Kevin Goldstein checks in with his latest "Monday Morning 10-Pack" of prospects and has this to say about PawSox knuckleballer Charlie Zink:
Five years ago, Zink was quite the object of affection. He’s a knuckleball pitcher, which is an inherently cool thing in itself, but there was more as he was also an undrafted free agent out of the Savannah College of Art and Design, of all places. And his coach there was Luis Tiant-–I kid you not.
After earning far more attention that his talent really deserved, Zink established himself as what many saw as a Double-A/Triple-A lifer, being really good at times, but mostly compiling a lot of five-plus ERAs.
However, on Saturday night Zink got my attention with eight very good innings, allowing only one run on four hits, and a little further investigation shows that Zink has actually been good pretty much all year.
In 13 starts for the PawSox, he has an excellent 2.44 ERA while limiting International League hitters to a .204 average. While I’ve yet to talk to a scout about him, the knuckler seems to be knuckling of late, and maybe the 29-year-old Zink will be everyone's favorite knuckleball prospect again soon.
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