The Official Sox Fans Crying About Injuries Thread

Face it. The pitching staff isn't good enough to tread water in that division and the clubhouse problems from last year haven't been fixed. Injuries are a convenient (and whiny) excuse.

You look at the starting rotation and it looks good on paper but I have to agree with you: they haven't been competitive with the Yankees and Rays.The back end of the rotation has been good but it is the starters expected to be good who have been terrible.
The injuries are real and no team has had more in the last few years. The whole damn outfield is missing along with their projected closer and Pedroia may as well be on the DL. The replacement players have been fine but at some point their real skill level will show itself and the Sox will have problems scoring runs. The Sox still have enough talent to put on a winning streak but it is doubtful that they have the team to sustain it. Still, put as many injuries on any AL east team and they would be having similar problems.

cmon Danzz noone in years? Ellsbury is the only one you can whine about....the others have played as well if not better than who they have replaced. Pedroia is the only guy playing hurt too?
You started out good and then needed the cheese and crackers....

I love it, Mau. Danzz's post is the epitome of why I (mockingly) started this thread. Then, one paragraph in, he's doing just that! Ha! Whiny bitches.

Give a Mets fan I good part of season out of 20 and they get cocky.Enjoy it now because your weak hitting group of wussies won't be in the playoffs either.
BTW, I'm not whining, injuries are part of the game but they are a factor. Would the Sox be in first place without the injuries? Hell no, the starting pitching hasn't been good enough.

Per Joel Sherman's sunday article in the NY Post, Boston is tied for first with most DL stints in the majors with 18 and is first overall with most days lost due to injury with 801.

Sorry to interject facts into your thread.

I decided to like your post as a thank you for reminding me that the 2010 Sox may have had more.

Do you want to interject the real facts or do you want to whine? Erik the Red would be disappointed.........anyway how good was Crawford last year? Nava and Sweeney have been better.........prove me otherwise okay. Youks playing, Papi's a new man, Pedroia's playing, Aviles is your choice at SS, Middlebrooks is the next best thing, Saltman is your batterymate.....explain to me where the problem is??? A few bench players and pitchers?

Ever hear of Mariano Rivera, Michael Pineda, Dave Robertson.....may be a little more impact than you can throw it there yet there's no whining in the Bronx!!! Maybe give Ben Cherington a call huh?

Which is what I was wondering. How many first ballot Hall of Fame pitchers are on the Red Sox roster, let alone their DL? Much ado about very little. The problem isn't who is on the DL, it's who is on the active roster (as well as who was hired to run the team, who runs the organization, and, well, the expectations of the fans). You should be happy Beckett isn't around to sow discord and contempt for the organization.

I figured it was a 85-88 win team at the beginning of the season. With the injuries it's now a .500 or slightly below team, but the reality is that they weren't that good to begin with.

Arizona turned down Youk for Gerardo Parra. http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/06/17/red-sox-wanted-gerardo-parra-from-dbacks-for-youkilis/

Met fans know the right way to handle their injured players, boo them off the field.

Bah. The Mets are winning with an outfield of Scott Hairston, Kirk Nieuwenhuis and Lucas Duda. Ike Davis is slumping. Omar Quintanilla is their every day SS right now. The bull pen has no stars in it.

They have solid starting pitching and the team plays hard for Collins. The manager is getting the most of his roster.

Dickey had the best stuff of any pitcher I have seen this year in his start vs. Tampa. His knuckler was magic, the nastiest I have ever seen.

Baseball is a crazy, Tampa gives up 29 runs in 3 games vs the Mets. Then pitches a one hitter and two hitter vs Miami. Meanwhile Cincy shuts down the Mets holding them to 5 runs in 3 games.

I hope the Mojo the Mets had vs TB returns over the next 6 vs. Baltimore and the Yanks.

That Nieuwenhuis looks like a very good player and if Ike Davis starts to hit the Met will have a very solid lineup.

You should have seen Strasberg against the Sox. He was absolutely nasty with pinpoint control.

Tampa has Strasburg wed night. BJ will will have a golden sombrero for sure.

Call me when Strasburg throws back to back one hitters.

I suppose Jacoby Ellsbury hasn't been missed. He was possibly the best positional player in baseball last year
I suppose Carl Crawford's career is over, there was no way he was going to ever revert to the player he was with Tampa
I suppose being without your top 4 or 5 outfielders at the same time is no big deal. That happens to teams all the time.
I suppose being without your closer isn't a big deal
I suppose Pedroia hitting .160 in June has nothing to do with his thumb injury that he's trying to play through because of all the other injuries on the team. Most guys in his position would probably be on the DL by now.
I suppose the Sox won't miss Beckett at all the next 2-3 weeks.

Yeah, you're right. just a couple of bench players and meh pitchers.

See above....your argument is weal at best.....one guy who is proven is out for any amount of time in Ellsbury....another playing hurt but since he's playing too bad about his hitting, not our issue the Yanks and many other teams have had guys play less than their potential due to injury he isn't the first despite those Red Colored glasses you wear so proudly........Beckett is hurt WOW start the fn presses......funny sh*t..........

Again the Yanks have proven commodities like Rivera, Pineda, Robertson and Gardner out.......you've yet to equal that in your whiny list Erik!!!!

You have easily become the most annoying, whiny Sox fan in BY history and it didn't take too long.