Matsuzaka Out
June 2009
Daisuke Matsuzaka has been sidelined. He is officially on the 15 day DL right now, but the coach believes that he will be out for a significantly longer period of time. He has some injured muscles and a lot of other problems with mechanics this year. In his last outing, he gave up 6 runs in 4 innings and was pulled. Clearly he’s having a few different kinds of problems, so he’ll be off for awhile, while they fix his injuries and retrain him in some ways. He will be back in the rotation at some point in the indefinite future. Meanwhile, the Red Sox are ready to put John Smoltz in his position on the rotation, where he will be pitching a little later this week. Hopefully this will work out well down the road with Smoltz and Matsuzaka doing well again.
