So lately the Sox have played well enough for me to put my panic button away but there are a few concerns/complaints/opinions I still have. For one the Sox have had some great starts lately, the problem is the guy catching them is 39 years old and can’t bat my dog’s weight. We all love Tek, he’s the captain, he makes the team better just being on the field. A good catcher has that effect on a team. Likewise a bad catcher makes a good team worse, Salty has had that effect. The problem is this, Salty is the starting catcher, he’s young, he can hit, but to command a team he needs to earn respect and establish himself as the unofficial captain. If you think of the catcher as the pilot, conductor, maestro… then the guy in charge needs to know what he’s doing. Salty has to pick it up because there’s no way Varitek can catch more than 60 games this year. Second the offense is getting better but… The reason the game last night went to 11 innings was the offense, the reason the Sox won was pitching. Not too much good from there. The acquisitions of Crawford and Gonzalez were supposed to help the offense; so far the offense has not been very clutch. They would have lost that game last year, but the bullpen this year was able to hold the Angels down. The Sox need to work on timely and situational hitting to do well against better teams. The Jays may leave a few over the plate, but the Angels, Yankees, and Rays won’t. Well those are my thoughts, the Sox are 7-11 so hopefully they’ll be back at .500 soon and get back in the race.
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