Jon Lester Placed On DL

It was pretty obvious this was going to happen with the All Star Break coming up and everything, but I'm worried Jon Lester will be gone for a long time. Check out this sampling of pitchers with the same injury, the only difference a variation in degree (and the number of games they missed):

2011 -- Bruce Chen, Kansas City (44)
2010 -- Brad Penny, St. Louis (120)
2009 -- Brett Myers, Philadelphia (18; made just two cameo appearances in postseason)
2009 -- Chad Durbin, Philadelphia (17)
2007 -- Bartolo Colon, Los Angeles Angels (16)
2005 -- Ben Sheets, Milwaukee (32)
2003 -- Pedro Martinez, Boston (22)

I don't believe it will be 120, but there is still risk. Maybe I'm just being a little scared because he is the best Sox pitcher. But imagine if the Sox were to lose him for a significant amount of time. The Sox can't keep going through this rotation with duct tape and knuckleballs.

Clay Buchholz on the DL

The Red Sox announced this afternoon that they placed righthander Clay Buchholz on the 15-day disabled list, retroactive to June 17, with a lower back strain. RedSox.com

Well there was speculation before the Buchholz injury that we were going to go to a 6 man rotation with Andrew Miller getting called up to start. Now I guess we are just going to stay with the 5 man rotation with Tim Wakefield(who's pitching great) and Andrew Miller who is going to have another crack at the Majors. All of us are drinking his kool aid right now, but more than likely I see him as a short term rotation guy, and a future in the bullpen.

For now, I'm not worried about the Sox pitching, they way our offense is going they can carry mediocre outings.