Training Tidbits en Route to Snow

Good afternoon from beautiful - well, at least recently improved - BWI airport, WMYM's personal Sky Harbor. At lthe moment. Before we get into the most-important ongoing debate in WMYM's world, whether to get a crabcake sandwich or a panini, let's hit the morning and early afternoon highlights.

Interesting class headed for the Red Sox Hall of Fame, with Mo Vaughn a no-brainer, probably even despite the current steroids flap, and some others worthy of great recent reminiscence. Mike Greenwell? The perennial left field pasture man deserves a spot for that one three-homer game in a one-game playoff to out Toronto in 1990 alone. And the name. How can the Sox not have a team hall of famer named Greenwell who played in front of the Green Monster?

The most interesting story may come via the Herald's Michael Silverman, who posted a Coco Crisp piece last night about his waning trade value. While a lack of market value for Crisp (in a Globe photo by Jim Davis at left) is fairly striking in its own right, the bigger issue that follows could be a larger roster trickle down. If the Sox DO trade Crisp, he would likely go for a catcher/top catching prospect or a reliever/top pitching prospect. If the team got a catcher, say, Jerrod Saltalamachia from the Rangers (which, reportedly, isn't so likely unless the man with the longest last name in baseball history bows out of the race for the starting catcher spot early in camp), Theo Epstein would be much less likely to extend Jason Varitek. If the team nets a reliever, that would give Epstein additional flexibility with pitchers and pitching prospects heading toward the trade deadline. Either way, Crisp staying or going could be the lynchpin to a number of other potential moves. Fascinating how it all breaks down after a single move, isn't it?

And it wouldn't be a WMYM post without this following picture, which ran in the Herald by their outstanding sports photog Matt Stone. You can draw your own conclusions, but has ANYONE ever felt like Julian Tavarez needed MORE energy? Really? If he keeps chugging Red Bull he's going to start burrowing a hole to China and complete that whole Bugs Bunny look he's been perfecting since his career went stateside.


 

Oh, and in case you missed it, Bartolo Colon is officially in camp, and predictably - perhaps even astoundingly - fat. The line of the day so far comes via Gordon Edes, who chimes in with this gem:

Farrell was less impressed that Colon showed up at camp looking like he was auditioning for the Biggest Loser. Colon has always pitched big, and didn't look that bad in his polo jersey, but the Sox warmup hid nothing.

He also said Colon needs to drop 20 pounds "in a conservative estimate." Needless to say, the back page headline writers for the Herald are drooling already. Even the Globe might drop a "Colon in camp, still fat" on us. There's always hoping.

Now, back to that crabcake-panini debate ...

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