On this date in 2006, Red Sox ace Curt Schilling gave up ten extra-base hits to the Royals, tying an American League record. The nine doubles and one homer surrendered put Schilling in a tie with Dale Gear and Luis Tiant for the unfortunate mark. Here’s this week’s look around the baseball blogosphere..
- Camden Depot says Caleb Joseph is a future All-Star.
- Inside The Zona wonders if Chase Anderson’s hot start is sustainable.
- Beisbol’s breaks down Clay Buchholz.
- Wahoo’s On First looks back at the Indians’ deadline.
- Nats GM spoke with Baseball Prospectus’ Joe Hamrahi.
- Your Van C’s runs down the Blue Jays’ top prospects.
- Rays Colored Glasses looks at Willy Adames.
- Royals Blue talks about Sung Woo Lee and his story.
- Grading On The Curve fears Jose Ramirez won’t reach his potential with the Indians.
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Nobody needs to break down Clay Buchholz. He does that in public every fifth game.
Last season a couple BOS fans kept arguing with me that if LAD and BOS ever met in the WS, Kershaw and Buchholz would cancel each other out because they believed he was almost as good as Kersh.
Man that went south fast for Buch. He had a good season last year when healthy. Wonder what happened.
Yeah, they didn’t know what they were talking about. Verlander or King Felix don’t cancel out Kershaw. The man is Hall destined.
At this point I’m hoping it’s a health issue with Buch.
Although when it comes to postseason track records, Jon Lester had Kershaw beaten by a mile.
Caleb Joseph is a CURRENT all star. His defensive stats are amazing and his bat is heating up.
Bye bye Wieter
Give the man 12/300M!
If he can prove over the rest of the season that his bat is anything close to Wieters’s, then I say let Wieters walk post-2015 season and spend that saved money on a frontline pitcher. Price, Samardzija, Jordan Zimmermann, Doug Fister, and Scott Kazmir are just some of the free agent TOR pitchers that will be available (provided that they don’t sign extensions with their current team.)
The key thing here is determining whether or not Joseph’s bat is really THAT good or not.