John Lackey

Red Sox pitcher John Lackey's divorce from wife Krista is finally official ... TMZ has learned.  As TMZ first reported, Lackey filed for divorce back in August while Krista was battling breast cancer. She underwent a double mastectomy last March.  

He was Epstein’s mentor but left him hanging after a run of shaky free-agent signings, including Carl Crawford and John Lackey. Owner John Henry should have forced a reconciliation, maintaining the status quo in one of baseball’s best operations ...  

It's been almost four months since the hideous ending to the season and, hopefully, that has put a small portion of emotional distance between us and the 2011 Red Sox, enough to be able to start to see some of the players and their actions in a less jaundiced light; enough to begin a civil discussion about one of the more polarizing figures on the team. As you probably gathered from the title, this is a little post about John...  

Look where it got them. A year later, shortstop Marco Scutaro is in Colorado, closer Jonathan Papelbon is in Philadelphia, two starting pitchers (Daisuke Matsuzaka, John Lackey) are rehabbing from Tommy John surgery and right fielder J.D. Drew is likely to retire.  

People are outrageously down on the Red Sox. People are saying that we have a 0% chance at winning the division, that we'll be a .500 team. I personally think we are much better than the Rays. Take this into consideration. It is almost impossible for the Red Sox to get worse. Clay Buchholz was injured for a ton of time, that would've seriously helped the team. Also this, nobody will be as bad as John Lackey was last year, his performance was...