The latest on a few East Coast clubs:
- After the Red Sox removed the injured Steven Wright from their ALDS roster on Saturday, the knuckleballer lamented (via Christopher Smith of MassLive.com), “This feels like a nightmare to be honest with you.” Wright aggravated his left knee Friday while warming up before Game 1 of the team’s series against the Yankees, Smith details. It’s the same knee on which Wright underwent surgery in May 2017, thereby keeping him out for most of last year and a large portion of this season. Wright added that “what we think is there’s loose bodies in there.” He’ll know more after a Monday visit in New York with Dr. Riley Williams III, the same doctor who performed his surgery 17 months ago. The loss of Wright’s an unfortunate development for Boston’s bullpen, as the 34-year-old pitched to a 1.52 ERA with a .191/.303/.314 batting line against in 29 2/3 innings in relief during the regular season.
- The Marlins made a trade Saturday, sending right-hander Ryan Lillie to the Reds for international bonus pool money, and there may be more such moves on the way from the Fish. Miami’s “exploring other deals” that would enable it to net more international cash, Joe Frisaro of MLB.com tweets. The Marlins entered Saturday with the second-most international money available ($4.3MM) and are known to be in the market for Cuban outfielder Victor Victor Mesa, MLB.com’s top-ranked int’l prospect.
- The Orioles – the only team with more international money to spend than the Fish – had five representatives in attendance for the showcase of Victor Victor Mesa, brother Victor Mesa Jr. (also an outfielder) and Cuban pitcher Sandy Gaston on Friday in Miami, Roch Kubatko of MASNsports.com reports. Baltimore sent vice president of baseball operations Brady Anderson, senior advisor Joe McIlvaine, special assignment scout John Stockstill and a pair of scouts (Dean Albany and Calvin Maduro), according to Kubatko, who hears that the O’s lack of a GM/manager won’t impact their pursuit of the Mesas. The Orioles said goodbye to both GM Dan Duquette and skipper Buck Showalter earlier this week.
Bird lifetime 218…600 PA…can we finally say buh-bye…plus below average first baseman
Wrong article.
As a Red Sox fan, I’ll point out it’s been shown you need at least 1200 PA to determine if a player is MLB caliber.
Let’s find out, shall we? Lol
Steven Wright….thank you John Farrell.
Still haunting us
David Price…thank you Trader Dave.
Can you believe that he went out to get this guy twice?
What a LOSER!
Hey Dum Dum Mikeyank 16-1 lol
Wright injured his shoulder pinch running its his knee now
Many pitchers overcompensate an arm injury by changing their delivery, resulting in an injury somewhere else. Wright could have put more stress on the knee this way. Regardless, Farrell pretty much deep-sixed this guy’s career.
I’m not a Sox fan and I don’t recall the details. Honest question: how or when did Farrell overuse or otherwise ruin Wright? Wright hasn’t thrown a ton of MLB innings. I’m a fan of knuckleballers in general so I root for Wright from afar but I’d don’t remember how he got hurt in the first place. Thanks in advance.
Farrell put Wright into a game vs the Dodgers as a pinch runner
Wright hurt his knee.
Farrell put wright into a game vs the Dodgers as a pinch runner wright hurt his *shoulder*
Tomrogic…I stand corrected
If the Os are serious about the Mesa brothers it would be smart to hire a youngish manager that can speak Spanish.
Or maybe they can learn English. Just an idea.
You serious? It’s a lot easier to have a bilingual manager who can communicate to 95% of baseball players then to expect all the players to understand the manager. The manager should be the communicator not the player.
as they usually do learn English
We won’t see either Mesa for awhile anyway. The manager we hire might not be around to see much of them. It’s not like the team with the second highest bonus pool has any advantage with mr. Donald mattingly. I have a hunch it will come down to dollars and if the orioles are offering more it’s going to be hard to say no.
Fun fact: the younger you are the easier it is to learn a new language
Yeah, but the ideal age is 4-6
Why? Neither one of them is in the majors next year.
Your Baltimore Orio’s
Brady Anderson- Know Nothing Play Girl. He and Rod Stewart make baseball decisions.
Joe McIlvaine- Who?
John Stockstill-Seriously? Why is this guy employed? I thought he was committed.
Dean Albany- Better start doing his job and PDQ- ( the last prospect I signed was Larry Harlow)
Calvin Maduro- Just a bad dude. Enough talent to make it to MLB, but not enough smarts to stay. Certainly NO ability to asses talent.
Yep- the O’s are in good hands
Pick on your own team.
O’s actually had some good eyes on the guy. They’ve scouted well before; let’s see how they do here. Very qualified group.
Joe Mcllvaine is still around?! and in a front office non the less