Blue Jays have lost 4 starting pitchers from their original rotation and lost 3 of them within a span of two weeks of each other. We claim some right. (Bautista is also injured atm, as is our closer)
Hello. We also have had 4 of our should be rotation all out at once (Beckett, Buchholz, Dice-K, Lackey), our All Star closer, our MVP (Pedroia), and literally 2 levels of outfielders including the best position player in the AL last year. Yeah, the Jays have some injuries, but no where near the quality of players nor the time on the shelf. While you guys are worse off then most, no where near Sox 2012 level.
The Reds lost Madson and Votto. Votto is worth like as much as the entire Red Sod roster lol
Jacoby Ellsbury is a five tool AL MVPP who faces AL East pitching. Votto is a three or four tool (depending on who you ask) NL MVP and faces shit pitching like the Lastros, Cubs, Pirates (though they haven't been as bad this year as they have been in years past). If Ells got to hit off of JA Happ on a routine basis, then his numbers would look better than Ted Williams...
If two guys is all you have, and one of them being a relief pitcher, you should be lucky. And you have fucking Billy Hamilton in your system who is the second comming of Ricky Henderson.
2012 RED SOX: Quit Yo' Bitching
Current: (Not all that bad compared to pre-all star game)
Scott Atchison (Forearm, July 15-Current)
Andrew Bailey (Hurt squeezing a shampoo bottle, ST-Current)
Chris Carpenter (Bone Spur, ST-Current)
Rich Hill (2 stints)
John Lackey (Tommy John, out for season)
Dice-K Matsuzaka (2 stints, Tommy John for half of season, currently out with neck strain)
David Ortiz (Who the fuck knows whats wrong, not on DL yet, but out in a walking boot)
Dustin Pedroia (Thumb, missed time before though not on the DL. Nagging injury since April)
Adrian Gonzalez (On and off back tightness, playing through it for now)
Past DL's:
Jacoby Ellsbury
Carl Crawford
Cody Ross (Twice)
Ryan Sweeney (Twice)
Scott Potsednick (Sp?)
Darnell McDonald
Ryan Kalish
Andrew Miller
Daniel Nava (Not DL'ed, but missed about 3 games with injury)
Aaron Cook (Noted Freak Injury)
Josh Beckett (Twice)
Clay Buchholz (Noted Freak Injury)
Bobby Jenks (Another freak Injury)
Will Middlebrooks (Avoided DL because of All Star break, but was out for about 5 games)
Kevin Youkilis (Twice)
I can't account for the time on the DL or for the timing of how the injuries came to be. Most of the injuries came at the worst time and in groups by position. Our line up was a rotating pile of dookie until Ells, Crawford, Middlebrooks, and Gonzo came back after the All Star break. I mean, starting Brett Lillibridge a sub .200 and your AA 1st baseman/AAA DH in Marro Gomez as your starting 1B for a week plus, while having Dan Nava, Nick Punto and pirates reject Pedro Ciriacco in your lineup on a daily basis, you're up a creek. Just needing to emphasize that until recently, ALL these injuries, including pitching, were all going at roughly the same time. And now just as we are getting healthy and starting to come back, whippo, our best player and only stable offense goes on the shelf and is in a fucking walking boot, which is never a good sign for a quick recovery. I mean, we were literally 2 days until Pedroia comes back and we could have had our projected opening day lineup together and on the field for one fucking game this season But nope. This teams situation just continues to be an on going joke. The bambino must have woke back up or something these last few years...