Red Sox Report Card From Jon Wallach
BOSTON (CBS) -- Two months of the season are in the books, and the Red Sox are in the basement of the AL East.
The Sox, after going 10-19 in the month of May, find themselves in dead last in their division, and they own the second-worst record in the American League and the fifth-worst record in all of baseball.
And when the Sox lost in painful fashion Sunday afternoon in Texas, 98.5 The Sports Hub's Jon Wallach was clearly fed up.
So on Monday morning, on the first of June, Toucher & Rich asked Wallach to give out grades on Red Sox players for the first two months of action. It's not a comprehensive, complete grading system, but the message is pretty clear.
Suffice it to say, the team GPA is not very impressive.
DH - David Ortiz
Grade: C-/D+
"He's hitting occasionally, but he's hitting under .230. I think the C-/D+ is being generous. Big Papi has not had a good year."
LF - Hanley Ramirez
Grade: C+
"He had a tremendous April. His fielding had been god-awful. Average that out, it's a C. I'll give him props for hitting 10 home runs in April."
2B - Dustin Pedroia
Grade: C+/B-
"He probably has been the most consistent player offensively from beginning to now. I sure wish he'd get angry."
1B - Mike Napoli
Grade: D
"Napoli, except for one hot streak, has been awful."
3B - Pablo Sandoval
Grade: C-/D+
"He won't hit right-handed. He's being paid $95 million and all of a sudden can't field a baseball. Horrible signing."
RF - Shane Victorino
Grade: G
"He's been horrible. Not an F -- G. Victorino's a $13 million ball player that can't play more than five games in a row, replaced by a $72 million ball player that's not ready to play right field in Rusney Castillo."
SS - Xander Bogaerts
Grade: C
"Xander's not been bad. He's not been great, but he's not been bad."
CF - Mookie Betts
Grade: C
"I see the future. I think he's going to be good. ... Betts is a guy who will show better. But for now, he gets a C like everybody else."
SP - Clay Buchholz
Grade: F
"I hate Clay Buchholz. F."
SP - Rick Porcello:
Grade: F
SP - Joe Kelly
Grade: F
"F-minus!"
SP - Wade Miley
Grade: F
"Screw him and his hair! F!"
SP - Steven Wright
Grade: C/C-
"He's a knuckleballer. He's going to go 12-12 his entire career."
Manager - John Farrell
"John Farrell has done everything possible to try to shake this team up. He's sat players down, he's changed the top five in the order seven or eight times in the last two weeks, he's hit every button and thrown every lever and has gotten nothing out of his team. Part of being a manager, in my opinion, is to be able to get more out of your team. And he certainly has enough talent on that roster to be better than seven games under .500."
Listen to all of Wallach's comments below:
