Back in The Minor Leagues

While facing the Royals tonight Jon Lester must have been wondering at times if he was sent back to Pawtucket. Despite the fact that the Royals are a joke, it was great to see Lester pitch 8 innings of 1 hit ball. Lester has proven he can pitch effectively in the big leagues and now all he has to do is get out of innings with an economy of pitches so he can go deep into games like tonight.

Are the Red Sox bats still on the All Star break?

Congratulations to Jason Varitek for breaking Carlton Fisk’s team record of games caught. In addition, I have to always give credit to the much maligned Dan Duquette who pulled off the best trade in Red Sox history by getting Tek and D_Lowe for Slocumb. The Slocumb for Tek and Lowe trade tops even the Pedro and Schilling trades because in the case of Pedro and Schilling the sox were getting known proven players. In the case of Lowe and Tek, Duquette got both of them before they were established major leaguers and both Tek and Lowe were major players in the Sox first World Series win in 86 years.