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By Sully, 2/3/2005 9:04 am

The Red Sox, determined to do all they can to ensure that they don’t have to call upon poop to try and win them ballgames, invited 16 non-roster players to Big-League camp yesterday. While surely there is quite a bit of poop on this list, there are also a couple of guys that could step in and not kill you. Chip Ambres, a 25 year-old former Marlins farmhand, posted an .801 OPS in the Carolina League. Former Indian and Twin, Jack Cressend, has posted a 107 ERA+ over his career. Some of the other familiar names were Shawn Wooten, Dave Berg, George Lombard and Jeremi Gonzalez. I always thought Gonzalez had a live arm when he was with the D-Rays. He was pretty good in 2003 but a smoldering disaster in 2004.

All in all these invitations will probably not have much of an affect for the coming season. They are indicative of a dogged commitment by the Red Sox brass, however, to foster organizational depth. For a look at an organization not quite as committed to the same cause, go check out Goldman’s latest Pinstriped Bible entry.

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By Sully, 2/1/2005 4:36 pm

Stumbled across this after stumbling across this yesterday.

2004 Playoffs:
Derek Jeter: 245/.339/.347
AROD: .320/.414/.600

But you know, Tom Brady likes Jeter – no wait – Tom Brady is Jeter and the Boss summoned AROD so he must have done something wrong and after all, he slapped Arroyo and …Bah. It’s no use.

Take a pay-cut, move positions, put up numbers, hit the shit out of the ball in the post-season and have your under-performing captain take a passive aggressive shot at you by declaring the team “different” and your boss embarrassingly summon you to his Florida lair (who summons, anyway?).

Wonder if A-Rod still wants to be a part of it.

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By Sully,

Skip Bayless, come get your spanking.