 11/29/2003 5:21 PM ET
Schilling, Clemens share traits
BOSTON -- You've heard about Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling as if they were one and the same for the last couple of years, and for good reason. Their accomplishments, individually and in tandem, were something to behold.
Now you're bound to hear about Pedro Martinez and Schilling in the same fashion, for that has the potential of being every bit the dominant duo that Schilling/Johnson was in Arizona.
But when it comes to Schilling, the ace he most resembles is a man he won't have the luxury of occupying a rotation with -- Roger Clemens.
"He and Clemens are very similar pitchers," said Red Sox first baseman Kevin Millar. "They have the four seam fastball that moves in and out, and the splitter. And they are both workhorses. Schilling wants the ball. He wants it for nine innings a game. He's a power pitcher, but he's a pitcher too. He's smart."
Just like Clemens.
When the 2004 season opens, Clemens will be absent from Major League Baseball -- and the American League East -- for the first time since 1983.
So it's only fitting that Schilling joins the AL East to fill the big shoes of the man with whom he shares so many traits, including the irony that Schilling is likely to finish his career for the same team for which Clemens pitched his first 13 seasons.
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