The Red Sox selected right-hander Miguel Gonzalez from the Los Angeles Angels in the Rule 5 draft today.
Gonzalez finished up his age-23 season for the Double-A ballclub in 2007; he did not pitch in 2008. In 2007, he pitched 130.2 innings and whiffed 81 while walking 42, a concerning ratio. His WHIP was 1.30 and gave up 128 hits for a 3.38 ERA. He started 19 games and relieved in 11. The year before, he relieved in 31 AA games and had a 1.09 WHIP to go with a 3.38 ERA.
In the Mexican League this offseason, he has a 0.99 ERA in 36.1 IP (10 G, 6 GS) with 32 whiffs and 8 walks. That’s quite the improvement.
Keith Law had this to say:
Most interesting guy is Miguel Gonzalez, taken by Boston from the Angels. Missed the year, throwing very well in Mexico, avg to above avg fastball with plus command.
In the minor league portion of the draft, the Sox selected righty Jason Rice from the White Sox and Miguel Marquez from the Seattle Mariners.
Rice, 22, pitched in A-ball this past year, totaling 109 innings of a 4.43 ERA, 37 walks and 103 whiffs. Looks like a live arm. Marquez is 20 years old and spent his third year in Rookie ball. This past year, he had a 2.10 ERA in 30 innings. He walked 14 and whiffed 23, but limited his damage, obviously. Looks like a long way for him to go.
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Theo answers with vigor to the Yankees Sabathia signing! A joke.
On another note, does anyone know how forfeited draft picks work for teams that sign two (or more) type A free agents in the offseason. For example, the Yanks lose their 1st round pick to Milwaukee for signing C.C. If they sign Burnett too what other pick would they lose?
I think they just lose their second round pick. In this case, since CC is better than Burnett, the Twins would get the first-rounder and the Jays the second-rounder.
ON A HILARIOUS NOTE
Ben Maller reports Manny is threatening to retire due to lack of interest and firm offers. Doesn’t he understand that’s the childish kind of crap that’s driven so many teams away to begin with.
Go ahead Manny. I double-dog dare ya!
Shows Manny’s committment to the game…he can go be a stock broker with John Rocker.
Interesting note by Keith Law, there seems to be nothing intriguing about his previous stat lines other then good walk rates and I don’t much stock in winter/mexican/fall league stats.
Yeah, I saw Law’s note as well. Despite not knowing anything about the guy, I still appreciate moves like this. It doesn’t cost Boston anything but a roster spot and if this guy has a live arm and decent command, who knows…maybe he could pitch in in our bullpen this year.
I’m not going to complain at all about this.
As for Manny…that is pretty hilarious. It seems like the word on the street is only the Dodgers have the money and desire to deal with Manny’s antics now. I can’t wait to see what he pulls next year when he’s in the midst of a two year $30-40M contract.