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    What time is he making this statement?
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    Didn't he do this before the posting system was in place? He was the pioneer. It's different today. The Japanese owners know that there would be a hemorrage of talent if they dipose of the posting system. Their league would take a terrible financial blow. Nomo is irrelevant to this situation. He came here more than 10 years ago.
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    What you are proposing the Japanese stars do would destroy the Japanese league. For that reason, I don't think that any Japanese player will take that road no matter what Boras tells them. At the end of the day, these players will be returning to japan to live. No one would risk being ostracized in his homeland as the the player who destroyed the Japanese league.
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    We don't need a guy who has a giid year every 3 or 4 years, because when he goes down he's usually done for the season.
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    He's 24 and he's had two successful years at the ML level for a team that sucked pretty bad. Bucholz and Hansen are two guys that might never have success at the ML level.
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    I had heard that he makes $3 million/yr in Japan. If the Red Sox come up with a 5 year/$60 million package, he's short $18 million which he'd have to recoup in his first 3 seasons of his eventual US contract, which would mean that he'd have to get $18 million/year. That's just to break even going into 2012 at that doesn't even take into account the time value of the $18 million that he'll have in his pocket after 2009. He would have to take the risk of injury for two years and hope the market explodes to a point where he will get over $20 million/year without ever having thrown a pitch in the US. There's not much in it for him taking into account the risk of injury. He's coming to Boston.
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    He has had a brain aneurysm
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    As I stated in a previous post, by the time he gets to Fenway Cordero will have 90 to 100 saves under his belt and maybe a World Championship. If Bucholz fulfills his potential, the Sox can make a trade offer to get him back years down the road when he becomes arbitration eligible. Let's take the saves now and let another organization develop Bucholz. The Red Sox organization is not that good at developing pitching talent.
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    Do it. By time Bucholz gets here, Cordero will have 90 or 100 Red Sox saves under his belt. Hansen is falling from major league prospect status every time he takes the hill for the Red Sox. It's only a matter of time before he has no value on the trading market.
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    He's putting pressure on Seibu with this maneuvre, which is where his only leverage is. The article quotes him as saying that no party can be selfish if this is to work. He's called it a three-way deal. No one can accuse the Red Sox of having been selfish since they ponied up $51 million and at a minimum are prepared to go another $40 million on the contract. He's turning up the heat on Seibu and accusing them of being selfish. They have the most to lose.
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    Mo and Bernie-- the two keys to the last championship teams. Bernie has been extremely underrated, but in his pirme he was more important to this team than Jeter. One of the big reasons thaey have not returned to championship form is Bernie's decline. When Mo finally goes, clueless Joe will revert to 4th place managerial style.
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    He'll be signed by the deadline. Everyone loses if he doesn't . No one has any real leverage, so the signing will be a FMV signing. Since he has never pitched in the majors, IMO his FMV will top out at about 5years/$60 million.
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    No the knee had been hurting him from early on in the season, but he thought that he could play through it.
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