Rdsxmbnt

nice manny!

2 IP, 0 hits, 0 ER, 0 BB, 3 K since his first start: 8 IP, 3 hits, 0 ER, 2 BB, 11 K

uh ya just win please

everyone on this team loves to take their walks but when it comes down to it either the batters choke in the RBI situations or everyones just too dam slow

wow this is just retarded

can we catch a break in this game???????????????

this is crap

screw this

WTF wake??

nice inning, keep it going wake!

ugh.

The whole deal was based around the Marlins getting Hanley Ramirez, either we traded him or we wouldn't get Beckett. Marlins wanted Lester in addition to Hanley but ended up settling for Sanchez. I know hindsight is 20/20 but there's no evidence to suggest that this deal could be made without Hanley as far as I know. EDIT: which is basically what bosox21 just said lol

if they put a claim in they would have to work out a deal with the Red Sox for him, not pick him up for free (assuming the Red Sox wouldn't just flat out give him away).

ok lets just take a quick look at Renterias career in STL to Now 1999 (STL): .734 OPS 2000 (STL): .769 OPS 2001 (STL): .685 OPS 2002 (STL): .804 OPS 2003 (STL): .874 OPS 2004 (STL): .728 OPS 2005 (BOS): .720 OPS 2006 (ATL): .797 OPS 2007 (ATL): .879 OPS Now from 1999-2001 he averaged an OPS around .720. Then an .800 and then his career high .874. Now he then proceeded to put up another .720 OPS season after that before getting to Boston, where he went on to put up yet another .720 OPS season. All that would lead me to believe that 2003 was a career year. Hes had some nice seasons now with ATL but he's even said himself he was glad to be out of BOS.

my pick would have been to suffer through another year of Gonzalez and evaluate your SS options after the season (which now would definetly be Lowrie). Renteria wasn't meant to play in Boston, he was a disaster. His year with us was right in the line with the year before that. We paid him big money because maybe 2004 was an abberation and he really was the player he was in 02-03. But you know it just didnt work out, Renteria was one of the worst everyday players in baseball, who was owed 30mil, and the chance to dump him and pick up a top 10 prospect was a no-brainer in my book. He's had a decent 06' and now a great 07' but there was no indication he was going to be that player. Cabrera was a bad hitter for Montreal when we got him, but he played defense and started hitting decently for us. He got a big contract and after one season in ANA nobody wanted him and ANA was trying to dump him. Hes come back with some good 06-07 seasons so it may end up working out for ANA. Like I said at the time it appeared we had a better SS in Renteria and we ended up getting Ellsbury and Lowrie because of it. Then for 06' we brought in Gonzalez. A horrid hitter who played good defense. Like I said Id rather we not signed Lugo in hindsight and dealt with a bad hitter on a short contract (though now we have a bad hitter on a long contract). And we would have kept our draft pick. So now Lugo who's signed a large contract, and it appears he'll be here for a while unless some team will take him off our hands if we add in salary. But after the way Renteria ended up I dont think we'll be giving up on him after one year (same with Drew).

he is what he is, a SS with an ok bat who plays fantastic defense. Id definetly take him over Lugo at this point but Cabrera leaving did net us Ellsbury and Lowrie so I cant complain.

o and thank you manny

nice job lowell, tek and coco, runners on first and 2nd with no outs and find a way to blow it

this is such crap, the umps are killing us here

this is so gay

wtf what are these umps looking at?

macer izturis? what a joke

thats incredibly disappointing Manny, wow edit: at least we'll get to see moss play

youk!

I dont think Id DFA anyone for him, he's been horrible this year