2008 BOSTON RED SOX

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Location: Boston,MA
Team Record: 95-67 .586
Result: 2nd in American League - East Division
Manager(s): Terry Francona
General Manager: Theo Epstein
Stadium: Fenway Park
Attendance: 3,048,250
Payroll: $133,390,035
Playoffs: Lost in ALCS (Tampa Bay)

Boston Red Sox affiliate history

Oldest Player: Mike Timlin (42)
Youngest Player: Mike Bowden (21)
Longest Tenure: Tim Wakefield (14)
Top Hitter: Dustin Pedroia (3)
Top Pitcher: Jon Lester (7)
Top Draft Pick: Casey Kelly (#30)

Roster Continuity: 82.18%
Top Prospect: Clay Buchholz

American League Standings

East	W	L	Pct	GB
Tampa Bay	97	65	.599	--
Boston	95	67	.586	2.0
NY Yankees	89	73	.549	8.0
Toronto	86	76	.531	11.0
Baltimore	68	93	.422	28.5

BATTING STATISTICS

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Splits Analysis

#	Player	Pos	Rk	Age	Drafted	HiLvl	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	HBP	IBB	SH	SF	DP	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	PA	OUT	RC	RC/G	babip
15	Dustin Pedroia	2b	3	24	2004-2-65	MLB	157	653	118	213	54	2	17	83	20	1	50	52	7	1	7	9	17	.326	.376	.493	869	322	726	474	138	7.8	.331
46	Jacoby Ellsbury	cf	35	24	2005-1-23	MLB	145	554	98	155	22	7	9	47	50	11	41	80	7	2	4	3	9	.280	.336	.394	729	218	609	426	83	5.2	.312
20	Kevin Youkilis	3b	7	29	2001-8-243	MLB	145	538	91	168	43	4	29	115	3	5	62	108	12	7	0	9	11	.312	.390	.569	958	306	621	395	125	8.5	.339
33	Jason Varitek	c	86	36	1994-1-14	MLB	131	423	37	93	20	0	13	43	0	1	52	122	6	3	0	2	13	.220	.313	.359	672	152	483	346	44	3.4	.276
25	Mike Lowell	3b	-	34	1995-20-562	MLB	113	419	58	115	27	0	17	73	2	2	38	61	5	2	0	6	14	.274	.338	.461	798	193	468	326	70	5.8	.282
34	David Ortiz	dh	56	32	UDFA: 1992	MLB	109	416	74	110	30	1	23	89	1	0	70	74	1	12	1	3	11	.264	.369	.507	877	211	491	321	85	7.1	.270
7	J.D. Drew	rf	73	32	1998-1-5	MLB	109	368	79	103	23	4	19	64	4	1	79	80	4	5	0	5	11	.280	.408	.519	927	191	456	282	84	8.1	.307
24	Manny Ramirez	dh	88	36	1991-1-13	MLB	100	365	66	109	22	1	20	68	1	0	52	86	8	8	0	0	12	.299	.398	.529	926	193	425	268	77	7.8	.344
10	Coco Crisp	cf	54	28	1999-7-222	MLB	118	361	55	102	18	3	7	41	20	7	35	59	1	0	8	4	6	.283	.344	.407	751	147	409	284	56	5.3	.318
23	Julio Lugo	ss-3b	-	32	1994-43-1193	MLB	82	261	27	70	13	0	1	22	12	4	34	51	4	0	3	5	13	.268	.355	.330	685	86	307	216	31	3.9	.322
12	Jed Lowrie	ss	74	24	2005-1-45	MLB	81	260	34	67	25	3	2	46	1	0	35	68	1	0	2	8	8	.258	.339	.400	739	104	306	211	38	4.9	.328
22	Sean Casey	1b	-	33	1995-2-53	MLB	69	199	14	64	14	0	0	17	1	0	17	25	2	3	0	0	6	.322	.381	.392	773	78	218	141	32	6.1	.368
44	Jason Bay	lf	-	29	2000-22-645	MLB	49	184	39	54	12	2	9	37	3	0	22	51	2	2	0	3	4	.293	.370	.527	897	97	211	137	37	7.3	.354
13	Alex Cora	3b-ss	87	32	1996-3-88	MLB	75	152	14	41	8	2	0	9	1	1	16	13	9	1	1	1	3	.270	.371	.349	719	53	179	117	24	5.5	.293
36,30	Kevin Cash	c	-	30	UDFA: 1999	MLB	61	142	11	32	7	0	3	15	0	0	18	50	0	1	0	2	6	.225	.309	.338	647	48	162	118	12	2.7	.319
11	Mark Kotsay	lf	-	32	1996-1-9	MLB	22	84	6	19	8	1	0	12	0	1	7	11	0	1	0	0	1	.226	.286	.345	631	29	91	67	9	3.8	.260
44	Brandon Moss	1b	-	24	2002-8-238	MLB	34	78	7	23	5	1	2	11	1	1	6	25	0	0	0	2	0	.295	.337	.462	799	36	86	58	12	5.7	.396
55	Jeff Bailey	1b	-	29	1997-2-64	MLB	27	50	10	14	1	1	2	6	0	0	9	17	0	1	0	0	2	.280	.390	.460	850	23	59	38	8	5.9	.387
54	Chris Carter	lf-rf	-	25	2004-17-506	MLB	9	18	5	6	0	0	0	3	0	0	2	5	0	0	0	0	0	.333	.400	.333	733	6	20	12	2	5.2	.462
30,60	Jon Van Every	of	-	28	2000-29-876	MLB	11	17	0	4	0	1	0	5	0	0	1	6	0	0	0	0	0	.235	.278	.353	631	6	18	13	1	3.1	.364
51	Gil Velazquez	ss	-	28	1998-14-424	MLB	3	8	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.125	.125	.125	250	1	8	7	0	-0.6	.125
3	Joe Thurston	2b	-	28	1999-4-134	MLB	4	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	.000	.111	.000	111	0	9	8	-1	-2.0	.000
28	David Ross	c	-	31	1998-7-216	MLB	8	8	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	1	0	0	.125	.125	.125	250	1	9	8	0	-1.5	.200
19	Josh Beckett	p	-	28	1999-1-2	MLB	2	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	7	7	-	-	.000
68	George Kottaras	c	-	25	2002-20-595	MLB	3	5	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	.200	.200	.400	600	2	5	4	0	2.8	.333
31	Jon Lester	p	-	24	2002-2-57	MLB	2	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	5	5	-	-	.000
63	Justin Masterson	p	-	23	2006-2-71	MLB	2	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	5	5	-	-	.000
49	Tim Wakefield	p	-	41	1988-8-200	MLB	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	3	3	-	-	.000
40	Bartolo Colon	p	-	33	UDFA: 1993	MLB	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	2	2	-	-	.000
18	Daisuke Matsuzaka	p	-	27	UDFA: 2008	MLB	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	2	2	-	-	.000
53	David Aardsma	p	-	26	2003-1-22	MLB	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	1	1	-	-	.000
48	Javier Lopez	p	-	30	1998-4-133	MLB	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	1	1	-	-	.000
Totals: (32 players)							162	5596	845	1565	353	33	173	807	120	35	646	1068	70	49	28	62	147	.280	.358	.447	805	2503	6402	4303	960	6	.315

PITCHING STATISTICS

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Draft Picks

#	Player	Rk	Age	Drafted	HiLvl	W	L	ERA	G	GS	CG	SH	GF	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	WP	Bk	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	BB/SO	BABIP	GB/FB
31	Jon Lester	7	24	2002-2-57	MLB	16	6	3.21	33	33	2	2	0	0	210.1	202	78	75	14	66	152	3	1	1.27	8.64	0.60	2.82	6.50	0.43	.302	0.99
49	Tim Wakefield	28	41	1988-8-200	MLB	10	11	4.13	30	30	1	0	0	0	181.0	154	89	83	25	60	117	12	0	1.18	7.66	1.24	2.98	5.82	0.51	.242	0.57
19	Josh Beckett	16	28	1999-1-2	MLB	12	10	4.03	27	27	1	0	0	0	174.1	173	80	78	18	34	172	5	0	1.19	8.93	0.93	1.76	8.88	0.20	.320	0.74
18	Daisuke Matsuzaka	8	27	UDFA: 2008	MLB	18	3	2.90	29	29	0	0	0	0	167.2	128	58	54	12	94	154	5	0	1.32	6.87	0.64	5.05	8.27	0.61	.262	0.65
63	Justin Masterson	-	23	2006-2-71	MLB	6	5	3.16	36	9	0	0	6	0	88.1	68	31	31	10	40	68	1	0	1.22	6.93	1.02	4.08	6.93	0.59	.245	1.22
61	Clay Buchholz	-	23	2005-1-42	MLB	2	9	6.75	16	15	1	0	0	0	76.0	93	63	57	11	41	72	2	1	1.76	11.01	1.30	4.86	8.53	0.57	.360	0.97
17	Manny Delcarmen	64	26	2000-2-62	MLB	1	2	3.27	73	0	0	0	16	2	74.1	55	28	27	5	28	72	0	0	1.12	6.66	0.61	3.39	8.72	0.39	.262	1.13
58	Jonathan Papelbon	32	27	2003-4-114	MLB	5	4	2.34	67	0	0	0	62	41	69.1	58	24	18	4	8	77	2	0	0.95	7.53	0.52	1.04	10.00	0.10	.302	1.04
37	Hideki Okajima	-	32	UDFA: 2010	MLB	3	2	2.61	64	0	0	0	11	1	62.0	49	18	18	6	23	60	2	0	1.16	7.11	0.87	3.34	8.71	0.38	.261	0.53
48	Javier Lopez	74	30	1998-4-133	MLB	2	0	2.43	70	0	0	0	10	0	59.1	53	18	16	4	27	38	1	0	1.35	8.04	0.61	4.10	5.76	0.71	.282	1.54
50	Mike Timlin	86	42	1987-5-127	MLB	4	4	5.66	47	0	0	0	26	1	49.1	60	32	31	9	20	32	1	0	1.62	10.95	1.64	3.65	5.84	0.63	.323	0.81
36	Paul Byrd	27	37	1991-4-113	MLB	4	2	4.78	8	8	0	0	0	0	49.0	58	26	26	8	10	26	0	0	1.39	10.65	1.47	1.84	4.78	0.38	--	0.55
53	David Aardsma	-	26	2003-1-22	MLB	4	2	5.55	47	0	0	0	7	0	48.2	49	32	30	4	35	49	3	0	1.73	9.06	0.74	6.47	9.06	0.71	.346	0.83
40	Bartolo Colon	-	33	UDFA: 1993	MLB	4	2	3.92	7	7	0	0	0	0	39.0	44	23	17	5	10	27	0	0	1.38	10.15	1.15	2.31	6.23	0.37	.315	0.74
56	Craig Hansen	-	24	2005-1-26	MLB	1	3	5.58	32	0	0	0	6	2	30.2	29	23	19	2	23	25	3	0	1.70	8.51	0.59	6.75	7.34	0.92	.287	1.20
59	Chris Smith	-	27	2002-4-118	MLB	1	0	7.85	12	0	0	0	3	0	18.1	18	16	16	6	7	13	0	0	1.36	8.84	2.95	3.44	6.38	0.54	.240	0.38
51	Julian Tavarez	-	35	UDFA: 1990	MLB	0	1	6.39	9	0	0	0	2	0	12.2	18	12	9	0	9	6	1	0	2.13	12.79	0.00	6.39	4.26	1.50	--	1.53
62	David Pauley	-	25	2001-8-240	MLB	0	1	11.68	6	2	0	0	3	0	12.1	23	17	16	2	5	11	0	0	2.27	16.78	1.46	3.65	8.03	0.45	.447	0.79
43	Devern Hansack	-	30	UDFA: 1999	MLB	1	0	4.05	4	0	0	0	3	0	6.2	6	5	3	0	1	5	0	0	1.05	8.10	0.00	1.35	6.75	0.20	.316	0.82
30	Bryan Corey	-	34	1993-12-333	MLB	0	0	10.50	7	0	0	0	2	0	6.0	11	7	7	1	3	4	0	0	2.33	16.50	1.50	4.50	6.00	0.75	--	0.50
64	Mike Bowden	-	21	2005-1-47	MLB	1	0	3.60	1	1	0	0	0	0	5.0	7	2	2	0	1	3	0	0	1.60	12.60	0.00	1.80	5.40	0.33	.389	0.20
51	Charlie Zink	-	28	UDFA: 2002	MLB	0	0	16.62	1	1	0	0	0	0	4.1	11	8	8	0	1	1	1	0	2.77	22.85	0.00	2.08	2.08	1.00	.478	0.64
39	Kyle Snyder	-	30	1999-1-7	MLB	0	0	21.60	2	0	0	0	0	0	1.2	2	4	4	1	2	1	1	0	2.40	10.80	5.40	10.80	5.40	2.00	.250	1.00
Totals: (32 players)						95	67	4.01	162	162	5	2	157	47	1,446	1369	694	645	173	548	1185	43	2	1.53	8.52	0.91	3.41	7.37	0.46	.310

FIELDING STATISTICS

Stats by Position

Games by Position

Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Jason Varitek	C	131	1041	903	42	4	7	.996	8.17
Kevin Cash	C	57	372	280	26	4	5	.987	7.40
David Ross	C	8	25	23	0	0	0	1.000	8.28
George Kottaras	C	2	8	5	0	0	0	1.000	5.63
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Kevin Youkilis	1B	125	984	923	87	4	92	.996	9.24
Sean Casey	1B	45	342	331	13	3	25	.991	9.05
Jeff Bailey	1B	12	67	77	3	0	10	1.000	10.75
Mark Kotsay	1B	6	39	35	3	1	7	.974	8.77
Brandon Moss	1B	2	13	10	0	0	1	1.000	6.92
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Dustin Pedroia	2B	157	1376	279	448	6	101	.992	4.76
Alex Cora	2B	7	35	6	14	0	3	1.000	5.14
Jed Lowrie	2B	3	16	2	4	0	0	1.000	3.38
Gil Velazquez	2B	2	19	5	9	0	2	1.000	6.63
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Mike Lowell	3B	110	935	80	217	10	20	.967	2.86
Jed Lowrie	3B	45	243	16	59	2	8	.974	2.78
Kevin Youkilis	3B	36	252	23	70	3	5	.969	3.32
Kevin Cash	3B	4	15	1	1	0	0	1.000	1.20
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Julio Lugo	SS	81	671	100	176	16	34	.945	3.70
Alex Cora	SS	69	386	74	136	6	39	.972	4.90
Jed Lowrie	SS	49	386	46	109	0	21	1.000	3.61
Gil Velazquez	SS	1	3	0	1	0	0	1.000	3.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Manny Ramirez	LF	66	537	99	6	1	2	.991	1.76
Jacoby Ellsbury	LF	58	346	89	1	0	1	1.000	2.34
Jason Bay	LF	49	423	76	5	1	0	.988	1.72
Brandon Moss	LF	11	78	17	0	0	0	1.000	1.96
Jeff Bailey	LF	5	23	3	0	0	0	1.000	1.17
Joe Thurston	LF	4	19	5	0	0	0	1.000	2.37
Chris Carter	LF	3	17	3	0	0	0	1.000	1.59
Julio Lugo	LF	1	1	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00
Jon Van Every	LF	1	1	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Coco Crisp	CF	114	886	234	4	2	1	.992	2.42
Jacoby Ellsbury	CF	66	546	171	3	0	1	1.000	2.87
J.D. Drew	CF	1	5	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00
Jon Van Every	CF	1	8	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.13
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
J.D. Drew	RF	106	886	184	6	4	1	.979	1.93
Jacoby Ellsbury	RF	36	281	72	0	0	0	1.000	2.31
Mark Kotsay	RF	19	151	32	0	0	0	1.000	1.91
Brandon Moss	RF	14	86	19	2	0	0	1.000	2.20
Jon Van Every	RF	8	32	15	0	0	0	1.000	4.22
Kevin Youkilis	RF	2	8	3	0	0	0	1.000	3.38
Jeff Bailey	RF	1	1	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Manny Delcarmen	P	73	74	6	5	0	0	1.000	1.34
Javier Lopez	P	70	59	7	10	4	0	.810	2.59
Jonathan Papelbon	P	67	69	5	5	3	0	.769	1.30
Hideki Okajima	P	64	62	3	4	0	0	1.000	1.02
David Aardsma	P	47	48	3	6	0	0	1.000	1.69
Mike Timlin	P	47	49	1	9	0	0	1.000	1.84
Justin Masterson	P	36	88	3	10	1	2	.929	1.33
Jon Lester	P	33	210	19	21	2	3	.952	1.71
Craig Hansen	P	32	30	0	2	0	0	1.000	0.60
Tim Wakefield	P	30	181	7	15	1	1	.957	1.09
Daisuke Matsuzaka	P	29	167	16	19	1	2	.972	1.89
Josh Beckett	P	27	174	15	18	2	2	.943	1.71
Clay Buchholz	P	16	76	3	6	0	0	1.000	1.07
Chris Smith	P	12	18	3	2	0	0	1.000	2.50
Julian Tavarez	P	9	12	1	2	0	1	1.000	2.25
Paul Byrd	P	8	49	2	9	1	1	.917	2.02
Bartolo Colon	P	7	39	2	4	2	0	.750	1.38
Bryan Corey	P	7	6	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.50
David Pauley	P	6	12	0	1	0	0	1.000	0.75
Devern Hansack	P	4	6	0	0	1	0	.000	0.00
Kyle Snyder	P	2	1	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00
Mike Bowden	P	1	5	1	1	0	1	1.000	3.60
Charlie Zink	P	1	4	0	2	0	0	1.000	4.50
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
David Ortiz	DH	108						.000	0.00
Manny Ramirez	DH	31						.000	0.00
Sean Casey	DH	7						.000	0.00
Jeff Bailey	DH	2						.000	0.00
J.D. Drew	DH	2						.000	0.00
Mike Lowell	DH	2						.000	0.00
Chris Carter	DH	1						.000	0.00

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