KeepTheFaith1229

I understand the big bat part, but we could probably get a decent bat for a lower price. Besides, if we're going to make room for Pap, I'd rather dump Clement.

Yeah, I may have gotten a bit generous there...but I say at least 5 of them will deliver.

THE BASICS What is the final W/L record of the Red Sox: 96-66 What is the All Star Break record of the Red Sox: 49-32 AL East Leader at the Break and how many games ahead(3 points for correct team and amount of games back, 2 point for correct team and 2 games off, 1 point for correct team and 3 games off): Blue Jays 1 game up on the Sox How many games ahead/behind are the Red Sox in relation to the Yankees at the end of the regular season (3 points for off 1 game, 2 points for off 2 games, 1 point for off 3 games): 2 games ahead How about the Blue Jays?(scoring the same deal as above): 5 games ahead List the four AL playoff teams and specify the Wild Card (3 points for each right pick, ??????¬????WC??????¬??? or ??????¬????division winner??????¬??? must be included for a right answer): Boston, Cleveland, Oakland, New York (wild card) List the four NL playoff teams and specify the Wild Card (scoring, same deal): Atlanta, St. Louis, San Diego, New York (wild card) List the ALDS winners (3 points for each correct pick): Boston, New York List the NLDS winners (same scoring): Atlanta, New York List the ALCS winner: Boston List the NLCS winner: Atlanta List the World Series winner: Atlanta ---------------------------------- OVER/UNDER CATEGORY, Specify only over and under per question(each question is worth 1 point, if it's even it's a push, no points.) Schilling's total starts -- 25: over Assists by Manny - 5: over Number of saves by Foulke - 15: over At-bats for Snow - 275: under Arroyo's BAA vs lefties - .270: under Game Appeared for Timlin - 70: over Chacon's ERA at the break -- 4.00: over Wakefield's ERA at the break - 4.00: over Randy Johnson's ERA at the break - 3.50: over Papelbon's ERA at the break - 4.00: under Burnett on the DL at least once by the break (over = yes, under = no): over Trot on the DL at least once by the break(over = yes, under = no): over Total wins for Arroyo - 12: over Walkoff hits for Papi - 3: over OPS for Lowell - .800: over ------------------------------ HEAD TO HEAD SHOWDOWN Compare BA/HR/RBI between these following players and indicate who'll have the better year(1 point for each right answer(.010 within BA, HR within 2, RBI within 5) additional point for correct player having the better year) Bill Mueller: .296/13/64 Mike Lowell: .287/22/81 Kevin Millar: .277/10/54 Kevin Youkilis: .282/14/60 Johnny Damon: .294/14/62 Coco Crisp: .312/24/85 Edgar Renteria: .300/12/68 Alex Gonzalez: .259/17/70 ----------------------------- QUICK ANSWERS(2 points each): First call-up from the minors: Craig Hansen First Opening Day roster player on the DL: Trot Nixon Beckett??????¬??????s ERA (within .10): 3.12 Total number of HBPs taken by the team (within 5): 14 Number of 10K games by Beckett (accurate only): 4 Number of 10K games by Schilling (accurate only): 3 Official starting day lineup on the first game after the All Star game including starting pitcher (1 point for each right answer in right position in the order. Position can be included, but order is only thing being scored): Youkilis, Crisp, Ortiz, Manny, Lowell, Nixon, Loretta, Youk, Gonzalez Arroyo's wins as a starter (accurate 2 points, within 1 scores 1 point): 13 Papelbon's number of starts (same scoring): 35 Team homers (accurate within 5, 3 points, within 10, 2 points, within 20, 1 point):141 Team era (accurate within .10 scores 3 points, no other scoring) 3.84 Crisp's batting avg (accurate within .010 scores 3 points, no other scoring): .312 MLB HR leader and prediction (name scores 3, prediction within 1 scores 3, prediction without correct name scores no points): Mark Teixeira 54 homers AL Cy Young Winner and ERA (name scores 3, ERA within .10 scores 3, ERA without correct name scores no points): Johan Santana 2.92 NL Cy Young Winner and ERA (same scoring): John Smoltz 2.98 AL MVP: Mark Teixeira NL MVP: Andruw Jones 20 game winners (right answers score 1, wrong answers negative 1): Roy Halladay, Johan Santana, Kevin Millwood, Bartolo Colon, Chris Carpenter, Pedro Martinez, Ben Sheets, Jake Peavy Names of Sox all-stars (right answer scores 1, wrong -1): Ortiz, Ramirez, Beckett, Crisp Blown saves by the bullpen by the All Star break (3 points within 1): 6 Blown saves by the bullpen by the end of the regular season (3 points within 1): 10 Which opening day Red Sox will be traded by the end of the season (3 points for every right answer, -3 for wrong answers): Trot Nixon Who will the Red Sox acquire via trade during the season (3 guesses, 3 points for each right answer): Reggie Sanders ------------------------------------- BONUS QUESTIONS (0 points if you don't get any of these or if they don't happen): The exact date Gabe Kapler re-joins the Red Sox(5 points, 0 points if he doesn't return): June 3rd Total team ejections(2 points, 1 point within 2): 9 Number of brawls(3 points): 1

YS013, for the ones like first opening day player on the DL and stuff like that, that's for the Sox, right?

Dont worry about it SF. We all have our days...

Haha Schill you beat me to it

OKAY, now you have the Cardinals beating the Padres in the NLDS and then you have the Pads losing the NLCS. What next?

Soxfan#1. He had Texas winning the West, and Cleveland taking the wild card but then he had Anaheim beating Boston in the ALCS.

Sureeee, NOW delete the post...

Wait, how do you have the Angels going to the WS...you have Texas winning the west and Cleveland taking the WC... lmao

Ahahaha the Mets winning the WS...

I would be THRILLED. Maybe a bit optimistic, but not ridiculous...

Even if Jamal Lewis is never the same player, Schilling isn't going to be getting put on the turf by 260 pound linebackers 15 times a game...

Indeedly. Although there aren't too many MLB pitchers with a 70 MPH fastball, except maybe Wake and he can go a little over 70.

Even if he's a Yankee fan, I'm going to have to side with ATG13 on this one, control is a bit more important than velocity. No doubt, velocity is very important, but if you can't throw strikes or hit a location, you're going to get hammered.

You forgot A-Rod. (see: Slappy, 2004 ALCS)

Hitting under pressure is important, Papi is not going to get up every time in the ninth. Okay, bro, you'd rather have Abreu, I'd rather have Lee. I'm done.

Last time I checked, the home run derby is different than a tie game in the ninth. Oh yeah, did you happen to catch that slump after the Derby? Did you just say RBIs? Lee lead the national league in RBIs last year. Plus Lee is two years younger, slightly cheaper, and can actually play under pressure. Trust me, I've actually seen Abreu play. He sucks under pressure, gets buried in the count, and is a streaky hitter. I'll take Lee over Abreu any day.

Lee is way better than Abreu. Abreu is like A-Rod, he only does well in the third inning when his team is up four runs. He can't play under pressure, in Boston he would be eaten alive. You should've seen this one guy at the Vet launch a hot dog from about 20 rows up that nearly hit Bobby.

Even so, decent prospect and you're still losing Arroyo... Like I said, WHY TRADE ARROYO AND DECENT PROSPECTS FOR HIM WHEN WE CAN SIGN HIM AND LOSE NOTHING BUT MONEY!!!!!!

They usually don't give out gold gloves to bad fielders.

He said the corner OF positions.

What are you talking about? Even if we resigned him it would be a terrible move because we just traded Trot, Arroyo, Murphy and a pitching prospect for a few extra months of Lee. Plus there would be a chance that he didn't resign with us. I wouldn't trade Trot, Arroyo, Murphy and a pitching prospect for Lee at the deadline, because we can just sign him at the end of the year and we don't have to give anything up except money!!

Oh yes, the fielding stats are very telling.

Why would we trade all that for a rental when we can just sign him after the season?