Comments on: Dispatches from Dana Point.

By: Coach K

Coach K — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 01:24:02 +0000

also, while salty definately has a fantastic minor league track record, and has been developing at a decent rate in the majors, Max Ramirez, probably the other Texas catcher you referred to, has almost as good numbers in the minors as salty did, and probably comes way cheaper. Laird is sort of a generic veteren (.306 career OBP in 6 major league seasons) and Teagaarden is probably the worts offensive prospct of the three young guys.

yeah, i love baseball-reference.com too

By: Done

Done — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:53:15 +0000

Once again, increasing the possibility of an all Japanese rotation. Especially after Lester gets the surgery.

By: Coach K

Coach K — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:45:09 +0000

Tazawa might turn out to be a good prospect.

However, the most important thing about him is that he is sort of a test subject for this new idea of japanese players bypassing the draft in Japan to sign as MLB free agents without a posting fee. the lack of a fee is very key to the whole situation. If it works, and he fairs well in the minors next year it opens up the door for the next BIG time japanese pitcher.. Yu Darvish. He is half Iranian, and has a lot of potential, both on the field, and as a hype machine.

Remember his name because he is going to have about the same amount of hype as DiceK in a year or two, and if tazawa comes to the sox it makes them the frontrunner for darvish.