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  1. a700hitter
    Why would Soriano sign for less than Papelbon would get in arbitration after he had a much better year than Papelbon?
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    Kilo should get a game misconduct for being the 3rd man in.
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    I don't think you can get those three guys for Papelbon's money.
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    I'm not seeing that. We could get those other guys and keep Papelbon. That's how I would chose to improve the pen. If Paps gets subtracted from an already stinky bullpen, the FO would really have its work cut out for it.
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    What about answering the second question:
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    No other pitcher could have done better for the bargain price of $102 million? I think it might have been possible to find an adequate replacement for a bit less.
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    I knew their bullpen was in trouble from the beginning. The fact that they came north with Schoenweiss in the bullpen and that he pitched meaningful innings was a true danger sign. That guy stinks. I was very vocal about that. The second danger sign was that they resigned Embree in hopes that he could be the second lefty in the pen. Those were two very bad signs. I was hoping that they would make moves to improve and build the pen as the season went along, but those moves never came. Now go ahead and ask me what moves I would have made, as if I could prove that any of those moves were possible.
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    Is it your belief that our bullpen was good enough to make the playoffs had it not been for the injuries? Is it also your belief that a better bullpen (as good as the Yanks or Rays) could not have gotten us to the playoffs despite the injuries?
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    These guys are better than Papelbon? grant balfour dan wheeler takashi saito kerry wood Seriously?
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    So, then we don't need to upgrade the bullpen for next season since our guys will all be healthy?
  15. a700hitter
    This is the kind of discussion that I was hoping to get. It's obvious that they have been doing some things better than the Sox, because they have finished better than us in 2 of the last 3 seasons. They have a winning regular season record against of us during that period too. They didn't get there just on luck or because of our bad luck.
  16. a700hitter
    But the Yankees get the same $3 million that the Red Sox get. We paid the posting fee for no additional income stream. If some other team won the bid, we'd still be getting the $3 million/year.
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    Yes, because if they had put together a good bullpen, they would have made the playoffs despite the injuries. The injuries together with the terrible bullpen were insurmountable. If we have one without the other, they go to the playoffs. They are not responsible for injuries, but they are responsible for the bullpen. If you disagree, then they can have an easy off season and just wait for the players to get healthy without making any moves and they should be fine in 2011.
  19. a700hitter
    Wrong again. I am just discussing the FO performance. They have also been outperformed by the Rays IMO and they don't have anywhere near the spending power of the Sox. It's not the spending power that concerns me. I don't think they have used their resources as well as the Yankees or the Rays in the last few years.
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    The $50 million posting fee wasn't real money? How many hats did we sell in Japan to pay that off? Or did it give us easier access to big talents like Junichi Tazawa? Dice K was a bust-- a waste of money. Until the FO dscloses some sort of meaningful revenue stream from Japan, I will continue to believe that we got nothing for the posting fee. We got the exclusive right to negotiate. We didn't get an exclusive right to market... did we? Dice K's Japaneses team is the only team to make anything on that part of the transaction. You are asking me to calm down? Go s*** some D***. Nothing personal...right?
  22. a700hitter
    More than they have now. Would they have won more games than they have now if the bullpen was as good as the Yanks bullpen or the Rays bullpen?
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    In your follow up post, you asked why I was "sucking Yankee dick". I don't know how to take that other than personally.
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  25. a700hitter
    What FA relievers are available that would be an uprade over Papelbon? And what about the bunch of clowns that shared the bullpen with Bard and Papelbon? Don't they need to be upgraded?
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