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Not a compensation pick.
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I didn't see Masterson on that list. Isn't that who we traded for VMart?
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Check the list of first round picks. It's not that impressive, with the exception of 2005.
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Of course they weren't the worst team in the league and they did have plenty of talented players, but they also had one of the highest payrolls in baseball and they have the highest ticket prices in baseball. I can't buy 4 tickets, 4 hot dogs and 4 sodas plus bring my dog like I can in KC and some other MLB cities. No, I have to go for my lungs to get 2 tickets and often times the seats are not side by side. For all this investment by the fans and the team, the 2011 team managed to pull off the biggest September collapse in history. No small market team has done that. Taking into consideration the investment in the. 2011 team and the high expectationsn the resulting collapse made the season something we'd all rather forget-- a collosal failure. If you want to celebrate such miserable underperformance, good for you. Many others live in the real world and acknowledge that 2011 was disastrous. Proof that things really were bad is that the FO and coaching staff has been almost entirely replaced. That doesn't happen when you have had a successful season. It happens when there is a crisis precipated by failure.
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Correction, Papelbon is a great closer, not just a very good closer. He's the best closer in team history. He's not Mo, but he did get to 200 saves faster than anyone including Mo. Anyone who thinks that letting Papelbon walk is a good idea doesn't have an adequate Appreciation of the stability he has brought to the 9th inning for the last 6 seasons.
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The managerial search is no big deal. Take your pick from a pool of idiots and dunces and find one that can handle tjhe press. It's not a critical decision. It rarely is. A new manager is not going to come to Fenway and crack the whip on a bunch of veteran stars. It ain't gonna happen. The days of Dick Williams, Leo Durocher and Billy Martin are long over. Get a FO yes man who can make out a lineup, count pitches and give some vanilla answers at the post game press conference. That's who they are looking for and that's who they will get. There are plenty of them available. It's no big deal.
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I have read that there will be no Luxury Tax limit for 2012. Is that accurate?
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... Or maybe Ellsbury has matured as a hitter and he will continue to perform at very high levels. How are you so sure that he will regress. He's just hitting his prime years. If you are going to get Beltran, that would be a big replacement bat, but he will probably be more costly than Ortiz.
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His plan subtracts the 2 most consistent bats of 2011-- Ells and Ortiz and replaces them with Kalish and Lavarnway. That would be 2 big bats departing. I didn't notice him bringing in a big replacement bat.
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For a guy who doesn't want to blow up the team, you did just that. You got rid of the team's 2 most consistent hitters- both All Stars- and replaced them with a AAA player coming off spinal neck surgery and another guy with about 12 major league AB's. This would not be an improvement. This team would be fighting with Toronto for 3rd place. What would you consider "blowing up" the team-- a real bomb? LOL!
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R.I.P. Champ.
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The precise reason why Drew was so frustrating to fans was that he was so talented, much more so than any replacement player. Due to that fact, it was upsetting that he shut himself down for extended periods of time for minor ailments. If he had played through the minor injuries, his numbers might have suffered, but he was better at 70%. Than anyone we had on the bench.
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You have to be a pretty damn good player to get 22% of the ballots in a HOF vote- not just a good player. Torre was a a star player, not just a good player. He wasn't an all time great, but he was a star.
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Ryan Westmoreland to have brain surgery
a700hitter replied to jacksonianmarch's topic in Red Sox Minor League Talk
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To be positive about the team after 2011 would constitute denial. Last off season, I was very positive about Theo and the organization. Memories are short.
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People like to focus on the bad stuff. In a performance evaluation, you can tell people 9 good things and 1 negative thing, and they always focus on the negative thing. I have criticized Theo without hesitation, but I have acknowledged his good points as well, hence a balanced grade of B minus. I will criticize Ben without hesitation too, but I have nothing against him either. So far, he's doing a great job.
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If I had a nickel for every time I called a Yankee fan an ass or told them to shut up, I'd be retired and that would be just for the times that I said it to family members. Do you really think a B minus is a terribly unfair grade for Theo?
