Sox add Mujica

[User Name]

That trade is the definition of a pipe dream.

[marklmw]

Gomes/Nava posted a 2.8 WAR together last year.......over 240 games and 902 PA.

 

They are projected by ZiPS to post a 1.2 combined WAR in 2014. Nava 0.8, Gomes 0.4. Not 3.

 

Not sure how you can project the Sox to get a WAR of 3 in a LF platoon when they couldn't produce that last year with over 900 PA last year.

 

Not to mention, Kemp provides 25-30 HR pop with the ability to hit 40. If you're going to have JBJ in CF, you need that extra pop in LF. Kemp can also play CF if JBJ isn't working out or needs development time and you don't have to take Victorino out of RF.

 

Buy low sell high ... Kemp is a buy low, Price is a sell high.

[SoxSport]

I would not be surprised if the Yankees jump in and buy Choo and Drew. Boras clients. The Cashman brakes on spending have been removed by the higher ups. They can make more TV money contending in the playoffs than they can lose on the luxury tax. That point has been made somewhere on the tweets or MLB TV.

 

I see they just announced the Spink award to Roger Angell. Legitimate sports writer and book author. Not one of those TV pundits peddling rumors. Which is what Gammons became after he left the Globe for ESPN.

 

The guy that won the Spink award last year is a sports columnist in Philly. Forget his name. He told me in '04 just before the World Series the Cardinals would beat the Red Sox in 5 games. I said no way. The Red Sox have much better pitching. There is an element in the media with a snotty attitude about the Red Sox.

[marklmw]

I would not be surprised if the Yankees jump in and buy Choo and Drew. Boras clients. The Cashman brakes on spending have been removed by the higher ups. They can make more TV money contending in the playoffs than they can lose on the luxury tax. That point has been made somewhere on the tweets or MLB TV.

 

I see they just announced the Spink award to Roger Angell. Legitimate sports writer and book author. Not one of those TV pundits peddling rumors. Which is what Gammons became after he left the Globe for ESPN.

 

The guy that won the Spink award last year is a sports columnist in Philly. Forget his name. He told me in '04 just before the World Series the Cardinals would beat the Red Sox in 5 games. I said no way. The Red Sox have much better pitching. There is an element in the media with a snotty attitude about the Red Sox.

 

This would not surprise me at all either. The Yankees are hurting in the pitching department that they just may try to win their games by out slugging the competition.

[kapsis21]

I would not be surprised if the Yankees jump in and buy Choo and Drew. Boras clients. The Cashman brakes on spending have been removed by the higher ups. They can make more TV money contending in the playoffs than they can lose on the luxury tax. That point has been made somewhere on the tweets or MLB TV.

 

I see they just announced the Spink award to Roger Angell. Legitimate sports writer and book author. Not one of those TV pundits peddling rumors. Which is what Gammons became after he left the Globe for ESPN.

 

The guy that won the Spink award last year is a sports columnist in Philly. Forget his name. He told me in '04 just before the World Series the Cardinals would beat the Red Sox in 5 games. I said no way. The Red Sox have much better pitching. There is an element in the media with a snotty attitude about the Red Sox.

how can Yankees get choo when they already have surplus outfielders. ...

[marklmw]

how can Yankees get choo when they already have surplus outfielders. ...

 

In all likelihood the Yankees will deal Gardner.

[SoxSport]

how can Yankees get choo when they already have surplus outfielders. ...

 

Good question. LOL. But it's the Yankees. They keep adding outfielders.

[seabeachfred]

Buy low sell high ... Kemp is a buy low, Price is a sell high.

 

Please my friends, get off this Kemp kick. He is very badly damaged goods coming off two very sub-par seasons. The Dodgers hoping some sucker will step in so they can fleece them. Ankle surgery (loses speed), shoulder surgery (loses power), hamstrings that have erupted continually on him and putting him on the DL the past two seasons. The Dodgers say they are not actively trying to trade him, yet they have made it clear they will listen to all offers for him. Why are they doing this? He was just about the best player in baseball in 2010, and they don't need the money since they are awash in it, and Ethier isn't supposed to be near the player Kemp is. Why not try and trade Ethier? Because they know that Kemp is on his way down and, besides, I think he is a very bad fit for the Red Sox. He has a irritating tendency to go half speed a lot of the time and when he slumps becomes a very moody player. LA fans enable him; Red Sox fans would roast him if he did those things and we would have another Crawford moaning how tough it is to play in Boston.

 

Now I could turn out to be very wrong on this. Kemp might come back and put up big MVP numbers while I get egg on my face, but at this time I think we should not take that chance. Once again I say don't worry about Bradley and Middlebrooks. They will perform just fine.

[VA Sox Fan]

Kemp is a HUGE gamble a this point. Big upside, but his health scares me. Sox are not the Yanks who are comfortable paying now, regretting later.

 

HOLY CRAP! Just saw your post! Don't be a stranger!!!!!

[RedSoxNC84]

In all likelihood the Yankees will deal Gardner.

 

CBS Sports says Yankees intend to keep Gardner, and they're going to try and deal Ichiro instead.

[RedSoxNC84]

Buy low sell high ... Kemp is a buy low, Price is a sell high.

 

Kemp is certainly not a buy low. It's going to take prospects and salary to get him. The dodgers aren't going to move someone with MVP potential for some ******** prospects and eat the salary. He may be buy low as in sure you're not signing the guy for 10yr/150MM but he's going to cost a lot both in prospects and cash.

[seabeachfred]

Kemp is certainly not a buy low. It's going to take prospects and salary to get him. The dodgers aren't going to move someone with MVP potential for some ******** prospects and eat the salary. He may be buy low as in sure you're not signing the guy for 10yr/150MM but he's going to cost a lot both in prospects and cash.

 

Fine with me RSNC, just as long as it isn't our team and our prospects.

[marklmw]

Kemp is certainly not a buy low. It's going to take prospects and salary to get him. The dodgers aren't going to move someone with MVP potential for some ******** prospects and eat the salary. He may be buy low as in sure you're not signing the guy for 10yr/150MM but he's going to cost a lot both in prospects and cash.

You could be right or not. Depends how much cash the Dodgers will eat and how well the prospects they get in return for Kemp do. We really have no knowledge of either.

[Behindenemylines]

how can Yankees get choo when they already have surplus outfielders. ...

 

It has not stopped them before. The $pankees are like a college student with their parent's credit card on a shopping spree. If it looks good and is for sale the $pankees will buy it. They reacted the same way after 2007.

[Spudboy]

I hope that his efforts yesterday will not prove to be the norm. Yikes!

 

I'm skeptical about him because of the way he ended 2013.

 

I hope that he does not have a "dead arm" or some lingering injury.

[Spitball]

Lots of relievers are struggling early in the season. I believe Mujica pitched 6.1 innings this spring. I am not sure that was enough to prepare for the season.

[SoxSport]

Lots of relievers are struggling early in the season. I believe Mujica pitched 6.1 innings this spring. I am not sure that was enough to prepare for the season.

 

I was thinking the same. Buchholz, too. Some of these guys don't appear to be ready yet, and I wonder if the management was a bit too lax with the regulars in ST--playing a lot of minor leaguers too much--especially early. And especially the pitching. Don't the minor leaguers have their own ST games? I don't know how that works, since the media doesn't seem to cover the minor league teams in ST. No reason why the minor leaguers can't have their own ST games--some nearby?, so the management can watch them too.

 

The team just won a championship, and there is a natural tendency to relax a bit. The Red Sox always seem to start slowly, which maybe is due to their stressing of minor league players in early ST.

 

Having said that, the team has looked pretty good so far, except for a couple of bad outings by Mujica and Buchholz, which were unexpected. These guys had pitched well in ST--but we know that ST can be a mirage. You got to be pleased with most of the rest of the guys--Sizemore, JBJ, Middlebrooks, X, Nap, Pedey, etc. Lackey and Lester have looked great. Peavy, OK. Doubront holding his own. Koji unhittable again.This still looks like it could be a better team to me than last year.

Edited April 6, 2014 by SoxSport

[Station 13]

Lots of relievers are struggling early in the season. I believe Mujica pitched 6.1 innings this spring. I am not sure that was enough to prepare for the season.

 

Overreacting to 1 game meltdown by Mujica?

 

The bullpen is excellent. Taz/Koji will anchor it. Capuano already look like a win win signing.

[Spitball]

Overreacting to 1 game meltdown by Mujica?

 

The bullpen is excellent. Taz/Koji will anchor it. Capuano already look like a win win signing.

 

I'm not overreacting at all. I am just explaining why Mujica, an all-star reliever last year, had a bad outing. I do not believe 6 1/3 is a sufficient amount of innings to get ready.

[d-money]

Our bullpen will be a strenght once these guys start piling up innings

[Jacoby_Ellsbury]

If your bullpen is "piling up innings" then you're doing it wrong.

[Spitball]

If your bullpen is "piling up innings" then you're doing it wrong.

 

I guess that depends on your definition of piling up innings.

[Carter]

The Cards got rid of the Chief (as we called him) for a reason...he sucked. Set up man, closer, what's the difference? When a reliever comes in it's the FIRST INNING for him! And after the league got a good look at him he was pounded!

 

Good luck with him. Especially after mid season.

[sk7326]

The Cards got rid of the Chief (as we called him) for a reason...he sucked. Set up man, closer, what's the difference? When a reliever comes in it's the FIRST INNING for him! And after the league got a good look at him he was pounded!

 

Good luck with him. Especially after mid season.

 

All it cost was money - relievers are like disposable diapers. The Cards have changed closers like women change shoes and it has not impacted them. Bottom line, if the starters are holding their end up, this is a nonissue.

[Spudboy]

The Cards got rid of the Chief (as we called him) for a reason...he sucked. Set up man, closer, what's the difference? When a reliever comes in it's the FIRST INNING for him! And after the league got a good look at him he was pounded!

 

Good luck with him. Especially after mid season.

 

Hey Carter who is that in your avatar? Bruno San Martino?

[Carter]

Hey Carter who is that in your avatar? Bruno San Martino?

Yes. He's my look-alike. (Sammartino)

[Behindenemylines]

Our bullpen will be a strenght once these guys start piling up innings

 

Mujica has looked better the last couple of appearances. Badenhop is a different story. I would rather see Workman. For the most part the bullpen has been really good.

[SoxSport]

Rosenthal has about 4 or 5 saves this year for the Cards, but he seems to give up a run every time he pitches. It just shows how saves are stats for agents and fantasy. We'll see how long the Cards will tolerate that.

[sk7326]

Mujica has looked better the last couple of appearances. Badenhop is a different story. I would rather see Workman. For the most part the bullpen has been really good.

 

The bullpen has been just fine - no real need to get too fired up about the 5th and 6th inning guys sucking (if they do). Every team's is generally not good - and it is more of an indictment of the starters anyway.

[jacksonianmarch]

Workman is most likely going to take Buchholz' spot in the rotation should his s*** continue