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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 October [...]

Red Sox Ready To Sign John Smoltz

It looks like Red Sox GM Theo Epstein is at it again – signing a pitcher coming off arm troubles in 2008. Braves pitcher John Smoltz is expected to sign with the Red Sox over the next few days. Smoltz pitched in only 6 games in 2008 – the fewest ever in a career spanning [...]