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  1. a700hitter
    You should try arguing with yourself. You were comparing him to Pedro when his ERA is 4.16 for the year. A stretch of games is not enough to compare any pitcher to Pedro.
  2. a700hitter
    I agree
  3. a700hitter
    Nava is a good kid with an obvious love for the game, but I hope that I never have to see him in a Sox uni for a game at Fenway.
  4. a700hitter
    We have made big money mistakes for many years-- much worse than the Yankees.
  5. a700hitter
    Unfortunately, if we sign him, he will not be batting against our pitching. I'm not happy to hand Tazawa the 8th inning job. I say get another late inning quality arm like one of the guys you mentioned and let Tazawa win the 8th inning slot like Robertson did with the Yankees. A quality late inning arm is a need, not a luxury.
  6. a700hitter
    In a period of inflationary salary costs, I don't see teams being anxious to part with cost controlled players unless they are getting a very big haul of prospects. Hopefully, they resist the urge to trade for a high cost guy like the AGon trade. They gave up good prospects and they still paid $156 million. That was just crazy. The trype of high priced guys for which I'd trade a package of top prospects would be a guy like King Felix. Also, I have seen this ******** two-step dance move from generations of Red Sox FO's. They start planting stories early about how this crop of FA's will be over-valued. They wait for 1 or 2 of them to sign and then you get the planted articles about how the signing salaries have been much higher than anticipated and not in line with players' values. Then we sit back and watch them doi nothing and we argue about whether that is the right move. Picking up some under the radar guys and some trash heap guys will not get us out of 4 th place. I will go beserk if they go down that ******** path once again.
  7. a700hitter
    I've always liked Napoli. I am just not sure that 1B is a high priority. I think they may give Gomez a shot to play first with an inexpensive platoon guy to share the position in case Gomez blows up. Pitching (2 starters) is the top priority. The next priority is a quality bullpen arm for the late innings that is capable of closing. Obtain an OFer to play LF. Retain Pods or Kalish to be the #4 OF guy. SS-- it' s sink or swim time for Iglesias. Ciriaco will be the IF utility guy. Retain Ross and Ortiz. I think that woud be a competitive team.
  8. a700hitter
    You are such an ageist. Napoli would be a great addition. I am not sure that he would be a high priority, but he'd be a very nice addition even at the ripe old age of 30. You should be ashamed of yourself with your attitudes towards age.
  9. a700hitter
    No, but it is whiny. Giants fans don't whine, because our team eats the Patriots lunch.
  10. a700hitter
    Another inexperienced baseball operations guy. Who cares.
  11. a700hitter
    We can dream, but I will not believe that until i see it.
  12. a700hitter
    I'd give them Bradley, Barnes and De La Rosa and never look back. I am not convinced that any of our pitching prospects will ever amount to anything other than bottom of the rotation pitchers.
  13. a700hitter
    Hmmm, I guess they are prepping us for an uneventful off season with lots of whining about how the FA's are over-priced yada yada yada. I'm not freakin interested in their excuses.
  14. a700hitter
    Yankee fans don't whine as much. In general, New Englanders are more whiny than New Yorkers.
  15. a700hitter
    He's not sheerly and utterly dominating in your opinion?
  16. a700hitter
    I didn't say that it was. You are such an ornery person that it is difficult to even agree with you.
  17. a700hitter
    I'd prefer that the FO put money into the product on the field, but they might as well have had a few chimps running the place the last 3 years or so.
  18. a700hitter
    Nit entitled. They are just whiny. It is a New England characteristic. When their teams were non-factors, they just whined incessantly about the weather.
  19. a700hitter
    I know. SFF, I wasn't directing the whining comment at you, but at Red Sox fans in general. When we are getting our clocks cleaned too many people have a knee-jerk reaction of complaining about Yankee money. We at TalkSox should institute a prohibition against such whining along with the soon to be government imposed prohibition against disparaging the Prophet Muhammad.
  20. a700hitter
    There is no sense whining about Yankee money when the Sox have plenty of money to compete with and beat the Yankees. Instead, we are trailing them by 25 freaking games and we have won the division 1 time. Money was not the reason for any of this. The Yankees are a flat out better organization from top to bottom in their baseball operations. The Red Sox have a superior marketing department. They nee desperately to improve their baseball operations.
  21. a700hitter
    If you would be fine with him as your #1, what would the rest of the rotation look like?
  22. a700hitter
    I really wouldn't mind him being the 4th or 5th OFer. He is good defensively and he can run and steal a base. He has a good arm too. However, I don't think they will keep him on the roster as a backup. They probably will not think it is best for his development. If he makes the roster, it will probably be as a starter. In that case, I agree with SCM. We'd be screwed, because it would mean that the FO did very little to upgrade the roster.
  23. a700hitter
    You are not excluding the end, but you are excluding the first two months. Maybe that was a blip in his career. We will see. Like I said, he is solid. I don't know if I would call him a dominant pitcher. You put up the thread. Where do you stand? Would you be comfortable next season with Buchholz as the number 1 and Lester number 2. Who would round out that rotation ...Lackey Doubront and Morales? BTW: If you excluded Verlander's and King Felix's worst 2 months there ERA's would be minuscule.
  24. a700hitter
    He didn't do that over the course of the season. He pitched to a low 4's ERA. Pedro would throw himself off a cliff out of shame and humiliation if he put up those numbers. 4.16 is solid but not "utterly dominant" Calling it "utterly dominant", my friend is utterly absurd.
  25. a700hitter
    He started very poorly for a two month period. His last 8 starts have been very mediocre so it looks like his finish will be mediocre. He was excellent in the middle months, but the season should be looked at in the totality. You can't exclude the beginning or the end. He is what he did over the whole season. A guy with a 4.16 ERA is not "sheer(ly) and utterly dominant." That's just ridiculous.
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