Kazmir's "historic dominance over the Sox"

In the middle of the season I saw the following "statistic" about Pedro Martinez -

Advice: Martinez (1-0, 5.40 ERA) will likely make his next start Tuesday night at home against Arizona. The right-hander hasn't faced the Diamondbacks since June 11, 2006, but was 3-0 with a 0.67 ERA in his previous four starts against them.
(STATS, Inc.)

I particularly like the fact that they filed this under "Advice," as though I was supposed to change my Pedro Martinez usage based on two teams, the '06 and '09 D-Backs, that had exactly four hitters in common who had a total of 283 total PAs in 2006 and 2009 (up to that point) combined.

But I was really surprised to find a post at Fangraphs, a normally excellent source for sabermetric information and debate, that discussed "Scott Kazmir's historic dominance over the Sox."

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/alds-coverage-maybe-boston-left-their-bats-at-fenway

Which Sox, I thought. Dustin Pedroia? Mark Loretta? Jim Rice? Babe Ruth? I could point out that the current Red Sox lineup is different than the one that Kazmir faced for the majority of his time in Tampa, or I could point out that the likely Boston lineup on Sunday has a combined slash line of .295/.370/.485 against him, or I could point out that none of this has anything to do with Sunday's contest since we're not talking about enough PAs to be statistically relevant.

Or I could point out that Fangraphs is a wonderful website that usually has it's ducks in row, just not this time.

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