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Gotta find a buyer. Z just doesn't have a lot of stock value right now.

92-94 on a good day.

They have a couple options for the short term though. The O is still there. So for that matter is Jarry Park, although it would require extensive renovations. The big thing is that there's a much richer media presence in Montreal, in both languages. The big thing that killed Montreal was their archaic outlook on the subject of media rights. They do have an uphill battle in terms of media presence since they'd be the only team that broadcasts in French, and they need to do about a thousand times better about cultivating their English language media presence. IF they do that though, Montreal is not a small market. It played small because it was hideously mismanaged. Tap into Montreal properly as a revenue stream, they could be the kind of market Baltimore or Colorado are, easily. Especially if they're in the American League. So that they can play Boston on a regular basis. I can think of a lot of Bruins fans that would like to see that. I imagine that more than a few Canadiens fans would feel the same way.

http://ballparkdigest.com/201108014063/major-league-baseball/news/return-of-mlb-to-montreal-draws-debate

Not much before the third. He threw on the 30th remember?

Kelly was a young, very highly regarded pitching prospect, a little raw because he's young and split time between pitching and playing shortstop, but with VERY high potential. He was part of the Gonzo deal.

Come on guys, Jacko's right. IF we'd stil had Casey Kelly we coulda done something, but we have traded a lot off the top of our farm system and we can't quite match what teams that haven't done that can offer. It's just what it is.

He was young enough when it was caught and fixed, and he's always been physically fit, so he does have a large advantage over the average schmo when it comes to recovery.

The interesting thing about brain damage is that it can kill you in one area and leave you completely unaffected in another. A brain damaged guy could concievably be unable to tie his shoes, but still hit a big league slider. The brain is a screwy little machine sometimes.

That's one big if. Personally I hope that our attempts to push the cutting edge of the whole keeping-pitchers-healthy thing pays off and we have a healthy Bedard, both this year and potentially next. My gut though is saying that Bedard is not going to be a huge difference maker for us.

The big thing is reps. That's what therapy does. It's also what practice and facing live pitching can do for a guy like Westmoreland. I think the biggest place where he'll lose is in footspeed. Even if by some miracle he gets back to being a prospect, his days as a base stealer is over. The question is can he do the footwork side of what a guy does in the batter's box. If he can, he's still Officially Interesting.

Pretty much. The team doctors are idiots, but I'm pretty sure they had to have a surgeon sign off on this too.

Someone please please fire that Red Sox doctor. He just had one of the best pitching prospects we've had in years rehabbing, literally, on a broken back.

It's also something that can gradually improve over the course of a number of years. It did for Mom.

I hope they baby Bedard a little, for obvious reasons. He's a good pitcher, but job 1 is to keep him healthy. I wonder if they're going to trot out the famous Shoulder Strengtenhing Program on this one. It worked for Paps and kept Schilling alive for one last year, so who knows.

It comes down to his ability to reprogram his brain to do the things it used to do. Some injuries can manage that, some can't. I do have to admit that baseball is such a fast-reactions game that I'm not sure I want to get my hopes up, but the surgery was fully successful, and this kid is a fighter. He's made that clear by how far he's already come. Besides, you tell him he never will, that might just make him more determined to prove you wrong. When my mom had a cancer that inpinged on her brain, she wound up in a wheelchair, and a doc tried to "bring her expectations down" by telling her she'd never walk unassisted again. Over the course of the year after she was pronounced in remission, she gradually worked her way back up to a walker, then to a four-point cane, then to a normal cane, then to walking around in the stiff, awkward kinda I-had-brain-damage-in-a-motor-control-area manner that you'll know if you've ever seen it, then to getting around pretty normally -- and at least part of it was to prove the doctor wrong. All the physical talent Westmoreland ever had is still there. I don't honestly know what his chances are to ever tap into it properly, but I'm leaving myself open to being pleasantly surprised on this one.

If this guy makes the majors they'll make a movie about him.

Plus the unproven Bedard, who is a good power lefty who's a blank slate in the playoffs.

You also have to get it over the plate. If he could do that he wouldn't be walking a batter an inning in AAA.

Chih-Hsien Chiang. And if Fields amounts to anything I'll be stunned. He has no idea whatsoever where the ball is going.

No chance we see Pimentel next year.

Since I presume you mean "go after from outside the org" my answer is that it's too early to tell. A number of factors that could change the answer between now the offseason, including what happens with Miller, Weiland, Wakefield and Bedard. If we think we can fix Bedard's arm problems healthwise it might pay to keep him around. Ditto for Miller if he conntinues to show signs of progress with his command. Weiland meanwhile just needs to make ordinary progress to be at least a depth option.

Yeah right. Tito and Theo are already talking 2012 with this kid.

We didn't score 2 runs in the ninth. We scored one.

I won't be sure they didn't until tomorrow.