Josh's MLB 09 The Show Boston Red Sox Franchise

[msubulldogs21]

NLCS

New York Mets vs San Francisco Giants

ALCS

New York Yankees vs Boston Red Sox

[jbell96]

Don't you mean NLCS & ALCS?

[msubulldogs21]

Don't you mean NLCS & ALCS?

Come on now. It was 7 a.m.

[jbell96]

Not my fault you stayed up all night playing.

[msubulldogs21]

Not my fault you stayed up all night playing.

I actually got up early, only to go back to sleep.

[msubulldogs21]

ALCS Game 1 @ NYY

                1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9  R  H  E
Boston       0 1 1 0 0 0 2 0 0  4 12  0
New York   0 2 0 0 0 5 1 0 0  8  13  1

Red Sox (0-1)

Ellsbury, CF - 1/4, 2B, Sac, RBI, R
Pedroia, 2B - 2/5, RBI
Youkilis, 1B - 1/4, RBI
Bay, LF - 1/4, 2B, R
Davis, DH - 2/4
Lowell, 3B - 3/4, RBI
Drew, RF - 0/4
Teagarden, C - 0/3, BB
Harris, SS - 2/3, 2B, Sac, 2 R

Greinke (L, 0-1) 5 IP, 6 H, 5 ER, 2 BB, 5 K
Delcarmen: 1 IP, 4 H, 3 ER, BB, K
Wilson: 2 IP, 3 H, 0 ER, K

Yankees (1-0)

Jeter, SS - 1/5, 2B, RBI
Damon, LF - 0/4, BB
Teixeira, 1B - 1/3, BB, R
Nady, RF - 2/4, 2B, 2 R
Posada, C - 1/3, BB, R
Matsui, DH - 2/4, HR, 4 RBI, 2 R
Cano, 2B - 4/4, HR, 3 2B, 3 RBI, 2 R
Cabrera, CF - 0/4
Ransom, 3B - 2/4

E: Jeter
SB: Ransom

Chamberlain (W, 1-0) 6.1 IP, 10 H, 4 ER, BB, 2 K
Bruney: 2.2 IP, 2 H, 0 ER, 0 K

This team is flat out unbeatable. Good lord.

I had Greinke start Game 1 so I could set up my rotation right.

Greinke: 1/5
Beckett: 2/6
Lester: 3/7
Buchholz: 4

[msubulldogs21]

ALCS Game 2 @ NYY

                1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9  R  H  E
Boston       0 0 1 1 0 3 0 0 0  5 13  0
New York   0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0  2  10  0

Red Sox (1-1)

Ellsbury, CF - 0/5
Pedroia, 2B - 2/4, BB, RBI
Youkilis, 1B - 2/4
Bay, LF - 1/4, R
Davis, DH - 1/3, Sac, R
Lowell, 3B - 1/4
Drew, RF - 2/4, RBI, R
Teagarden, C - 4/4, HR, 3 RBI, 2 R
Harris, SS - 0/3, Sac

Beckett (2-0) 6 IP, 7 H, 2 ER, 4 K
Happ (H, 1) 1.1 IP, 3 H, 0 ER, K
Madson (S, 1) 1.2 IP, 0 H, 0 ER, K

Yankees (1-1)

Jeter, SS - 1/4
Damon, LF - 2/4, HR, 2 RBI, R
Teixeira, 1B - 1/4
Nady, RF - 0/4
Posada, C - 0/4
Matsui, DH - 2/4
Cano, 2B - 2/4
Cabrera, CF - 1/3, R
Ransom, 3B - 1/3

Wang (L, 0-2) 5.2 IP, 11 H, 5 ER, BB, 2 K
Veras: 3.1 IP, 2 H, 0 ER, 4 K

Thank you Taylor Teagarden. Dude went OFF. This was so huge getting a split in New York. Heading back to Boston for 3 now.

[RHS]

Wang!!1 lol

Great production from the 8 hole.

[AB™]

Josh, you rocked Wang. 

[msubulldogs21]

ALCS Game 3 vs NYY

                1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9  R  H  E
New York   0 2 1 0 2 0 2 0 0   7 10 0
Boston       0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0  3 10  1

Yankees (2-1)

Jeter, SS - 1/5, R
Damon, LF - 3/3, HR, 3B, BB, 2 RBI, 2 R
Teixeira, 1B - 1/3, BB, 2 RBI
Nady, RF - 1/4
Posada, C - 0/4, R
Matsui, DH - 0/4
Cano, 2B - 1/4, 2B, RBI, R
Cabrera, CF - 2/4, RBI, R
Ransom, 3B - 1/4, 2B, R

Burnett (W, 2-0) 7 IP, 10 H, 3 ER, 4 K
Bruney: 2 IP, 0 H, 0 ER, K

Red Sox (1-2)

Ellsbury, CF - 2/3, HR, HBP, RBI, R
Pedroia, 2B - 2/4, HR, 2B, RBI, R
Youkilis, 1B - 1/4, R
Bay, LF - 2/4
Davis, DH - 1/4, RBI
Lowell, 3B - 1/4
Drew, RF - 0/4
Teagarden, C - 1/4
Harris, SS - 0/3

E: Lowell
SB: Ellsbury

Lester (L, 1-2) 6 IP, 9 H, 7 R, 6 ER, BB, 5 K
Delcarmen: 1.1 IP, 1 H, 0 ER, BB, K
Wilson: 1.2 IP, 0 H, 0 ER, 3 K

Frustrating loss. Trying to pitch to this lineup is just impossible. If it's not Tex, it's Damon, or Posada, or Cano... I know I'm pretty overmatched here, but it still kills me to lose to these clowns.

[msubulldogs21]

I don't feel like posting box scores.

Game 4: L, 4-2

W: Pettitte
L: Buchholz
S: Rivera

Game 5: L, 3-1

W: Sabathia
L: Greinke

Oh well. I hate losing but the Yankees are clearly the best team on the game. I need to work on my roster and get some better players in there. Time for the off-season.

[msubulldogs21]

The Mets also beat the Giants in 5 in the NLCS.

In the Subway Series the Mets put away the Yankees in 5 games.

[AB™]

The Mets are a great video game team.

[msubulldogs21]

I'm just now beginning the off-season. I figured I would post some of the notable retired players. I'm not posting all for every team because that would take too long, but some of these are well known players. Funny stuff. In parenthesis is how many total retired players each team had.

Notable retired players:

Boston (2):

Lorne Bullington, C - ability
Trinidad Sweeney, 2B - ability (no harm - both these guys suck)

Baltimore (5):

Gregg Zaun, C - age
Daniel Meza, SS - poor FA market (lolwut)

NY Yankees (3):

Mariano Rivera, CP - age (yes!!!!)
Alex Rodriguez, 3B - age (lol yes!!!!)

Tampa Bay (3):

Mike DiFelice, C - age
Brian Shouse, RP - age
PJ Graves, CF - poor FA market (again, this is a good reason to retire?)

Toronto (3):

Buck Coats, RF - ability
Marco Scutaro, SS - age (wow)

Chicago White Sox (7):

Chip Ambres, RF - ability (see why I traded this bum?)
Tom Gordon, RP - age
Jim Thome, DH - age

Cleveland (5)

Detroit (2):

Gary Sheffield, LF - age

Kansas City (2)

Minnesota (3):

RA Dickey, RP - age

LA Angels (2)

Oakland (3):

Wilhelm Wilcox, C - poor FA market (lol @ this name)

Seattle (3):

Ichiro, RF - age (whoa!!! I did not see that coming)

Texas (6):

Chris Carter, 1B - ability (yep, I traded him away)
Eddie Gaurdado, RF - age
Takashi Saito, RP - age (traded him away too)

Atlanta (6):

Brooks Conrad, 2B - injury
Tom Glavine, SP - age
Clint Sammons, C - ability

Florida 8

Washington (3)

NY Mets (6):

Marlon Anderson, 2B - age
Luis Castillo, 2B - poor FA market (lol)

Philadelphia (5):

Jamie Moyer, SP - age (shocker)
Matt Stairs, 1B - hockey coach (ok not really, it was age)

Chicago Cubs (3):

Chad Fox, RF - age
Koyie Hill, C - ability (didn't this guy play a lot for the Cubs this season? lol)

Cincinnati (7):

Laynce Nix, CF - ability
Arthur Rhodes, RP - age
David Weathers, RP - age

Houston (3):

Darin Erstad, LF - age
Ivan Rodriguez, C - age

Milwaukee (6):

Craig Counsell, SS - age
Trevor Hoffman, CP - age
Casey McGehee, 3B - ability

St. Louis (5):

Joel Pineiro, SP - injury

Arizona (6)

Colorado (2):

Joe Koshansky, 1B - ability

LA Dodgers (6):

Brad Ausmus, C - age
Mark Loretta, 2B - age
Tanyon Sturtze, RP - age

San Diego (2):

Emil Brown, LF - age
Brian Giles, RF - age

San Francisco (5):

Randy Johnson, SP - age

Free Agents:

Moises Alou, LF - age
Armando Benitez, RP - age
Paul Byrd, SP - age
Jim Edmonds, CF - age
Eric Gagne, RP - age
Robby Hammock, C - poor FA market
Paul Lo Duca, C - age
Pedro Martinez, SP - age
Kenny Rogers, SP - age
Curt Schilling, SP - age
Frank Thomas, 1B - age
Mike Timlin, RP - age

[RHS]

WOW on the Scutaro and Ichiro moves.

The poor FA market makes me laugh.

[bulldogs1159]

Lance Nix due to ability? Thats insane.

[AB™]

They fixed the age thing on 2K9 but on MLB 2K8 players would retire due to age at like 35 and 36.  I don't understand why baseball games don't realize this problem and fix it.  I still have some guys that suck retire due to age at like 37ish, but never guys with superstars or even just every day players retire because of age at like 37.

[msubulldogs21]

Off-season roundup:

Red Sox

11/22 - traded SP Dice-K Matsuzaka and 3B Mike Lowell to Colorado for SS Troy Tulowitzki

11/23 - re-signed C Taylor Teagarden to a 6/11.17M contract

12/3 - signed C/1B Victor Martinez to a 5/30M contract
       - signed LF Carl Crawford to a 5/50 contract

12/7 - released SS Charles Best
         re-signed LF Jason Bay to a 6/80M contract

12/8 - re-signed RP JA Happ to a 6/4.18M contract
       - re-signed RP Ramon Ramirez to a 5/12M contract
       - re-signed SP Clay Buchholz to a 7/30M contract
       - re-signed SS Brendan Harris to a 3/2M contract

12/12 - did not tender a contract to 1B Jeff Bailey, making him a FA

12/19 - re-signed SP Josh Beckett to a 5/70M contract

12/20 - re-signed CF Jacoby Ellsbury to a 5/65M contract

12/23 - re-signed RP Randor Bierd to a 2/550K contract

1/20 - released SS Jed Lowrie
         signed SS Alcides Escobar to a 4/5.15M contract

2/6 - re-signed CF Rocco Baldelli to a 1/1.62M contract

2/8 - RP Hideki Okajima awarded 1M in arbitration

2/9 - CP Jon Papelbon awarded 10M in arbitration
        RP Manny Delcarmen awarded 800K in arbitration

2/11 - RP CJ Wilson awarded 812K in arbitration

2/23 - released SS Ron Bonilla
         renewed the contract of 1B Chris Davis for 500K

2/28 - renewed the contract of SP Michael Bowden for 450K

This is what I would call a successful off-season. All those trades I made last year getting good young talent for older players also cleared a ton of payroll, which allowed me to go out and spend a little bit. I'm thrilled to have Tulo at SS now. Looking forward to getting spring training going soon.

[RHS]

Paps got 10 million? I'd laugh if that was the real life thing.

Tulo at SS is great. Crawford in the OF is nice as well. You've got a ton of speed at the top (if you bat him 2nd) with him and Ellsbury. Throw in Bay and you've got a stacked OF, IMO.

[msubulldogs21]

Notable Free Agent Signings:

Matt Holliday - 4/47M (San Francisco)
John Lackey - 9/120M (Philadelphia)
Brandon Webb - 6/116M (Milwaukee)
Chipper Jones - 2/25M (Cleveland)
Mark DeRosa - 3/10M (NY Yankees)
Chone Figgins - 4/6M (NY Mets)
Erik Bedard - 4/37 (Philadelphia)
Ben Sheets - 5/75M (Florida)
Rafael Soriano - 2/6M (Philadelphia)
Cliff Lee - 2/14M (Cleveland)
Brett Myers - 5/55M (Philadelphia)
Justin Duchscherer - 5/60M (Chicago WS)
Rich Harden - 5/65M (Chicago Cubs)
Placido Polanco - 2/18M (NY Mets)
Bobby Abreu - 3/14M (Colorado)
Johnny Damon - 3/18M (NY Yankees)
John Smoltz - 1/14M (Kansas City)
Garrett Atkins - 2/11M (St. Louis)
Carlos Delgado - 5/32M (NY Mets)
Ben Zobrist - 5/2M (Tampa Bay)
Kelvim Escobar - 2/20M (Philadelphia)
Tim Wakefield - 1/744K (Washington)
Josh Anderson - 2/2M (Washington)
Freddy Sanchez - 2/13M (Chicago WS)
Jarrod Washburn - 2/2M (Tampa Bay)
Adam LaRoche - 3/9M (Toronto)
Hideki Matsui - 5/20M (NY Yankees)
Jack Cust - 3/7M (St. Louis)
Russell Branyan - 3/3M (St. Louis)
Willy Aybar - 3/939K (Chicago WS)
Jason Giambi - 3/13M (Colorado)
Randy Wolf - 3/6M (LA Dodgers)
Randy Winn - 3/17M (San Diego)
Braden Looper - 5/22M (Milwaukee)
Coco Crisp - 2/9M (Kansas City)
Brad Penny - 3/20M (Philadelphia)
Conor Jackson - 4/11M (LA Angels)
Jerry Hairston, Jr. - 3/11M (Oakland)
Marlon Byrd - 3/7M (Texas)
Jon Garland - 3/12M (Atlanta)
Rafael Perez - 2/4M (Minnesota)
Aubrey Huff - 3/15M (Baltimore)
Melvin Mora - 2/9M (Baltimore)
Billy Wagner - 2/11M (Tampa Bay)
Ramon Hernandez - 3/6M (LA Angels)
Matt Diaz - 3/4M (Chicago WS)
David Eckstein - 2/5M (Detroit)
Joe Crede - 3/7M (Minnesota)
Scott Podsednik - 4/1M (Oakland)
Garrett Anderson - 4/7M (Oakland)
Rod Barajas - 3/2M (Atlanta)
Chad Tracy - 4/5M (LA Angels)
Todd Wellemeyer - 4/30M (NY Mets)
Chan Ho Park - 2/2M (Cincinnati)
Mike Jacobs - 2/3M (Houston)

Wow. The Phillies went out of their mind spending on pitching. I was shocked Matt Holliday didn't get a bigger deal, same with Chone Figgins and Cliff Lee.

[msubulldogs21]

Paps got 10 million?

Yeah, that's what the arbitrator decided.

Tulo at SS is great.

It's going to be nice having some stability at SS now. Last season I started Lowrie, Lugo, and Harris off and on during different parts of the season.

Crawford in the OF is nice as well. You've got a ton of speed at the top (if you bat him 2nd) with him and Ellsbury. Throw in Bay and you've got a stacked OF, IMO.

I'm going to have to really think hard about how my lineup will be 1-9, but I plan on having Crawford in LF, Ellsbury in CF, and Drew in RF. Since Bay is slower than all three I'm putting him at DH.

[msubulldogs21]

I'm going to have to really think hard about how my lineup will be 1-9, but I plan on having Crawford in LF, Ellsbury in CF, and Drew in RF. Since Bay is slower than all three I'm putting him at DH.

Scratch that. I realized with that lineup I wouldn't be able to fit in Chris Davis anywhere, so I decided to trade JD Drew and get some help in the bullpen. Drew is 34 anyway.

Boston Red Sox receive: RP Manny Corpas, RP Mel Kessler (19 year old prospect)

Colorado Rockies receieve: JD Drew, CJ Wilson

I threw Wilson in there to get them to accept the deal because that was a pretty highly valued pitching prospect. Plus, Wilson was my worst reliever to begin with.

[AB™]

Are CPU controlled teams capable of making good decisions when it comes to making trades?

[msubulldogs21]

Are CPU controlled teams capable of making good decisions when it comes to making trades?

I've had my fair share of rip-offs, but this one wasn't that bad for Colorado. Drew is still a good hitter. I just don't have any room for him in my lineup, and it would be better for me to have Baldelli as my 4th OF than Drew (1M vs 4M salary) so I strengthened my bullpen in the process.

[AB™]

Yeah, that trade isn't terrible for either team, but I know some of the ones you pulled off during the season were rip offs.

[msubulldogs21]

I've been playing a little bit of spring training, but I simmed the rest and I'm ready to go for the 2010 regular season. The schedule is obviously different but I'm playing the NL East again, only this time I have the Nationals twice opposed to last year playing the Braves twice. J'Lo, for your 2010 schedule are you playing AL Central again? I was hoping to play either the NL Central or NL West. Oh well.

[bulldogs1159]

I ended up playing most of the spring on mine and I just finished it up. I freaking have the AL Central again this year. I play the Royals, the Twins, and the White Sox at home and I play at the Indians and Twins.

[msubulldogs21]

That leads me to believe we will be playing the same division during interleague every season. I wish they would've switched it up.

[AB™]

Haha!  I found something out that 2K9 has that's better! 

I played the AL East in year one and I believe I'm playing the AL Central this year.  I know it's a small victory for my crappy game but I'll take it.

[msubulldogs21]

Haha!  I found something out that 2K9 has that's better! 

I played the AL East in year one and I believe I'm playing the AL Central this year.  I know it's a small victory for my crappy game but I'll take it.

Hahahaha. That was the first thing that came to my mind too.

2K9 should make a mission statement: "Closing the gap, one interleague series at a time"

[msubulldogs21]

Opening Day Roster 2010:

Boston Red Sox

Starters:

RF - Carl Crawford
2B - Dustin Pedroia
1B - Victor Martinez
LF - Jason Bay
3B - Kevin Youkilis
SS - Troy Tulowitzki
DH - Chris Davis
C - Taylor Teagarden
CF - Jacoby Ellsbury

Bench:

INF/OF - Willy Aybar
INF/OF - Livan Costello
OF - Rocco Baldelli
C - Samual Register

Rotation:

Josh Beckett
Jon Lester
Clay Buchholz
Zack Greinke
Michael Bowden

Bullpen:

Manny Delcarmen
Manny Corpas
JA Happ
Ramon Ramirez
Hideki Okajima
Ryan Madson
Jon Papelbon


Pawtucket Red Sox (AAA)

Starters:

SS - Alcides Escobar
2B - Brendan Harris
CF - Ellis Riske
3B - Corey Tillman
C - Jarvis Bruntlett
DH - Eliezer Torres
RF - Emmanuel Cavazos
LF - Lonny Cannon
1B - Merkin Mahoney

Bench:

INF - Arnulfo Carmona
OF - Lee Rector
INF - Pablo Nivar

Rotation:

Carmelo Griffith
Yorman Ozuna
Matthew Adenhart
Mordecai Cassidy
Yamil Cervantes

Bullpen:

Bryant Saldana
Randor Bierd
Ubaldo Uriarte
Edgardo Zarate
Hector Garcia
Mel Kessler
Aurelio Chavis
Chadwick Russo


Portland Sea Dogs (AA)

Starters:

LF - Moises Holder
3B - Aaron Snider
1B - Mo Acosta
CF - Jorge Villacis
3B - Dana Feierabend
DH - Juan Infante
SS - Alfonzo Aguilar
RF - Tory Rosario
C - Guadalupe Campillo

Bench:

OF - Cornell Cuellar
OF - Josh Foss
C - Renato Bazardo

Rotation:

Jose Chacin
Ernesto Manning
Royal Spicer
Edinson Irizarry
Trinidad Dent

Bullpen:

Eude Quintanilla
Grant Shearn
Gookie Juarez
Bradly Erstad
Lucas Reinecker
Major Markakis
Colt Ingram
Brayan Mesa

[msubulldogs21]

April 5 @ Toronto (Opening Day 2010)

              1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9  R  H  E
Boston     0 0 0 0 4 0 0 1 0  5 11  0
Toronto    0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0  0  7  2

Red Sox (1-0)

Crawford, RF - 1/4, HR, 2 RBI, R
Pedroia, 2B - 1/4, R
Martinez, 1B - 1/4
Bay, LF - 1/4
Youkilis, 3B - 1/3, 2B, BB, R
Tulowitzki, SS - 2/4, R
Davis, DH - 2/4, RBI
Teagarden, C - 2/4
Ellsbury, CF - 0/4, R

SB: Ellsbury (1)

Beckett (W, 1-0) 9 IP, 7 H, 0 ER, 5 K

Blue Jays (0-1)

Rios, RF - 1/4, 2B
Lind, LF - 0/4
Wells, CF - 1/4
LaRoche, 1B - 1/4
Rolen, 3B - 2/4
Overbay, DH - 1/3
Kramer, C - 1/3
Hill, 2B - 0/3
McDonald, SS - 0/2, HBP

E: Rolen (1), McDonald (1)

Halladay (L, 0-1) 5 IP, 7 H, 4 ER, BB, 3 K
League: 1 IP, 2 H, 0 ER, 0 K
Carlson: 3 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 2 K

Good to get the season started on the right foot. Beckett was awesome and got the CG SO. Carl Crawford added a 2 run HR in his Red Sox debut.

[msubulldogs21]

Also, I forgot to mention this but I picked up Willy Aybar off waivers before the season started. I have no idea why the White Sox signed him in the off-season only to put him on waivers, but I was glad to get him. He's a solid player and has an awesome contract, 3/900K. Nice having a good bench guy who can play INF and OF too.

[msubulldogs21]

Back in the saddle. I made a few moves recently:

Boston Red Sox receive: LF Ryan Braun, LF Sanford Crowe (AAA)

Milwaukee Brewers receive: LF Jason Bay, RF Rocco Baldelli

I also called up Brendan Harris from AAA Pawtucket to fill out my 25th roster spot after the trade.

[jbell96]

Portland Sea Dogs (AA)

Starters:

LF - Moises Holder
3B - Aaron Snider
1B - Mo Acosta
CF - Jorge Villacis
3B - Dana Feierabend
DH - Juan Infante
SS - Alfonzo Aguilar
RF - Tory Rosario
C - Guadalupe Campillo

Bench:

OF - Cornell Cuellar
OF - Josh Foss
C - Renato Bazardo

Rotation:

Jose Chacin
Ernesto Manning
Royal Spicer
Edinson Irizarry
Trinidad Dent

Bullpen:

Eude Quintanilla
Grant Shearn
Gookie Juarez
Bradly Erstad
Lucas Reinecker
Major Markakis
Colt Ingram
Brayan Mesa

E F F The Sea Dogs.

[msubulldogs21]

2010 Boston Red Sox:

April 5 @ Toronto W 5-0 (1-0) W: Josh Beckett L: Roy Halladay
April 7 @ Toronto L 6-5 (1-1) W: Wilfredo Ledezma L: Jon Lester
April 8 @ Toronto W 5-2 (2-1) W: Clay Buchholz L: Shaun Marcum
April 9 @ Detroit W 17-13 (3-1) W: Ryan Madson L: Zach Miner
April 10 @ Detroit L 7-1 (3-2) W: Edwin Jackson L: Michael Bowden
April 11 @ Detroit L 5-2 (3-3) W: Justin Verlander L: Josh Beckett
April 12 @ NY Yankees W 5-1 (4-3) W: Jon Lester L: Joba Chamberlain
April 13 @ NY Yankees W 11-1 (5-3) W: Clay Buchholz L: Chien-Ming Wang
April 14 @ NY Yankees L 4-3 (5-4) W: Damaso Marte L: Ryan Madson
April 15 vs Chicago W 1-0 (6-4) W: Michael Bowden L: Jose Contreras
April 16 vs Chicago W 6-2 (7-4) W: Josh Beckett L: Justin Duchscherer
April 17 vs Chicago L 4-3 (7-5) W: Scott Linebrink L: Manny Corpas
April 18 vs Chicago W 4-1 (8-5) W: Clay Buchholz L: John Danks
April 19 vs LA Angels W 6-0 (9-5) W: Zach Greinke L: Joe Saunders
April 20 vs LA Angels W 7-6 (10-5) W: Manny Delcarmen L: Jim Johnson
April 21 vs LA Angels W 12-8 (11-5) W: Josh Beckett L: Ervin Santana
April 23 @ Baltimore W 2-1 (12-5) W: Ramon Ramirez L: Matt Albers
April 24 @ Baltimore W 11-4 (13-5) W: Clay Buchholz L: Rich Hill
April 25 @ Baltimore W 7-1 (14-5) W: Zack Greinke L: Danys Baez
April 26 @ Cleveland W 5-0 (15-5) W: Michael Bowden L: Aaron Laffey
April 27 @ Cleveland W 10-9 (16-5) W: Manny Corpas L: Joe Smith
April 28 @ Cleveland W 5-3 (17-5) W: Jon Lester L: Cliff Lee
April 29 vs Texas L 10-2 (17-6) W: Kevin Millwood L: Clay Buchholz
April 30 vs Texas W 4-0 (18-6) W: Zack Greinke L: Vicente Padilla

[msubulldogs21]

E F F The Sea Dogs.

Hahahaha

Don't be bitter

[jbell96]

Bitter that you took advantage of me while playing the game for only the 2nd time ever? Nah, not me. LOL

[msubulldogs21]

Update: Official 2010 stats and standings through April

AL East
                       GB
Red Sox 18-6      --
Yankees 15-9      3
Blue Jays 13-10  4.5
Rays 13-12        5.5
Orioles 8-15       9.5

AL Central
                        GB
White Sox 14-9    --
Tigers 12-11        2
Royals 11-12        3
Indians 11-12       3
Twins 10-13         4

AL West
                        GB
Rangers 16-7       --
A's 8-15              8
Mariners 7-16       9
Angels 7-16         9

NL East
                        GB
Phillies 15-7         --
Marlins 12-11      3.5
Mets 11-12        4.5
Nationals 9-13     6
Braves 9-14       6.5

NL Central
                        GB
Cardinals 14-9     --
Brewers 12-11     2
Cubs 11-12         3
Reds 10-13         4
Pirates 10-15      5
Astros 9-14        5

NL West
                       GB
Dodgers 18-6      --
Rockies 15-9       3
Giants 13-10      4.5
Padres 8-13       8.5
D-backs 7-14     9.5

Lineup:

Carl Crawford, RF - .263 AVG, 5 HR, 17 RBI, .290 OBP, 7 SB
Dustin Pedroia, 2B - .292 AVG, 5 HR, 15 RBI, .346 OBP, 4 SB
Troy Tulowitzki, SS - .367 AVG, 1 HR, 16 RBI, .387 OBP, 1 SB
Ryan Braun, LF - .333 AVG, 9 HR, 16 RBI, .381 OBP, 0 SB
Chris Davis, DH - .372 AVG, 3 HR, 12 RBI, .398 OBP, 0 SB
Kevin Youkilis, 3B - .310 AVG, 0 HR, 9 RBI, .372 OBP, 0 SB
Victor Martinez, 1B - .208 AVG, 0 HR, 5 RBI, .279 OBP, 0 SB
Taylor Teagarden, C - .203 AVG, 3 HR, 11 RBI, .271 OBP, 0 SB
Jacoby Ellsbury, CF - .319 AVG, 2 HR, 12 RBI, .363 OBP, 6 SB

Bench:

Livan Costello, INF/OF - .308 AVG, 2 HR, 8 RBI, .424 OBP, 3 SB
Willy Aybar, INF/OF - .286 AVG, 1 HR, 3 RBI, .311 OBP, 0 SB
Brendan Harris, INF - .261 AVG, 0 HR, 1 RBI, .393 OBP, 0 SB
Samual Register, C - .179 AVG, 0 HR, 2 RBI, .226 OBP, 0 SB

Starting Pitching:

Josh Beckett - 3-1, 4.81 ERA, 25 K, 1.51 WHIP (5 starts)
Jon Lester - 2-1, 3.31 ERA, 24 K, 1.13 WHIP (5 starts)
Clay Buchholz - 4-1, 4.02 ERA, 20 K, 1.40 WHIP (5 starts)
Zack Greinke - 3-0, 2.11 ERA, 32 K, 0.99 WHIP (5 starts)
Michael Bowden - 2-1, 4.56 ERA, 9 K, 1.18 WHIP (4 starts)

Bullpen

Manny Delcarmen - 1-0, 2.70 ERA, 5 K, 1.70 WHIP (8 G)
Manny Corpas - 1-1, 3.86 ERA, 7 K, 1.57 WHIP (7 G)
JA Happ - 0-0, 6.92 ERA, 5 K, 1.69 WHIP (8 G)
Ryan Madson - 1-1, 2.16 ERA, 6 K, 0.72 WHIP (4 G)
Hideki Okajima - 0-0, 0.00 ERA, 1 K, 0.20 WHIP (6 G)
Ramon Ramirez - 1-0, 1.13 ERA, 10 K, 0.50 WHIP (6 G)
Jon Papelbon - 0-0, 1.93 ERA, 13 K, 6/7 saves, 0.75 WHIP (9 G)

[msubulldogs21]

Thoughts:

I didn't expect Victor Martinez to be so bad, although we're only a month in. Fortunately my #1 prospect Livan Costello has played really well, and I've pretty much been platooning him with V-Mart lately. Depending on how things go I may make Costello an everyday starter at 3B, and move Youkilis to 1B. Costello is only 19 years old.

I don't get how some of the guys in my lineup have so few home runs. Tulo with just 1, Davis with 3, Youkilis with 0, and Martinez with 0. Weird.

My rookie #5 SP Michael Bowden has been hit and miss. He has alternated good/bad starts in each game so far. Hopefully he can get more consistent as I don't really have another SP who could fill in right now outside of JA Happ, and he has struggled out of the 'pen.

18-6 is a nice start a month into the season. I just had a 10 game winning streak snapped by Texas 2 games ago.

[msubulldogs21]

May 1 vs Texas 

            1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9  R   H  E
Texas    6 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 2  11 22 1
Boston   0 0 2 0 0 2 2 3 3  12 14 0

Rangers (16-8)

Arias, SS - 4/6, 2 RBI
Saltalamacchia, C - 1/6
Hamilton, RF - 2/6, R
Ortiz, 1B - 2/4, HR, BB, RBI, 2 R
Byrd, CF - 2/4, HBP, RBI, R
Young, 3B - 2/5, 3B, 2 RBI, 2 R
Murphy, LF - 2/5, HR, 2B, 2 RBI, 2 R
Cruz, DH - 4/5, HR, 2B, 2 RBI, 3 R
Vizquel, 2B - 3/5, RBI

E: Arias (1)

McCarthy: 6 IP, 7 H, 5 ER, 3 K
Embree (H, 8.) 1 IP, H, ER, 0 K
Turnbow (BS, 1) 1 IP, 3 H, 3 ER, 0 K
Francisco (L, 0-1) 0.1 IP, 3 H, 3 ER, 0 K

Red Sox (19-6)

Crawford, RF - 1/5, RBI, R
Pedroia, 2B - 2/5, 2B, 2 RBI, R
Tulowitzki, SS - 1/5, HR, 3 RBI, R
Braun, LF - 1/5, HR, RBI, R
Davis, DH - 1/4, R
Youkilis, 1B - 3/4, HR, 2 RBI, 2 R
Costello, 3B - 1/4, R
Teagarden, C - 2/4, HR, 3 RBI, 2 R
Ellsbury, CF - 2/4, 2B, 2 R

Bowden: 0.2 IP, 8 H, 6 ER, 0 K
Happ: 4 IP, 8 H, 3 ER, BB, K
Delcarmen: 3 IP, 2 H, 0 ER, 2 K
Corpas: 0.1 IP, 3 H, 2 ER, 0 K
Madson (W, 2-1) 1 IP, H, 0 ER, 0 K

Wow. Wow. Wow. That was one of the all time great games I have ever played.

First off, I'm down 6-0 in the 1st before I ever even get a chance to bat. Fast forward to the 6th, when I'm down 9-2. Didn't think the odds of coming back and winning were that good right then. In the 7th Youkilis hit his 1st homer of the season to cut the lead to 9-6. In the 8th I made 2 quick outs, followed by a Youkilis single, Costello single, and then Taylor Teagarden hit a 3 run shot to tie it up 9-9. In the 9th Manny Corpas gave up back to back solo homers to start the inning, so naturally I was mad, especially since I worked so hard to tie it up. In the bottom of the 9th the Rangers brought on Frank Francisco to close it out, and with 1 out Pedroia singled. Tulowitzki then comes up and hits a towering 2 run bomb to tie it up 11-11. (At this point there is major fist pumping occurring) Next up is Ryan Braun, who hits a walk off home run into the Red Sox bullpen right out there by the triangle. It cleared the wall by about 2 feet. Red Sox win 12-11. What. A. Game.

I'm also probably going to send Michael Bowden back down to AAA and explore some trades for a 5th starter because I pretty much don't have one. Bowden has really been struggling and I'm not sure it's going to work out.

[dc24]

Haha wow, that does sound like a crazy game, and you still got outhit 22-14, lol.

That is epic though.

[bulldogs1159]

Haha wow

[msubulldogs21]

Trade:

Red Sox receive: SP Edinson Volquez (1-2, 2.59 ERA, 36 K, 1.44 WHIP, 5 starts)

Reds receive: C Victor Martinez (.234 AVG, 0 HR, 6 RBI, .298 OBP, 0 SB)

Transactions:

Optioned SP Michael Bowden to AAA Pawtucket
Sent RP JA Happ outright to AAA Pawtucket

Called up RP Mel Kessler (rookie, 19 years old) from AAA Pawtucket
Called up 3B Corey Tillman (rookie, 19 years old) from AAA Pawtucket

[bulldogs1159]

Nice trade.

[dc24]

Very nice trade.

Happ not doing too well?