Thursday, August 28, 2008

Sox Bury Yanks in the Eighth

Congratulations to Dustin Pedroia on his first grand slam in the majors. It put a nice cherry on top of a seven run eighth inning for the Sox in a win that almost completely dashes all hope for the Yankees. Paul Byrd pitched like a poor man's Greg Maddox keeping the Yanks off balance with soft stuff. Here's hoping for a sweep in today's matinee.

I like the way the Red Sox front office has kept active all year, solving problems immediately instead of waiting around for things to get better. They knew Clay Buchholz probably wouldn't be pitching more than 100 innings (although they couldn't have anticipated that he would be this bad) so they went out and got Bartolo Colon. When he didn't work out, they got Paul Byrd. JD Drew is all but out for the season, so they picked up Mark Kotsay. Granted, he's no Willie Mays, but he's a capable player whose career average is .280 or so.

Theo and his crew seem to know how to find serviceable vets who will buy into the Red Sox system and play hard because they want to win. These pick ups may seem like they were off the junk pile, but when combined with the Sox solid core of players, they are good complimentary components. They just couldn't carry the crappy teams they came from.

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