Who is Chris Smith?
I can make a safe assumption that nobody else in the history of baseball has had their career start off like Chris Smith. He has spent six years in the minors while undergoing two arm surgeries and fighting through another barrage of injuries thanks to an ATV accident.
He finally got called up to Boston [...]
David Ortiz could swing a bat by tomorrow
The club has announced that Ortiz may take a few swings off a tee tomorrow before joining the club on their road trip to Houston. The idea is to test out the wrist a bit while the doctors can still monitor him in Boston.
Even if things go perfectly, I don’t see him playing in [...]
Youkilis sent to an eye specialist
After getting hit in the eye with a baseball between innings during last night’s game, Kevin Youkilis underwent some tests and they all came back negative for fractures and anything too serious.
Unfortunately his eye was still watering and swollen when he got to Fenway today so the team has sent him to an eye specialist [...]
Kevin Youkilis gets hit in the face with a baseball
Kevin Youkilis was hit in the face by a bouncing warmup throw from Mike Lowell before the 5th inning in last night’s game. I was at the park and a hush came over the crowd as they immediately thought the worst (the irony is that right before it happened, they played a Tony Conigliaro [...]
Curt Schilling’s surgery goes well
Curt Schilling is like a super hero in a comic book. Just when you think he’s down for the count, he finds some way to throw himself back into the picture and vanquish his foes.
Curt underwent his shoulder surgery yesterday and Dr. Morgan said that #38 can begin some light throwing in as little [...]
Sean Casey drops his suspension appeal
Sean Casey has officially dropped his suspension appeal and will begin serving his 3 games tonight against the Diamondbacks. I’m not entirely sure of the strategy behind this.
The Diamondbacks will be starting two lefties in this series. The Astros, who we play next, only have 1 left-handed starter. It would make sense [...]
