Not Houck's best performance, but it happens to the best. Wheeler, who spanked the SOX ass last week, got clobbered by the O's in his next start. I believe Wheeler gave up 5 HR's.
Of course, the SOX defense that inning didn't help.
Well, when Abreu is in RF along with Duran and Rafaela, the SOX probably have the best defensive OF in MLB. Unfortunately, this is definitely not true of the IF.
With Sale, Story, and Masa one can understand perhaps why JH isn't jumping at large contracts.
And that's not counting the Pablo's, the Crawford's and the Price's. Who else am I leaving out?
I don't know how the SOX can 'dump' Masa w/o eating a large chunk of his remaining contract. It was a gamble signing him and a lot of gambles just don't work out. No one knows that better than a SOX fan.