C & C

Saturday, March 7, 2009

Pitching Update

Bartolo Colon and Jose Contreras continued to impress this morning, throwing 55-pitch bullpen sessions as they continue to recover from surgery.

With Ken Williams, Rick Hahn, Don Cooper, Herm Schneider and many others from the organization watching, the two veterans were impressive, as Cooper high-fived and hugged the two as they finished.

Best story from the session:

With Contreras warmed up and ready to throw, Schnedier called out to the nearest catcher to get behind the plate for Jose.  It was a minor leaguer ... Luis Sierra.  What Herm didn't know was that Sierra, who is from Columbia and has been in our system for three years, was an infielder who converted to catcher, oh, about a week ago!

But he held his own catching Contreras, did a good job, and at one point, called out in Spanish for Contreras to keep his front shoulder closed.

His quick conversion to catcher and his coaching of the veteran Contreras left everyone laughing.