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Daisuke Matsuzaka pitched a complete 9 innings last night, gave up 6 hits and only 1 run, along with 0 walks and 5 strikeouts. :D

Sox have their biggest lead on the AL East (8.5 games) since 1995 (the last year the won the division).
 
Daisuke Matsuzaka pitched a complete 9 innings last night, gave up 6 hits and only 1 run, along with 0 walks and 5 strikeouts. :D

Sox have their biggest lead on the AL East (8.5 games) since 1995 (the last year the won the division).
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The season is still early. Wake me when the usual All Star break collapse happens.
 
We'll see- their pitching is the best in baseball- no doubt about that, and something like that you really can't lose unless someone gets hurt.

And that's with Tavarez as the 5th starter. He's been doing decent, but once Lester comes back, the pitching will be even better.

Let's hope that getting Beckett out of that game early will have prevented him having to go on the DL.
 
Tavarez isn't doing bad at all.He outlasted Santana and if he had any kind of run support,he would have won.It's going to take Lester a few MLB starts to get back into stride.He's looked good in Pawtucket,but it's not the majors..
 
Not just a bargain for his talent, but in terms of the stats he's already put up too. As Verducci pointed out on SI.com last week, he's one of the few young players any team would want to build a team around.

So does he get free agency next season, or the one after?
 
Beckett needs to suck it up, he came out b/c he cut his finger, boooohooooo, almost as big of a whiner as prior/wood on the cubs

Francona took him out so the cut wouldn't turn into something worse. A couple years ago Beckett had blisters on his hand that put him on the disabled list. Better to be safe than sorry.
 
So does he get free agency next season, or the one after?

Free agency comes after six seasons, so if this is his fourth year, then he won't be a free agent until November 2009. (Again, I don't know if his first half season counts as a first year free agency-wise. Then this would be his fifth year.) I think there's still a good chance he'll be traded before then because he could be in arbitration twice before that, and if he keeps putting up these numbers, his salary will keep going up.

He already takes up about a quarter of the team's payroll. At some point they will probably get an offer that is too sweet to pass up. Criticism of the Nats for losing Soriano for mere draft picks instead of trading was nearly universal.
 
Francona took him out so the cut wouldn't turn into something worse. A couple years ago Beckett had blisters on his hand that put him on the disabled list. Better to be safe than sorry.

as i recall seeing on sportscenter franconca didnt take him off beckett walked off the field and went straight into the clubhouse, thus a trainer a few minutes later had to explain to francona why beckett walked off the field
 
Cabrera did have a double play by the way, he was out at the plate just the ump didn't see it.
 
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He's right, we talk about things in general, play by play is a little spamalicious (and annoying)
 
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