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  1. a700hitter
    Excellent post. The guy has marginal major league talent at best. Hard work has taken him this far, but it won't bring him much further. Over the course of his career, he's more likely to be the player that he was in the second half of 2006, and that is not very good. I'd sell high on him and trade him for relief help if we get Helton without giving up Lowell.
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    It's a 162 game season with about 30 pre-season games. There's plenty of time to get to know each other. It's not like football where it takes time to learn a system or to learn a players moves, etc. It's not like basketball, where you have to worry about players getting enough shots etc. Baseball is more of an individual sport than these others. The Oakland A's despised each other as did the Yankees of the 70's, yet those two teams have 5 of the 10 championships from that decade. I don't know what your concern is about random parts if they are really good parts. I'd be much more concerned with Hinske or WMP playing the OF.
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    Evaluations of players change. The fact that they were highly regarded at Draft time doesn't mean that they currently think they will be stars. Ramirez was clearly a better prospect and more advanced than any of the players being discussed for Helton. Hanley was signed by the Red Sox in 2000, so by 2006 he was major league ready. Five years of seasoning is a long time. The Red Sox traded him for a young stud pitcher with major league success. This deal is for an older guy and the talent being discussed is not at all equivalent to Hanley Ramirez. During his 5 years in the Red Sox organization opinions about him changed back and forth. At certain times they were not very high on him. The development of kids is an inexact science.
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    Until they do it in the majors, they are only prospects. It's the job of the FO to figure out which will make it and which will not. I hate to burst your bubble, but you will never see the day when MDC, Hansen, Bucholz, Bowden, Ellsbury, and Bard are all on the Red Sox roster and performing above average. I'd be happy if two of them become major contributors. I don't get excited about prospects until I start seeing them do it at the big league level.
  6. a700hitter
    After they get the Helton thing done, they should move on Clemens. Yankee fans would be very upset to say the least.
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    Everyone likes young talent. Matsuzaka, Beckett and Papelbon are young talent. Hansen and one of the "B"s are unproven talent. It's up to the FO to know if those guys can make it in the majors. I don't think the FO with all their scout and talent evaluators know whether those guys will make it. If they don't have a strong feeling that Hansen and Bulcholz or Bowden will be stars then you are not really parting with young "talent" just young prospects.
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    They need a back up OF that can field. WMP is not a defensive replacement. They don't have any other OFs. Hinske is not an OF. He shouldn't be in the OF in any thing higher than a Softball beer league.
  12. a700hitter
    This guy is a tremendous offensive force. Other than Ellsbury, I don't think there is a prospect with a lot of promise in the entire system. Give them whoever they want. None of them are going to make an impact for two-three years minimum. If the Sox can win a couple of Championships in that time, it would be well worth it.
  13. a700hitter
    You are on.
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    You are redeemed. Next time put the winking smiley face in your post to clue me in.
  16. a700hitter
    The Senators never had the type of following that the Brooklyn Dodgers did. I don't know ifyou are a WW II movie buff, but it was common place in those movies to be worrying about the Dodgers. It became a bit cliche. I don't remember a GI in any of those movies mentioning the Senators. To mention the Senators and their following with the Brooklyn Dodgers demonstrates that you just don't have a clue about Brooklyn or the Dodgers.
  17. a700hitter
    A guy that hits .270 with no power needs to have a little speedl. He needs to be useful in other ways such as making productive outs by putting the ball in play, taking the extra base, stealing a base etc. High strikeout rates can be tolerated from a power hitters because they are usually big run producers. Guys that can't produce runs need to make more contact and bring something else to the table. A good OBP doesn't mean much if it takes three hits to score the guy. It's similar to hard throwing strikeout pitchers that give up a lot of walks. That can be tolerated because they can get a big strikeout with a man on third and less than two outs. A soft thrower has to have better control because he can't get the big strikeout with men on base. Edit: Youlklis is like a soft thrower with bad control. Edit: With regard to his fielding, Koerko and Sexson were better at !B and they are not getting paid for their glove work.
  18. a700hitter
    It's alarming for a guy that hits 13 HRs/year. The Red Sox team BA from 2003-2005 was higher. It's not the fact that he has no power that makes him a marginal major leaguer. It's the fact that he has marginal skills. He's slow, with a noodle arm, a slow bat, and no power. Where is the major league skill? Hard work has gotten him this far and he should be admired for that, but he's a bench player at best. His upside is being a Scott Hatteburg type player. That's his upside.
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    The Brookly Dodgers were part of American lore. That was all lost when they moved to LA.
  21. a700hitter
    The bottom of the lineup is very weak.
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    By the time these guys become decent major leaguers they'll have been through a couple of more teams. Now is when I would want to face them. We'd chew em up and spit em out.
  23. a700hitter
    I am optimistic about watching Ortiz face Wang again. I was at the stadium the day he hit launched a rocket that left the Stadium faster than it got to the plate.
  24. a700hitter
    The Red Sox should give this serious consideration. Their lineup needs some help.
  25. a700hitter
    Welcome aboard.
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