Spring is here, and the games are starting… and I forgot to renew my MLB.tv subscription! So until I settle that, everything I’ll write about the Spring Training games will have to be based on reports. It’s good to hear that Kim’s throwing well. I always figured that while you don’t play someone just because you paid a lot for him - standard sunk costs - trading him at the nadir of his value isn’t much use either. Francona had these words to say:
“Nobody has given up on him - or remotely given up on him - because of what he can do,” [Francona] told the media. “At the same time, he has to do it. This is a big spring for B.K. and there’s nobody more in his corner than me.”
Nobody puts BK in the corner!