by mike scandura | Apr 10, 2012 | Ross Ohlendorf
At face value, it would have been impossible to know that Pawtucket Red Sox right-hander Ross Ohlendorf had missed the bulk of the 2011 season (when he was with Pittsburgh) because of a strained right shoulder posterior muscle. But that didn’t make the Lehigh Valley...
by mike scandura | Sep 10, 2011 | Madison Younginer
Raw is the appropriate adjective to use when referring to 20-year-old right-hander Madison Younginer who was Boston’s seventh-round pick in the 2009 draft. For starters, the athletically-gifted Younginer played outfield more than he pitched for Mauldin High School...
by mike scandura | Sep 3, 2011 | Junichi Tazawa
Are there three more dreaded words in baseball than “Dr. James Andrews,” the world-renowned orthopedic surgeon in Birmingham, Alabama? A visit to Dr. Andrews isn’t a mere social call but, rather, for an examination of a potentially serious injury. That was the case in...
by mike scandura | Aug 27, 2011 | Mark Wagner
At the risk of stating the obvious, 2010 was a lost season for catcher Mark Wagner when he was with the Pawtucket Red Sox. Wagner’s season commenced unraveling on April 29 when he broke the hamate bone in his left hand while taking a swing during a game. He had an...
by mike scandura | Aug 20, 2011 | Alex Wilson
During the first couple of months of last season, change was good for right-hander Alex Wilson. That’s change as in a changeup, a pitch the 24-year-old Wilson began to throw with increasing frequency. In retrospect, it’s one reason why he literally pitched himself...
