To pitch to contact you have to have good defense, this year is one of the first years I remember the sox having that. It's about execution, and the problem us every guy on the roster wants to hit the ball out, sometimes you have to have the Chris Getz type players, who run, bunt do lil things that know they ain't gonna hit homers so they won't try for them. Another thing is the dumb plays, this were Lexi and de aza come in, ohhh yeah you look at the stats and people argue, but how many games? How many leads, how much more pressure on the pitcher do these bonehead plays cause?? Those are intangibles, things that help win, something Lexi and de aza lack. Now they don't lack ability that they got, but when the miles count how many times have they made a bonehead play, remember the DP last year where Lexi fancied it to first and threw it away? It opened the flood gates to the big inning and that's just one of a lot. The need to get a game plan, ok these are the players were gonna develop, this is our philosophy, but at times they seem tied back by financials