Red Sox off to worst April in over a decade

2012 continues to be a year of struggles for the Boston Red Sox as they show more wear and tear than the 100 year old Fenway that they play in. This a quite a change for the first decade of the new century.

The 2000s have been years when the mighty Red Sox roared out of Spring training with strong starters, a powerful closer and might batters. Their April record inspired talk of winning that first longed for world series or another one this year. It seems so long ago.

Now the Red Sox lumber into the new season with an unsure rotation, an opening at closer and bats that still have not emerged from a winter in storage. It is hard to get depressed in spring, but a 5-10 Red Sox will do it for me.

I am believe we are seeing the Red Sox move away from the things that made them successful in recent years. Management like Theo Epstein and Terry Francona have moved on. Players have aged and retired like Wakefield, Manny and Varitek. The Red sox need to return to what made them successful. A strong front office driven by Sabermetrics. I hope it happens soon.

Theo Epstein to leave Red Sox for Cubs. Welcome to the new age of Baseball

The rumor is that Theo Epstein, current general manager of the Red Sox, has agreed to a $15M deal to become President and General Manager of the Cubs. This is another step by the Chicago Cubs in building a world class sabermetric based front office in hopes of building a contender on the field. The Chicago cubs already added a major piece to this puzzle last year when they added Statistician Ari Kaplan to the front office. Ari's stuff is brilliant. The first Sabermetric book I ever read was one he co-authored called Baseball Hacks. I like the way the Chicago Cubs are heading here and wish the best  of luck to them in the future. Of course, statistically speaking is there really such a thing as luck?