Felger & Mazz: Peter Gammons On Pedroia's Thumb Injury
Peter Gammons of MLB.com joined Felger and Massarotti to talk some Boston Red Sox Wednesday afternoon.
After Gammons let Felger and Mazz know about the use of Sabermetrics in the NBA, the guys got into the Dustin Pedroia thumb injury. How long could Pedroia be out for? Could he avoid the Disabled List?
"He should be back after the Toronto series (this weekend)," said Gammons. "He said it's been bothering him for about three weeks… they have to make sure the swelling goes down and it's still a ways forward, but he's convinced he won't be disabled and he'll be back after they go to Toronto (this) weekend."
The Sox turned off a lot people last September and it continued into Spring Training this year. Will last night's win over Justin Verlander and the Detroit Tiger start to turn people back on to the Sox?
"Watching that Verlander-Nava at-bat (in the fourth inning), where it's all 99-100 MPH and this guy that weighed 95-pounds in high school ends up hitting the ball down the left field line (for a three-run double); that's why I'm a baseball fan. It doesn't have to be star vs. star, but a Verlander-Nava at-bat can be one of those things you remember for a month, maybe a year."
"I think there is a character that is developing because they have enough guys that have a chip on their shoulder," added Gammons.
Why is Jon Lester letting the umpires get into his head?
"He gets very angry. He gets hard on himself, but he gets angry at umpires and it throws him out of his rhythm," Gammons said of Lester's war with the men in blue. "He gets distracted by it. I think it's pretty clear right now his ability is till very good, but its not what we thought it would be a couple years ago when I think a lot of us thought he would win at least one Cy Young award before he was done. It doesn't look that way at all right now."
Was Bobby Valentine too eager in taking Daniel Bard out of last nights game? How well has Bobby Valentine adjusted to his role since Spring Training?
