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  1. a700hitter
    I was excited to get him, but they apparently overpaid by $26 million over the next closest offer. That was just foolhardy and that is why his contract is the albatross that it is. No one would give him that money except a drunken sailor when he was healthy and producing. It is not the first time that Theo grossly overpaid. No other team was close to his $52 billion bid for DIce K. I think he outbid every other team by $14 million. That is astoundingly bad judgment. In the early 1990's my company submitted a sealed bid for another company. We won the bid at $200,100,000. The next closest bid was $200,000,000. That is how it should be done.
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    Yes, I have noticed the walks. He has had some outings where he will walk 2 or 3 but strike out 4 or 5.
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    Didn't know where else to post this but Mark Prior has now logged 17 1/3 innings at Pawtucket. His ERA is 3.12 and he has 30 strikeouts for a ratio of 15.5 for 9 innings. Why not bring him up. He has been going 2 innings at a clip.
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    ^ This is vastly different from the presentation the Red Sox received from Crawford's agent.
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    I'd also take it if it were being offered.
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    That would hopefully be the progression, but we'll have to see what he can do at AA next season before we start penciling him in to start at Fenway.
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    I don't disagree, but I will wait to see if he can do the same at AA before I get excited about him.
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    Barnes is 22 and hasn't dominated at any high level of the minors, so at age 23 next season, if he is the real deal, he should be dominating at least at AA. Until he does that, I reserve judgment. He hasn't proved to me that he is going to be a big time MLB stud pitcher. Right now, he is another Casey Kelly prospect from a few years back. Every projection that I read about Bogaerts is that he will not be a SS in the majors. It seems like that is the organizations plan, not mine.
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    I wouldn't either, but we are just talking about untouchable. Garza would be a bad acquisition at any price. As for our prospects, they are not all that great. We are producing zero in the was of pitching.
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    No one should be untouchable, not at the minor or major league level. They are going to have to get creative, because we have too many untradeable players. No one should be off the table.
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    If that was Cherries brilliant plan to get out from under Crawford's contract, then he is truly a jackass. The rumors were rampant that HanRam was being peddled, so did he really think that the Dodgers would not independently inquire about him. Amazing.
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    But the real problem is our pitching is completely incapable of winning games where we score less than 5 runs. An ace wins a game with a 2-0 lead. We have no ace.
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    Losing series is not the way to right the ship.
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    Back to under .500. Disgraceful.
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    It doesn't matter whether it was intentional. You can't let your players get hit in the head without sending a message back. Someone will go down today. You can count on it.
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    I find it both amusing and aggravating that the Dodgers, who were in such disarray a year ago that they were under close supervision of the Commissioner's office, are in first place and they are adding a Superstar player and looking to add to their rotation. The Red Sox, one of the premier franchises in the sport, are in last place and can't or won't add any talent to their team or make any big roster moves. I thought it was the Dodgers that were supposed to be the dysfunctional ownership group. Maybe the Red Sox should request that the commissioner be our conservator to get us back on track.
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    Yes. They had better be on their toes.
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    They won't bring up a minor league first basemen to fill in at third like the Sox did with Mauro Gomez? I don't understand. Isn't that how you run a premier franchise?
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