Email a copy of 'Jack Of All Trades: Mike Lowell' to a friend
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Email a copy of 'Jack Of All Trades: Mike Lowell' to a friend
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Gland1
Does Lowell play numerous positions? I’m not sure I understand him as a “Jack of all trades”.
j6takish
If you were keeping up with the series, you would know that it’s a pun. It looks at star players that for whatever reason, kept getting traded throughout their careers
start_wearing_purple
Fun thing about the second Lowell trade, it’s one of the few trades of big names where everyone could be seen as a winner.
Freddie
Good tough hardnosed player, A true gentlemen of the game of baseball. Would love to see him stay involved at some level in MLB.
leberquesgue
Agreed. Not only a gentleman, he has always seemed like a smart guy — at the least, emotionally smart when commenting on Manny and other delicate issues in recent years. I’d love to see him return and try management, presumably after a few years away from the game.
Brad Stewart
It should be added that Lowell won the world series with both the Marlins and the Red Sox. Makes that last sentence all the more powerful.
gargoyle2525
Has Beckett really performed as expected?
jwredsox
He got a WS trophy. There should be a lot of worth put into that.
gargoyle2525
And noted that Brosius did have a role in the Yankees winning 3 World Series titles and put up a .314/.333/.529 line in 20 WS games. But I guess that would be saying something positive about the Yankees which is not allowed.
jwredsox
Of course because everything ever written is anti-yankee. Get over it.
js
Or because it is an article about Mike Lowell and not him.
gargoyle2525
Brosius has 3 of them. Is there any worth in that?
Beckett’s career ERA is higher tha AJ Burnett’s – yet Beckett is considered an “Ace.”
jwredsox
I would say so. A few years ago there wouldn’t be many pitchers you would pitch over Beckett in a 1 game series. You could never really say the same about Burnett though. And he was hurt a lot
thevauntedchris
jwredsox wrote: “I would say so. A few years ago there wouldn’t be many pitchers you would pitch over Beckett in a 1 game series. You could never really say the same about Burnett though. And he was hurt a lot ”
And this means what? Nothing. The guy at least gave you one stat as to why Beckett is definitely not an ace and you respond with “Well, Beckett would have been really good in a one game series a few years ago.” Terrible. Just like Beckett, who is one of the most overrated, arrogant pitchers in baseball.
johnsilver
Imagine the dislike would be here from NYY fans had Beckett actually gotten the Cy Young award he actually deserved over Sabathia in 2007 when he was still with the Tribe. Amazing how Yank fans dislike every Sox player so much, even when Becket had the dominant 20 win 2007 season and has been a post season monster most of his career, something Burnett never managed to even appear in until he got to the Yanks.
The topic at hand… Classy and gritty veteran all the way around. Makes you wonder if he had not put off the hip surgery so long in 2008 he would not have gotten so bad in the end perhaps? Just a thought.
thevauntedchris
So Beckett is an ace because he had a very good 2007 and threw a few good games in the postseason? I now understand that baseball history has been littered with aces. Thank you.
johnsilver
I doubt few people with an understanding of the game questioned Beckett’s status at all until this season when he got hurt and has never been the same since his return.
Big game pitcher btw is what helped him get his reputation, then if you were watching the 2003 WS and that clincher at YS, you would remember a classic 1st hand example.
thevauntedchris
The generalization that Yankee fans dislike every Sox player must be gathered from another thread. I made one comment about one player. Your response leads me to believe we have a communication or comprehension problem. The internet doesn’t seem to be the right place for you. It can be a jungle out there.
jwredsox
That is important because that who your ace is. If you don’t trust a guy to take the ball in a one game series then is he really the leader of your staff? I just felt a comparison between Burnett and Beckett wouldn’t be worth my time. Would you like me to compare John Macdonald and Scutaro too? STRIKE ZONE WHATSA STRIKE ZON made more than an adequate argument to Beckett’s value that you should read.