Dice-10K

Daisuke Matsuzaka lived up to the hype in his first start for the Boston Red Sox, fanning ten and allowing six hits in a 4-1 victory over the Royals. Questions still swirl around him on whether the Japanese leagues' practice of pitching every seventh day means his arm will fall off in the Majors by July. Most people are putting the over/under around 15 wins and 180 Ks for 2007. But the Sawks couldn't have asked for a better debut, and if he does the same at Fenway next week, you'll have to start thinking that the $103 million pricetag will seem like grand larceny by October. Doc Gram guesses his value will end up being similar to Oswalt or Halladay once all is said and done, but would rather have one of the Roys for now.