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If the Red Sox make their first roster move of the season today or tomorrow, it would not be a surprise. Dennys Reyes has been that bad.
The lefthanded reliever has faced 10 batters in the first five games of the season and six have gotten on base. Of the six lefthanded hitters he has faced, four have reached.
Reyes entered last night’s game against the Indians with the Sox trailing, 3-2. He loaded the bases on 12 pitches, hitting Travis Buck and Matt LaPorta before walking Jack Hannahan. Reyes threw only one strike.
“We wanted him to face maybe six, seven hitters. It was set up where we wanted him to face their lefties. But he was commanding so little,’’ manager Terry Francona said.
Reyes wildly disappointing so far for Red Sox
With all the poor play that's happened this season, suddenly Dennys Reyes is the suckiest of them all? He got rocked in the 6th last night, giving up four runs and couldn't find the plate, much like Daisuke Matsuzaka did during his frustrating five innings.
Was last night THAT bad where the Sox should demote his ass becuase of it? He's one of the few pitchers who left Texas not giving up a run and he did make appearences in all three games.Daniel Bard's sucked it just as bad on Opening Day so should he have gone to Pawtucket the next day? No. Just because we have options waiting in Pawtucket doesn't mean we should switch pitchers out as soon as they struggle, especially this early on.
Reyes busted his ass in Spring Training to capture one of the only open spots available. He's not the only one on this team struggling so give him a chance to redeem himself before thinking about roster moves.
On Page 2, Youkilis and Varitek on "the weirdest play" the Captain has been in.
“I was messing around with it in my head,” Youkilis said after the Red Sox’ 8-4 loss to the Indians. “It kind of went far. I was trying to go back and do it, but it worked a little too much. It got Tek a little off guard. We play around, not to trick … I never thought I’d be the guy to pull that off. At first I was like try to drop it. Then it was a little too far out of my range, so I tried to catch it, literally. But that was in the back of my head to try and drop it.”
Once the ball was on the ground, and the third base umpire Dan Iassogna ruled it was a legitimate drop, Youkilis scooped up his miscue, ran over and tagged third base for the force out and threw home. The problem was that catcher Jason Varitek didn’t see Youkilis tag the bag and subsequently failed to tag Travis Buck, who accounted for the hosts’ fourth run.
“I’m trying to figure out — it’s probably the weirdest play I’ve ever been part of,” Varitek said. “I’m trying to see and learn what I could have done different besides, obviously, tagging him, but I didn’t actually see the play.”
Poor Youkilis. He's just trying to get the inning over with but it just blew up in his face. It's easy in retrospect to say he should have just taken the easy play and get the force out at home but if it worked he's a genius. Can't knock him for trying.
Rest of the links:
Globe:Low five|Notes:Reyes has been wildly disappointing|Things are looking up|Henry and Werner swing King sized dealHerald:Take your talents elsewhere Lebron|Sorry 6th seals Sox 0-5 start|At the Old Ball Game|Horror in full force|Varitek caught off guard|CSNNE;Seeing Red|Reyes having control problems|Sox fall to Tribe, 8-4|WEEI:Power Rankings: How far have the Red Sox fallen?|Youkilis, Varitek explain "weirdest" play catcher has ever seen|Sox continue to make wrong kind of history
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