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2014 Boston Red Sox

2014 ZiPS in Red

Line-up
RF Shane Victorino# - .269/.331/.420, 102 OPS+, RF VG/68
2B Neil Walker# - .261/.330/.418, 110 OPS+, 2B AV/74
3B Ryan Zimmerman - .273/.340/.461, 118 OPS+, 3B AV/102
DH David Ortiz* - .296/.386/.552, 151 OPS+, DH
1B Mike Napoli - .241/.342/.466, 117 OPS+, 1B VG/130
LF Josh Hamilton* - .259/.318/.448, 115 OPS+, LF VG/186
CF George Springer - .237/.319/.439, 107 OPS+, CF AV/45
SS Mike Aviles - .261/.289/.381, 89 OPS+, SS AV/99
C Chris Iannetta - .218/.341/.362, 101 OPS+, C FR/74

RC/27
Napoli 5.7
Victorino 5.5
Ortiz 8.2
Aviles 4.0
Walker 5.0
Hamilton 5.3
Iannetta 4.2
Springer 5.2
Zimmerman 5.9

Bench
CF Ender Inciarte* - .272/.311/.360, 82 OPS+, LF/CF/RF VG/88, AV/81, AV/67
2B Darwin Barney - .253/.299/.349, 77 OPS+, 2B/3B/SS EX/69, AV/96, FR/83
3B Christian Villanueva - .244/.294/.412, 91 OPS+, 3B AV/79
C Jose Lobaton* - .232/.312/.359, 89 OPS+, C AV/79
SS Clint Barmes - .234/.281/.330, 72 OPS+, SS EX/100

Rotation
SP Max Scherzer - 3.35 ERA, 193.2 IP, 225K/55BB. 126 ERA+
SP Edwin Jackson - 3.99 ERA, 173.2 IP, 139K/54BB, 98 ERA+
SP Tim Hudson - 3.28 ERA, 164.2 IP, 126K/46BB, 105 ERA+
SP Charlie Morton - 4.01 ERA, 121.1 IP, 78K/43BB, 90 ERA+

Reserves
SP Nate Karns - 3.99 ERA, 126.1 IP, 122K/56BB, 96 ERA+
SP Colby Lewis - 4.85 ERA, 78 IP, 65K/22BB, 89 ERA+
SP Wade Davis - 4.55 ERA, 140.1 IP, 118K/54BB, 90 ERA+
SP Suk-Min Yoon -
SP Miguel Gonzalez - 4.71 ERA, 14.1 IP, 91K/42BB, 82 ERA+
SP Cory Luebke* - 3.15 ERA, 71.1 IP, 71K/21BB, 111 ERA+

Bullpen
CL Craig Kimbrel - 1.43 ERA, 69 IP, 111K/21BB, 274 ERA+
RHSU Matt Belisle - 3.95 ERA, 68.1 IP, 56K/15BB, 113 ERA+
RHSU2 Joel Peralta - 3.19 ERA, 59.1 IP, 68K/23BB, 120 ERA+
LHSU Neal Cotts* - 3.23 ERA, 53 IP, 61K/21BB, 133 ERA+
LHSU2 JP Howell* - 3.37 ERA, 50.2 IP, 46K/21BB, 108 ERA+

Reserves
RP Johnny Venters* - 3.23 ERA, 55.2 IP, 58K/26BB, 121 ERA+
RP Will Harris - 3.71 ERA, 60.2 IP, 60K/23BB, 105 ERA+

2013 season review:

After a big trade that brought over Buzz Oliver and Craig Kimbrel we went into this year with 9 usable RPs and 7 SPs. The need for increased depth became obvious after a slew of injuries exposed a lack of pitching depth on last year's squad. Good thing too as once the season gets rolling Hanrahan goes down to TJ, Venters has his 2nd TJ, Fujikawa has TJ, Matt Reynolds partially tears his UCL and tries to rehab it for the rest of the year before finally having TJ a few days ago. 135+, 119+, 117+, and 108+ with a great FIP all gone by mid May. Team starts slowly again, hovering around .500 at the end of May but comes into it's own when Papi returns from his achilles strain. Mid season after it looks more and more likely Leubke isn't going to complete his rehab from TJ this year and Huddy breaks his ankle in a gruesome play at 1B, I trade for Colby Lewis who is deep in a rehab stint of his own. Soon after, he has surprise hip surgery and is out for the year. A four man rotation goes into effect. Late in the year, as JB tries to finesse rebuilding with still trying to compete, the Sox get hot and make a 14 win run to take over first place in the east and finally open up a gap between themselves and a plucky Jays squad. My 'D' first CF Torres goes on the DL with achilles surgery at the end of August and JB sneaks back into the lead with only a few games left. The Sox last nine games are against a Rockies squad with 8 active pitchers and an O's squad looking forward to the draft. We win 7 in a row and squeek out our first ALE title by one game. The Sox end their season in a computer simmed series to a good KC club after H2H was cancelled due to a family issue. A disapointing end, but psyched to get an ALE title and strong seasons up and down the lineup point towards a good team for 2014.

Unlike the last two years I was able to resist the urge to trade my first round pick or my nearly ready young SP so maybe next year's depth can come from within instead of by trade or scrounge.

2014 STEAMER

Line-up
C Chris Iannetta - .220/.339/.374, 105 wRC+
1B Mike Napoli - .245/.347/.460, 119 wRC+
2B Donnie Murphy - .239/.299/.424, 95 wRC+
3B Ryan Zimmerman - .274/.347/.463, 124 wRC+
SS Greg Garcia* - .254/.333/.354, 96 wRC+
LF Josh Hamilton* - .263/.327/.465, 119 wRC+
CF George Springer - .256/.331/.460, 118 wRC+
RF Jayson Werth - .273/.360/.452, 127 wRC+
DH David Ortiz* - .286/.378/.512, 136 wRC+

Bench
CF Shane Victorino# - .272/.338/.426, 107 wRC+
OF Juan Perez - .266/.302/.393, 97 wRC+
SS Mike Aviles - .255/.293/.383, 88 wRC+
LF David DeJesus* - .250/.330/.380, 103 wRC+
C Jose Lobaton* - .231/.313/.355, 90 wRC+

Rotation
SP Max Scherzer - 3.36 FIP, 117 FIP+
SP Edwin Jackson - 3.73 FIP, 105 FIP+
SP Tim Hudson - 3.65 FIP, 103 FIP+
SP Hiroki Kuroda - 3.66 FIP, 110 FIP+
SP Ricky Nolasco - 3.70 FIP, 97 FIP+
SP Charlie Morton - 3.69 FIP, 99 FIP+
SP Wade Davis - 4.20 FIP, 96 FIP+
SP Jimmy Nelson - 3.89 FIP, 98 FIP+
SP Nate Karns - 3.87 FIP, 96 FIP+

Bullpen
RP Craig Kimbrel - 2.09 FIP, 152 FIP+
RP Matt Belisle - 3.53 FIP, 118 FIP+
RP Joel Peralta - 4.12 FIP, 90 FIP+
RP JP Howell* - 3.68 FIP, 98 FIP+
RP Will Harris - 3.48 FIP, 112 FIP+
RP David Carpenter - 3.56 FIP, 104 FIP+
RP Jean Machi - 3.45 FIP, 103 FIP+
RP Darren Oliver* - 3.44 FIP, 115 FIP+
RP Carlos Marmol - 4.06 FIP, 100 FIP+

IR
Colby Lewis - 4.43 FIP, 95 FIP+
Cory Luebke* - 3.44 FIP, 105 FIP+
Joel Hanrahan - 3.58 FIP, 113 FIP+
Johnny Venters* - 3.10 FIP, 117 FIP+

Updated after trade.

Chart with position player value set at a relatively low 600 PA.