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This year's worst


Marky Mark

Based off the grading topic, I'm wondering who you think is worst  

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  1. 1. Of all players on the Sox this year, who do you feel was the worst on the team this year?

    • Juan Uribe
      5
    • Andy Gonzalez
      7
    • Toby Hall
      13
    • Nick Masset
      1
    • Jose Contreras
      8
    • Mike McDougal
      11
    • Andy Sisco
      3
    • David Aardsma
      0
    • Dewon Day
      2
    • Other
      2


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Personally, I feel it is Andy Gonzalez without a doubt. The guy should not be up here, and I'm angry we didn't get to see Jason Bourgeois.

 

But then again I may be saying this because the bullpen issues were months ago and have kind of faded in my mind but man they were horrendous.

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The offense during April, May and June.

The bullpen from May-September (except for Jenks)

Individual suckiness:

-Cintron sucks, Gonzales sucks, Terraro sucks, Uribe has declined defensively and is still very bad offesively despite his 20 HRs. Contreras was just horrible for 3/4ths of the year.

 

Injuries: KW took a chance on both Pods and Erstad being healthy and it was a risk that just completely failed.

 

There were tooo many problems with this years team to overcome. KW failed and he will be the first person to tell you that.

 

Some of the possitives from this year:

Fields proving he can play every day. If he can reduce his strikeouts he'll be an offensive machine in 2008.

Owens, his second time up was a good one. He got on base respectfully and when he did he wasn't afraid to steal (32/40 SBs). Now he probably won't make the starting OF in 2008, but he'll be a lethal threat off our bench.

Vazquez- he is having his best year since Montreal and he is proving to be comfortable finally. I will no longer consider him a mental midget. It will be interesting to see who will go behind him and Buerhle in the rotation next year.

Jenks- This guy is the real deal and for the 3rd straight year he has proven why... now he just needs more setup men to get to him.

Buerhle- had another vintage Buerhle year despite the lack of wins (see Bullpen disaster)

 

Konerko, Thome, Dye- they were okay but nothing special.

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Hall only had 112 at bats and I give him a little bit of a break because he was injured. There are a handful of backup catchers who weren't much better.

 

Contreras has a bit of an excuse too in that he's old. I blame Kenny more than anyone there.

 

MacDougal on the other hand was expected to play a crucial role on the team and ranked 349 out of 360 in ERA among pitchers to throw at least 40 innings. That probably doesn't even begin to explain how badly he pitched when you consider inherited runners. He's 358 out of 365 in BP's expected runs statistic for pitchers with 40 innings.

 

I guess what I'm saying is that I'd much rather have the worst backup catcher in baseball than the worst set up man.

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