why do you expect his obp to rise if his average goes down? he has a career obp of .360. last year was a career year for him, probably not the best bench mark of his ability
the red sox main issue is their starting pitching. if they were healthy it would have been beckett and buchholz pitching and we wouldn't have to go to the bullpen in the first 5 innings and have our worst relievers give the game away
the offense is fine, we're still scoring about 5 runs a game even with all the injuries
the yankees will free fall in the second half without joe torre to rally them with a closed door meeting and will finish 4th in the division. "book it"
how's that?
he's facing college players his age. it's not just 29 innings of cape cod league that justify paying him big money though. he was projected as the best pitching prospect in the draft before he got hurt, the sox got a steal by getting him as low as they did
yeah, it's extremely rare that a winning team gets a shot at a pitcher with this kind of talent in the draft. here's his entire stat line from the cape cod league
29.2 ip, 0.00 era, 0.61 whip, 10 h, 8 bb, 21 so, .101 baa
i am too. everything that westmoreland's actual doctor has said is extremely encouraging and so are studies on cavernous brain malformations in the same area of the brain. i hope he has a full recovery, not just because of his potential as a baseball player but as a matter of his quality of life
ranaudo has an era of 0 in 29 and 2/3 innings in the cape cod league. if he's healthy, he's arguably the most talented pitching prospect in the 2010 draft class. i don't have any problem paying him accordingly
it will be interesting to see if the sox go with nava or hermida. two more injury updates so far today
beckett may need more than one more rehab start, he wasn't happy with his curve last time out
yesterday, beltre said he'll be back in the lineup in a couple days
http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2010/07/16/injury_not_serious_but_beltre_sits_out/?page=2
i also can't find where cantador's brain surgery was performed, i did however find a study on patients who have had surgery to remove brain stem cavernomas. it's not a very large sample size, but 12 patients were studied. 10 of them had a neurological deficit after the surgery and those defecits were temporary in 9 of the 10 cases. the study also says that 5 of the 12 peole studied actually had improved brain function after the surgery compared to their brain function prior to the surgery
http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/72/3/351.abstract