Would really love to see Lester start to become a dominant pitcher he hasn't been this season. June is usually when he starts to 'go'.
Verlander has the prettier stats(the shutouts and no-no) but Beckett has been the better all-around performer. I think it's very close right now, but I'd give Verlander the edge because the voting press are retarded.
The biggest thing for Beckett's case right now is he has absolutely shit all over the Yankees 3 times already this year.
Did anyone play that Ken Griffey Jr. game for N64? Once you got good enough you could win like 30-0 every game? The last like 7 weeks of Red Sox baseball has reminded me of that. Just destroying teams night after night.
Adrian Gonzalez is playing right field for the second time in his career tonight. Ortiz at first, Reddick in left.
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/fantasy/wsfb/news/injuries.jsp?tcid=mm_mlb_players Clay Buchholz apparently dealing with depression and anxiety. The Mets' Taylor Buchholz is also on the DL with depression.
I don't know if that's accurate. Everything I've heard says it's a back issue. ETA: The Boston beat writers, WEEI, NESN, Francona... not a single one of them mention depression, they all say back. I think whoever made that list mixed up his Buchholz's. Unless he was depressed watching John Lackey pitch, in which case he's not alone...
I also thought maybe they confused him with Taylor, but it's the official website and Taylor also is listed. I guess what's written by Taylor is supposed to be written by Clay, and vice versa. http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp...tebook_id=21394332&vkey=notebook_bos&c_id=bos Buchholz, who has a lower back strain, has already said he doesn't expect to return before the All-Star break -- all of seven games away -- and Francona said the same Monday. "Hopefully today we'll learn some more," Francona said of the meeting with Dr. Gill. ==== That would seem to indicate that it's just an error on that list.
