Beckham Signs, Broadway Starts

My pick to click is so Billy Butler on Thursday.

ray’s crawfor and bosox’ lowell

with Griffey roaming CF, he’ll prevent plenty of would-be hits.

the rest of the way out could look like this, if the Sox used days off to insure 4 days rest for the four starters they have now—-Buerhle, Floyd, Danks, and Vazquez. If they do that, the fifth starter would have the following starts

8/14 Home against KC
8/19 Home against Sea
9/2 at Clev
9/9 Home against Tor
9/14 Home against Det
9/19 at KC
9/27 Home against Clev

That also leaves Vazquez, Buerhle, and Floyd to pitch the MN series in the Terror Dome. I don’t know if the Sox would do that, but would minimize the starts placed on the 5th guy (whomever that is) and put him in starts that would avoid games against Boston, New York, LAA, and Minnesota. It’s a 4 1/2 man rotation, of sorts. This also presumes that someone like Carrasco could handle the mop-up game against Baltimore on the 25th.

I have serious doubts about Broadway handling those starts. Perhaps by committee? One or more of those games could also be good candidates to try out Poreda.

Thoughts?

extra ordinary circumstances will often lead to extra ordinary results

for the most part. Besides, tomorrow’s start could be Broadway’s only start assuming suckiness.
As for Poreda, does he need a third pitch for the first time sucky teams see him?
If Lance is a Broadway Bomb, I think that’s the next move with Carrasco to clean up any messes.
One game, big deal.

Forget it Cheat, it’s Kansas City.

I drove her to Crestwood.

I want some learned analysis. McCarthy gave the Sox huge starts in September 2005. I thought he was poised to take the 5th starter spot in 2006, but KW got Javy instead and that pushed McCarthy into the bullpen, where he underperformed. I went to one game in Baltimore where he came on in relief of Garland and was miserable.

I always thought that moving McCarthy, who was brought up as a starter, into the bullpen killed his career. He was not a reliever and didn’t perform at all. I know that injuries have been hurting him in Texas, but how much did this move to the pen in 2006 ruin McCarthy?

Broadway, Washburn.. not much difference other than 10 million. Plus having Washburn gives you 3 pitchers that have about the same stuff. I also think Carrasco should be in the ‘pen because he has done well there when many others have not. Maybe he’ll be o.k….I doubt it but we’ll see

For as much shit as we talked about Jose, its funny how much we miss him now.

Did way more than your boy Washburn would have done today. For a lot cheaper.