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    Bard has 2.148 years of service time going into this season. They have all of this year, and then three more years where he'd be under arb control prior to his free agency. And, they can always extend him through his first couple of FA years like they did with Lester and Buchholz. And, I don't think it will take him 4 years to establish himself as a good starter. I think the team will be able to tell if he's headed that way by the end of this year, and if he's headed that way he'll achieve it by the end of year 2. He's already developed the ability to face MLB hitters and get them out, so it's not like we are talking about a pure prospect in terms of development into a good SP.
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    The jumps taken to some of the conclusions reached are quite large.
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    I think these types of bumps in the road are to be expected and should be endured for the long-term gain.
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    Excuses are one thing, and while they, and it appears even the faintest hint of one is all that it takes, might rub you the wrong way, I find it equally aggravating to see people who sit back and pass judgment when and only when they have all the facts in hindsight. It's simple to determine whether or not something played out as success or failure after the fact. It's not so simple to assign blame. Yes, there are many things current and former management people are guilty of failing at. I don't think this "situation" is one where they can reasonably be blamed.
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    I agree, with perfect 20/20 hindsight, it is absolutely a fact that the money would have been better spent on pitching. You aren't just stating that as a generic review without pointing a finger. You are being critical in hindsight of events that nobody, nobody at all in baseball, was predicting would happen. Stating they "blew it", when the "it" is a failure to accurately project Ellsbury into an MVP level player while also failing to identify that two previously capable pitchers would completely fall off a cliff in terms of performance due to both of them needing TJ surgery and resources would have been better used by getting better pitchers and putting over $20M in salary on the bench/in the BP.....well, yeah, they "blew it", but consider what you are expecting here. EDIT: This isn't an excuse. It's a question. Is it reasonable to expect foresight that is accurate to this degree?
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    I'm sorry, but this is just looking for a reason to criticize someone....for something. Entirely too critical. There is absolutely no reason anyone could have reasonably projected Ellsbury to break out to the degree that he did, not with the amount of failure to "reach their ceiling" that they experience with over 90% of their minor league prospects. Furthermore, regardless of Ellsbury's leap to MVP level play, when they signed Crawford they signed the best player available at a position of need, and pitching, at the beginning of last year, was not something they needed to address. Do you really expect them to have signed a credible starting pitcher when Beckett, Lester, Buchholz, Lackey, and Matsuzaka, with Wakefield in the BP, were all under contract? Everyone in baseball misjudged "the situation" you are creating with Ellsbury. Everyone. What made the first year of the Crawford contract detrimental to their success last year was Crawfords inability to play good baseball last year.
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    Well, it's coming from a fan of another team in the division. I think he's pretty clearly talking down the preseason front-runner (on paper). We see that here all the time from both Sox and Yankee fans.
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    Nice try to make this about the Yankees. On topic, is there anything else in the deal? Seems like a whole lot more than Forbes recent valuations.
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    I agree, and I don't think they are averse to paying market value, but they are averse to the 40% LT markup. I know I would be.
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    It didn't go unnoticed. I appreciate the gesture. And, as bad as it sounds, it could have been worse. No fistula through the rectal wall, which means this would be kind of chronic. And, in cleaning things out he didn't have to cut any sphincter muscle, which the surgeon warned was a possibility pre-op, and would mean post-op fecal incontinence. Dodged two bullets there. I'll take the pain in retrospect.
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    Thanks, Spud.
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    Thanks.
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    Other end, and yes quite undesirable. I had to have surgery on Thursday to remove a 5x5x6 cm perirectal abscess. The softer things stay the better while I heal.
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    Looks great, but I couldn't eat any of it right now, Spud. Well, maybe I could have the pie filling. I'm limited to soft foods and liquids right now.
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    How big does he get while he's immobilized? 350? 400? Let's start a pool, I say 365.
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    HGH is an anabolic agent that increases muscle mass and protein synthesis in the body. You couldn't be more wrong with this statement. The amount of moral relativism on display here is hilarious. Do all of you that absolve Pettitte of his guilt due to when substances were banned also absolve Bonds of his guilt since he did everyting prior to ban and testing too? And, does the naive acceptance of statements from the athletes about why and when they used extend to all the others too? I'd guess not.
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    He lacks the arm to play RF.
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