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Baseball Musings
June 19, 2006
Sensitive Renteria

DOJ's SportingBlog notes that Edgar Renteria admitted yesterday that the Boston fans got to him in 2005.


Posted by David Pinto at 12:38 PM | Players | TrackBack (0)
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The obvious didn't really need to be stated, but it is nice to catch a whiff of a little honesty now and then. Edgar, I hated you last year, but I hope your solid season continues. If the Sox could reverse their deal with the Braves I wouldn't change a thing. Edgar's defense still isn't stellar and Gonzalez has been a joy to watch.

Posted by: Jay at June 19, 2006 04:34 PM

It is unfortunate that players get booed by fickle fans in Boston. The fans desire to win can be compromized when the player puts too much pressure on himself, and is there counter-productive.
However, Edgar (a likeable character) must take responsibility for his inadequate play last year. 30 errors is way too many, and cannot be simply explained away by fan mistreatment.
All athletes must develop a thick skin or else will fall victim to the drop in performance Renteria experienced.
In Edgar's defense (no pun intended) he replaced the extremely popular Orlando Cabrera at SS, so that didn't help matters either.

Posted by: Mike at June 19, 2006 05:02 PM

Oh boo-freaking-hoo. All Boston fans expected him to do was hit .285 and to be an excellent defender. He hit .276 but was woefully inconsistent at the plate. He followed that up with 30 Errors at short. They weren't booing him from Day 1, they booed him when he stopped earning his paycheck.

Posted by: Derek at June 19, 2006 05:49 PM

The other issue with Renteria is that he simply loafs his way to first 75% of the time. It's alot easier to overlook hustle or crappy defense if you're putting an 850 OPS.

He greedily took the money, performed poorly, blamed Fenway for his errors (he had more on the road) and then begged his way out of town. If that's not worthy of booing, tell me what is.

Posted by: SoxFan at June 19, 2006 08:17 PM
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