First of all, I would like to introduce myself. My name is Tyler Norton and I was born and raised in New England watching Boston sports. For more information on me you can and shoot me an email. Also feel free to write in with questions or comments possibly for a mailbag (if we get enough quality responses). You can expect in depth baseball talk as well as pop culture references galore. I’ll try to keep up with the tagging and categories, but forgive me if I am more interested in the content. My advice: Check back often.
I am a heavy believer of off the field chemistry and basically everything but statistics changing the outcomes of the game as much as hard stats do. I’ll dive deep into sabermetrics later. For now, I’ll keep it light.
It has been the perfect storm of an under the radar few weeks of resurgence for the Sox. While they have been surging, the rest of the nation has been preoccupied with the world cup, wimbledon, LeBron, the NBA finals (with a Boston team facing their biggest rivals no less), and every other thing going on in the world. If you couple that with the low expectations of fielding a AA team at the major league level and the underachieving (to that point) pitching staff, you’ve got a lot of built in excuses for a slide further into the depths of the AL East.
With all of the pressure off, the Sox began to surge. Now they are on a tear with the following changes in the lineup:
Jacoby to Hermedia to Reddick to Nava
Cameron to MacDonald to Hall back to Cameron
Pedroia to Hall to Patterson
V Mart to V Tek
The first lesson: Do not cross Adrian Beltre. Sure he is putting up good numbers, but he also destroys left fielders. He ran into and broke ribs of two so far. Don’t think it was a coincidence that V Mart was hurt after touching his head after a home run a few times. The man knows people. I say we keep him happy.
Couple that with the recent struggles of Pap and you have the makings of a .400 team with excuses. Somehow, someway, the Sox are surging. In the coming days we will discuss the secrets to their success.
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