Introducing Monday's Red Sox Rants: Betts, Doubront, and More

Happy Monday! Maybe not for everybody, but alas, Mondays are getting better! Because starting this Monday, Lewis and sports introduces their newest column, Monday Red Sox Rants! Mondays will be used for informative biases against the Boston Red Sox, made with love. They consist of nothing but Red Sox, ranging from player performance, to personnel decisions, to just broad comments about the Red Sox. As a test, this week I will broadly speak about some decisions and thoughts about the Red Sox to see what works and what does not. So, without further ado, I present to you, the very first Red Sox Rant:

Mookie Betts does not deserve the call up.

Sitting at six games below .500 and fading offensively, the call up was waiting in the mist. While Betts was hitting .346 this season in the minor leagues with 46 RBIs and 21 doubles, I understand why Red Sox Nation beckoned for the call up. But still, the timing is very off.  Betts comes to the team as an aid in the struggles, expected to produce the moment he gets into game. There is no room for error here. Why does the team want to do this to the kid? Farrell doesn’t even want Betts up. In a recent article published by Telegram.com, Farrell quotes “It’s a quick ascent, no doubt about it. Players tell you when the time has come,” about Betts’s call up.  In his first game up, Betts didn’t even see play. The Sox are wasting Betts’s time. Keep getting him plate appearances in the minors, then bring him up in September.

Felix Doubront Should Never Come Back to the Rotation ever

Doubront’s stuff is flat, his mechanics have been awful, and he has flat out stinks. Upon coming back from “injury” (how do you injure your arm by hitting it against a car door?), the Sox placed him in the bullpen. And guess what, he actually pitched pretty well. In last Tuesday’s game, Doubront pitched two hitless/scoreless innings. I was able to see him pitch that game and even I was actually semi-impressed with his stuff. Then it got me thinking back to his first time in the majors, where he pitched out of the bullpen. Again, he pitched well then. It makes me think that Doubront’s best bet is to come out of the ‘pen in mop-up fashion, wait it out until the deadline, and then Boston trades his sorry stuff out of this city. Hasta le Vista Doubront.

Mike Napoli is a true dirt dawg

Over the past couple of weeks, I had been thinking about the old days where Red Sox Nation referred to the team as “dirt dawgs.” Missing the days of Johnny Damon, Manny Ramirez, and Kevin Millar, I started to picture some of the players on this year’s team in a similar role. I came to consider Mike Napoli a dirt dawg, and more and more every day I believe Napoli it as truth. Calling Tanaka an idiot sealed the deal. With his nice tats, mean beard, and hard core attitude, Napoli plays the game with true class and grit. He is hardcore and I love it. Napoli, you get an induction to the dirt dawgs of Boston, Right next to Kevin Youkilis and Trot Nixon.