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  1. a700hitter
    I think the anxiety issue is overblown, and I have said that numerous times. It seems to be an issue that has been under control for several years. He continues to thrive after a couple of trades, pennant races, and he has played in a big market. Is he a special horse like CC? I don't think so, but he is a very nice arm. I'd love to get him for a contract like Gio Gonzalez got from the Nats. I would do that in a heart beat. I would not want Greinke if he is so cost prohibitive that we can't add a second pitcher, because the Sox need two pitchers, not one. I feel most strongly that two solid guys are needed. Will I be pissed when he signs elsewhere? Definitely, if he signs in the AL East.
  2. a700hitter
    What is "all out"? Years? $?
  3. a700hitter
    The track record producing good starting pitching has been thin.
  4. a700hitter
    Are you arguing with yourself again?
  5. a700hitter
    Middlebrooks and Bogaerts would be like the Jays giving up Lawrie and their top prospect. What the Jays gave up was far less. I'm not interested in rumors about why the deal fell thru. Maybe that was the Jays starting point, but I am pretty certain that it wasn't their bottom line. Cherries is going to get very skinny if every GM eats his lunch.
  6. a700hitter
    Like he was spot on about Cano getting busted for PEDs? I don't doubt that someone in the Red Sox FO fed him the info. I question whether it was true. Teams lie about that stuff all the time. I don't believe it, because the Jays settled for much less for a bigger trade. No excuses for Cherries. He needs to get deals done. I'm not interested in why they fell thru.
  7. a700hitter
    I don't buy those stories after the fact. The Jays didn't give up anything close to that haul.
  8. a700hitter
    He is zeroing in on a first base coach. The skill set for a first base coach is very critical to a team's success. He needs to be able to hold batting gloves, various types of body armor like shin guards, elbow pads etc. while still being able to work a stop watch! This is a rare breed.
  9. a700hitter
    This would be a mistake. If they don't make some sort of demonstrable moves toward improvement, people will not be filling Fenway and they will not watch the games causing ad revenue to plummet. People are not going to invest time or money in a team that is a last place team when they break camp. It would damage the value of the franchise.
  10. a700hitter
    Boston is probably a pretty hard sell after last season's debacle.
  11. a700hitter
    I am really starting to think he is a procrastinator. Before the offseason started people thought that it would be hard for the Sox to land 2 Starting pitchers. The Jays just landed 2. We should keep a tally of how many starting pitchers change teams before Ben gets one of them.
  12. a700hitter
    Hopefully we will not have to settle for an Aaron Cook and Padilla.
  13. a700hitter
    The Blue Jays got a leg up on us. There is no denying that. They improved their team. All the conjecture about how Reyes' or Buehrle's contracts will look on the back end is just Sox fan whining. The Jays got better and we have 3 catchers and we're in the hunt for a new minor league batting coach and a first base coach.
  14. a700hitter
    You could look at it that way, or you could look at Buerhle as a guy that has always been a soft thrower, but who has been a model of consistency and dependability for about 10 years. You could also look at Reyes as one of the top talents in the game who plays a premier position who has averaged 150 games played since he became a starting SS with the exception of his disastrous 2009 injury marred season.
  15. a700hitter
    The Jays didn't part with can't miss blue chip guys. In a year or two when Reyes can still play and he'll have much less on his contract, he'll still net prospects like that in return. As for Buehrle, yes he will be older, but productive lefties can usually net something in the way of prospects. To call the Red Sox approach conservative is to assume they have done something. This is the second off season in a row where their biggest need is starting pitching and they still have not made a single rotation acquisition. The off season has just begun, but the fact is that Cherries has done nothing with regard to pitching since he took the helm.
  16. a700hitter
    I'd be happy with a return to respectability. Remaining competitive and playing meaningful games through the end of August is not aiming too high.
  17. a700hitter
    I am so glad that the Red Sox didn't sacrifice any of their elite pitching prospects. You don't want to sacrifice the future. LOL!
  18. a700hitter
    In a year or two, if it doesn't work out for Toronto, Reyes and Buehrle will still have enough value to bring back prospects in a trade. I wouldn't lament the loss of the prospects for those guys.
  19. a700hitter
    Add that to Brandon Morrow, Haap, Drabeck, Alvarez and dustin McGowan and their pitching is pretty deep. Compare that to our pitching that has 4 starters -- Doubront is #4 and Lackey is coming off TJ surgery.
  20. a700hitter
    JH is a bust as a business man. He can't maintain success in any field for an extended period. I'd be surprised if he isn't pushing for a sale looking to make a financial killing.
  21. a700hitter
    And we still wait for the smart acquisitions. He is entering into his second off season, and we wait.
  22. a700hitter
    And so the excuses for Cherington begin.
  23. a700hitter
    The hill just got higher.
  24. a700hitter
    Which is less than half of what the Red Sox shed and it would have gone a long way toward fixing what was broke about the team.
  25. a700hitter
    It would have made for a very Happy Thanksgiving. Instead, we got a backup catcher.
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