You wonder what Lackey will do in 2013? Tazawa said it took him 2 year to be where he is now after TJS. He couldn't throw a breaking ball until recently.
Lackey will have another 7+ month, maybe he won't lagged that badly.
Players have bad, awful years. Lester Ks may gone down, but you are ignoring that his walks is also down. What hurt him this year is Fenway. His ERA away is 3.30. So he can definitely still pitch.
If the Sox decide to trade him, they can get quite a bit. But I do not see them doing it.
Rizzo 12HR .300 .350 .475 (67 game)
In a full season he would be around 25HR
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Hey where can we get a young lefty 1B slugger that knows how to hit the ball the other way?:thumbdown
Another game they have trouble scoring. Cirriaco, Aviles, Kalish, Lavarnway, etc are replacement players. We can't trot them out in 2013, it's embarrassing.