Dice K?
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by user C.Bothe
Before the season and even in the first 3 weeks, most of the story coming from Boston was about Daisuke Matsuzaka. The great hype surrounding his every start was insane, if you didn't know when Dice-K was about to start then you must not have watched sports center or baseball tonight ever. Slowly the hyped kept dieing down as Dice-K struggled to get used to the American League and posted a 7-3 record with a 4.83 era in his first 11 starts.
However has anyone seen Dice-K since then?
In his last 6 starts he has a 3-2 record (not great obviously) with a 1.29 era. Now sure its only 6 games that hes done this in, but its still impressive. Looking at the teams he's faced(Oak, Ari, SF, SD, Sea, TB) sure they aren't great teams, but he still as pitched well against all of them. In his two losses during those 6 games hes pitched 6 and 7 innings respectively while only giving up 2 runs in each game. Dice K isn't on the All Star team, and probably doesn't deserve to be with all the other great pitching performances in the league so far by others.
This performance has flown under the radar and Dice-K is no longer an every start major story. However if he keeps up this great pitching run he's currently on, he can get himself into the Cy-Young race, and justify the hype he received at the start of the season when every pitch was watched. Now Dice-K is not under as much pressure and has adjusted to AL baseball; he has settled in and looks to dominate every game he starts.
