daisuke Matsuzaka has been incredible in his two years in the Majors and he can only get better in his third year. Jon Lester is only the best lefty in baseball, and therefore must be better than Sabathia. Brad Penny should put together a solid year or better and John Smoltz is proven to be a terrific pitcher and a big game pitcher. Tim Wakefield is statistically the best pitcher on the Red Sox and the only problem he could have would be his catcher, who thinks he’s up to the challenge of the knuckleball. And Wake even said he has been comfortable throwing to him during Spring games.
Basically, no matter who’s out there for the Yankees WE are poised for a sweep every series. The Yankees have the offense, but the Red Sox have the pitching, defense, and consistency that never seems to come out of the Bronx anymore. All the Red Sox have to do is win the Spring game tonight and they will prove my point that the Red Sox CAN sweep the Yankees multiple times this year.
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March 24, 2009 at 5:51 pm
HEY MAN – WHAT’S UP WITH STEALING MY ARTICLE’S TITLE?!? COME UP WITH YOUR OWN!
GO YANKEES!
26 > 7
March 24, 2009 at 8:13 pm
I don’t think you can use the excuse about CC pitching in the NL, he did pitch 7 and a half seasons in the AL and only a half a season in the NL. I doubt they paid for the half a year in the NL, they paid for the 3.22 and 3.21 ERA’s in 2006 and 2007 where he was downright dominating. As well as winning a CY Young in 2007. Dice-K was amazing his second season, but not so much his first. Jon Lester is not the best leftie in the game, not even close, Santana, Lee, CC, Hamels would all come above him.
A very biased assessment
March 25, 2009 at 2:59 am
I admit I am a Red Sox fan as well as another writer of this blog. This is, by far the most obnoxious, biased, one-sided fantasy analysis I have ever seen. I wouldn’t be surpised if this destroys the entire blog. You should be ashamed of yourself, but on the bright side it didn’t take you more than a day to formulate such horrific points and reasoning in this atrociously written comeback post.
Some pointers…
1) Try not to start sentences with And
2) Sabathia, yes overworked, but not trash
3) Burnett is actually a quality pitcher who will pitch well in his limited innings. Did you realize his ERA/WHIP wasnt that impressive last year?
4) I doubt we will be sweeping the Yanks every time out
5) Jon Lester is not God or else we would have won the World Series in 09
6) Pettite is old; Smoltz is older
7) You can’t actually call Beckett young anymore
9) Wakefield is statistically no.1? wheres your data coming from?
10) Why don’t you mention the bullpen difference, which will be the most significant?
11) I have a headache
March 27, 2009 at 8:10 am
Things I learned after reading this article:
1) J. Lester is the best lefty in baseball…thus making him better than Sabathia
2) Wakefield is the best Red Sox pitcher based on stats
3) Petitte is old
4) The kid who wrote that article is unbiased, objective and each argument is backed by indisputable quantitative statistics and evidence fraught with nonpartisan and impartial truths.
5)If the Red Sox had beaten the Yankees on Tuesday in a meaningless Spring Training game featuring studs like Rocco Baldelli, Chris Carter, George Kottaras, Brad Wilkerson, Shelly Duncan and Cody Ransom…they would have proved they will sweep every series against the Yanks this season.
HISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
August 13, 2009 at 2:31 pm
HEY CC SABATHIA KICKED SOME REDSOX ASS BUDDY!!! YOUR A FUCKIN FAG