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[flymrfreakjar]

No thread so I'll just start one due to utter boredom. Also the game's totally blacked out wooooo

Here are the lineups:

RED SOX (11-10-3)

Aviles SS

Ellsbury CF

Pedroia 2B

Gonzalez 1B

Youkilis 3B

Ortiz DH

Ross LF

Saltalamacchia C

Sweeney RF

Pitching:

Beckett followed by Morales, Melancon and Atchison.

RAYS (7-14-3)

Jennings DH

Joyce RF

Zobrist 2B

Pena 1B

Keppinger 3B

Salazar CF

Rodriguez SS

Lobaton C

Ryhmes LF

Pitching:

RHP Fernando Rodney followed by RHP Kyle Farnsworth, RHP Joel Peralta.

Game time:

1:35 p.m.

TV/Radio:

None.

[rembrat]

So it's all but a given that Ells is hitting out of the 2 hole this year right? Until Crawford gets back we'll probably have whoever is playing at shortstop leading off. Yay.

[SouthernBoSox]

Cody Ross is ready to start the season

[flymrfreakjar]

Locked in.

[SouthernBoSox]

30 HRs for Ross this year.

To perfect of a fit.

[RedOctober3829]

Beckett at 84 pitches through 5.

5 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 3 BB, 5 K

[InsideTheParker]

I'm seeing that Beckett is out after five with his glorious ERA intact. Pitch count reached? OOps. See he only pitched 84. Whazzup?

Edited by InsideTheParker, 27 March 2012 - 02:15 PM.

[Carl Everetts Therapist]

is there anyway I can even get a live box score? Gameday isn't working for me

[Rasputin]

I'm seeing that Beckett is out after five with his glorious ERA intact. Pitch count reached? OOps. See he only pitched 84. Whazzup?

Beckett and Lester look like they are both on a mission. I think this bodes well.

[SoxScout]

I'm seeing that Beckett is out after five with his glorious ERA intact. Pitch count reached? OOps. See he only pitched 84. Whazzup?

that's the pitch limit for starters in their next to last spring game.

[Foulkey Reese]

next to last spring game.

Thank fucking god.

[scotian1]

Two very good starting performances back to back, looks good to me. My question is what is going to happen with Pedro Ciriaco. If anyone deserves to make this team based on their performance it is him.

[Carl Everetts Therapist]

he'll be the utility man for the red sox..... the pawtucket red sox

[InsideTheParker]

Two very good starting performances back to back, looks good to me. My question is what is going to happen with Pedro Ciriaco. If anyone deserves to make this team based on their performance it is him.

Yet again, I tear my hair out and bitch and moan: Nick Freaking Punto, Why, why, why???????????????????????????

[Buzzkill Pauley]

Two very good starting performances back to back, looks good to me. My question is what is going to happen with Pedro Ciriaco. If anyone deserves to make this team based on their performance it is him.

Considering that the Sox will likely have to DFA the 25th man to bring Crawford aboard in mid-April, I think Ciriaco's unlikely to make the team.

Repko is a much better strategic choice, since even if he's claimed his role in Pawtucket is basically as Kalish's stand-in, anyway.

[Rasputin]

Yet again, I tear my hair out and bitch and moan: Nick Freaking Punto, Why, why, why???????????????????????????

Yeah, this.

I haven't really paid attention to any other team's spring trainings...anyone lose a shortstop?

[koufax37]

Well, I wish we knew when Beckett and Lester would stop messing around and get ready for the season already...oh wait. Nevermind.

Nice to see Melancon pitch well.

I'm not so clear why there is all the Ciriaco love? Is it on the small sample size hot spring, where stats rarely mean much at all? Or is it the career getting above a 690 OPS once in seven seasons in the minors? I don't think he or Punto should really be playing much, but I would rather have Punto than him. As cute as the Vote For Pedro t-shirts would have been, I can't believe the same people who criticize Punto think that Ciriaco has earned a spot with a few spring at bats. Let's see how he does in the minors for us and talk in 300 ABs.

[Rasputin]

I'm not so clear why there is all the Ciriaco love? Is it on the small sample size hot spring, where stats rarely mean much at all? Or is it the career getting above a 690 OPS once in seven seasons in the minors? I don't think he or Punto should really be playing much, but I would rather have Punto than him. As cute as the Vote For Pedro t-shirts would have been, I can't believe the same people who criticize Punto think that Ciriaco has earned a spot with a few spring at bats. Let's see how he does in the minors for us and talk in 300 ABs.

I'm not convinced that Ciriaco would be any better than Punto but I'm also not convinced Punto would be any better than Ciriaco. Given the choice between the two sucky options, I'll go with the one named Pedro almost every time.

[Al Zarilla]

I DVR'd yesterday's game and watched it last night. Punto took at least two half swings on his way to his three strikeouts. I've seen players change their mind mid swing and look real foolish, but not twice in one game. With Blanton pitching also, really?

[Rasputin]

I DVR'd yesterday's game and watched it last night. Punto took at least two half swings on his way to his three strikeouts. I've seen players change their mind mid swing and look real foolish, but not twice in one game. With Blanton pitching also, really?

Punto is going to give us a Lackeyesque level of performance.

[Foulkey Reese]

I'm calling it now. Lowrie has the year we were all dying for with the Astros and makes us hate Punto even more.

[rembrat]

Lowrie is currently hitting .324/.425/.618 with 5 of his 11 hits being XBH and Weiland has a 2.25ERA in 16IP 13H 8/8 BB/K.

Not looking good.

[Jed Zeppelin]

I'm calling it now. Lowrie has the year we were all dying for with the Astros and makes us hate Punto even more.

Well, duh.

[koufax37]

We never questioned Lowrie's ability to hit. We questioned his ability to stay healthy (and in the particulars of the trade, effectively pitch the 8th inning). I was a Jed fan and a little disappointed, but I think Aviles will be fine.

I don't think spring training ERAs mean very much, but an 8/8 BB/K is not something that encourages me, and I don't think Weiland is anything more than another guy and will not be missed.

Lowrie is currently hitting .324/.425/.618 with 5 of his 11 hits being XBH and Weiland has a 2.25ERA in 16IP 13H 8/8 BB/K.

Not looking good.