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He was running the show. We have a bloated MLB payroll and the team is poorly constructed. There was apparently little thought about the role that CC would play. The minor leagues is bereft of any talent that can help the big club for several years.

That's some screwball stuff. Adults in a business environment should have been able to iron out those differences. The babies in baseball never cease to surprise me.

4. Doubront 5. Iglesias 6. Anderson 7. Britton This is horrible. Doubront is almost to the point where he will fall out of prospect status. Iglesias still can't hit the side of a barn with a paddle. Anderson? Are you kidding? Britton? Didn't he have a Lackey type season in A ball. That doesn't bode well at all. Our system is weak. If we could load all 4 of these guys into a trade package fo a decent player, we should be grateful.

If you had run him down, you would have been a bigger pariah in New England than Bartman had been in Chicago.

I still don't understand what happened with this guy last year. He was doing extremely well in the minors, but we didn't bring him up even though our pen was garbage.

Welcome to TalkSox.

SpudBoy almost ran over Nomar once. Does that count?

Fenway prior to it's building up behind home plate was very reminiscent of Ebbetts Field for my dad. The first time I went there with my dad was in the early '70's. It was the closeness of the action and the neighborhood feel, and the walking to a ballpark by the fans.

They still need a RH OFer, even though it is not as crucial as the need for pitching. Which RH OFerdo you like?

Other RH OF choices are Andruw Jones, Gomes, and Burrell.

I am even cheaper than Wakefield and i can't get anyone out either. I don't think they should sign me or Wakefield.

I saw Lowrie in the first year he was invited to Spring Training, and his swing impressed me from the very beginning. I still think he would be a very good offensive middle infielder, but he just can't stay on the field. He's never going to set any iron man records.

Ross wouldn't be a terrible choice for a platoon OFer to share time with Kalish or Reddick.

After a story like this appears in the press is when the Yankees are the most dangerous. They are probably waiting for Kuroda and the Sox to exchange figures, and then they will swoop in and give him his asking price or something very close to it.

Welcome to TalkSox, eh.

I wasn't opposed to the idea of Bard being a starter if they had kept Papelbon or replaced Papelbon with an established closer. As the roster is currently constructed, I'd prefer that Bard goes back to the pen, but that could change based on their future moves.

If the quote below is your explanation for saying the my contributions to the thread were "intended to be obnoxious", not only is it gibberish, but it is based on a false premise that I have admitted to knowing nothing about the Red Sox prospects. I have never made any such any such admission. Even if I had made such an admission, saying that my contributions were "intended to be obnoxious" is not an insult? Really?

... and you could have let it all drop after my responding comment said only "nice baseball discussion." I was giving it a pass after being called stupid and obnoxious, but you couldn't even let that go . How petty.

Kalish, who had significant MLB time in 2010, has tools -- really good speed, a very strong arm and a fearlessness in the OF. The fearless outfield play cost him 2011. His neck operation is nothing to trifle about. Hopefully, he will be fully healthy to start the season. I've always liked Reddick's arm and live bat. In 2010, he tore the cover off everything in Spring Training, but consistency has been his problem and that is the difference beween the AAAA player and the major leaguer. He definitely has major league tools to be a good everyday outfielder, but I don't know if he can go to the next step and be consistent. You can't see that at Spring Training. The other thing that you can't judge from Spring Training is heart. Pedroia has very average tools, and he is so small. When I saw him in 2006, I could never have predicted that he would be such a dynamo. Last year, no one really impressed me at Spring Training. That was partly because there weren't a lot of kids in the system that were very impressive at the camp, and in part, because i was pretty distracted last Spring Training. My brother and I had buried our dad about 5 weeks prior to getting to Ft. Myers and the 3rd day into our trip my brother got pneumonia and congestive heart failure. It was a pretty stunning and numbing sequence of events. This year he is healthy and we are really looking forward to the annual trip. I hope to see a lot of the kids that we have discussed on these boards and i will share my sights.