« Baseball Today: Friday, June 8
Main
Brown's Devin Thomas drafted by Tigers »
June 8, 2007
Sean McAdam is Art Martone's guest once again on projo SoxTalk. Click here to listen to the full audio file. Sean and Art discuss Curt Schilling's terrific effort yesterday, they look ahead to interleague play and break down how the Red Sox did on the first day of the MLB Draft.
Here are some excerpts from what Sean had to say.
On Schilling's performance: "He wasn't overpowering, clearly. He only had four strikeouts, but he had incredible command yesterday. He seemed to be getting ahead of hitters, not going to a lot of three-ball counts, being able to throw several pitches for stirkes. And I think we're continuing to watch the late-career evolution of Curt Schilling. He's not a 95-96 guy anymore; he's more likely to be 91-92 and mix in the changeup nearly as much as the split-fingered fastball, which used to be his out pitch. So he knows he's not the prototypical power pitcher anymore at 40, but he's still smart enough and still good enough at locating his fastball that he can get good hitters out."
On interleague lineup changes: "Their three most productive guys all year have been Lowell, Youkilis and Ortiz, and starting tonight and continuing in Atlanta and San Diego in their nine interleague road games, no DH. And so that means they go into kind of that rotation, where those guys play two of three games. They're lucky that they have the flexibility to put Youkilis at third, so one night you'll have Youkilis and Ortiz, then you'll have Lowell and Ortiz, then you'll have Lowell and Youkilis. But clearly, not having your three best guys, or your three most productive guys, in the lineup at the same time is not your optimium scenario.
On top draft picks Nick Hagadone and Ryan Dent: "If there's a cliche in pro sports, it's a scouting director and general manager saying, 'We never thought he'd be there when our turn came up, and sure enough, we got that about the two guys they took. But they did say that when the day started, those were the two that they hoped to get at 55, or those were among the guys they were still hoping to be there at 55 or 62."
Sean has a lot more to say about Hagadone and Dent, so be sure to check out the audio.
Posted by Mike McDermott 
at 11:29 AM to Martone
, McAdam
| Permalink
