So the red sox get Paul Byrd for cash. My take is that the sox are getting insurance in the form of Byrd should their young pitchers (Masterson, Buchholz) continue to struggle as things get further down to the wire. Byrd definitely is no prize fowl, he's just an average-ish pitcher, but he's definitely serviceable in the back of a sox rotation decimated by injury. And not knowing the sox as well as I should, that's all I've got to say about that. Has that other sox knuckleballer pitched a game yet since being called up? If so how did he fare?
8/14/08
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Their other knuckleballer, Charlie Zink, pitched Tuesday night. His line: 8 runs, 11 hits, 4 1/3 innings. Remarkably, the Sox won that game 19-17. Zink was promptly sent back down to AAA after the game.
I'm with you re: Byrd.
Ouch (Austin Powers type ouch) @ Zink's start.
It just seems to make more sense that if your knuckleballer goes down, you just use your next best pitcher no matter what knuckleball or not. I don't get the strategy behind that.
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