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Red Sox place Rick Porcello on disabled list

After four awful months, Rick Porcello is headed to the disabled list--and perhaps the drawing board.

The Red Sox have placed Rick Porcello on the 15-day disabled list with "triceps soreness," with Ryan Cook joining the roster to take his spot for now.

That whole triceps soreness business is believable in that, this late into the season, everyone's probably a little banged up. But it seems likely as not that this move is less about letting Porcello rehabilitate a small injury than it is about shutting him down after four awful months to start his Red Sox career.