Lance Broadway and Adam Bostick are trying to accomplish the same thing. They are ex-prospects that hope to rekindle the flame they, and the people around them once had about their talent.
Broadway, turning 26 in August, was the 15th overall pick (in the 1st round) of the 2005 draft, by the Chicago White Sox. His senior year at TCU was magical, going 15-1, 1.62 and striking out 151 in 117 innings, but as we have learned so mnay times before, that was college and this is baseball.
Broadway pitched part of five seasons in the White Sox organization, with his best year being AAA-Charlotte in 2008 (11-7, 4.66), but even that year, his strikeouts were way down (101Ks in 166 innings). And two short trips to Chicago had less than successful results.
Still' Baseball America had him listed as the 2nd top White Sox prospect in 2008, and he's turn that around, right?
Adam Bostick's road to today's game was as rocky but travelled much differently.
Bostick, already 26, was a sixth round draft pick out of high school, by the Florida Marlins, in 2001. He has never been ranked by Baseball America as a top prospect, but he did pitch five years in the Marlins organizaton, mostly as a starter.
He partcularly had a decent year in 2006 for AA-Carolina (8-7, 3.52, in 22 starts), but, just when he was about to crack the Marlins rotation, along came the second worst trade in New York's history, right behind those indians that got 22 bucks for Manhattan.
Yes, it was Bostick and Adam Vargas that were traded for some God forsavin reason, to the Mets, for Matt Lindstrom, and Henry Owens.
Bostick stayed a starter for two more seasons (7-9), got hurt, and seemed dead, but returned this year as a relief pitcher. First, he went 3-0, 2.60 in 11 appearances for the B-Mets, and today, he increased his scoreless innings to 9.1 for Buffalo. His AAA ERA stands at o.oo.
Meanwhile, Broadway gave up seven earned runs over five innings and his 2009 ERA for the Bisons stands at 6.80.
These are the best of times...
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