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The Red Sox just announced that Jon Lester will start in the first game of Saturday’s double header against the Texas Rangers. The lefty hurler was just called up from Triple-A Pawtucket and will make his major league debut replacing David Pauley who will be available in the bullpen. Lester is 3-4 in 11 games and a 1.46 WHIP with the PawSox this season. He has given up 43 hits in 46.2 innings pitched.
He is also one of the key components in a group of highly touted Red Sox pitching prospects that also includes Jonathan Papelbon, Manny Delcarmen, Craig Hansen, and Dustin Pedroia. Even during an offseason that brought a lot of new faces to Boston, these minor leaguers were mostly considered untouchable by Theo and Co., a mark of how valuable and how good they are expected to be.
It would be great if Lester would demonstrate this Saturday. We certainly want him to be successful so that his fragile young psyche is preserved yet a perfect outing might lead to a premature start in the majors and a Cla Meredith-like result. On the other hand, if we ever needed a boost from a prospect(besides Papelbon), 2006 might be the year. I just hope the Sox brass proceed carefully with the young’ns, something I am sure they will do after learning their lessons. I would suspect we get a little taste of why Lester has been so exceedingly hyped on Saturday though. It might be worth watching, especially if Lester is the lefty stud of the future that everyone has been making him out to be. Go Sox.
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