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  1. a700hitter
    .710 OPS ...maybe he pops his bubblegum.
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    He's no longer a 5 tool guy, maybe a 4 to 4.5 tools. He was moving well at the end of last year and appeared to be healthy.
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    I have been calling Jeter a prima dona for years. Now, for the first time in his career he is not being coddled by the FO and press, and he is completely baffled. He is Derek Jeter and he believed that he would always be a Yankee and that the Yanks would always give him what he wanted. He has been believing his press clippings and he painted himself in a corner, because the FO knows he won't play for anyone else. Stupid move on his part. The team has him over a barrel. This contract negotiation is just act I. After he signs, he will be moved off SS at some point. That will really cause fireworks and bad feelings. He will not make that move graciously.
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    He makes a number of good points. He forgot to mention Brad Penny and Jeremy Hermida.
  5. a700hitter
    He has lost some range, but he is healthy, and he would be very motivated because he'd be playing for his next contract. I think the one year commitment to Beltran would be preferable to committing for 4 or 5 years for Werth.
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  7. a700hitter
    Exactly. He's a Yankee fan. His primary objective is to annoy.
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    I guess this is the price for being a perennial competitors?:dunno:
  10. a700hitter
    You are sounding like a Yankee fan today. Luxury tax is just additional money. Crossing the luxury tax threshold doesn't prohibit future acquisitions. It just costs money.
  11. a700hitter
    The proceeds from any MLB licensed products gets divided equally among all the teams, so if sales of MLB products in Japan went up due to the Dice K signing, KC gets the same share as the Red Sox without having made any investment. As for any other revenue streams from Japan that go to the Red Sox... well, I am still waiting for the Red Sox to disclose any information about such revenue. There ain't any. The posting fee bought an exclusive right to negotiate and absolutely nothing else.
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    Kurt Suzuki?
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    Is this Plan C? http://www.weei.com/sports/boston/this-just-in/2160789/report-red-sox-sign-drew-sutton
  15. a700hitter
    If it is irrelevant then why would you bother to compare contracts at all. Under that theory, none of the money spent is relevant. Why would it make a difference if it hit payroll? There is no salary cap. Luxury Tax would just be more money spent by billionaires, so what is the difference. $52 million in a lump sum is a huge check. It's not spread over a period of years. It's much more expensive worse than paying $52 million over six years. I can assure you that $52 million factored into their operating budget. Edit: BTW Who is acting like the Yankee fan by calling $52 million irrelevant?
  16. a700hitter
    They all stink and they are all overpaid. Those bad contracts don't make Dice K's look any better. The only one that had a good track record was Zito, but it was clear that he just could no longer throw with any velocity. The others were just different degrees of mediocrity, and those were stupid contracts, but they were about half the cost of Dice K's contract.. There is no debating the posting fee. Just because it doesn't hit payroll for luxury tax purposes doesn't mean that it isn't real money. It was a $52 million expense, for which they received nothing other than an exclusive right to negotiate. He cost them $104 million, no matter how you slice it. The posting fee is a bigger financial blunder than the salary, because Dice K's salary and the salaries of Meche, Lilly and Suppan were spread over several years making them worth much less than the $52 million lump sum posting fee paid in 2006. The time value of the money makes the posting expense even more egregiously wasteful.
  17. a700hitter
    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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  24. a700hitter
    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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