The Boston Red Sox today asked Josh Beckett to drop his appeal from the incident last weekend in Anaheim and he did so, receiving a 5-game suspension instead of the original 6-game suspension.
Beckett isn’t happy about dropping the appeal though:
“Everybody has to answer to somebody, and my boss told me this was the best thing for the ball club,” Beckett said. “If it was up to me, obviously, we would have gone through with this whole thing, because I don’t think I deserve even one game. When your boss tells you that something is best for the whole group, that’s what we do.
“I don’t support this at all. If it was up to me, we would have gone through this whole process. It could have eventually been a lot worse if we had gone through with the whole thing. Everybody has got to answer to somebody. When your boss tells you to do something, you do what’s best for the team.”
Because of the Red Sox off day this week on Thursday, Beckett will move back one day and start on Saturday with Jon Lester starting on Friday against the New York Yankees with normal rest.
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