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2013 Red Sox will be better than last year

It can only get better

Chad Finn says research and logic, not blind optimism, lead him to believe the 2013 Red Sox will be better than last season's team.
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Will the Red Sox starters be as bad as statistician Bill James says? Kevin Dupont and Scott Thurston discuss.
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