Red Sox 6, Rangers 1
- Well, at least the bullpen had a good game.
- We need to talk about Kohei Arihara. There was much talk this offseason about how I’m being a back of the rotation starter and eating innings for Texas. The thing is, though, Arihara signed a 2 year, $6.2 million deal as a free agent — an amount that suggests most teams didn’t see him as someone who would be a quality back-end starter or eat innings. Those guys get better deals than that.
- Arihara’s work in the Japanese League suggested he might have trouble in the U.