http://espn.go.com/boston/conversations/_/id/7748320/chris-carpenter-boston-red-sox-needs-surgery Chris Carpenter has surgery to remove bone spur from his elbow.
5 IP, 0 R, 2 H, 1 BB, 5 K, and he's going to be coming out for the next inning presumably, after tripling to lead off the bottom of the fifth. Welcome to the rotation, Shark.
Since last June, we've added Concepcion, Torreyes, Rizzo, a boatload of other Cubans and the great (or at least expensive) draft. The system isn't getting better just because of who we hired. It's getting better because better players have been added to it.
Yeah, I think the rotation is pretty set at this point. I don't think Samardzija was getting the job based on his ST results, but just on what they saw out of him last season and his apparently ability to build up to being a starter. Also,
Samardzija is getting ripped, 5 runs in 1.2 innings so far. It'd probably only be two if we had better defenders than LaHair (1b) and Johnson (LF) in there.
Keith Law had some tweets about Cubs prospects yesterday. The good news is that he says Vogelbach lost another 20-25 pounds during the offseason. The unsurprising news is that he saw Vogelbach strike out twice and has pretty much already written him off.
Blake Lalli only needed 14 to hit two. Oh, wait, due to small sample size we should just close the spring training thread. A better solution would be that no one says anything positive about Ian Stewart, ever.