I love the way a lot of you have given up on a 21 year old pitcher who pitched last year at AA.

 

Send him down to Birmingham and let him develope properly instead of rushing him along because he was good in spring training.

 

He is our #1 prospect for a reason. He is not a bust (yet).

 

The s*** that has been said tonight about how he sucks and how we should trade him now while some "stupid team might still trade for him" is just pathetic.

 

It's unbelievable how reactionary a lot of you are, it's really f***ing sad.

 

I'm Done.

Viz gets out of it, and I give him credit for doing so.

 

Still, I don't trust Viz because he puts too many runners on. He's the relief version of El Duque.

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Carlos Lee

Kip Well

Gary Majewski

 

All developed exclusively in the Sox system... The Sox rank in the upper 25% in developing talent.

Nomo's thrown 87 pitches, time to light him up once more.

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Carlos Lee

Kip Well

Gary Majewski

 

All developed exclusively in the Sox system... The Sox rank in the upper 25% in developing talent.

Frankie Francisco as well, even though we acquired him from the Red Sox IIRC.

C'mon Big Hurt!!!!!!!!!!!!

We need a cushion here, this is where the Sox need to tack on one.

Dear Ozzie,

Please don't be f***ing dumb enough to use Kevin Walker.

I don't consider Cotts, but I'll give you Garland.  Still, that's not a lot of guys in the last few years that we've developed.

 

Why not count Cotts? He spent a full season at Birmingham, which was over a third of his whole minor league career. Whatever, it's not that important.

 

Compare that to a team like the Cubs -- who have just one position player starter who they developed (Patterson), one platoon/backup (DuBois), the "Big Three" (Wood/Prior/Zambrano), and then a bunch of reliever types, none who really seem outstanding, but a bunch of average guys (Mitre/Ohman/Wuertz et al).

 

Obviously, Wood/Prior/Zambrano were good picks, but two of the three were taken in the top five (Wood and Prior), and the other was a ammy FA signing, so there's 29 other teams shaking their heads. We haven't had the chance to draft a Prior or a Wood...

Kevin Walker up in the pen for the Sox.

Umm, why is Kevin Walker warming up?

The s*** that has been said tonight about how he sucks and how we should trade him now while some "stupid team might still trade for him" is just pathetic.

 

I clarified that he sucks right now and that it doesn't mean he'll always suck. But it can't be argued, he certainly sucks right now.

 

I'd also trade him, but I would've traded him even before I'd ever seen him pitch. That's because I don't put any stock into prospects because they don't always turn out.

 

 

Oh f***, Walker is warming. If Ozzie brings him in and he blows it, Ozzie isn't thinking.

Lead-off walk for Frank....yes!

Oh boy, a Kevin Walker sighting.

Kevin Walker up in the pen for the Sox.

SHOOT ME NOW!

Oh f***, Walker is warming.  If Ozzie brings him in and he blows it, Ozzie isn't thinking.

Is he ever???

SHOOT ME NOW!

:uhoh

Why not count Cotts?  He spent a full season at Birmingham, which was over a third of his whole minor league career.  Whatever, it's not that important.

 

Compare that to a team like the Cubs -- who have just one position player starter who they developed (Patterson), one platoon/backup (DuBois), the "Big Three" (Wood/Prior/Zambrano), and then a bunch of reliever types, none who really seem outstanding, but a bunch of average guys (Mitre/Ohman/Wuertz et al).

 

Obviously, Wood/Prior/Zambrano were good picks, but two of the three were taken in the top five (Wood and Prior), and the other was a ammy FA signing, so there's 29 other teams shaking their heads.  We haven't had the chance to draft a Prior or a Wood...

We haven't had a top 10 pick in the draft since 1989 IIRC.

Two on nobody out. This is the inning to do some damage.

Single for Paulie.....trouble a'brewin!

Oh boy, a Kevin Walker sighting.

 

 

Yup.

 

 

This was seen on the pitchers rubber in the Sox Pen.

hey another righty coming in for rowand, maybe he can try for some success against him

DBAH0- All we gotta do is throw a season like the Cavaliers did for LeBron....

 

BTW, Nomo = GAWN

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I clarified that he sucks right now and that it doesn't mean he'll always suck.  But it can't be argued, he certainly sucks right now.

 

I'd also trade him, but I would've traded him even before I'd ever seen him pitch.  That's because I don't put any stock into prospects because they don't always turn out.

Oh f***, Walker is warming.  If Ozzie brings him in and he blows it, Ozzie isn't thinking.

You can't just say he sucks right now. He shouldn't even be in the big leagues, he's a AA pitcher in the Majors, WTF do you expect from him.

 

You can say he shouldn't be on the team and that he's not ready, just don't say he sucks.