spring training Invites

[americanoutlaw]

what rookies and other players sould sox invite to spring training

 

 

 

 

 

i like to see Rich Garces at spring training

[a700hitter]

Bagwell

[elsrbueno]

Bagwell

 

Doesn't Bagwell have arthritis in his shoulder?

 

He missed all of last year and most of 2005. He was a solid performer in 2004 but I don't imagine he'd be much better than Kevin Youkilis right now.

[BSN07]

Its more like a post I saw earlier, take a shotgun to your shoulder, pull the trigger and blow it apart, then try to throw and hit with it. Thats about how bad Bags shoulder is.

[americanoutlaw]

pitchers

Rich Garces

Bryan Corey

Mike Burns

Charlie Zink

Chris Smith

 

IF

Carlos Pena

Joe McEwing

 

OF

Jacoby Ellsbury

[scaffolds]

The chances of Chris Smith would be very slim, while he was decent in Portland in 2006 he had problems in Pawtucket.

[Beckett95]

List of guys i wouldn't mind seeing get a chance in spring training:

 

Tomas Perez

Cliff Polite

Eli Marrero

Larry Bigbie

Luis Matos

Erubiel Durazo

Carlos Pena

Dimitri Young

Chris Woodward

Alexis Gomez

Richard Hidalgo

Jayson Werth

J.C. Romero

Ray King

Matt Herges

Dan Kolb

Masumi Kuwata

Aaron Rakers

Chin-hiu Tsao

Jamey Wright

Jerome Williams

Jorge Sosa

Joel Pineiro

Yusaku Iriki

Zach Day

[Cocos Disciples]

Most of the guys on that list probably wouldn't be content with ST invites.

[Beckett95]

Most of the guys on that list probably wouldn't be content with ST invites.

 

true, but so far no teams have been real interested in them

[TGov]

Doesn't Bagwell have arthritis in his shoulder?

 

He missed all of last year and most of 2005. He was a solid performer in 2004 but I don't imagine he'd be much better than Kevin Youkilis right now.

 

I heard Bagwell was going to announce his retirement soon...

[BSN07]

He is, and supposed to take a front office job with the Astros.

[jacksonianmarch]

good for him. I always liked Baggs and Bigg. Good players, hard nosed. Too bad Baggs has to go out like this. The guy barely has use of his right arm.

[seabeachfred]

true' date=' but so far no teams have been real interested in them[/quote']

 

Right Beckett, and we should not be wasting our time on these cads in the first place. We have some young players we could take a look at and give them some experience against Major Leaguers. When I was at Fort Myers last year I saw some guys that I wouldn't give ten cents for and there they were in our lineup. No wonder our ST record was so abysmal this past spring. Invite a few who could log some innings but keep it down to a minimum. We aren't going to strike gold with some phenom who suddenly finds himself. It just doesn't work that way. They were flops before for a reason, although I will backtrack and would suggest a couple. Jason Werth might be worth a look. He was making real progress as a stalwart for the Dodgers until that broken wrist. He might be worth a look. The guy has power and was a pretty damn good clutch hitter for the Dodgers in 2004. :D :D :D

[ebouvier]

When I was at Fort Myers last year I saw some guys that I wouldn't give ten cents for and there they were in our lineup. No wonder our ST record was so abysmal this past spring. Invite a few who could log some innings but keep it down to a minimum. We aren't going to strike gold with some phenom who suddenly finds himself. It just doesn't work that way. They were flops before for a reason' date=' although I will backtrack and would suggest a couple. [/quote']

 

Spring training records don't count for anything. This is the time you should be evaluating some these guys. You can and sometimes do find productive players this way, Arroyo and Brian Daubach were kept and eventually contributed based on quality spring training performances. It doesn't happen every year but it does happen.

[seabeachfred]

Spring training records don't count for anything. This is the time you should be evaluating some these guys. You can and sometimes do find productive players this way' date=' Arroyo and Brian Daubach were kept and eventually contributed based on quality spring training performances. It doesn't happen every year but it does happen.[/quote']

 

It can always happen Bouv but it rarely does and Arroyo became nothing more than an innings-eating journeyman pitcher for us who had loads of trouble with lefthand batters and had even more trouble with the Yankees who hit him around pretty well. Daubach did have a couple of decent seasons, but by 2004 was just about worthless to us and off the team. Nothing wrong at looking at a few invitees but when you have dozens show up, most of who had failed repeatedly in the past, all you are doing is taking away time for some of your prospects to get some real game work in.