Hello People,
This 140M dollar dog team is starting to go down the tubes and it is going down the tubes quick. Mind you, MPDSports told you exactly how this would go, and begged, pleaded, and yelled for you to make different decisions. So now here we are at the start of May and the hole is getting deeper and deeper. This team has proven, as it is now constituted, that it cannot beat the top two teams the Yankees and the Rays. So far the RedSox is 1 and 5 vs the Yankees and 0 and 4 vs the Rays. The RedSox vs the Yankees have scored 20 runs, while the Yankees have scored 40, RedSox has scored 9 runs vs the Rays while the Rays have scored 26. Those stats are damning, and they are not going to get any better, does anyone right now really think that these stats are going to improve over time. Do we have any evidence that this team as it exists right now can improve. I am sorry but MPDSports does not believe that this is a winning team and the RedSox cannot win against the top teams in the AL East.
So RedSox management needs to make a decision. They need to either let this team suck and suck big time this year, or spend more money and pray for good things to happen. The hole that is dug, is deep. Currently the Redsox are 7.5 games behind Tampa and 7 games behind the Yankees. If you are going to spend more money to save this team, we suggest the following:
- As much as we like Big Papi, he needs to be sent down to Pawtucket. He has to hit the ball to the opposite field. Which we at MPDSports have been saying for years now. Right now you just cannot keep Big Papi in the DH role and hope for a good outcome, because it is not going to happen. Until he can beat the shift and get on base, he is a liability to this team.
- To fill the void at DH you need to go get a big bat. I hate to say these two names, but Dye and Bonds are free agents and right now you need offense. Personally I am not sure if either of these two can play anymore. I think Dye would be better than Bonds, but gods know by how much. Personally, I do not care who the RedSox go get, as long as they go get someone not on this team to fill the DH roll.
- When Ellsbury gets back from injury, he is your Center Fielder. He is not a left fielder, he is not going to be a left fielder, what part of this does your freakin organization not understand. He has speed and range, and no arm, you know what that makes him, a Freakin Center Fielder, Get the Freakin Clue, you Freakin Stiffs at RedSox Management Compound. He is a great base stealer which you need on this team, know when to be happy.
- Put Mike Lowell on 3rd base and thank the Freakin Gods that Texas was too stupid to take him. You need to hit the baseball and Mike Lowell can hit a Freakin baseball. Again, know when to be happy. Beltre was a stupid signing, so to pay for your stupidity he becomes your defensive replacement for Lowell in the late innings.
- This is unlikely but I will put it down anyways, you need a LF that can hit a baseball. This would be a very hard pill for RedSox management to swollow, but the Dodgers curently blow and Manny could be had and may even be had for cheap. Now I know how unlikely it would be for all the personallites involved, but if you sit back and think it can work. Manny will take all the heat from your role players who honestly cannot take the heat in the kitchen. Because the Earth the Moon and the Stars all revolve around Planet ManRam, which will help your team BIGTIME. The other end of this, he is a Prime Time Player and you know what Prime Time Players do, they win games. Right now the RedSox have no Prime Time Players and the rest of MLB know it. You need to put some fear into the AL East and the only one availible that can do that is Planet ManRam.
Mike
MPDSports
