Just Saying

Last year Josh Beckett had Paul Lo Duca as his catcher and he gave up just 14 HR.

This year Josh Beckett has given up 31 HR with Jason Varitek as his primary catcher. For the math challenged - his home runs have more than doubled under Varitek's pitch calling.

Everyone always lauds Varitek for the way he handles the pitching staff and when he went down with a knee injury - everyone was "woe is us." Personally I think Varitek is given too much credit when things go good and no blame what so ever when things go wrong.

The Red Sox lost a bad game yesterday but it is still a long way to September. The Red Sox are just 0.5 games out of the wild-card (behind the White Sox) and just 2 games back of the Yankees for the AL East. The Yankees and White Sox play this week - so the Red Sox stand to gain ground.

I think the above just needed to be said.