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Westbrook achieves sink-cess against Sox

By Jerry Crasnick
ESPN.com

Monday, October 15, 2007

CLEVELAND -- The Baseball Reference Web site has a neat little feature that compares major leaguers across generations based on their statistical profiles. In a strange twist, Jake Westbrook's closest comparable is a contemporary: Carl Pavano. The comparison seems odd because Pavano, through his status as one of baseball's all-time payroll bandits, is an object of scorn and derision throughout the game and the focus of outright hostility in New York. And Westbrook? He's the personification o ...

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