The fifth slot in the rotation is available for the Boston Red Sox and Steven Wright has earned legitimate consideration – even if he had options available.
Wright is just chugging along and looking for a place to deposit his dancing knuckleball be it the bullpen or the rotation. At 30-years-old Wright is still a pup when compared to the legion of knuckleballers who came before him from Hoyt Wilhelm to the current leader of the K-Ball pack – R.A. Dickey.
Wilhelm didn’t make it to MLB until age 29 and stuck around for 21 seasons before retiring at 49-years-old.