11.   His slider, coming out of his near-underhanded motion, is a very difficult pitch for righthanded hitters to pick up.

12.   I think righthanded hitters actually have a better chance against him, because sometimes it cuts over the plate.

13.   Imagine, for a moment, what Garciaparra could have sought in arbitration after becoming the first righthanded hitter since Joe DiMaggio to win back-to-back American League batting titles.

14.   Instead of that good sinking action, there was a cut to his pitches and they went into a righthanded hitter.

15.   It gives us an additional righthanded hitter who has good experience and good power.

16.   Jim Leyritz is what Jim Leyritz is, that being a fairly dangerous righthanded hitter who has the requisite intestinal fortitude in the clutch.

17.   Like Buford, Allensworth is a righthanded hitter.

18.   Many observers say he has the fastest wrists of any righthanded hitter in the majors.

19.   Only three of the nine men who won them were righthanded hitters.

20.   So, what will the Sox do for a righthanded hitter at first?