Jeepers......this team is bad

[Jack_John_Mark]

Just saying

 

[purguy12]

Im a Yankee fan and u guys just made a great Deal. He is going to hit so many Home runs there and plus lester will sign back with you guys. I think it was a bad Deal for the A's.

 

[Marley]

Just saying

It's really tough getting upset with a team that won the WS last year. Now if they're this bad next year, I'll be pissed.

 

[BoSox Fan]

This is what expect last year. Well maybe not the offense sucking as bad.

 

[navamind]

This is what expect last year. Well maybe not the offense sucking as bad.

Not really. I think most projections had the Sox winning around ~85 games last year. ZiPS had the Sox going 84-78 and finishing third, for example.

Preview: How will Sox fare in AL East? - Boston Red Sox Blog - ESPN Boston

2012 was a train wreck, but there was a lot of bad luck around that team. Lester and Buchholz (though he pitched pretty well after a rough first 1-2 months) had down years. Lackey was out for 2012 and the Sox turned to Daniel Bard as a starter (and that experiment did not end well). Ellsbury, Crawford and Ortiz missed most of the year. Middlebrooks' season ended in early/mid August because of his wrist injury, also potentially stinting his development (that and his plate discipline (or lack thereof)). Sox also went through about 35 different outfielders that year.

 

[navamind]

Just about everything that could go well for the 2013 Red Sox did.

 

[Lester]

Scoring Summary


Top 1st: Boston Yoenis Céspedes doubled to left, Mookie Betts scored, David Ortiz to thirdBOS 1 - NYY 0 Mike Napoli hit sacrifice fly to center, David Ortiz scoredBOS 2 - NYY 0 Top 3rd: Boston Daniel Nava homered (375 ft.) to deep right, Yoenis Céspedes and Mike Napoli scoredBOS 5 - NYY 0 Xander Bogaerts homered (399 ft.) to deep right centerBOS 6 - NYY 0 Bottom 3rd: NY Yankees Martín Prado homered (362 ft.) to deep leftBOS 6 - NYY 1 Top 4th: Boston Mookie Betts homered (380 ft.) to deep leftBOS 7 - NYY 1