jacksonianmarch

I do not think we did a lot of replacing. We added Nady mid season. If you go around the offense, the only slot that was totally open after Abreu and Giamboids split was 1b. Adding Swisher filled that void. Adding Tex is a 100% improvement. If we retain Pettitte, then our rotation 1-5 is stronger than it has been in 6 yrs. I dont get your point. To say we did more replacing than adding is also wrong.

but if you completely ignore that fact then you essentially handcuff your team 20% of the time. Wakefield has a lot of good things going in his favor. He should age well, he should throw 180+ IP and he should win as much as he loses. His one downside is that you need to have a catcher who knows how to catch him.

in theory you should get healthier. I just dont believe that the lineup around the now healthy Ortiz and Lowell (if they really are healthy) will be able to sustain their supernatural offensive production.

Beckett is not going into his FA yr. The sox have an option for 2010. Saying that we just replaced what was lost is just incorrect. I wont get into it further than my post above, but it really, truly is not correct. 2 late 20s, solid power hitters are more valuable then a late 30s former roid boy and a mid 30s guy in decline. And saying our pitching additions dont help anything is wrong as well. Listen, both our teams lost a lot due to injury. I just happen to believe that we lost more since our guys went down rather early. Our ace miss 20 starts. Our prize offensive catcher essentially missed the season. Our power hitting LFer wasnt right from mid June on. You lose 2 guys in your lineup who should put up 190RBI and score 180R and replace them with the bag of dicks we replaced them with and then consider we lost our durable ace and replace him with another bag of dicks and you have to see how our team suffered. Adding CC and AJ to a healthy Wang is Joba is a massive improvement. Adding Tex and Swisher to a healthy Matsui and Posada is a MASSIVE improvement over 2008.

And that is your right to do so. I just find it funny how many sox fans have taken the front running thing a bit far and dont remember their "roots". When making the playoffs 2-4 yrs out of every decade was the norm. Now, if they miss the playoffs, the fan base goes berserk. Funny how the perception changed in a short span of time.

thing is, if Kottaras shows he can hit righties well and Bard continues to hit lefties well, you might have a nice combo for the upcoming yr.

Just kidding. Its all in good fun. Gotta be able to take a joke here and there. And yes, as Yankee fans, we are duty bound to stir the fires of cynicism that always burn around the sox.

"bring 50% of all the fail in this site." FAIL- part of speech- VERB. Used in a sentence. DipreG fails to get his point across once again. I have a feeling that your syntax in the above sentence is a bit off. I know you reside in the Dominican Republic, but you could clean up the grammar a bit. You know, maybe you could use a grammar checker? Maybe some software? Hmm. Maybe? http://pressthebuttons.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/stewiegriffin.png

it is overrated until your catcher absolutely cannot catch it. It has to be mental. But Bard trying to catch wake was one of the most hilarious things I have seen in a long time

wow, sensitive folk on the board today. Grow a pair.

I think Kottaras should have some experience catching the knuckler now that he has Zink in AAA. But if neither can catch it and Cash latches on in NY, you guys might be in trouble. Imagine having to call Dougie out of retirement.

I made a caveat in the post, "if the season ended today." Now, I want to know something. You are acting as if something big is on the horizon. If the sox dont make another impact addition, would you say that the sox are the third best team in the division? Funny thing is, from here on out, I expect the yankees to make bigger moves in total than the sox. The Yankees still need to sign one more pitcher. The sox need a catcher and then I expect them to go to war with what they have. BTW, do you like my Avatar? Tex looks real good in yankee colors, eh?

Sheets is by far the better pitcher. The only thing Penny and Sheets share is risk. The reward for Sheets is MUCH higher

ARod and Sheff came in when our pitching was going out and we still nearly made it to the world series. It isnt fair to blame our postseason failures on him since our pitching took a serious U turn since he arrived. Bring in CC and AJ, add them to Wang and Joba, maybe sprinkle in another yr of Pettitte and presto, the pitching will return. Giambroids got off the roids. Abreu turned the balance of power in 06 and was a major reason why your team didnt make the playoffs that yr. Objectively the best team in the AL East? Really. You werent the best team in the AL East last yr, have made no significant additions and the team above you is now brimming with confidence and has another yr of experience under their belts. Than factor in that they took their worst starter, got a good OF prospect for him and added in one of the nastiest pitchers I have seen come up from the minors in a long time to their rotation and you still think that the sox are better? Nobody had a rotation like they did and people wonder why they won. 1. Kazmir 2. Shields 3. Garza 4. Sonnanstine 5. Price Consider that when you try and measure up against them for 2009. They are stacked in the pitching department. And even with CC, Wang, AJ and lights out Joba, we still need to add one more vet to say we are even on par with the Rays. And I am a yankee lover at heart Your blind faith is impressive. But anyone with an analytical mind can find flaws in all the Kool Aid spooge you are putting on this page. Theo said it himself. If you arent improving you are falling behind. The sox did not improve this offseason. Adding Penny while losing Byrd and Colon is a lateral move. Adding Ramirez at the expense of Coco's better bat and glove (than Ells) is also a lateral move. And when you consider that we should be getting healthy and have added two legitimate power threats in Swish and Tex, have a full yr of Nady and should be getting a full yr out of Matsui and Posada, our O can match yours and then some. Then consider our top 4 of CC, Wang, Burnett and Joba and I think we can match or surpass you as well. If we add in Pettitte or Harang or anyone who can eat 200IP, then our rotation surpasses yours as well. And we know our pen is better. Where does that leave us? TB in a nebulous spot. The sox staying put and us adding significant talent. I believe, if the season started today, that the sox would be in 3rd place. Obviously the season needs to play out, but anyone with a mind would see that the sox dropped back in the race since the day the ball stopped being pitched

zero cred and everyone laughs at me? Arent we a whiny little bitch today

thats the rumor. That being said, I would assume we'd need to throw in a bit more. But we are talking about the Reds. They once traded Austin Kearns and Felipe Lopez for an injured Gary Majewski.

Johjima hit .227 and had an OPS of .609. For comparison, he was 30 points worse than Melky in terms of OPS. You could probably have him for an empty whiskey bottle and part of Ted Kennedy's tumor.

I seriously thought the sox were going for Sheets. Imagine if that guy were healthy. The sox front four would be filthy. But he will get 3 yrs from someone

f***ING SCARY OFFSEASON, TEH SOX RULEZ THE INTERNETS

Kilo is sounding the concerned alarm and with good reason. Bay is a solid LFer who plays the position well and is relatively young. He has one yr left until FA. The Yankees will have at least 2 openings in the OF come next offseason. Hmmm, see the problem here? He says, hey guys, love it here eh, wanna sign eh? If the sox rest on their laurels on this one they may lose out on both players.

Aaron Harang isnt really a #5 starter. He's a f***ing horse playing in a joke of a ball park. He's a sinkerballer who consistently throws over 200IP AND can strike people out. He's the kind of guy you want in your rotation for a long period of time. He's solid.

This would make me think that the sox are about to acquire Montero. Tek is better vs lefties and Bard fits the bill there. He makes for a perfect fit with a lefty hitter like Montero. Montero had a mid .800s OPS in the minors for the DBacks and hit 62 homers in parts of 5 minor league seasons. In his MLB time, he hasnt had the solid OPS, but he has hit 15 homeruns in what amounts to less than a season of work. His OPS of .765 in limited duty last yr if far better than Variteks and one would assume that a better lineup AND a platoon would likely lead to better performance for this kid. I would applaud this move if I were a sox fan. And then, maybe, we will see exactly what kind of "force" vtek was with his pitchers. I call BS on that since Vtek couldnt throw and wasnt great at blocking by the time his tenure in Boston was wrapping up

a lot of teams wont even take a chance on a player if there are questions about signability, especially first rounders. I had a teammate of mine go in the 6th round, even though he was considered supplemental round talent because a team spread word that he was going back to school for his senior yr. He signed within a week. Its all politics and ********.

Trading Nady and getting Manny still leaves us with the same problem. If we had no qualms about Damon or Swisher in CF, then we wouldnt be shopping an OFer. By shopping Nady, we are essentially saying that we need to have one of the younger kids or a proven CFer play CF. By dealing Nady for Harang, we'd be adding 3 mil to our AAV (from Nady's 6mil to Harang's 9mil). Then, we sign Manny for lets say 20 mil. We'd increase our projected salary from the 200mil range to 223+mil. I dont see us overspending our 2008 budget.

how about Volquez?