finally a postive run differential (+3)

ellsbury back.

cameron should be back tuesday.

i finally feel optimistic.

btw, chill on the scutaro hate lol, hes been perfectly reasonable.

I am hoping you guys get swept by the Rays so we get a lock on the wildcard.

Yay! Pretty decent weekend.

if ur optimistic than im feeling confident

ever moving back?

papi!

The DP to end the 1st was sweet

jumpin in and out of trouble. buchholz looking good though.

Hopefully V-Mart is ok. That looked nasty

wheee jd drew

never moving back BK, prob moving to cali though. hope wife/kid(s)? are doing well!

Red Sox win and Jack Bauer lives

i guess it's pretty cool how kevin youkilis is like the 6th best player in baseball now

quick question why is McDonald being designated for assignment why cant they just send him back to AAA

well, kyleb answered briefly in the mlb thread, but basically players only have so many trips back to the minors built into their contract. mcdonald is out of these, therefore their options are to keep him on the mlb roster or dfa him.

from wiki on options:

everyone thought he was running hot for the last few years right? has that changed? and how is his outlook this year?

zips projects him at .288/.398/.516 the rest of the season. pujols is the only guy that projects significantly better at the plate

i wasn't a baseball fan at all until i read lots of statgeek stuff one offseason and then i obsessively followed the red sox the next season. youkilis was drafted that year and put up a .500 OBP in rookie ball. i thought i was a baseball genius because i understood that walks were good so i immediately was in love with him.

i remember having lots of internet arguments about how he was a top prospect despite peter gammons saying he had a "steve balboniesque" body and reports that he had a really bizarre stance (i guess he used to have an extreme crouch). not to say that i'm a genius, 2010 gehrig would be less excited about youkilis as a prospect than early 2000s gehrig was. still, i thought he was just gonna walk 100 times a year and have no power and play bad defense.

him and pedroia (who won an MVP 4 years after constantly being called a low-upside, safe draft pick) have taught me that nobody knows anything about projecting baseball players long-term

on the day arod was traded to the yankees and every red sox fan wanted to kill themselves i wish future gehrig had come back in time to tell me that in 2010 kevin youkilis would be a better player than arod with twice the rangz

I am a Yankees fan... and I jumped at the chance to trade ARod for Youkillis (I got someone else too... forgot, it was an SP) in fantasy baseball last year.

If nothing else, Youkillis, at this point in time, is a more reliable player to put in productive time.

And it's an even numbered year.

First Rays/Sox rumble of 2010 coming?

What happened? Im on gameday as my connection is ****ed up atm.

I just see that Crawford and Maddon were ejected

Rays are super-worked up over the ump.

So the Rays have been no hit and one hit this year. Yeah, best team in baseball fo sho.

Thread Title is a winnar!

OK OK...moving forward...yep yep