Sox release Mirabelli

I’m caught a bit off guard by this one, but the Red Sox have released Doug Mirabelli.

I stuck up for Mirabelli the last couple years. Not because he was good, but because he made it seem like anybody could play professional baseball. He can’t run, he can’t hit—in fact, he doesn’t really have any discernable skills aside from being able to catch an obscure pitch.

There was always the idea that you could go out in your back yard, pay some college kid $5 bucks an hour to throw you knuckleballs, and after a few thousand pitches you could show up to the Red Sox camp and not do any worse than a guy on a major league roster.

As long as Mirabelli was playing, we all had a shot.

The Globe thinks the Sox will promote Kevin Cash, but I’m not sold on it. Though Cash did an admirable job catching Wakefield in 2007, he hits even worse than Mirabelli and I don’t really see what the point would be of swapping him out for Belli. 

Kottaras has been pretty impressive this spring, and he has experience catching a knuckleball. I kind of hope the Sox roll the dice and see what he can do.

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