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We have an "Introduce Yourself" Forum. You should go there and tell us about yourself.
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But they will make excuses, so I guess they will feel that they have to make excuses.
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Pete, I think you could work in the Red Sox PR department.
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How will you take it?
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We will get excuses and rationalizations. Neither interests me.
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I will be more annoyed about the whiny excuses that will come if they don't adequately address the SP situation.
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Are you readying your excuses for the FO?
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He is a big sci-fi guy, do who knows.
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Sale is a stud. He's going to cost us if they want him.
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That may be the best offer that we get for him, and I think it would be a fair trade. That rumor seems to have come and gone at this point.
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If it takes Bogaerts to land a big time pitcher, and the Red Sox pull the trigger, who do you think would fill the hole at SS. Would it be Hanley who has never been a top fielding SS or would they look elsewhere? Evereth Cabrera is a non-tender. Does he play SS or 2B? What about Drew for a season until Marrero is ready? Right now it looks like Cespedes can net us Leake or Niese. Leake stinks and Nieses's arm is hanging by a thread.
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No one likes an awkward hugger. If Lester leaves, the post trade hug could be part of the reason. Look at Henry. It must have been like getting a hug from an over-cooked piece of linguini. It probably made Lester's skin crawl.
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Lester termed the post trade hug from pruneface as uncomfortable and strange.
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The guy is not good. He doesn't know how to go to his left up the middle. His footwork is so poor that he gets nothing on his throws giving runners an extra step. He doesn't know how to charge slow hit grounders turning routine outs into infield hits. He needs to improve a lot just to be standard at SS.
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Stats don't show footwork and XB looks like he needs some lessons.
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I agree that Xander is far from being good at SS. His footwork is terrible. He needs intensive tutoring to improve. Is Disarcina still in the organization? Maybe he can give XB a crash course. His fielding is why I have been talking about him as trade bait. The organization seemed to have had plans for him at 3rd eventually, but after signing Sandoval that might have changed. Marerro is a guy with a major league glove at SS.
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I don't think Boston weather is much better.
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FO would have saved themselves a lot of money if they had negotiated in good faith prior to last Spring Training.
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DeGrom is not a veteran. The reports that I have read indicate that the Mets are not interested in moving Wheeler, Harvey, DeGrom or Montero.
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Colon, Gee, or Niese. Thumbs down on all of them IMO.
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I saw Marrero at the end of some spring training games last season and he made a few sparkling plays that drew big crowd reaction-- and that is not easy to do in the late innings in Fort Myers, because everyone is looking to beat the traffic out of the lot.
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It is less likely.
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Agreed. Sending Price away is not high priority for thr Tigers. They would need to be overwhelmed with an offer. I don't think there is a glut of top pitchers that will be traded. If some get traded, it will be for very high prices.
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Nelson Cruz to the Mariners means no Iwakuma for Cespedes as some had hoped.
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If XB is going to be a productive major leaguer, he will have to learn to handle the slider from righty pitchers. That pitch ate him alive last season.
