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Speaking of Hafner, what ever happened to that dude. He was a beast, and haven't heard from him in like a year.
jason varitek is the catcher for the redsox and his stats are down cause he has to catch for matsasoka (sp?) who throws like 7 different pitches and wakefield (a knuckleballer) so he has to concentrate on catching and hes one of the best catchers in the league. hes back up in the all star game anyways. the red sox have him just to do the catching. not to do much offense.
and ya hamilton did amazing in the first round although he still lost overall to monreau unfortunately.
and again travis, grady sizemore is in the home run derby cause hes leading the AL in homeruns with 23. and no one really expected him to win it... he did fine.
Just like to say that the last time I checked, Matsuzaka throws 3 pitches, Fastball, changeup and a slider (or it might be a curveball, Sox fans should know this). I highly doubt "focusing on catching" would cause someone to bat sub-.220 unless they were just a bad hitter. I mean come on, he gets paid what, $12million a year to call a good game for the pitchers but not hit a lick at the plate?
he throws a 4 seam fastball, a 2 seam fastball, curveball, cut fastball, slider, fork ball, and the gyroball.
and varitek is usually a better hitter but hes having a bad hitting year. hes doing what he needs to do and thats catch