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| Left-Handed AAA Starter Brian Johnson |
Red Sox minor league starting pitcher
Brian Johnson is now 24 years old. He's a lefty, 6'4" and 230. He is laying waste to AAA batting orders. He's 2-1 with a 0.56 ERA in three starts for
"The Soon-To-Be Providence Red Sox". Johnson has
struck out 18 batters in 16 innings and owns a WHIP of 0.88. In any other of the 29 organizations is baseball (with the possible exception of the Washington Nationals), he would be in
The Show already. Why he isn't in the decimated Red Sox rotation
right now is a mystery. Boston has the second worst starter ERA in Major League Baseball (5.35)—and it's only getting worse by the day. It turns out these
are five number three starters. If
Ben Cherington is still reluctant to trade top prospects for
Cole Hamels (which, in our view, is a legitimate position), then at least bring this kid up—before he ceases to be a "kid".
