The Red Sox continue to be plagued with injuries as Kevin Youkilis heads to the disabled list. By my count, the Red Sox have $77, 224,000 worth of major league talent on the disabled list: <\/p>\n
Here are some rounded-off individual figures: Carl Crawford - $19.5M John Lackey - $15.25M Kevin Youkilis - $12M Daisuke Matsuzaka ? $10M Jacoby Ellsbury - $8.05M Bobby Jenks - $6M Andrew Bailey - $3.90M Andrew Miller - $1.04M Jason Repko - $600,000 Ryan Kalish - $483,000 Chris Carpenter - $482,000 <\/p>\n
So not exactly the easiest start health-wise for the Red Sox, who changed their medical and training staff in the offseason. <\/p>\n
A few other observations: <\/p>\n
* Adrian Gonzalez is struggling and we all know he will hit. Just wish he would run hard on a ground ball now and then. Big Papi does. <\/p>\n
* My apologies to a reader, Reed from Chico, Calif., He made an observation a couple of weeks back: <\/p>\n
\"Ownership and upper management do the hiring, firing and most importantly, the signing of players and hiring staff members. So I don't want to hear that it's all Bobby Valentine's fault or just the player's fault. Thoughts?\" <\/p>\n
And I responded: \"Bobby Valentine was the right hire. This is his 16th season as a manager in the major leagues. You don't last that long being a bad manager. It's incredible to me how unfair people like yourself are toward him. It's 15 games in and you've made up your mind. Amazing.\" <\/p>\n
Obviously, Reed was on my side of the issue. Sorry, Reed. <\/p>\n
* It was great working with Don Orsillo on a few of the NESN broadcasts last week with Jerry Remy out sick. Don't tell him, but he's really good. We wish Jerry a speedy recovery. He is missed. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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