Red Sox acquire Alejandro de Aza

[Rasputin]

They'd rather have JBJ playing in Venezuela right now than performing in Boston as he has over the past year. About a month ago I listed JBJ as our #8 OF and someone, I forget who, claimed he was like their 4th which left me confused. He's had a couple chances to impress in Boston and failed both last year and this. There are only so many tryouts you get in the bigs before a team moves on and you gain the "needs a change of scenery" tag like a Middlebrooks.

And he's basically had one chance, maybe two if you squint and consider 2013 a chance.

The thirteen plate appearances he's had in 2015 don't even come close to bring a chance. That's three whole game and some defensive replacement appearances.

 

[Toe Nash]

And he's basically had one chance, maybe two if you squint and consider 2013 a chance.

The thirteen plate appearances he's had in 2015 don't even come close to bring a chance. That's three whole game and some defensive replacement appearances.

Plus, his three starts were against Dickey, Gray and King Felix. 

 

[Buzzkill Pauley]

And he's basically had one chance, maybe two if you squint and consider 2013 a chance.

The thirteen plate appearances he's had in 2015 don't even come close to bring a chance. That's three whole game and some defensive replacement appearances.

 
That doesn't change the fact that the Sox have buried JBJ and do, apparently, prefer him to be in Venezuela.
 
The OF has been an absolute defensive clusterf*** this season, and Farrell has given the team's best fielder 13 PA to prove he might be able to contribute this year.  Facing Dickey, Felix, and Gray.  Please, that is the very definition of no chance.
 
And hell, even facing those three guys, he's still drawn more walks than Castillo.

 

[Rovin Romine]

 
That doesn't change the fact that the Sox have buried JBJ and do, apparently, prefer him to be in Venezuela.
 
The OF has been an absolute defensive clusterf*** this season, and Farrell has given the team's best fielder 13 PA to prove he might be able to contribute this year.  Facing Dickey, Felix, and Gray.  Please, that is the very definition of no chance.
 
And hell, even facing those three guys, he's still drawn more walks than Castillo.

 
They could also be "protecting" him.   Perhaps they didn't want to re-expose JBJ to a significant stretch of ML pitching when the entire lineup was scuffling and view his callup as a defensive starter only (not caring about the offense.)
 
If he was guns blazing out of the gate during the recent call up, it may have forced their hand, but if I were the Sox, I'd only call him up with the intention of getting him more ML at bats if: a) the ML lineup can absorb him hitting badly while he (hopefully) acclimates, and b) it's in a situation where JBJ won't feel undue pressure to perform and could personally benefit from having a strong lineup around him.

 

[Rasputin]

 
That doesn't change the fact that the Sox have buried JBJ and do, apparently, prefer him to be in Venezuela.
 
The OF has been an absolute defensive clusterf*** this season, and Farrell has given the team's best fielder 13 PA to prove he might be able to contribute this year.  Facing Dickey, Felix, and Gray.  Please, that is the very definition of no chance.
 
And hell, even facing those three guys, he's still drawn more walks than Castillo.

Or, you know, they want him to spend a lot of time getting AAA plate appearances for perfectly reasonable reasons.

 

[geoduck no quahog]

Last year they got
 
.267 / .326 / .375 /.700 out of LF
.261 / .318 / .376 / .694 out of RF
.216 / .293 / .314 / .607 out of CF
 
That includes Cespedes, the only outfielder to have an OPS+ over 100 (101)
 
So far this year:
 
.267 / .330 / .405 / .735 out of LF
.172 / .249 / .240 / .488 out of RF
.257 / .312 / .391 / .704 out of CF
 
Thank God it's still early.

 

[Rough Carrigan]

I hope, for his sake, that this means they send Peguero down to AAA for the time being rather than have him sit on the bench.  He's an intriguing guy.  Okay, this is falling into the trap of reading too much into a few at bats.  But, I loved how he approached the Twins starter, May.  I didn't know much at all about Peguero except having heard the Wily Mo Pena comparison.  But while most of the Sox didn't seem to have a clue about what to do against May, Peguero took one of May's shin high fastballs and just beautifully lined it to left center.  It was the kind of at bat that Wily Mo Pena never had.  When did Wily Mo ever face a guy who was throwing hard stuff consistently at the bottom of the zone and recognize that he just wasn't going to be successful trying to load up for a homer and instead take a modified swing and line a ball hard into the opposite field gap?