Dec 8, 2009

Possibility of a new SoxandPhil

After a day in which the Yankees took advantage of the Arizona Diamondbacks and Detroit Tigers, there wasn't major progress reported by Theo Epstein or Ruben Amaro.

But yesterday, Theo made a couple of minor moves to add bullpen depth, including signing former Phillie Fabio Castro to a minor league deal, which could mean another addition to the SoxandPhil roster in 2010.

Castro played an important role for the 2008 World Champion Phillies even though he hasn't pitched in the majors since 2007. How? He was sent to the Blue Jays as the player-to-be-named-later in the Matt Stairs deal. Incidentally, he came to the Phillies as part of a deal for another big lug slugger, Jim Thome.

That's all I got on a dude who has pitched 43 and two-thirds major league innings in parts of two seasons.

My head is going to explode: I'm not happy about this.

The Red Sox have a claim in on the other Ramon Ramirez a right-handed reliever who was with the Reds last season. They'll find out tomorrow if they got him.

I know nothing about this Ramon Ramirez, but I do know we'll go nuts trying to keep track of two guys in the same bullpen with the same exact name.

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