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Finally? He is 34, not 28. Tejada was a better option at only 1 year older. You think he was the best option? Overblown, maybe right.....but isn't it also possible that it was a fluke since hes had at least 5 seasons with over 400 AB's?

Nope, 35.....1 year older than Marco Scutaro right now. He also played 158 games last year and had a better year than Scutaro last year, what a geezer.

I just dont know how else to see it. I think he is a starting SS on poor teams, and utility player on good teams. He had a breakout year last year, but we arent talking about Brady Anderson 50 HR (roid) breakout seasons, or Robinson Cano .342 BA breakout seasons, or David Ortiz 31 HR season when he was given a chance to play everyday, or Jon Lester 16 win seasons......were talking about a guy who is 34 years old, who got on base last year, hit 12 HR, batted in 60 RBI and stole 14 bases. Marco Scutaro already has tremendous pressure at this moment to produce what he did last year (which was average AL production), which he wont. I guarantee, if he gets off to a slow start, this city will bury him. If Marco Scutaro produces stats that are on par with his career averages, this is a FA signing BOMB. We are expecting him to produce numbers he has shown throughout the majority of his career he cant, he is already set up to fail. Alex Gonzalez....he had nothing to prove here, we already knew what to expect of him. Anything he did with that bat was great. It was a win win deal that Theo dropped the ball on, all for pennies on the dollar.

Anyone of the ideas thrown around here on the board. Everett? Sure A Gon? Yup O Cab? why not Tejada? aging, but sure at a small deal. A 34 year old utility player, who had a breakout season, which by the way, is pedestrian to quality major league SS's.....No thanks. If hes terrible next year, we will be eating yet another contract.

The Sox already signed their utility player. Marco Scutaro......oh what? waiiiiiit a second, he was signed to be the starting shortstop? FML.

Second.

Why not, both terrible contracts. One sucked alot more than the other. Both disgusting contracts. Quite easy to put them in the same sentence actually.

The hits keep coming. Cheap ass team.......pay f***ing FA's like Lugo and Drew all the money in the world, but nickel and dime the guys who have already proved that they can play well in this city. f*** this team.

Looks like I wont be going to very many games this year. Dont want to watch a team with that salary and with those ticket prices in a year where they are doing little to improve themselves. How much will we be eating from his contract next year, seems like its the cool thing to do around here, pay shortstops to go away.

Orlando Cabrera has already said he is looking to move to 2B next year, curiously just a few days before Pedey has said he will gladly move to SS......just saying.....

Im not sure about the 33 Homers. Isnt he more of a line drive hitter? The .310/390/540 seems to be a good outcome, but I think he hits less homers and more ribbis, more like 25-28 HR with 120-125 RBI.

Awkward.....kinda like when daddy punches mommy in the face at the dinner table.

If anyone sees an article theyd like to read, let me know. I have ESPN insider and would happily copy and paste.

ESPN INSIDER ARTICLE FOR YA FREE OF CHARGE!! According to ESPN The Magazine's Buster Olney, the Doc does in fact have a list of places he'd prefer to go. His "preferred destinations are the Yankees, Red Sox, Phillies or Angels," writes Olney today. Well, convenient, we'd say, since those are the teams most likely to be able to afford the Toronto ace. According to the New York Daily News, the Yankees would be a place the Toronto ace would waive his no-trade clause for. And a price? What will it take to land Roy Halladay? Jeremy Sandler of the National Post writes today that the Jays want "a major league-ready arm and bat, both young and affordable enough to stay in Toronto a while, plus prospects." That would be a high price for a player with just one year left on his contract, even an ace right-hander like Halladay. One team that could pay that price is the Boston Red Sox. The hot rumor earlier this week had Boston spending the long Thanksgiving weekend in hot pursuit of a marquee pitcher. The New York Daily News reported that the Red Sox are "putting a full-court press" to acquire Halladay and put him in a rotation with Josh Beckett and Jon Lester. To land Halladay, Boston would likely have to give up pitcher Clay Buchholz as well as pitcher/shortstop prospect Casey Kelly. The Boston Herald reported Thursday that while the Red Sox are interested in Halladay, the Daily News overstated the team's urgency in pulling off the deal. The Herald says the Jays also are in no rush to deal Halladay. Peter Abraham of the Boston Globe adds that the Red Sox could retreat on the deal if the Jays continue to insist on Kelly. We asked Olney for his take on Wednesday, and he emailed: "In order for the Red Sox to trade for Halladay, they would almost certainly have to surrender Clay Buchholz and minor leaguer Casey Kelly," Buster says. "Buchholz has five seasons until he becomes a free agent, looks to be a very productive pitcher, and he might make $25 million over the next five seasons. Halladay will make $15 million next summer alone, and then be in line for an $60 million-$80 million type of deal as a free agent. And Kelly, like Austin Jackson, appears to have an excellent chance to have a high impact in the majors. In terms of cost-efficiency, it makes no sense for the Red Sox or the Yankees to pay a high double-barrelled cost in prospects and free-agent dollars to land Halladay."

NO WAY to a three year deal in Scutaro. We will almost certainly be eating the third year of that deal. How many contracts are we willing to eat, especially at the SS position? I feel it is somewhat embarrassing to even be discussing Nick Green. Seriously? Starting SS for the Boston Red Sox, Nick f***ing Green? Come on man, give me a break. He was a AAAA outcast before last season with no resume who had a fluke first couple of months. Bottom line, he sucks and is not starting SS material, especially for a team built with the payroll like the RedSox. Agon was the best option, that is gone and past. O Cab might be an option, however it seems like he may be more interested in playing 2B at this point in his career based on comments hes recently made. Tejada is a realistic option, he doesnt have the same long ball pop, but he can still rake, and Fenway is much more friendly than Houston. If Nick Green is the starting SS for next season, the FO is pretty much showing us that the writing is on the walls, that the season is a lost one due to a poor FA class, and I wont be spending any money on Sox tickets next year after they just rose ticket prices AGAIN.

We already had that option. Alex Gonzalez. It seems that once again, the FO dropped the ball on SS, and we will enter yet another year with a s***** SS>

I love him as a player. Manny produced at the plate, almost better than anyone...and they couldnt wait to get rid of the guy. I dont think Miggy is a fit with the FO, regardless of what he produces. Does it limit them as to what they acquire? Yes, but the FO is willing to deal with that as they have already shown.

Also agree. The redsox didnt want to deal with Lowe and his off field antics, Orlando Cabrera and his off the field antics and rid themselves of Manny Ramirez....possibly the greatest hitter of this ERA. Miggy is too immature for this type of a city and the media would eat up his off the field escapades.

Don't kill the messenger, just something that I have heard. BTW, if you look at my post, you will see that I also do not agree with it, just posting what I saw and how I felt about it.

I am hearing that the Sox have offered Hideki Matsui a multi-year deal, I am sure this is pretty much common knowledge at this point. Here is the question, if he were to accept the deal, does this mean we no longer pursure Bay/Holliday? I am sorry, but if this is the replacement I am going to puke. Sure he is a nice player, but if we sign Matsui over Bay, then we are getting less production from that defensive spot and taking a step backwards. If we do sign Matsui, then we better be looking to improve another position significantly. Other positions to improve are SS/3B assuming we think that Lowell can no longer shoulder the duties of starting 3B throughout the season (although we could keep him in a more limited role, whether it be spelling Ortiz/getting some AB's as a 1B/Pinch hitting). There is not much out there in terms of a SS unless we want to throw a blockbuster at FLO for Hanley (not likely). Catcher has been improved simply by removing Varitek from the lineup. I hope that Theo isnt looking at V-Mart + Matsui as [= or >] than Varitek + Bay. Is it an improvement? maybe....it does stretch out the lineup a little more.....but I still want an impact bat, whoever it may be.

And a little tacky to have anyone wearing a "C" on a baseball jersey. I cant believe Varitek actually allowed them to put the "C" there, let alone continue to wear it year in and year out. It was a nice little story, Varitek resigning.....named team captain....yayyyy what a wonderful little homecoming. The "C" on the jersey? Ughhhhh. A captain, is someone the team looks up to, and leads from behind closed doors within the organization. Someone who bites the bullet and answers the medias harshest questions/comments (ala Mo Vaughn, nobody covered for their teammates better) A "C" on the jersey is just ridiculous eye-candy. The only sport which sports C on the jersey that doesnt cause vomit inducing symptoms is Hockey. Even as of late Ive noticed that football has their own little system of denoting "captain" by their series of stars where the "C" would be. I think a baseball team needs a captain, just like everything else, there is rank and respect. I just dont think the whole world needs to know who that person is on the Sox.