Sox Sign Paul Byrd

Sundayjack · Aug 12, 2008

Ordinarily, I wouldn't think this would deserve its own thread here. Except I LOVE the irony of this. It was (allegedly) the Red Sox who outed Byrd for HGH use during the ALCS last year. Funny.

Frankly, he doesn't do much for me. But, whatever. . . .

BOSTON -- The Boston Red Sox acquired pitcher Paul Byrd from Cleveland on Tuesday, hoping to boost a rotation hurt by an injury to Tim Wakefield and the struggles of Clay Buchholz.

The Red Sox will send either a player to be named or cash to the Indians.

The 37-year-old Byrd is 7-10 with a 4.53 ERA in his 14th season. But since the All-Star break, he has won all four of his starts and has a 1.24 ERA.

Boston began play Tuesday in second place in the AL East, four games behind Tampa Bay. The Red Sox were two games ahead of the Chicago White Sox in the wild-card race.

"Give me a few minutes before I talk," Byrd said as he packed up in the Indians' clubhouse. "I'm not lucid right now. I'm saying funny things. Give me a half-hour and I'll talk."

Byrd was in Cleveland before Tuesday's game against Baltimore when the trade was announced.

Josh Beckett, Jon Lester and Daisuke Matsuzaka have had strong seasons for the defending World Series champion Red Sox, but Wakefield is on the disabled list with a stiff right shoulder and Buchholz is 0-6 with an 8.19 ERA in his past eight starts.

The Red Sox called up knuckleballer Charlie Zink from Triple-A Pawtucket to make his major league debut Tuesday night against the Texas Rangers.

Byrd was at Fenway Park for Game 7 of last year's American League Championship Series on the day the San Francisco Chronicle reported he had used human growth hormone from 2002 to 2005. He then said before the game that he had used HGH for a medical condition but that he never injected the banned drug without a doctor's prescription.

"I have nothing to hide," Byrd said about two hours before Game 7, in which Boston clinched the ALCS with its third straight win. "Everything has been done out in the open. I have a reputation. I do not want the fans of Cleveland or honest, caring people to think that I cheated.

"Because I didn't."

He said in spring training that he met with baseball officials on Dec. 17 in New York but gave no details. He also said the offseason was "stressful."

Byrd went 15-8 with a 4.59 ERA in 31 starts last season, his most wins since 2002, when he was with Kansas City. He won both of his starts in the playoffs -- in Game 4 of the AL Division Series against the New York Yankees and in Game 4 of the ALCS against the Red Sox.
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devilonthetownhallroof · Aug 12, 2008

Meh. He's better than Buchholz at this point.

Murrell2878 · Aug 12, 2008

Is anyone watching the game right now? 14-10!!!

Sox Sign Paul Byrd

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