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Starting Pitcher Report Card – Tim Wakefield – B

Let’s take a look at the Red Sox starting rotation – despite injuries and some poor performances (Tim Wakefield, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Brad Penny and John Smoltz), the top 3 Red Sox starting pitchers were excellent – Josh Beckett, Jon Lester and Clay Buchholz.  The Penny and Smoltz experiments can be deemed failures, but Beckett, Lester, [...]

Starting Pitcher Report Card – Clay Buchholz – B

Let’s take a look at the Red Sox starting rotation – despite injuries and some poor performances (Tim Wakefield, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Brad Penny and John Smoltz), the top 3 Red Sox starting pitchers were excellent – Josh Beckett, Jon Lester and Clay Buchholz.  The Penny and Smoltz experiments can be deemed failures, but Beckett, Lester, [...]

Starting Pitcher Report Card – Jon Lester – A-

Let’s take a look at the Red Sox starting rotation – despite injuries and some poor performances (Tim Wakefield, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Brad Penny and John Smoltz), the top 3 Red Sox starting pitchers were excellent – Josh Beckett, Jon Lester and Clay Buchholz.  The Penny and Smoltz experiments can be deemed failures, but Beckett, Lester, [...]

Red Sox Making Move for Roy Halladay?

Could it be?  The New York Daily News has reported that Theo Epstein and the Red Sox are going after Toronto Blue Jays ace Roy Halladay.  The goal is to acquire Halladay in a trade before Baseball’s Winter Meetings even start in Indianapolis on December 7th.  The Red Sox are supposedly putting on a “full [...]

Will Red Sox Take Flyer on Ben Sheets?

Ben Sheets expects to pitch a full year during the 2010 MLB schedule – will it be in a Red Sox uniform at Fenway Park? Sheets missed the entire 2009 campaign after undergoing surgery in February 2009 for a torn flexor tendon in his throwing arm.  He was left off the Brewers playoffs roster in [...]

Brad Penny Update – So Far So Good

Good news in Sox camp. There were several early arrivals in Fort Myers, a good sign that players are ready and excited to prepare for the 2009 campaign. Or maybe they’re just sick of spending all that extra time with their families… One of the best reports came from Brad Penny. Penny took the mound [...]

Red Sox and Brad Penny Agree on 1-Year Deal

The Red Sox have signed Brad Penny to a 1-year deal worth about $5 million. The contract is believed to contain incentive bonuses that could push the total compensation to close to $8 million. The Red Sox do not comment on free agent signings until the contract is official and Greg Genske, Penny’s agent, has [...]