Red Sox Sign Brandon Duckworth
by Ben Buchanan on Dec 2, 2010 8:27 PM EST
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Everyone need a breather? After Varitek, Beltre, and Papelbon, this should be some nice cool down news.
According to Baseball America's Matt Eddy, the Red Sox have signed right-handed pitcher Brandon Duckworth to a minor league deal.
Despite having played in the majors for parts of eight seasons, Duckworth has basically established himself as a quadruple-A player. While capable of putting up good numbers in the minors (including a 3.32 ERA on decent peripherals last year), Brandon hasn't ever found the same level of success in the big leagues. Acting mainly as a starter, Duckworth has only been able to manage a 5.28 career ERA. While he had a more impressive 4.50 mark in seven startsin 2008 (his last season in the majors), he struck out only one more batter than he walked. Pretty ugly stuff.
The chances are that Duckworth never sees major league time this year, as you have to figure that Tim Wakefield, Felix Doubront, and Michael Bowden are ahead of him in line for spot starts. But I guess it never hurts to have a better ninth or tenth guy.
Plus his name is pretty funny.
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The Picture Wins
The Duck’s having a grand old time, fo’ sho’.
+1 just for the picture, who cares about the rest the article, LOL.
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by Ben Buchanan on Dec 2, 2010 8:36 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
HA!
Enough of that though, seriously.
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A couple years ago...
…picked this guy up in “The Show” and after a few seasons he got real nasty. He was throwing like 97. I wonder what happened in real life.
He wasn't playing as himself in a video game.
I created myself in MLB 2005 and I was a bloody Cy Young Award winner 8 seasons running.
Then an injury killed my create-a-player for a good 2 seasons.
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Maybe you should have played baseball in real life
by Florida Johnny on Dec 2, 2010 8:40 PM EST up reply actions
Nope.
I would have ended up like Duckworth: mediocre.
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This year's Boof Bonser - only not quite as funny a name.
Still pretty funny, though and has about as much chance of sticking.
Dammit
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Surprise! Surprise! I have two thoughts; one I think Red Sox has just committed the biggest blunder of the year. Two, I think Duckworth will live up to the expectations and perform way above his abilities stand to be corrected.
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by thorstenmikkelsen on Dec 3, 2010 11:08 AM EST reply actions
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