Red Sox updates

In light of last night’s loss and the passing of April, here are my thoughts in the state of the Red Sox. As it stands the Red Sox are 11-12, they lost 5-4 last night and are counting on Dice-K (first start of 2010) and Beckett for the series win. Last year or two years ago that would sound pretty good right? In the winter having Lackey in the rotation sounded good right. How about having Beltre at third and the solid bullpen back for another year? Something is amiss, and the simplest way to put it is that the Red Sox are not playing good baseball. It’s as simple as that, they are not playing well, their fundamentals are off, what it takes to win consistently they don’t have. Are they bad? No, but they’re not very good at the moment. The supposed great defense is lackluster, the offense is shut down by medium to good pitching, and the pitching (both starting and relief) leaves much to be desired. 11-12 is okay, but how about 82-80? I hope that May will be a better month, that the team will come together, the defense will pick up the pace and the starters will shut down opposing offense like we were told they would – I hope.