Food for thought: Beckett a Closer - Say What???
Now to completely contradict my previous post.... You heard it here first: The Red Sox are without a closer. John Lester may be healthy enough to return to the rotation in the beginning of the season. Should these two facts remain true come April, Josh Beckett will be put into the role of closer for the Red Sox. Why not? The Cubs are doing it with Kerry Wood. The Sox did it with Derek Lowe. It has worked, and could work again. Thoughts?
posted by The Interloper @ 10:25 AM
4 Comments:
beckett as closer, no way- it's papelbon all the way
what th
my bad on last comment although what th really does say it. let me paint a picture. two on one out bottom of the 9th, sox clinging to 1 run lead, enter josh beckett notorious shaky starter.what do you think he will throw, I can tell you its not a curve ball. forget it leave him as a 3rd starter give me Donnely or trade a few prospects for gonzalez on the pirates thats the word cap
Your Red Sox news is getting stale my friend, we Warren Street readers want more!
Can Joel Pineiro handle the closer job? Maybe, maybe not. The Sox apparently feel the experiment is worth it. If he doesn't help them as a closer, he could become valuable in the setup capacity. This is what he had to say on resox.com:
"Obviously, I think I know what role I'm going to be doing, so I'm going to focus on that," said Pineiro. "I've been talking to some people who obviously do that closing job, and trying to get a little feedback. That starting thing, that's in the past. If I get the chance, I get the chance, but my thought process now is to go out there and try and close things out."
Also, not that anyone besides you cares, but here are some of my picks from last year: yes, I too loved The Funeral by Band of Horses; Living Proof and the Greatest (in fact the whole album) by Cat Power; Fake Tales of San Francisco, Arctic Monkeys; Cheated Hearts (I wrote off Show Your Bones at first and not for a very good reason: I didn't like the first single, Gold Lion. But Cheated Hearts does all the things that great Yeah Yeah Yeahs song do: Ripcord solos, a breezy melody that spirals into freakish yelping from Karen O, and sky-bomb crescendos throughout.), Yeah Yeah Yeahs; Sukie in the Graveyard, Belle and Sebastion; You May Be Blue, Vetiver; Put Your Records On, Corrine Bailey Rae (yes, I know, mock me); the nine-minute Goin' Against Your Mind and Conventional Wisdom (crisscrossed with so many guitar solos that it evolves into a modern day Layla), Built to Spill; and my out of left field tip of the hat - the triumphant return of the almost forgotten Scritti Politti (Perfect Way, the Word Girl, Hypnotize - all mid eighties gems!) Scritti Politti kicked off their comeback with the beautifully understated but addictive hymn to old school hip-hop, The Boom Boom Bap. Listen to this and go back to Cupid & Psych 85.
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