Tommy John surgery in 2013, missing most of 2014. Traded to the Braves this winter. Currently in the Gwinnett Braves rotation (1-0, 3.00 ERA, 12 IP in 2 starts). Throwing to old friend Ryan Lavarnway.
Following Former Red Sox 2016
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Salty' s on one of his increasingly infrequent tears. He had a decent second half last year actually. Still not that old. Wonder if the team that fixed JD Martinez fixed him.
JD Martinez fixed himself.
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/j-d-martinez-changes-everything-changes-everything/
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/j-d-martinez-changes-everything-changes-everything/
There's a nice piece in the NYT today on Rich Hill, who will pitch for Oakland tonight at Yankee Stadium:http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/21/sports/baseball/rich-hill-seeking-a-higher-ground.html?&moduleDetail=section-news-3&action=click&contentCollection=Baseball®ion=Footer&module=MoreInSection&version=WhatsNext&contentID=WhatsNext&pgtype=article
Nice piece on JHazelbaker, who I guess is among NL OPS leaders to start this season. http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/columnist/bob-nightengale/2016/04/18/mlb-jeremy-hazelbaker-st-louis-cardinals/83184314/
Josh Beckett is caddying on the PGA tour. I find this comical. But, I'm someone who hates work.
Well, sort of. He was on the bag for a friend of his - Brett Wetterich - at the Valero Open (which is near Beckett's ranch) when Wetterich qualified at the last moment. He caddied for him once earlier this year at a web.com event, but Wetterich has only played in those two events all year and is currently 159th on the web.com money list at $1,147, so he's probably got a different caddie every week. I think it's more likely just Josh having fun with a buddy than any kind of work.
He has an ISO of .022. At this point though, he looks like a .300 hitter who can draw some walks and that's all he has to be to be above average for the position. Interesting slash lines.
Manuel Margot is pretty much repeating last year at this point, .269/.333/404 in AAA. Guerra is at .218/267/.418 in High A, but does have 3 HR and 2 2b in 55 at bats... so maybe the power is real.
2003 draftee David Murphy retires http://sportsday.dallasnews.com/texas-rangers/rangers/2016/04/25/former-ranger-david-murphy-retires
It's getting hard for me to comprehend that Adrian Beltre debuted for the Dodgers in 1998, at the age of 19. It's even harder for me to comprehend that after getting scant love in between his 2004 MVP runner-up season and his 2010 year in Boston, that since coming to the Sox he has finished in the top 15 in the MVP vote each of the last 6 years. 2010 for Boston, and 2011-present for Texas of course, but he's been on a tear from his age 31 season till now at age 37. Averaging 6.5 bWAR, and never less than 5.6. Building quite a HOF case.
Feels like this might deserve its own thread somewhere, but this oral history of the Mirabelli trade is the most entertaining eight minute read of your day.
For those who weren't around way back when...I think a SoSher wrote this? Deadspin at one point picked it up.
http://quinnmedia.blogspot.com/2006/07/day-in-life-of-doug-mirabelli.html
FedX back up with the Cubs, as Montero goes on the DL
Hunter Cervenka got Papi to roll out to 2B to end a thread last night, but Casey Kelly didn't get into the 4 game series at all for Atlanta
Hunter Cervenka got Papi to roll out to 2B to end a thread last night, but Casey Kelly didn't get into the 4 game series at all for Atlanta
I had always been under the impresion that 'FedEx' referred to the catching combo of Tim Federowicz and Luis Exposito when they were progressing through the minors, and not Federowicz singularly.
Bartolo's home run ... and the dugout empties
http://m.mets.mlb.com/nym/video/topic/18985532/v669453283/nymsd-colon-launches-a-blast-for-first-career-homer
http://m.mets.mlb.com/nym/video/topic/18985532/v669453283/nymsd-colon-launches-a-blast-for-first-career-homer
What a beautiful swing! What a terrible pitch! Gosh, wasn't it an AB for the Red Sox that put him on the DL?
Who has more ex-Sox, Beane or Epstein? Ryan Kalish got a 2-run pinch-hit bloop single yesterday for the Cubs that contributed to their win, after missing all last year with two knee surgeries:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/cubs/ct-ryan-kalish-cheers-bits-cubs-spt-0508-20160507-story.html
http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/cubs/ct-ryan-kalish-cheers-bits-cubs-spt-0508-20160507-story.html
Me too. Kinda shocked he's still playing with all the injuries and surgeries, he must be about half robot by now.
2.5 weeks later, with 92 AB (double the previous) his BA is .250, OBP .310, OPS .582. 2 RBI and 3 SB.
He is what we thought he was.
If you can't hit in Japan, Jonny, it's probably time to give it up.
http://www.rotoworld.com/player/mlb/3784/jonny-gomes
http://www.rotoworld.com/player/mlb/3784/jonny-gomes
Anthony Renaudo is headed to the Chicago White Sox.
http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2016/05/white-sox-acquire-anthony-ranaudo.html
http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2016/05/white-sox-acquire-anthony-ranaudo.html
The continued inability to spell this dude's name--even when it is spelled in the link title--is mind blowing
Nothing is forgettable about that picture.
Gammons: Pirates released Daniel Bard today. Even if this is it for pitching, he will be a success in whatever else he does.
@pgammo and, by the way,he's already succeeded as being a decent, authentic person
Gammons: Pirates released Daniel Bard today. Even if this is it for pitching, he will be a success in whatever else he does.
@pgammo and, by the way,he's already succeeded as being a decent, authentic person
Just tees up another Gammons piece about his character and family when he attempts another comeback.
I doubt very many of the fans around here will be forgetting him any time soon. Calling Lackey "forgettable" is a bit like booing Keith Foulke in 2005.
There is a subset of our fanbase that sadly listens to the CHB's of the world. Thus, they'd rather remember "chicken and beer" than someone who pitched tremendous and won the clinching game of the World Series. These people are morons.