Why not? With the loss of John Garland in the off season, the rumours out today that the Sox are sniffing around signing Bartolo Colon are very interesting. I'm a big Colon fan, and regardless if he signs with the Sox or not, I hope he returns healthy. Although he has lost mouch of the last two seasons to injuries and has had an ERA above 5.00 for three of the last four years, he mite - if healthy- make a great addition to the team. It would be great to see his off speed stuff dansing through the strike zone again.Yeesh how the mighty have fallen. Once the knockout of the entire league featuring seven outstanding starting pitchers a few years ago, the Sox have only two they can truely count on : Mark Burele and Javier Vasquez. After these two the Sox hope a huge return to form by Jose Contrearas (10-17, 5.57 ERA last year) and some sort of breakthrough by John Danks (6-13, 5.50 ERA) and Gavin Floyd(8-10, 6.30). And yes, those stats are correctly printed here in dcs- good luck attempting to rely on these pitchers this year.
I have high hopes for Danks - although he got beat up a lot, he strung up some good games -err, innings- to-gether. Contrereas was the staff ace @ by the end of 2005 - but that's now three seasons ago. And Floyd? Who knows @ this point.
So, in a typical Sox move to save money, they are trying to tap Colon again. With the disaster staff they are now sporting in this new spring training, a Colon move - presumably with the onus on Colon to prove himself healthy - is a smart one. Even if he can't recover, it'll be nice to see him in the Sox uni again- especially if he can produce.
Did I write 'smart one' about a possible Colon move? I meant ' desperate one '.
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Sounds like the sox and bulls are owned by the same people!
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