Rounding the Bases
Rounding up all the latest Red Sox news and notes in one post.
Clay Buchholz worked hard in the offseason on his strength and conditioning — and also on watching lots of the “Hostel” movies and playing PlayStation3. Oh to have been a fly on the wall in the apartment he shared with Michael Bowden down in Florida this offseason…
It also looks like it’s going to be a tighter battle for that Number 5 spot in the rotation between Clay and Julian Tavarez.
Jon Lester knows that being pencilled in to the rotation isn’t good enough, he wants to prove he’s ready to be written in the order in ink.
Daisuke Matsuzaka confessed to some fatigue during the 2007 season– he was used to some mid-season fatigue in Japan, but last year he felt tired from spring training all the way through October. He also has asked for privacy about where she will be for the birth of their first child in March, saying, “She’s just in a very sort of delicate situation right now and I’d prefer not to answer any questions.” Dice-K was out again throwing this morning, amid lightning and rain in Ft. Myers.
Truck Video- from ABC7 in Florida, and the News Press.
It would have been amazing to be a fly on that wall. Ha.
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