you mean longest game?

But that reminds me of what I was thinking when the Sox were getting pummeled 14-1 to the Jays...They should have let Holt catch an inning and pitch an inning...only 2 positions he hasn't played this season

I mean, after playing that long, to be the guy in the end most responsible for the victory,......, in a way.

Vaya con dios Eric Chavez

By all accounts, Eric Chavez is a great guy. He was also a great ballplayer before injuries derailed his career, causing him to play just 212 games between 2007 and 2011.

Chavez, 36, announced his retirement Wednesday after 17 seasons in the big leagues, and he did so with one final classy gesture. He left $1 million on the table, which the Arizona Diamondbacks would have owed him had he just sat on the disabled list the rest of the season.
He played 44 games for the D-backs in 2014 until a knee injury sidelined him. Chavez was due the rest of the $3.5 million contract he signed in the offseason, but he told CBS Sports' Jon Heyman that his conscience wouldn't let him take the money and not play.

Chavez said he wouldn't have felt right taking money for sitting his last days on the disabled list with the knee injury that finally felled him, years after refining his swing and reinventing himself as one of baseball's best bench players. He enjoyed his last years as a role player on Yankees teams filled with big names, then later took less to play and stay in Arizona, where the family man makes his home. While he was blessed with outsized talent and movie-star looks, it served him well to be just off the cusp of the limelight, first as a star of a small-market team and later a bench player with that storied team in New York.

"I'm very lucky," Chavez said. "I just enjoyed competing and being on the field. There's nothing like winning at the major-league level."

Chavez made $83 million during his big-league career, but he probably could have had more. He was one of the few homegrown Oakland Athletics stars of the early 2000s to sign an extension there for less money than he could have gotten as a free agent.

He finishes his career with 260 homers and 902 RBIs. Chavez hit .268/.342/.475 and won six gold gloves for his play at third base. Injuries took over the narrative of Chavez's career so much that it might be hard to remember how good he was during his younger years with the Oakland Athletics.

excellent call on uggla, filo

looks like he'll be released today

games pitched   76
innings             74.2
ERA                 0.60
ER                   5
WHIP                .777
strikeouts         76
saves              48
ERA+               641




it can happen to anyone apparently......


~Fernando Rodney

Well,................................

I don't think anyone saw this coming. I know there was nothing on the local sportstalk here that was even hinting at anything like this. And, when you factor in the part about Lester being a rental here, I think the Sox did VERY well here.

In a related note, if I were Jason Hammels, I would be pretty worried about right now.....

We didn’t see this coming: WEEI’s Alex Speier reports that the Oaland Athletics have acquired Jon Lester and outfielder Jonny Gomes from the Red Sox for Yoenis Cespedes.

This makes the third front line starting pitcher added to the A’s rotation in less than a month, with Lester joining Jeff Samardzija and Jason Hammel who came to Oakland from Chicago at the beginning of July. Along with Sonny Gray, this gives the A’s perhaps the best starting rotation in the American League. Possibly in all of baseball. It certainly signals that the A’s are going for it without hesitation or pause in 2014.

For the Red Sox: a big problem — production in the outfield — is solved. They didn’t get the sorts of prospects everyone expected they’d get. But in Cespedes they received one of the most powerful hitters in the game who is under team control through 2015. And of course the Red Sox have the means to extend Cespedes if they like what they see from him over the next year and a half. It is worth wondering if his batting line — already good on the power side, even if lacking in the on-base side of things — improves in a more hitter-friendly park like Fenway.

We’ll have much more on the fallout from this monster deal, including what it means for Boston, for Oakland and for the rest of baseball as the day goes on.

This was 7 years ago, so maybe you have forgotten about this incident, if you knew of it at all. Former MLB player Jose Offerman was hanging on in the minors and still playing. Well, one day, he decided to go bat shit crazy, and go after a pitcher with a bat, just like Juan Marishal did to John Roseboro. Well, unlike Roseboro, the guy that got hit was not o.k after.

This is his story since that day.

www.foxsports.com/mlb/story/victim-in-jose-offerman-bat-attack-tells-story-of-a-baseball-dream-derailed-073014

Still dont know what I think about this Lester trade, wasnt what I was expecting

I think it ends up being a net win for the Sox.  They get Cespedes to be the power hitting OF they need, and, he is under contract through next year, unlike Lester, who is just a 2 month rental.

Only took a few minutes for someone to shut down the Dodger end of this.  Thank goodness.

Joe Kelly and Allen Craig to Boston for Lackey.

Not sure who one this one, as Kelly has been hurt quite a bit this year, and, as Craig's production has plumeted way down from last year to this year. It was due to this that both of the former Cars became kind of spare parts there, making them much easier to part with here.

A little more additional info for this trade -

The Red Sox sent veteran starting pitcher John Lackey to the Cardinals along with minor leaguer Corey Littrell and about $1.75MM in cash in exchange for young starter Joe Kelly and outfielder/first baseman Allen Craig. The deal is now official.

Hear Dodgers are out on Price