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If the goal is to have AGon at first in 2012, they will not go long on Beltre. As for the presumption that Ortiz will be gone in 2012, that won't happen if he hits 35 bombs with 100+ RBI. If the bullpen fence is coming in, he could hit those marks, and they'll give him another one year contract.
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If the plan is for Lowrie to start at SS, they had better get a very good back up. The guy's durability is questionable. Until he is healthy for an entire season, I don't think they can give him a starting position. I don't see the Sox trading Scutaro and handing the job to Lowrie at the start of 2011.
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...and Mo on the Yankees helps the Red Sox ... how?
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I could live with that. Add a couple of bullpen pieces and the team would be the beast of the east.
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lol!!!
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They'd have to blow the Yankee offer out of the water to get Jeter to consider it. They are already offering 3/$45 million. Sox might have to go to 4/$66 million. I don't see it happening. If he could still perform offensively, I'd support it, but he looked bad last season.
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I think your package could be a winner for Az. I'm not that high on Upton, because he like his brother seems to be struggling a bit to raise his game to the next level-- star level. I am concerned that he doesn't get there. According to every scout, the potential is there, so I'd be willing to part with the package you are suggesting. They should all be good major leaguers, but none of them are irreplaceable in the organization.
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I agree with your assessment. I don't like moving a major league arm like bard either, and I'm not crazy about moving Ellsbury either. His value is too low right now. I like the packages you proposed. My main reservation about Upton is whether he has the same attitude as his brother. We don't need that headache. Thanks for sharing.
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Seriously Example, your opinion is as valid as anyone else here, and you are very knowledgeable about the game and the Red Sox organization, so why do you defer to what the FO will do? Yes, they should know better than us, but sometimes they are wrong and we're right. We are allowed to disagree with them. They will not revoke our Red Sox Nation memberships.
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No system would be perfect, and you asked me for a systematic approach that would work 100% of the time. No such system exists when evaluating talent, and I think you have intelligence enough to know that. The system the Sox are employing in the Theo years is not yielding results that are as good as that of many other teams-- that being the measure of performance. Litmus test? Edit: BTW my argument was based in fact. It was perfectly logical and consistent. Everyone else was all over the map trying to argue with the infallible one and failing, hence the name-calling and personal attacks against me commenced. As for this issue. Stop being such a [ATTACH]719[/ATTACH] and offer your own opinion of one of the packages being rumored.
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I thought Theo was hot for Felix and he was a perfect fit for the Red Sox? What the hell happened?
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Werner says 2011 will not be a bridge year. Glad to hear that. He also acknowledged that Theo made a mistake (hmmm someone hols him accountable for something) when he said 2010 would be a bridge year. If he was honest, he would have called 2010 an organizational botch job. http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/extras/extra_bases/2010/11/werner_blows_up.html
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There are times when certain moves can portend of bad things to come in a season. In 2008, it was a good thing for Sox fans and a bad thing for Yankee fans when the Yanks opened the season with two rookies in the starting rotation. It was a sign to me that the Yankees were just rolling the dice on the season, and two rookie pitchers in the AL East were bound to go down in flames. I almost never stick a fork in the Yankees until they are mathematically eliminated, but in 2008 I stuck a fork in them by mid-May. Last year, I would have deemed it a throw away season if Casey Kotchman had been the Sox everyday first baseman. I feel the same way about Salty being the Sox 2011 starting catcher. If that happens, make vacation plans for early October, because we will not be watching the Sox in the playoffs. It's not even Thanksgiving, but I am making that call right now. If anyone accuses me of hindsight on this next October, I will find you, kidnap you and have this post tattooed on your chest.
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Catching everyday in Texas after June is really grueling. Not everyone is an iron man like Pudge. Catching in Texas has to take a huge physical toll.
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Everyone fails occasionally. That doesn't mean the failure is just the whim of fate. There is still accountability for the failure. What don't you get about that? Just because no one can succeed 100% of the time doesn't equate with lack of responsibility for failure when it occurs. Did you get 100's on all of your tests in your life. When you did get less than 100%, the explanation wasn't bad luck.
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Why don't I just tell you my thoughts on how to construct a team that never loses. It can't be done, just like there is no formula to guarantee a good bullpen. Just because there are no guarantees for continual success in any aspect of life doesn't mean that performance can't be evaluated. While no GMs' record is spotless with regard to bullpens, Theo has had a spottier record than many other GMs, IMO.
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You disagree with Theo on this? So do I, but I am hoping that it is just negotiation posturing. Last year Tito said that he would be comfortable with Kotchman playing 1B everyday, and then he was traded.
