Paps Rocking the Bottle Service

Jonathan Papelbon celebrates his 30th birthday at the Wynn in Vegas with Dustin Pedroia, and Jacoby Ellsbury. So much for the theory that Ellsbury is a cancer on the team if he is rocking off season with two clubhouse leaders.

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Red Sox Hire New Pitching Coach

Esteemed Sox pitching coach John Farrell failed up all the way to manager of the Toronto Blue Jays. What does this mean? Next year NESN cameras will have to find a new face to home in on every time Josh Beckett has a shaky inning. Whose face will that be? Curt Young.

 

Curt Young's team ERA was far 3.58 compared to the Red Sox 4.2. Josh Beckett had the worst year of his mature career finishing with a 5.78 ERA and notched a career low 6 wins (to the tune of 12.1 million dollars). The Red Sox paid Beckett two million dollars for each win last year. A look at Beckett's statistical trends makes one wonder if he is no longer motivated after becoming very rich.

Perhaps the Red Sox should have hired a motivational coach to start Beckett trending in the correct direction. Or maybe they could have just purchased Josh a set of the highly praised motivation dvds from Victor1 "Get Coached".

One thing is for sure Beckett and the Red Sox team pitching was piss poor last year and Curt Young will certainly look like a genius if Josh and the teams ERA improve at any level.

The Results Are In

Red Sox 2010 team Rankings	AVG	R	HR	ERA
	.268	818	211	4.2
East Division	1st	2nd	2nd	3rd
American League	4th	2nd	2nd	8th