(New York Daily Mirror Online - February 25, 2010)
The Mirror Online is following the Twitter account of an unnamed front office executive of the Knights who is present in the Knights draft "war room" at Knights Field in Flushing, NY.)
NEW YORK - As we have always known, Knights GM Mitch Pak can be unpredictable when it comes to the draft, especially in the early rounds. This year has been no different, as the Knights selected young fireballer Josh Johnson with their first pick of the draft (#5 overall), adding to what is already regarded as one of the deeper rotations in the LF.
Where to from here? The Knights are still without a catcher and as Casey Stengel used to say, "ya gotta have a catcher; otherwise you'll have a lot of passed balls".
Our anonymous source in the Knights draft "war room" provided the following on his (her?) Twitter account this morning at 4 a.m.
"Mitch was nervous that Matt Cain was going to underperform again this year, so he was thrilled that a young talent like Josh Johnson was available at #5. Mitch feels that Johnson can be the righty complement to Jon Lester and that Cain will be the #3. My guess is that he's now going to be looking to add a bat. I haven't heard him talk about catchers yet, but I did hear him mention Jason Kendall while he was on his cellphone last night about midnight. He was laughing at the time and I have no idea who he was talking to, so who knows?"
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