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Throughout the 2009 season Daisuke Matsuzaka claimed that participating in the World Baseball Classic wasn't the reason why he was having shoulder problems. As it turns out, he was telling the truth. Well, sort of telling the truth.
In an interview with a Japanese magazine, the righty came clean about a leg injury he suffered while training for the WBC. That leg injury caused him to change his mechanics and that change contributed to the shoulder injuries that limited him to 12 appearances last season. However problematic all of that is, it pales in comparison to the fact that Matsuzaka chose not to inform the Sox about the injury.
"I didn't want to show my weaknesses," Matsuzaka told the magazine Friday via a translation in the Boston Globe. "I didn't want them to think I was making excuses. I would rather be criticized than ridiculed for making excuses. I repeat, I really didn't want to be the center of concern for people. I believe when you say you are sick, you become sick. Sure I appreciate that you are concerned about me, but I don't even like to be wished good luck about my health."
One wonders what kind of impact this admission will have on Dice-K's relationship with Red Sox brass. He clashed with them during the season about how much he was allowed to throw in between starts and how that contributed to his shoulder problems, a complaint that seems pretty petty if he refused to let the team know what was really behind the injury in the first place.
The team and the pitcher ironed out their differences as the season went on and he's been working out in Arizona so perhaps this is something that can be swept under the rug. Still, it seems like a good thing that the Sox have options in the rotation.
Josh Beckett, Jon Lester and John Lackey will front the rotation and the Sox have Clay Buchholz, Tim Wakefield and Michael Bowden as potential starters as well. Matsuzaka is signed through 2012 and owed $28 million so he's not going anywhere, but he's hardly assured of a role in the rotation if he can't recover the ability he flashed in his first two U.S. seasons.
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