Charlie Zink
Age: 24
Born: August 26, 1979, El Dorado Hills, CA
Height: 6-1
Weight: 190
Bats: Right
Throws: Right
Drafted: Not Drafted
How Acquired: Undrafted free agent (2002)
College: Savannah College of Art and Design
ETA: mid-2005

Scouting Report: A hard-throwing right-hander, Zink was signed as an undrafted free agent on the recommendation of Luis Tiant, his former coach at Savannah College of Art and Design. Tim Wakefield has tutored Zink on the fine art of the knuckleball. Zink understands what he needs to do to get hitters out. Good athlete. Also throws fastball and curveball for strikes, using the same delivery as his knuckler. Fearless with his knuckleball, even behind in the count.

It's about time the league saw a new knuckleballer. Zink's off to a rough start this year in AA (1-6, 5.07 ERA) but the Sox are not worried. It would be crazy to have two knuckleballers in the rotation in 2006.

I'll try to find pitching schedules and box scores on Zink and will post them here.