Monday, February 25, 2008

Kim is in camp

This is yesterday's news now, but the Byung-Hyun Kim signing is final, he's in camp, and Ray Olemdo's off the 40-man roster to make room. The PG has video of Kim doing some throwing (man, I wish these videos were embeddable) and for one horrifying second, I thought he was going to throw overhand. Then he didn't. It's also worth noting that Kim's contract is not guaranteed, which means we can cut him. I really doubt that's going to happen, but I suppose it's another reason not to hate this signing.

Also, I found one tidbit in the daily Spring rundown from today really interesting. Apparently, Jim Sullivan, who a lot of you probably recognize as the guy that writes the awesome spring training diaries every spring, had a short conversation with Frank Coonelly that ended with Sullivan getting a tour of the team's headquarters and his own private conversation with Frank Coonelly.

Oh, and the awful McDonald's inspired Red jerseys have to stay for one more year because the new staff wasn't in place soon enough to submit an application to the league to change their unis in 2008, but Dejan assures us that they're gone after this year, which I hope means it's a safe bet that while the Heinz 57 vests may hang in the lockers for this year, they won't get out of that home very often.