Jones: Who's Been The Most Disappointing Red Sox Player?
BOSTON (CBS) - On the 2015 Major League Baseball season, we are over two months with over 50 games played, and currently the Boston Red Sox are a season-high seven games below .500, and their 22-29 record is good for second to last in the American League.
For a team with the third highest payroll in baseball, when you look up and down the roster it's just disappointment after disappointment.
98.5 The Sports Hub's Adam Jones performed an interesting exercise on Monday night, and that was coming up with which player on the team has been the most disappointing, of which there are no shortage of candidates.
For Jones, he weighed the expectation level versus the performance -- not who the worst player is or who has the worst numbers, because that's fairly easy.
"There are two names I hone in on: it's David Ortiz or Rick Porcello. It's the guy in the middle of your lineup who, granted, picked it up a little bit over the weekend in Texas, but still, he's a guy you rely on and he hasn't gotten off to the start that anyone expected," he said.
At the beginning of the season, Jones said right from the start that Rick Porcello was overpaid when the Red Sox gave him an extension. However, he didn't predict it would look this bad.
"I hated the extension, but even I thought he'd be better than this," Jones said of Porcello, who owns a 5.37 ERA. "I would narrow it down to those two guys: Ortiz in the lineup and Porcello in the rotation. But if I had to pick, I'm going with Porcello [as most disappointing]."
Afterwards, Rich Keefe offered up his take.
"I'm going with Pablo Sandoval. Part of that might be I had higher expectations of him, but even if you didn't think he was going to have a breakout year, right now he would have career lows in batting average, on-base percentage, slugging percentage, OPS and runs batted in," Keefe explained.
"You thought he was a switch hitter and could be plugged in anywhere you want in the lineup, well it turns out he's not a switch hitter. He's not a liability in the field, but at the plate I wanted more," he added. "I liked the signing at the time, but it has not worked out."
The guys also took suggestions from the text line, where the opinions were varied.
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Earlier in the program, Jones and Keefe talked about the end of the Red Sox miserable road trip, and how Sunday's loss summed up everything that has gone wrong with this team this season.
They're well on their way to a third last place finish in four years, and with that a losing culture starts to settle in.
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