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Red Sox should drop Rick Porcello until All-Star break

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TORONTO -- There's a simple solution, in the short term, for the Rick Porcello problem.

The Boston Red Sox have two off-days next week. They can easily skip Porcello's turn once, and again a second time, before the All-Star break, which would serve the purpose of a) dodging more disasters like the one Porcello perpetrated on the Sox Wednesday and b) giving him a respite from the dreariness of answering for a winless streak that has now reached eight starts after Wednesday's 11-2 beating at the hands of the Toronto Blue Jays.