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Why would they get a second basemen if they have a 2nd base prospect coming up who looks so promising?

I think pujols will win it.

I don't think you can average 200 K's a year, seeing as i think thats the all time record for strike outs by a batter in a single season, and i do think that record is held by dunn, but alittle protection always helps a guys k rate out and he doesnt get a ton of that in cinci. his protection doesnt suck, but its not great.

I hope he does go to another team, i love him but i dont like paying top dollar for a 32 or 33 year old guy who is going to want a lot of years with no trade etc. and has scott boras. So, I don't know, I wouldn't mind seeing a new face out in center, but I'm keeping my I found Jesus at Fenway shirt.

MAnny doesn't have the kind of walk offs and game tying hits that Ortiz has, and I don't think manny was ever in any MVP discussions until about the last day of the season. It's always been Ortiz, Manny struggled to much early but had a great second half.

Willis has been the most consistent pitcher in the NL and should win it. Carpenter stopped throwing between his starts in september so he could stay healthy in the playoffs and he didn't pitch well all september. Willis has a better ERA, just as many shutouts and more wins, I don't know what the K's are like off the top of my head but if willis is anywhere near carpenter or better you have to give it to him.

Santana or Rivera, I don't think colon had cy young numbers. I just wasn't impressed with anything he did. He had a good season yeah, but I wouldn't call it great. Santana led the ML in strike outs and had something like a 1.60 era in the second half, come on, he is leaps and bounds more impressive, who cares about win total, 15 wins is good and on a third place team? 15 is nice. I'm sorry, I'm just not willing to conceed a cy young to a guy with a 3.50 ERA and 150 K's. Especially when Rivera and Santana were flat out better then he was.

No, papelbon wont start a game because hes pitched too many innings this season and they're not going to over work a rookie. It isn't gonna happen. Have to wait till next year for that one. BTW, is dinardo on the roster? That is a guy who i would really like to see pitch. He has impressive stuff and good location, and I'd rather see him pitch then clement. Without a doubt. I think dinardos worse can't be any worse then clements and dinardo has more upside since he isn't a wild head case.

I hope delcarmen makes it instead of hansen because hansen is dropping his arm angle, and i want them to kind of baby him this season. Im afraid hes gonna get over worked and not be the same. Delcarmen for the playoffs!!!

Why is everyone making out A-rod to be this great 3rd basemen all of a sudden? He makes a good enough third basemen, but he's no Scot Rolen. Hes just about average. He more then likely won't win the Gold Glove, but thats not for certain since gold gloves have a lot to do with offense no a days, other wise guys like orlando hudson, bill mueller, and adam everett would have won them by now. Hes OK, not "amazing" but OK. Being OK is a big deal for him simply because he isn't a third basemen, so for a short stop to become an average fielding third basemen, its a big deal, but hes no gold glover. Now about that MVP stuff My interpretation of the MVP is a player whose hitting (or pitching on rare occasions) attributed most to their teams success (limited, or great success, i don't mean just division winning teams). It doesn't matter to me who hit the most homeruns, or had the best average, or the most total bases, or RBI's it matters when they happened and what they did for a team. If Manny Ramirez hit 50 HR's this year with 150 RBI's and .320 average, but did it during garbage time, he wouldn't deserve the MVP, Ortiz would still be the guy. I think ortiz is the guy, I think take him out of the sox lineup and you have a sorry excuse for a team, I think he makes things happen, hes a catalyst on this team, and A-rod isn't even the MVP on his team. I hope the writers see that, I hope they can pick out that although a-rod hit ok in the clutch, he was somewhat a garbage time hitter, somewhat , but not totally. And I hope they see that Sheff is more of an MVP then A-rod is. Ortiz should win this award, don't got putting up a fight for a-rod just because he's a yankee and you're a yankee fan, this award has nothing to do with your team, it's an individual award based on what a player did for their team. Ortiz did the most for his team, he deserves to win it. I don't think he will, but he deserves it.

fairly weak? I don't think they're fairly weak at all.

I think its safe to say that the yankees are the ones who need to take the first two to have a chance, I like the angels in a 1 - 1 series cause of their pen and rotation to go with a pretty nice offense. I think the angels are the AL favorites to go to the WS as it stands right now.

I don't think they have a big advantage in game one, the sox kill contreras, i think he'll get lit up, and i am optimistic about clement still.

they had a good season. they're going to be in the playoffs and have the potential to make some noise in the playoffs, leave it at that

Millar is a good ball player, he has value. I do like him on the sox, do I like him starting more frequently then olerud? No. Do I think he lost us this game? No. Even if olerud does turn that double play, don't trick yourself into thinking that that would win us the game. Wake still gave up more bombs then the sox could recover from, and the bats just never really exploded. We're still in it, 3 out of 4 scenarios right now have the sox winning the wild card. I think we'll see something nice from schilling tonight, and give us some good karma going into the series against chicago. If we win, we're in, if we lose and clevland loses, we're in, if we lose and they win, we play tomorrow. Everyone calm yo' self. I'm already looking forward to next season anyways, a full season of craig hansen manny delcarmen and jon papelbon the starter, probably jon lester and pedroia in there somewhere too, its going to be a good time.

yeah, im doing a league too, i already have 7 people in it, if anyone wants to join let me know.

"... And last time I checked, they still have Tom Brady, and quite frankly, thats all you need." - Stephen A. Smith

Hansen, Papelbon, Ian Bladergroen. Sorry, had to name a few more.

about the one day contract, in the MLB you dont have to sign a one day contract to go into the hall as a member of that team. Thats just the NFL. I miss nomar, but dont keep looking in the past, hanley is the future, renteria is the present, nomar just isnt a part of the equation it wasnt mean to be,.

Not wake ever, at least not now, and not miller when hes healthy, but yeah, i take wang over arroyo. He is a good pitcher, you don't have to be a strike out pitcher to be effective ala greg maddux, mariano rivera, and pre - pinstripes kevin brown.

nothing racist about saying you dont trust cuban defectors, its kind of true, why dont think come up through the ropes like everyone else instead of trying to skip steps to get to the majors? its just one of those things.

i dont blame francona for staying away from papelbon, i actually would like to see him get shut down. In his last two appearences his fastball has been 91-93 and hes over the innings that they wanted him to pitch for the whole season already. I wouldn't go to him again this season even if he is better then timlin. I think hansen would have been ok, i think that harville would have been alright too, but i dont think you can risk putting timlin in with runners on, cause then he lets one score and he falls apart and loses his confidence on the hill. Its just not a good idea. I do think that lou pinella is a great manager, and terry francona is very middle of the road. I Would rather have pinella, you'd be crazy not to. Francona can not handle a pitching staff and i dont think he is the right guy to be running a team that hes going to be going through a youth movement the next few years because he doesnt trust the "kids" as he calls them. I definetly hope he is gone next year because i dont want to see papelbon sitting, or youkilis sitting, or hansen either. I want to see those guys thrown into the mix, i want to see delcarmen log a lot of innings next season, i want to see lenny dinardo get a chance, I hope lester can come up and be great. I dont see francona letting any of that happen. Hes not a players manager, hes a veterans manager, and thats not the kind of guy you want at the helm if you going to have a lot of "kids" coming up from the farm system

any player who comes up into the majors through your organizations farm system is considered home grown talent, end of story. this is a horrible topic to even talk about, its just what it is, he is homegrown because we drafted him, the fact that he is a freak of nature and could pitch really and didnt need much time to grow doesnt mean he isnt considered homegrown, but besides, as of right now, he is a career red sox player, and no one else can claim credit for him except the red sox, and who does he pitch for and who will he pitch for for at least the next four years? the red sox.

That is how you hit in the major league. Guess hitting, following a 95 mph fastball with your eyes without any idea of where its going is a talent most major leaguers don't have.

A-rod is less clutch then ortiz, cause ortiz is mr.clutch. He scares the hell out of the yankees organization and he is the biggest bargain in sox history. He will win MVP, and if he doesn't its because he was a DH and thats the only reason, this past week watching him play, i really think he deserves this award more then A-rod because he is carrying this team right now. A-rod might finish with 48 homers and ortiz might get 46, arod might back .310 and ortiz might bat .290 ortiz will get him in RBI's but even if he didn't he has been more of a force for this team then a-rod has on his. I don't even think he is the MVP of his team to be honest, it hurts me to say this, but I think Giambi might be the MVP of that team he has a collection of clutch hits, or Mo, just because hes a god. Seriously, Ortiz deserves this award, put your yankee fandom aside and your red sox fandom aside and think about who really deserves this award and I think Ortiz should get it. Either him or Raffy Palmiero, you know.