It's pretty hard to not have something to say about the #3 top prospect in the Red Sox orginization, so I'll keep this brief.
Drafted from Red Banks Catholic High School in 2006. He was graduating the day of the draft and school officials allowed him to have his phone on during the ceremony. As graduation began, he received the call he had been drafted by the Red Sox and swapped out his graduation cap with a Red Sox ball cap (which tells me that he and his friends probably weren't Yankees fans).
Kalish had to sit out the rest of the 2006 baseball season with a wrist injury and recently was on the DL with a hand injury (though, who wasn't on the DL?). He's been on fire since coming back from his injury, managing to help the Paw Sox win Sunday's game going 2 for 3 at bat and stealing 3 bases. Woot.
Several things are impressive about his young athlete. His senior year in high school, he didn't have a single swing-and-miss. He is positioned in the outfield, but he has been a pitcher as well. If he had decided to pass up the Red Sox, he would have gone to college to play football as well as baseball. Most impressive to me? The day he got called up to Pawtucket from Portland, he went out and bought a violin. His favorite band, Yellowcard, uses a lot of violin in their music and he decided to learn. Why not? He freely admits he won't be able to learn how to play well until the off season but he can't wait to jam with his teammates next season.
Some speculate that at the rate Adrian Beltre is taking out outfielders this season, Kalish may get his call up sometime this year. Bad for those guys, but good for him!
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