Our 48th Rounder Sounds Familiar...

[DrewDaGreat]

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[jsinger121]

Don't expect him to be anything like his brother

[Soxfan1]

Hopefully he will be.

[jsinger121]

Hopefully he will be.

 

He likely won't be.

 

1. Hes a side arm type of pitcher

2. He doesn't have the arm strength of his brother

3. He was a 48th round pick. His brother was a 4th round pick. He is a long shot at best.

[BoSox Rule]

3. He was a 48th round pick. His brother was a 4th round pick. He is a long shot at best.

So was Mike Piazza, who was the 1,390th pick in the 64th round of the 1988 draft

[Goalstopper]

i read that there is another sibling of the name of jeremy he went somewhere else

[DirtDog]

So was Mike Piazza, who was the 1,390th pick in the 64th round of the 1988 draft

 

Mike Piazza was a longshot too. Its not impossible, only very improbable.

[jsinger121]

i read that there is another sibling of the name of jeremy he went somewhere else

 

The cubs in the 19th round

[SuperManny]

The one that went to the Cubs is a lefty I believe. I would have taken both anyways as your probably not going to get much out of a 48th rounder anyways.

[SoxFan02]

Josh is expected to sign with the Sox. Had to prove everyone wrong when he walked on at North Flordia and now he'll have to do it again.

[Don Orsillo]

SoxFan02 writes in his eighth post and couldn't have picked a better time to do it!

[Sizzlin22]

He was a favor pick, similar to drafting the son of Ted Williams, we will never see him playing in a big league park.

[jsinger121]

He was a favor pick, similar to drafting the son of Ted Williams, we will never see him playing in a big league park.

 

Ted Williams son was not drafted by the sox....just signed to a ******** minor league deal.

[monstah27]

I don't think he'll go anywhere, but hey, why not dream??

[yankeessuck013]

SoxFan02 writes in his eighth post and couldn't have picked a better time to do it!

 

 

every one of your posts crack me up.

 

[SCM33]

Ted Williams son was not drafted by the sox....just signed to a ******** minor league deal.

 

It was a publicity stunt, and selfish act by his son. His son did it to "show the love he had for his father". After Teddy Ballgames death the whole family swarmed to get their piece. This was just an attempt to show the public he should be the heir to the property and goods....not to mention the fact they froze their father in an attempt to sell his DNA in the future.

 

In his later years, Williams became a fixture at autograph shows and card shows after his son (by his third wife), John-Henry Williams, took control of his career, becoming his de facto manager. The younger Williams provided structure to his father's business affairs, and rationed his father's public appearances and memorabilia signings to maximize their earnings. Although many felt that Ted was being used by his son, there is no real evidence that the younger Williams was doing anything illicit or unsavory with his father's earnings.

 

Announcing there would be no funeral, John-Henry secretly had Ted's body flown to the Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, Arizona, and placed in cryonic suspension. Fearing John-Henry was planning to sell their father's DNA for possible cloning, Barbara Joyce Ferrell, Ted's daughter by his first wife, sued, saying his will stated that he wanted to be cremated. John-Henry's lawyer then produced an informal family pact signed by Ted, John-Henry and Ted's daughter, Claudia, in which they agreed "to be put into biostasis after we die." The dispute was resolved on December 20, 2002 when Ferrell withdrew her objections after a judge agreed that a $645,000 trust would be distributed equally among the siblings earlier than had been planned, so that the Ferrells could pay their legal debts.