Van Buren called up by Red Sox

[Caryatid]

BOSTON -- The Boston Red Sox placed left-hander David Wells on the 15-day disabled list Saturday with a right knee injury and called up right-hander Jermaine Van Buren from Triple-A Pawtucket.

 

Wells had offseason surgery on the knee and struggled in his only start of the season, an 8-4 loss to Toronto last Wednesday, after beginning the season on the disabled list. He allowed seven runs on 10 hits -- three of them homers -- before being removed with no outs in the fifth inning.

 

After Friday night's game against Seattle, Wells received a shot of the joint lubricant Synvisc in the knee. It normally is administered in a series of three injections one week apart.

 

The 42-year-old Wells was placed on the disabled list retroactive to Thursday and can be activated no earlier than April 28. Last season, his first with Boston, he was 15-7 with a 4.45 ERA.

 

The Red Sox obtained Van Buren in a trade with the Chicago Cubs last Dec. 1st. In his only major league experience, Van Buren was 0-2 with a 3.00 ERA in six innings for the Cubs last year.

[MeatampPotatoesMan]

He can't get ML hitters out with that minor league deception crap!!!11!

[Illini Iceman]

BOSTON -- The Boston Red Sox placed left-hander David Wells on the 15-day disabled list Saturday with a right knee injury and called up right-hander Jermaine Van Buren from Triple-A Pawtucket.

 

Wells had offseason surgery on the knee and struggled in his only start of the season, an 8-4 loss to Toronto last Wednesday, after beginning the season on the disabled list. He allowed seven runs on 10 hits -- three of them homers -- before being removed with no outs in the fifth inning.

 

After Friday night's game against Seattle, Wells received a shot of the joint lubricant Synvisc in the knee. It normally is administered in a series of three injections one week apart.

 

The 42-year-old Wells was placed on the disabled list retroactive to Thursday and can be activated no earlier than April 28. Last season, his first with Boston, he was 15-7 with a 4.45 ERA.

 

The Red Sox obtained Van Buren in a trade with the Chicago Cubs last Dec. 1st. In his only major league experience, Van Buren was 0-2 with a 3.00 ERA in six innings for the Cubs last year.

 

Great, now the first time he gets in a game and throws a scoreless inning there is going to a thread about it like there is for all the other ex-Cubs prospects that have any early success.

[CubsWin]

Great, now the first time he gets in a game and throws a scoreless inning there is going to a thread about it like there is for all the other ex-Cubs prospects that have any early success.

So lets have this thread include all of the recent Cubs prospects who were traded away that haven't had success yet.

 

Hee Seop Choi, Bobby Hill, Matt Bruback, Gary Johnson, David Noyce, Mark Freed, Brendan Harris and Francis Beltran have all had little to no success at the major league level to date.

 

They netted the Cubs Derrek Lee, Aramis Ramirez, Matt Murton and Damian Miller who got Michael Barrett.

 

Not bad.

[BigbadB]

This thread went downhill in a hurry.