As the cliché goes, this is déjà vu all over again. Just what is? The Boston Red Sox rotation of 2019 is taking on the early stages of a mirror image of the 2009 rotation only the 2009 rotation was centered on the second half of the season. In 2009, the Red Sox finished the season with an impressive 95 wins which matched the same total as 2008, but neither team moved on to the World Series.
The 2008 team had a decent and fairly solid rotation, but more was expected for 2009. Daisuke Matsuzaka (18-3, 2.