Crooked Pitch

News is out that the Boston Red Sox have signed starting pitcher Brad Penny. Penny had a disappointing 2008 season going 6-9 with a 6.27 ERA and a 1.21 strikeout to walk ratio (51:42) before being shut down with shoulder problems.

Prior to 2008, Penny scored consecutive 16-win seasons and hovered around the 200 innings pitched mark. His strikeout to walk ratio in 2006 was 2.74 (148:54) and 1.85 (135:73) in 2007.

His declining strikeout to walk ratios over the past three years is troublesome. Penny should no longer be considered an upper end of the rotation guy. But he should slide into the Red Sox rotation nicely behind Beckett, Matsuzaka, Lester, and Wakefield and could be a nice fantasy option as a back of the rotation, very late round flier kind of pick.

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