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Ryan Dempster adds leadership to Red Sox

He can do an awesome impersonation of Harry Caray and he once aspired to be a stand-up comedian. One of his best friends is Kevin Millar, with whom he consulted before agreeing to his two-year, $26.5 million deal with the Red Sox.

And his first job was delivering the Vancouver Sun.

Comments

Sounds like this guy is a Wakefield replacement, which isn't a bad idea but I bet he gets beat up a lot, which of course happened to Wakefield occasionally, especially in his last season.