So Beckett got snubbed…Realizing that his and Sabathia’s stats were almost identical(C.C. had a few more strikeouts)…but how, in God’s name does a 20 game winner – hang on- let me rephrase that – the first 20 game winner since 2005 – NOT win the Cy Young? But not to worry…dude’s young – he’ll have a cabinet full before it’s all over..

“The right guy won and I’m fine with that,” Beckett wrote in a text message from Texas. “It was a great year and the only people I want to impress are my teammates, and if they would have had votes, I would have won. So when I lay down and thank God for blessing me, I will sleep well, and tomorrow I will be up early for some deer hunting.”

Classy guy…now go shoot some buck.

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The Boston Herald today reports that Dustin Pedroia played the final two months of the season and the playoffs with a broken hand.

“Some days I would wake up and it would be hard to grip a bat,” Pedroia said. “I changed my grip a little bit on the bat and went from there. It was just one of those things you know you have to take care of after the season, but you have to play through. … We just had to find a way to fight through it.”

Rob Bradford, who scores his second big scoop in a week (having been the first to report the Schilling deal would likely get done), also tells us that when the surgeon went to remove the hamate bone, it “crumbled.”

For the record, Pedroia put up a .324/.368/.462 line the final two months of the season, and hit big home runs in ALCS Game 7 and World Series Game 1.

Eat that, Eckstein

Paul SF