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The Boston Red Sox need a starter, and have more than enough young talent in their farm system to pull off a blockbuster.

THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AGO, a single sentence from baseball commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti still reverberates: "The matter of Mr. Rose is now closed." Those words, which cemented Pete Rose's lifetime ...