Week 5 – March 24th through March 30th
RECORD – 3 – 1
TEAM RISP – 7 for 28 (.250)
TEAM LOB – 26
Batting
Majors
Last week of Spring Training! Thank god!!!
I’m so ready for some real games.
There will be no prospects review as this week the starters pretty much
played the entire game.
Grady Sizemore finished off his
storybook spring with a .400 week, hitting his first homer and also driving in
2. He walked twice and also hit a
double. He’s made the team as the
starting centerfielder and let’s hope this is just the start of a fairy tale
season and comeback player of the year.
Dustin Pedroia hit .300 and Mike
Napoli went .364 with an RBI, 4 runs, 3 walks, a double and another homer.
Xander Bogaerts continued his hot
hitting, batting .417 with a homer, double, 3 RBI and a run scored. Looking forward to seeing a full season from
the X-man.
Will Middlebrooks also continued
his ridiculously hot spring, batting an insane .636 with 2 homers, 3 RBI, 2
runs scored, a walk, a double and a triple.
More importantly he didn’t strike out in 12 plate appearances and has
only struck out a handful of times this offseason. Let’s hope that continues into the regular
season because a healthy Middlebrooks is important to this offense.
THE BAD
David Ortiz missed most of the
week with an injury but seems to be ready for opening day. He did not have a great spring and went 0 for
2 during the week with a strikeout.
Shane Victorino pulled up lame in
his lone game on Friday and will hit the DL before opening day. This will likely bring Jackie Bradley Jr.
back into the fold. I love the Flying
Hawaiian but man does he get hurt a lot.
Speaking of Jackie Bradley Jr.,
he continued to have a bad spring going 0 for 9 with 3 strikeouts and 9 men
left on base for the week. He’ll be up
for opening day but man did he struggle this spring.
Jonny Gomes went hitless during
the week (0 for 8) and Mike Carp batted .250 with 4 strikeouts.
Hitting with runners in scoring
position still scares me as they weren’t very good all spring. Let’s hope they turn in around during the
season.
Pitching
Majors
Felix Doubront pitched 5 innings
giving up 0 runs on 7 hits with 7 strikeouts.
It was a nice tune-up and hopefully he’s over the mid-spring struggles
we witnessed.
John Lackey was downright filthy
in his last spring outing going 6 and 1/3 innings, giving up 0 runs on only 4
hits while striking out 6 and only walking 1.
Clay Buchholz was good as well in
his final tune-up, going 6 innings, giving up just 2 runs on 3 hits while
striking out 5 and walking 2.
Koji Uehara was vintage tossing 2
innings of 0 runs and 0 hits while striking out 4 and walking none. Tazawa was equally as good going 2 innings
and giving up 0 runs and 0 hits while striking out 3.
Brandon Workman pitched 1 inning
giving up nothing but striking out 1. He’s
going to start the season in the bullpen.
Burke Badenhop gave up 0 hits and 0 runs in 2 innings of work.
The pitching seems to be coming
along nicely given the workloads experienced last year. I fully expect them to be outstanding again
this year.
THE BAD
Allen Webster didn’t fare all
that well in his last game of spring training, going 5 and 2/3 innings, giving
up 5 runs on 11 hits. He struck out 3
and walked 2 while giving up yet another homer.
He just doesn’t look major league ready as this point. He’ll start off in Pawtucket.
Edward Mujica had a rough week
giving up 1 run on 3 hits in only 1 and 2/3 innings. He had a decent spring so let’s just hope it’s
one bad outing.
OVERALL
The last week of spring went
pretty well for the Sox and they have 2 or 3 really hot hitters right now. They’ll be in Baltimore for 3 to start things
off. See you then!
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