Mike Lowell has no patience for your ping pong ineptitude. (MLB Photo/SawxBlog)
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Delcarmen fits right in
Delcarmen was one of hell of a pitcher during his days at West Roxbury High School, but he was never slick, never trim. Heck, on the very day the Red Sox selected him in the second round of the 2000 amateur draft, Delcarmen wasn’t even at home to receive the congratulatory telephone call from then-general manager Dan Duquette. He was chowing down at the Old Country Buffet. True story.
Bard’s OK with rewrite
Bard is scheduled to be pitching between two and three innings throughout spring training, then carry that workload into the season. He will most likely be stretched out to as many as 50 pitches to help develop his fastball, curveball and changeup - which he didn’t utilize much in Hawaii.
Sox extend Francona's contract
The Red Sox have won two World Series championships in Francona's first four seasons with the team and have missed the playoffs just once -- the injury-riddled 2006 campaign -- under his watch.
Adjustments have Drew set for '08
This was when the foundation started being built for when Drew crushed Fausto Carmona's first-inning fastball for a two-out grand slam in Game 6 of the American League Championship Series that served as perhaps the most memorable hit in Boston's march to the World Series championship.
Field Event
Chris Carter, No. 77 on your spring training program, came to the Red Sox in last August's Wily Mo Peña deal by way of the Washington Nationals, who first had to swing a deal with the Arizona Diamondbacks to acquire him for the Sox. Carter was playing for the Tucson Sidewinders, Arizona's Triple A team, when friends told him his name had popped up in a newspaper report that he was bound for the Sox.
Beckett, Delcarmen climb ahead on the hill
"I think it's always impressive to see Josh Beckett go about his work," Farrell said. "I think any time we talk about our pitching staff, we always start with him. But he looks as strong and as sharp as he did this time last year.
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