Bud Selig Is Responsible

With John Smoltz’s return on the Red Sox horizon, which scenario best solves the pitching overstock problem?

Reassign Daisuke Matsuzaka to the bullpen, minors, or disabled list.
76.3%
Make a trade, preferably involving Brad Penny.
15.5%
Go to a six-man rotation.
4.3%
Put Smoltz in the bullpen.
2.5%
Move Tim Wakefield to the bullpen.
1.5%
Total votes: 5636

Tony Masserotti outlines in his recent blog post Daisuke's troubles and the Red Sox's starting pitching options. Boston.com has an accompanying poll asking its readers which option they prefer.

However, Mazz fails to address the biggest reason for his demise: The World fucking Baseball Classic.

Do you remember who won?

Neither do I.

Yeah, the reality is that Dice looks lost out there; WBC or no WBC he doesn't have it right now. Which is a shame, because he looked great out there when he was donning a Japan jersey.

Maybe the bullpen would help, though his Herculean warmup routine for his starts would seem to break his habit. And we all know how creatures of habit baseball players are. The minors won't happen because he has a provision in his contract, and the DL is out unless you want to Kliff Kingsbury it.

All I know is I want some Clay Buchholz and NESN shots of his fiancee.