Finger Pointing and More
Disappointing to see Jacoby Ellsbury continue to publicly fight with the Red Sox medical staff. I'm not sure how it happened, but Ellsbury seems very unhappy with Boston and I think his stay here might be limited.
It stems from the diagnosis of his broken ribs on 2 separate occasions this season. Whether the Red Sox were right or wrong, it would be best to have these discussions behind closed doors, wouldn't it?
Speaking of injuries, the Red Sox have 9 players from their opening day roster on the DL. They are: Mike Lowell, Dustin Pedroia, Victor Martinez, Jason Varitek, Manny Delcarmen, Josh Beckett, Clay Buchholz, Jeremy Hermida and Jacoby Ellsbury. Wow. Amazing to seem them still in the hunt.
With the trading deadline approaching, the Red Sox are going to have to evaluate whether or not the previously mentioned 9 DLed players will have a chance of coming back and making an impact. If not, expect a deal to plug any holes. I think all 9 have a chance of coming back with the possible exception of Ellsbury, I'm just not sure what to think of his situation.
If Ellsbury cannot contribute this year, the Red Sox will look for a power corner outfielder. Jason Werth's name has been mentioned, but I don't see why Philadelphia would move him in the first place as they are only 5.5 games back. Plus, he'd be expensive.
The Red Sox lead all of baseball with 478 runs scored but have allowed 406 runs which ranks 20th in MLB. It doesn't help that the left side of the infield has 25 errors. Beltre has 14 and Scutaro has 11.
When the 2nd half of the season starts, we should start to see players come off the DL slowly transforming the team back to what we would expect to see.
I don't think I like David Ortiz in the HR contest. It can only mess up his swing in my opinion, that's the last thing he and the Red Sox need.
Comments
This is none of my business as he's not in my tribe, but regardless of how he's phrasing things, Ellsbury is right in some of his criticisms. Do I think he needed to go public with this? Nah ... but if I had a several broken ribs and my medical team just, oh, missed a few of them for a while? I would be pretty upset about it. Not much you can do for ribs except tape them, but still to be unable to find a few extra fractures ... that's a bit goofy.
Posted by: Mitchell![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://yankeesredsox.com/nav-commenters.gif)
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July 13, 2010 12:49 AM
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I agree with you Mitchell, he has every right to be fired up about this, but my main point was to keep it internal if possible.
Who knows, maybe he felt his reputation had been tarnished and this was the only way to get things evened up.
Posted by: Andy | July 13, 2010 02:26 PM |