Top 100 players of the decade
Rob Neyer, ESPN.comAlbert Pujols and Alex Rodriguez were the clear-cut first two choices for the top 100 players of the decade; after that, the list got a little more difficult.
Story | Conversation | December 14, 2009Right team, wrong Rookie
Rob Neyer, SweetSpotQuestion for You: How many times has the Rookie of the Year come from the right team, but been the wrong rookie? This question occurred to me upon ...
Blog | November 17, 2009To be 'right,' Girardi has to win
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...last team to win a World Series going with just three starters was the '91 Twins. Josh Beckett went on three days' rest in Game 6 of the 2003 Series, Marlins against the Yankees...
Blog | November 04, 2009Why do Wild Cards keep winning?
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...For example, if Boston can win just one game in Anaheim, with aces Jon Lester and Josh Beckett on the mound, they capture home-field advantage from the Angels and could close out the...
Blog | October 09, 2009Bucknor moves behind plate in Game 2
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...by the way Bucknor was seeing the game on Thursday, it's safe to assume Josh Beckett and Jered Weaver -- as well as hitters from both sides -- might take issue with some calls...
Blog | October 09, 2009Is Lester Boston's new ace?
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...the playoffs in less than two weeks, their plan is to start Jon Lester -- and not Josh Beckett -- in Game 1 of the American League Division Series. Beckett would start Game 2, to be...
Blog | September 25, 2009Will Dice-K make difference?
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...39;s some real potential here for a wonderful three weeks. But once you get past Josh Beckett and Jon Lester, it's a big bunch of question marks (and that's...
Blog | September 10, 2009Lester and Beckett a dominant duo
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...for his jump in strikeouts. --snip-- Lester's emergence as an elite pitcher combined with Josh Beckett's continued high-level performance gives Boston a top of the rotation as strong as...
Blog | September 07, 2009Dodgers still missing key ingredient?
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...tone for last year's Philadelphia Phillies? Who will throw the first roundhouse the way Josh Beckett once punched it for the Boston Red Sox? The personality of a postseason series is entirely...
Blog | September 02, 2009If not Greinke for Cy, then who?
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...few viable candidates: Justin Verlander (14-7, 3.38), CC Sabathia (15-7, 3.59) and Josh Beckett (14-5, 3.65). What? You think the voters wouldn't dare go for pitchers...
Blog | August 26, 2009Better to be good than lucky at shortstop
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...22nd birthday, to the Florida Marlins (along with Anibal Sanchez and two other minor leaguers) for Josh Beckett, Mike Lowell, and Guillermo Mota. With Alex Cora now the only option at shortstop, Boston signed...
Blog | August 05, 2009Buehrle reminds us (again) that he's good
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...Marichal, Don Drysdale, and various other Hall of Famers. It's better than CC Sabathia, Josh Beckett, Jake Peavy, Andy Pettitte, and John Lackey. But would Joe Fan or Rob Blogger put Buehrle...
Blog | July 23, 2009Tim Wakefield: All-Star?
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...in wins (10) or carry the Red Sox during the month of April, when everyone from Josh Beckett to Jon Lester to Daisuke Matsuzaka all nuked leads with [regularity]. So, in a word, it...
Blog | July 06, 2009Greinke's Cy Young competition
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...39;s Justin Verlander (9.00 E.R.A. after four starts) and Boston's Josh Beckett (7.22 E.R.A. after five starts) are moving into contention. Verlander (7-0, 1...
Blog | June 18, 2009Red Sox going to six starters?
Rob Neyer, SweetSpot...don't think anybody's hazy on whether Penny and Wakefield are better than Josh Beckett and Jon Lester. That notion dispensed with, let's dispense with another ... and oddly, it...
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