Red Sox general manager Ben Cherington will spend a lot of time this offseason trying to fix his team’s pitching, top to bottom.
The Red Sox are lagging behind several teams in the scouting and development of pitchers, and they will try to identify and hire strong evaluators to enhance the core program they have in place that deals with the development and health of pitchers.
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Why did it have to reach the depths of this awful season for the Red Sox to realize they have to build up their pitching/scouting staff, and more infrastructure? This is a big market team with vast resources. Were they pennypinching in supposedly in other unseen ways? Were they more concerned with putting $ into marketing their brand than into winning games? How did they get behind this curve when they had a strong shoulder program? Time to get back to fundamentals. After all, winning will take care for the "brand."
So many questions to be answered to fans. So much to do to remove the tarnish of this year's performance. It begins and ends with sound pitching or lack thereof.
Nick, it is a well-established fact that you love Valentine and Rick Peterson. Do you have to mention it every Sunday? Do you think if you keep saying the Red Sox should hire Peterson that they will? Why can't this guy keep a pitching coach position if he so great at it?
Outlaw the cutter? Because it causes injuries? Gee -- someone better tell that to Mariano Rivera, who's been throwing NOTHING BUT CUTTERS for his ENTIRE career. He's 42 years old now. True, he's injured -- because he hurt his KNEE shagging fly balls in the outfield. *** And Andy Pettitte -- over 40 years old, always has thrown a lot of cutters. He'll pitch again in a few days after his ANKLE injury. He's never been injured by throwing a cutter.