PUT THE KID IN THE ROTATION. I HAVE SEEM HIM PITCH WHEN I LIVED OUT IN LA HE HAS THE STUFF COME ON GENTLE BEN

i seen him also he is going to be really good trust me

 Things is a lookin up. 

That’s encouraging.  I hope somehow this team can uncover an unseen gem or two this year.  They will need that.  

This kid looks good. I just hope ben does the right thing and calls him up THIS year if he ends up pitching well in triple A. He should be the guy they plug in first when an injury happens. Don’t keep him down in the minors just cause u think he “needs time to develop”. Sox fans should be really excited about this kid. Webster and Bogaerts are the two people in the organization i’m personally most excited about. 

Sox are not quite ready to make a serious run at a World Series just yet. Control the innings of Webster and Ruby for 2013. Come 2014 these two with a 1/2 season under their belts and Barnes knocking on the door and this team will look a lot better.

Buchholz, De La Rosa, Webster, Barnes, Doubront. Sounds like a rotation I’d love to have. 

Do what the Rays do with young pitchers with good stuff and bring them up and shine in the big time.

Good points….and to all the haters, this team will be fun to watch….

Wow! Webster, Rubby and Lester looking like Cy Young candidates already! That and Jackie bradley looking like rookie of the year and MVP all in one. Hard to see how the Sox will lose a game this year LOL 

If things pan out, Sox could have some veteran trade bait come trade deadline time. Stay tuned!

 You’re a bad troll you life-less turd. Go get a woman.

It’s great to hear some encouraging news about the young players in the system as well. Between Bradley and Webster, yesterday’s game was just another reminder that there is a lot to look forward to with this team if not just for this year, then the coming years. 

Its always fun to watch a train wreck

Maybe in 86 years?

Where did you see him pitch last year?

Only if pedro gets in Doubront’s head and gets him to get into shape.

She said in her post that she saw them in L.A.

I haven’t seen Webster yet in person but I did see De La Rosa a couple years back. The latter was blowing away big league hitters with promising regularity in his previous stint with the Dodgers. By all accounts these two are very high-ceiling prospects. De La Rosa is coming off TJ surgery, but these days that’s almost a plus once the rehab is truly complete.

I was stunned last summer when I heard that the Dodgers gave these guys up to take on the entire albatross of the Gonzo, Crawford, and Beckett salaries. I thought it amazing enough that they were willing to take all that off the Sox’ hands, let alone throw in two truly compelling pitching prospects in the deal. From the Dodgers’ POV, it may make some kind of sense–if Crawford truly is healed up and his head’s back together, he’s a fine outfielder and solid offensive presence, and though Gonzalez was not the power threat in the AL East that he projected to be, he should be a strong contributor to LA’s offense and is,as we have seen, a first-rate IB. And Beckett may have a couple good gallons left in the tank as a pitcher; he’s a very smart competitor who’s been learning how to compete with diminished stuff. Traditionally LA, like Oakland and Tampa Bay, scouts pitchers with the best of ‘em, and that organization probably has more good prospects where Webster and De La Rosa came from; so again, however incredible it is from our POV, for the newly cash-rich Dodger franschise the trade may make at least some kind of sense.

But from the Sox perspective? A magical theft. Dumped the salaries that had paralyzed the organization going forward and restocked the pitching pipeline in one fell swoop. So folks should give Ben Cherrington his props here. The fate of pitchers is never certain–you have to knock on wood and hope potential becomes achievement, for Webster and De La Rosa as for Barnes and Wright and others for whom we have good hopes. But from a projectible-talent POV, to get these arms included in the deal was outstanding work on Mr. C’s part under absurdly challenging circumstances with limited leverage.

Sounds good at some point but you are not going to win with a rookie pitching staff.And leave Lester out of it? You have to be joking.Lester is the man they are depending on to turn it around,until he’ proves that he can’t.

Don’t forget Napoli has’nt played yet and he will produce.And David Ortiz will produce in the DH hole.They seem to be confident that he’ll be ready.He’s taking batting practice and there’s no reason to rush him.He has nothing to prove with his bat.

They’ll bring him up if they need him.But lets see what he can do in triple A first.

You have no idea if they’ll need them or not.Quarterbacking thats all it is and means nothing until they get on the field fit and ready.This team should be pretty good.

The FO are not a stupid as thought are they.

Hell either shape up or ship out.It appears that they have a couple to pick up to fill his spot in the rotation.Dubront showed that he has potential,but without the proper mentalilty he won’t make the grade. 

I know your team isn’t in very good shape.I know for certain that your not a Boston fan,and infantile comments mean nothing.

You hope.

He may have the stuff but it does’nt mean he’s quite ready yet.They make big bucks making those decisions thats why we’re commenting on our compputors giving various opinions.Let them do their jobs.

I am married and NOT a troll, but a life long Sox fan trying to keep Sox fans from getting carried away due to a few good  early signs. No sense in doing cartwheels… at least not yet.  :)

this would a few years from now. Certainly not right now haha didn’t mean to confuse

Gaining weight doesn’t necessarily mean he’ll pitch worse. What he really needs is to attack hitters. Get that pitch count down. He showed some guts late in the season when he was WAY out of gas. He had a lot of innings but he managed to throw some nice ones toward the end. It’ll be fun to watch