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Tony's Top 5 Red Sox stats from the new Bill James handbook
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59. According to James, percentage by which a player was more likely to hit a double at Fenway this season as compared to another park. Put another way: Fenway Park produced 59 percent more doubles than the average stadium this year. Wow.
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119. Projected RBI total for David Ortiz in 2009, suggesting the Sox believe that Ortiz will make a nice return to productivity after suffering a wrist injury in 2008. Given that James is a Red Sox adviser, we have to believe this factors into the team's planning.
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113. Projected RBI total for Manny Ramirez in 2009, assuming that Ramirez remains with the Dodgers. Ramirez is currently a free agent, of course, though the Dodgers have offered him a contract. James also projects that Ramirez will play in 150 games.
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121. Projected RBI total for first baseman Mark Teixeira, in whom the Red Sox have a great interest and who is also a free agent. (He finished the year with the Angels.) Teixeira also is projected to bat .299 with a .397 OBP, 36 home runs and 102 runs scored.
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4.02. Projected ERA for Jon Lester, who emerged as one of the more dominating lefthanders in the game during the 2007 season. Interestingly, James has Lester projected to finish 12-11 while pitching 212 innings. Could the Sox be in the market for a starter?
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Tony Massarotti is a Globe sportswriter and has been writing about sports in Boston for the last 19 years. A lifelong Bostonian, Massarotti graduated from Waltham High School and Tufts University. He was voted the Massachusetts Sportswriter of the Year by his peers in 2000 and 2008 and has been a finalist for the award on several other occasions. This blog won a 2008 EPpy award for "Best Sports Blog".
Tony's Top 5
NFL power rankings
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Broncos. OK, we’re convinced. Kyle Orton is now 26-12 in his career as a starter. Josh McDaniels looks like a real coach. And the defense is much improved.
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Saints. Went into Philly and beat the Eagles, went into New York and beat the Jets. Better defense than we thought. Right?
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Vikings. If you’re a Vikes fan, Brett Favre should scare you come playoff time. But in the regular season? So far, so good.
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Colts. Don’t look now, but only three teams in the NFL have allowed fewer points than Indy. And have we mentioned the quarterback?
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Giants. They can run, pass and play defense. And did we mention they’re well-coached? Who needs Plaxico?
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Sox pitching depth hits bottomThe real reason for concern is that key pieces of the 04 and 07 winning teams are old and rusty.
Ortiz, Lowell, Varitek. Is there a baseball "Cash for Clunkers" program? Trade them in for new models.
Bob
'Big Papi' revealed as a mythWow....no sugar coating here, huh Tony? It is bitterly disappointing to confirm what I think most honest Red Sox fans must have at least suspected. Does it change anything? Not really. Again no honest Red Sox fan really believed none of the Home Town players were involved with this, did they? Baseball could have ended this whole story years ago by just making "The List" public. Instead, it will continue to trickle out over the next 10 years and we'll never get past this.
Steve from Plattsburgh, NY
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