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Can he sign elsewhere if he accepts arbitration?
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He has a good shot of getting $15 million for 2012. Unless he falls flat on his face or gets injured, he'll do better than $5 miilon for 2013.. Hell we pay Jenks more than that. There is no way 2/$20 million gets it done.
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I don't think Bailey's price will be that high. He is arbitration eligible and he is a TJ ticking time bomb. Getting him would be very risky.
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What do you think it would take to get Gio Gonzalez and Bailey from the A's?
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If Bard moves to the rotation, KRod is a possibility for closer. His still just 29 years old. He turns 30 in January. The problem is that he probably will not be much cheaper than Papelbon.
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That is some serious dough.
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Bill Buckner will return to Boston as a coach?
a700hitter replied to SCM33's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Every one is entitled to their own opinion on this, but losing night after night for a month and feeling hopeless every night losing a 9 game lead was worse for me. The Buckner thing was like finding out that a loved one had died suddenly, but 2011 was like watching them die slowly. I literally had a headache for the whole month of September starting at around 5 pm every night until I went to bed. -
I love his stuff, but hate his elbow.
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It sounds like my next career.
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BTW I absolutely hate Luis Ayala. The guy sucks at any price more than the minimum and his role would have to be the 7th guy out of the pen.
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1 million? Incentives?
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Ortiz will have to decide what gives him better leverage accepting or declining arb. If he accepts, he is Sox property for 2012 at probably $14 million or more. This would give him leverage in a 2 year deal if he wants a reduced rate of 2/20 or something like that. I believe he can agree to a deal with the team prior to the arb hearing and it can be a multi-year deal. If he declines arb, he can try to exert pressure using the offers in hand from other teams, but the Sox may not want him for the price, plus they get draft picks if he leaves. I think he has less leverage if he declines... much less.
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I'm not so sure Zumaya will be as cheap as you might hope. Is he worth the risk for $3 million or more?
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If he accepts arbitration, they could still do a 2 year deal... right? His decision to accept or decline the arb isn't relevant to whether they sign him to a multi year deal right?
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I like to call that approach dumpster diving, and you are right to be concerned, because it almost never works out well.
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From what I am reading, it seems like they are saying that they are confident that they will sign him to a 2 yr deal on the condition that he declines arbitration. I am not sure why they would want that condition. :dunno:
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They'd have to roll the dice with bard and Aceves as starters and try to build an entire bullpen on the cheap. Also, if they convert both Bard and Aceves to starters, they will have no depth in the rotation. Who would be the emergency or spot starter? It would take some skill by the GM and the manager to put together and manager a whole new pen.
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The Bard to the rotation possibility seems to be under serious consideration and it also seems to be Bard's preference. When Gammons raised it during the season as a possibility going forward, many scoffed at the idea. Based on what BC has said, the team and Bard may not be on the same page on this. Losing the who back end of the bullpen would be a huge blow, but Bard would be an enormous upgrade over Wakefield. That would still leave 1 rotation spot to be determined, and if that final spot goes to Aceves, the entire bullpen would have to be built from the ground up. That ain't gonna be easy.
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I didn't realize that it was a serious theory.
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His legacy may be that we are screwed over for a few years.
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Bill Buckner will return to Boston as a coach?
a700hitter replied to SCM33's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Blowing the '86 Series was only 2 games. It was excruciatingly painful, because the Sox hadn't won a World Series in 68 years and they were 1 strike away, but it was two games. The Mets were prohibitive favorites going into that series and rightly so, because they were the much better team. The 2011 collapse was night after night of futility after being the best team in the league for months. A month of suffering vs 2 games. Everyone has their opinion, but I lived through both fiascos, and 2011 was worse for me. I had a headache for an entire month. -
It's a myth like Bigfoot, the Abominable Snowman, the and the Loch Ness Monster. Maybe the reason that they didn't lock down the compensation before they granted permission to talk to Theo was that it was more important to the Sox owners that Theo leave.
