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Good point. Breslow is making almost $2 million and he is arb eligible.

I thought Morales was going to piggyback on Doubs when he reached his innings limit? Who will take his spot now and who will step in for Morales who will be limited in innings? Morales has already thrown more innings than he has in a 7 year major league career.

I like Breslow, but everyone else is getting guys for $1 store rejects. We gave up a guy from our roster that has been doing pretty well. If they had to give a guy from the major league roster why not part with the 8.59 ERA of Melancon?

Albers #'s are better than Breslow's. WTF did we add?

For the sake of accuracy I have corrected Cafardo's tweet.

What a dope.

They say Cliff Lee is available. Also, Dempster can't cost much at all. Are you seeing what teams are giving up in return? Nothing earth shattering. There are no Will Middlebrooks type names getting exchanged.

And Cherries is getting very confused: "What do I do!! What do I do!!"

The Dodgers will not miss either one of the guys that they gave up. And the Red Sox aggressive move is...?

It's just spin to keep the Kool Aid drinkers thirsty.

The Dodgers are really wheeling and dealing. They have already added HanRam, Brandon League, and they are making efforts to get Victorino and Dempster too. That is a pretty good makeover. We will get someone like Randy Wolf or worse.

All the good deals pass by Cherries. He seems very indecisive.

Wow, this some chronicle of failure. Branch Rickey used to say that it was better to trade a player too early than to late. Players do change, skills deteriorate and they need to adapt. Coaches, managers and other players know when a guy has lost a few clicks off his fastball. Beckett has lost a few, and they ain't coming back. He may transition into a different type of pitcher, but Beckett as a hard thrower is history. Lester seems to be headed down a similar path as his velocity has been clicking down for the last 2 years and it is reflected in his decreasing strikeout numbers. Alarmingly, Lester is showing less of an ability to adjust to his diminishing skills than Beckett. It may be time to move him in the off season. Expecting players to perform up to career norms is part of the folly of sabremetrics. I think that it is more true that players who are performing above career norms will regress to those norms, but not the other way around. As for the chronicling of the signings of injured players, it really does lay bare the incompetence of the FO. As you point out, Lackey's elbow problems were known. He was a TJ surgery in waiting. Carl Crawford's wrist problems had been ongoing for a few years. How do you invest $142 million in a guys and not know this. If you buy an expensive used car, you test drive it, take it to your mechanic to be checked, and you get a copy of the damn Car Fax. They either didn't get the Car Fax on Crawford or they didn't care about the recurring wrist pain. As for AGon, that was truly drunken sailor stupid. They threw a boatload of money at a guy with a bad shoulder that had just been operated. I was thrilled when they got him, but I was really concerned when I read that he had just had shoulder surgery. He is getting power hitter money. 25 HRs, and he will probably not reach that this season, is a dime a dozen for first baseman. They could get 30 or so HRs from LaRoche for about 20% of the cost of Gonzo. Performing at a high .700 OPS (where he is now) or a low .800 OPS is not worth $22 million/yr.

It could be about Ortiz's heel. That's much more concerning.

The idiot punched a door and might have broken his hand. It will be tough to trade him now.

We just won our third in a row, so why are you furious?

There were a lot of guys that I would have preferred: Kuroda, Jackson and Gio. They were all good values, and the first two were available late into the off season.

He was pretty good. In 1972, I think he got overused and blew out his arm. He was never the same again, but it gave Tiant the opportunity to start and he threw 6 shutouts in something like 14 starts. Wow!!

Why do so many people act like he was the only pitcher who changed teams this off season. He was just the last one available, and now we know why. Many others changed teams that would have upgraded our rotation.

The little guy is making things happen.

Randy Johnson was a sour puss prick and so was Steve Carlton and on and on, but you don't kick them off your team for their attitude.