2nd Half Improvements

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Ask 14: Jim Rice: 2nd Half Improvements
Published 7/24/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
Ask 14: Jim Rice: 2nd Half Improvements Saurbeck? Pedroia needs to bunt? Games are more important in the second half of the season than the first half? That’s it... JIM RICE FOR THE HOF! Justin Masterson is coming back to the Red Sox in a move that should help to shore up the bull pen. I hope this move is what it takes to solidify the relief pitching because I do NOT like the idea of trading for a reliever. Relievers are such an unknown commodity in today’s game that just because you make a trade doesn’t mean it will work out. You never know how a player will perform after ...

Baseball Today: Thursday, July 24
Published 7/24/2008 by Art Martone (amartone@projo.com) at Projo Sox Blog
... , a victory marked by some stout relief pitching in general and a sterling effort (2 2/3 perfect innings) from Justin Masterson in particular. (It certainly must have pleased Jim Rice, who earlier expressed the hope Masterson would choke off the need to trade for bullpen help, since relievers "are such an unknown commodity.") The Boston Herald's Tony Massarotti -- noting that last year's Eric Gagne deal "polluted everyone's soul like a childhood trauma" -- ...