Each member of the rotation has shown exactly what they can do when they are making their pitches. #1-4 could easily shutdown a line-up on a given night. #5 Wakefield, can keep the Sox in most games and can throw about 500 innings a year. At this point, it seems Epstein made the right call in keeping Lester instead of pulling the tigger on the Santana deal.
Now, I can't think of many teams who are that strong #1-4, have a solid closer and a catcher to keep everything together. Can you? The bats will come around. No one can score 7-10 runs every game, but with good starting pitching the Red Sox may not have to.
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The problem Joe, comes when the starter can't go 7 innings. Then the Sox have to turn things over the likes of Javier Lopez, who is reprehensible, Manny Delcarmen, who may never take the next step I keep hoping he takes,and Mike Timlin who has looked elderly.
Dan, can you see anyone beating the Sox in a playoff series w/ Beckett, Dice-K, and Buchholz making every start and Lester, Wakefield, and Schilling in the bullpen, w/ Okajima and Papelbon (w/o pitch limits) I don't. Yes the pen will lose some games during the year, but this team is build for the postseason.
Beckett is a stud, as he has proven. I think Dice-K will be fine. I look for him to peak as the playoffs near. As for Buchholtz, the future looks bright, but he lacks experience and consistency over a long enough timeline to convince me. You seem to be loosing that fatalistic view that most Sox fans have, Joe. Perhaps your engagement has given you rose-colored glasses.
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