Back from the US, and sadly am now deprived on late-night Baseball Tonight and other such glories. Okajima’s reliability has become so ho-hum that this Globe article on his brilliance thus far is somewhat unremarkable. But at least Francona seems aware of the possibility of overuse, which alleviates one of my biggest worries:
The way he’s pitched," manager Terry Francona said, “the biggest decision is not overusing him.”
The Okajima-Papelbon 1-2 punch is great - reminds me of Timlin in the 8th, Foulke in the 9th, except that I love how Tito uses Okajima to put out fires at any time.