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Sox Therapy— Where Thinking Red Sox Fans Obsess about the Sox
Monday, July 17, 2006
Weekly Minor League Thread: All Pedroia all the time
It seems like before a dork has time to even update his spreadsheet, Pedroia is putting up another multi-hit game to improve his numbers. After seeming months of his .250/.350/.350 act, Pedroia’s 2006 stats have actually reached: .311/.389/.435, with 35 BB and 23 K. MCoA has noted in other threads that this translates to something very much like what Loretta is doing for the big league club right now. If there’s any interest in Loretta out there, I hope the Sox can use him to land something they need.
Many of you have posted the splits that Amfox has posted over on SOSH. As is usually the case with his stuff, his split starts with the date that most makes it look like the player has turned some sort of corner. It’s fun stuff, but I don’t find it to be very illuminating. Using minorleaguesplits.com, I’ve compiled my own split for Pedroia in an attempt to account for him missing spring training. My reasoning goes something like this: Pedroia missed all of spring training but then spent some portion of April at extended spring training. Therefore, although Spring training usually provides players with about a month worth of games, I only counting about 1/2 a month of games as Pedroia’s own personal spring training. Since the Wind returned to the PawSox on April 17, I’ve selected May 1 as a convenient start date for his ‘real stats.’ Without further ado, here’s what he’s done since then:
253 AB, 21 2B, 2 3B, 2 HR, 27 BB, 17 K, .324 .403 .447.
Darren
Posted: July 17, 2006 at 06:39 PM | 12 comment(s)
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Who on a contender needs a 2Bman? Looking to the Mets, I think the Sox could unload Loretta for less than the DRays would ask for Lugo. He wouldn't bring much in return (and the Mets don't have much) but I suspect Cora and Pedroia could cover Loretta's production pretty easily.
The problem with the Mets is that they have the same needs we do. What about St. Louis?
Since this is a ml thread, perhaps I can mention here that Lopez is back down there and Van Buren up (along with Wily Mo). When's the next time we can call up Lopez? Seems like we might have use for a loogy at some point in the near future-- though, with our starters going this way, we need a bunch of guys who can face more than one or two batters at a time.
Luna's doing okay. Also complicating things is that the Royals have either Graffanino or Grudzielanek to spare, both of whom are probably cheaper than Loretta, and they have needs everywhere but 3B.
Ten days from today -- after KC (off day) Seattle and Oakland, but before the LAA series (unless there is an injury, then before).
The possibility of trading Loretta sounds interesting, but it would require a confluence of situations that I don't really love. First, there would need to be a team willing to trade a reasonable SP for Loretta. Second, the Sox would need to be sucking pretty bad. That's the only way to justify trading a solid veteran at the deadline - you're not only trading for an upgrade for a weakness, but you're also shaking up the roster. Do it during a win streak or just a period of general success, and you could really risk screwing up the clubhouse. (The Nomar trade only worked because the team was playing like crap at the time, I think.)
I don't think Pedroia is currently that much better than Loretta, so the Sox aren't in a position where they need to call him up to improve hte roster. But I do think that if the circumstances outlined above arise, I'd like to see Loretta traded.
Murphy: 265/320/425 (AA: 250/285/375, AAA: 270/350/470)
Spann: 265/320/395
Spann's done a nice job of adding power, but it's come at the cost of a K-rate in the 25% range. That's going to be hard to overcome. He's getting it done right now with a .375 BABIP, and that number well outpaces his previous stats. He needs to cut down the Ks and maintain the power, which is a very tough twofer, but 22-year-olds in AA at least have a mild head start.
Murphy's interesting. It'd sure be nice if he turned into a ballplayer. I'd still trade him if he could fetch anything good.
there is the Beckett extension to discuss and cause of the broken Wake-rib to discover!!
They could have gotten Burnett without having to give up Ramirez and Sanchez, though. Yeah they would have had to pay a lot more, but performance-wise I don't know if there will be a huge difference over the next few years.
"We knew he was sore. We thought he slept wrong originally and he may have. When it turned into this, it's hard to tell," said Francona. (emphasis mine)
It seems that the current theory is that Wakefield somehow injured himself in his sleep.
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