Reverend said:I don't have a keen enough eye to judge speed on the margins, but Alex Speier tweeted that Sizemore already looks appreciably slower than he did in Spring Training. I do, however, have a keen enough eye to see him balk at the ball off the bat and then watch him run in the wrong direction.
My impression is that Sizemore has one good gallop in him per game, and that once he's used it up, he'll be limping around the field and the basepaths for the remainder of the day. His performance tends to confirm radsoxfan's supposition that his microfracture-repaired knee isn't looking like a long-term investment.
Bosox4416 said:
Not a surprise there -- Alex Wilson is the ultimate fungible bullpen arm: right-handed, mediocre stuff, apparently durable, and won't be missed if he's stuck back in the minors for the next ten days.