Monday, February 25, 2008 |
Bartolo Colon Signs Minor League Deal With Boston
Update: Theo Epstein explains:
"Well, signing Colon to a minor league deal, we think, is a no risk potential high reward signing. He's on a minor league contract, going to show up here at camp tomorrow and we'll do an evaluation of how far he is away from helping us. But it takes more than five starting pitchers to get through a season. Obviously he's an accomplished guy and if we can get him back to a point where he's throwing well, he can certainly help us at some point this season."Colon threw 4 1/3 innings on Feb. 6 in the Caribbean Series against Venezuela, and hasn't thrown since. That, Epstein said, puts him behind the other pitchers in camp, and will certainly affect when he might be ready to start the season.
"We'll do a full workup on him tomorrow when he gets here," Epstein said. "Probably safe to assume he's a little bit behind everyone else. We'll see."
On the reports on the stint against Venezuela: "He was 89-91, shaping his fastball different ways. Pitching more than throwing. We have pretty good reports in September. He was 91-92 up to 94. We saw him pretty good in September, so we had interest. We wanted to wait and see if it was the right thing to do, make sure the price was right. At this point it's, as we said, very low risk and high reward as far as the depth of our pitching staff goes. It takes a lot of starting pitching to get through the season. You're hoping to get 1,000 innings from your starters. There's a lot of attrition, so this might be a guy who can help us at some point."
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