Ray Finkle
☠️ Banned ☠️
I think its time the Red Sox look at their 2nd base position as Mark Bellhorn, who's defense is actually very underrated, but is seemingly going up to the plate with a wiffle ball bat instead of a baseball bat.
According to rotoworld.com:
"To say Mark Bellhorn is slumping would be an understatement.
He went into last night batting .187 since June 1, with more strikeouts (49) than hits (23) and walks (21) combined. After striking out two more times in his 0-for-3 effort last night, he is now hitting .105 (4-for-38) in July."
I know people will say his OBP is high but he's 11th on the Sox in that stat behind every other Sox hitter (not counting Adam Stern) except Doug Mirabelli and Alex Cora. His batting average is also 12th on the Sox (not including Tim Wakefield or Wade Miller
) he is only higher then Mirabelli and Cora again. The only plus side of Bellhorn is that he's 1st on the team in walks with BBs (2 ahead of Ortiz) but his 106 K's are 37 more then Manny who is 2nd with 69 K's.
I think it's team that the Red Sox bring up their 2nd base prospect Dustin Pedroia who was playing college ball last year for Arizona State last year. He's been hitting the ball well and fielding well also and is quickly jumping though the Sox farm system (He started the season at Double A in Portland and is now in Pawtucket). I'm not saying get rid of Bellhorn because I think he has good value coming off the bench as a utitilty guy but his hitting is very poor and he's hurting the team by striking out that much (especially since he's not paid to drive in runs and hit home runs). He has become a joke at the plate. Again not taking anything away from what he did last year for the Sox because he was clutch and helped them win the World Series but when are these major league pitchers going to learn to just throw 3 pitches right down the middle and they'll strike him out?
Bring on Pedroia!
According to rotoworld.com:
"To say Mark Bellhorn is slumping would be an understatement.
He went into last night batting .187 since June 1, with more strikeouts (49) than hits (23) and walks (21) combined. After striking out two more times in his 0-for-3 effort last night, he is now hitting .105 (4-for-38) in July."
I know people will say his OBP is high but he's 11th on the Sox in that stat behind every other Sox hitter (not counting Adam Stern) except Doug Mirabelli and Alex Cora. His batting average is also 12th on the Sox (not including Tim Wakefield or Wade Miller
) he is only higher then Mirabelli and Cora again. The only plus side of Bellhorn is that he's 1st on the team in walks with BBs (2 ahead of Ortiz) but his 106 K's are 37 more then Manny who is 2nd with 69 K's. I think it's team that the Red Sox bring up their 2nd base prospect Dustin Pedroia who was playing college ball last year for Arizona State last year. He's been hitting the ball well and fielding well also and is quickly jumping though the Sox farm system (He started the season at Double A in Portland and is now in Pawtucket). I'm not saying get rid of Bellhorn because I think he has good value coming off the bench as a utitilty guy but his hitting is very poor and he's hurting the team by striking out that much (especially since he's not paid to drive in runs and hit home runs). He has become a joke at the plate. Again not taking anything away from what he did last year for the Sox because he was clutch and helped them win the World Series but when are these major league pitchers going to learn to just throw 3 pitches right down the middle and they'll strike him out?
Bring on Pedroia!
