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How far is he from the ML?

LOL I knew you wouldn't disappoint Jackson

Marion Riveria looks like he wants a new deal and is talking of leaving if the Yanks won't pony up the cash he thinks he deserves. So I'll put it out there for discussion, If he hits the FA market do they sox go for him? If so How much will it take to pry him away from NY? What would the repercussions of a move like this be for both sides? And if not the Sox, where else could you see Mo heading?

06- Edgar Martinez RHP 04- Jason Place RF Those are the only ones and i'm iffy on Place because I don't know much about him. Scaffolds, how good is Place? Is he a big time prospect with power or any big league tools?

Marty is def. a product of the players surrounding him, but he knows how to make a team play together and gel. That all said I would have been looking for someone else as a coach anyway after the loss to NE. That team should have won it all with little problem.

Put it this way even if they all under achieve somewhat, but we can get into the playoffs, theres not many teams out there that would want to see this rotation in a 5 or 7 game set.

Yes I also agree that we have a high risk high reward pitching staff no doubt. But with Beckett's adjutment yr done with, Schilling in a contract yr, Healthy Wakefield, With Matsuzaka and Paps being wild card I would say our staff is way ahead of where it was last yr. Yes Beckett gave up the bombs on a more then regular basis, but when ML hitters know your gonna come with the heat your in deep at that point. Alot of guys where sitting on his heat because they knew it was coming, that probably won't help your HR numbers. But I expect to see more change ups and curve balls from him this yr and we will see he has made the right adjustments.

Jackson I was thinking along the same lines, Traschel will be lucky to have a sub 5 ERA.

Well if the Sox let them have the regular numbers ( instead of the ones up in the 70's LOL) they must expect these two to be on the ML team at some point. I think Lester stays for extended ST and starts in AAA when it gets warmer, and MDC starts the season on the ML roster with Hansen starting in and hopefully staying a full season at AAA to refine his pitching.

No, no one made it, thats a picture from his commercial in japan, they where all saying it looked like Yankee stadium.

Beckett I think will be the ace of the staff this yr followed closely by Matsuzaka, here are my predictions, Schilling 16-9 3.94 ERA 180 innings+ Beckett 18-7 3.65 ERA 215 innings Matsuzaka 15-6 4.00 ERA 175 innings Papelbon 15-10 3.87 ERA 175 innings Wakefield- 12-12 4.53 ERA 200 innings Lester 12-6 3.78 ERA 120 innings

7. Can Josh Beckett make the adjustment? It isnt the adjustment, can he keep his curveball from cutting his fingers. Jackson, he didn't have blister problems because of his curve ball. Have you ever had the pleasure to pitch in Southern FL? I did when I was in High school, and after a 6 inning outting my middle finger was a bloody blister mess. The Blister problem stems from the hi humidity and precipitation in that area. You don't even have to warm up in that weather, you can stand there and sweat. Beckett in his first yr out of FL had no blister problems last yr and pitched over 200 innings for the first time. He didn't throw his curve ball because he was trying to blow fastballs past everyone, but as we all now that s*** might float in the NL East but Not in the AL East. Besides the Playoffs Beckett has pretty much played in a lower level division/compatition or the old AAAA argument, if this is true then why not look at Beckett last yr as a rookie, Just for argument sake. We will consider his time in FL AAAA training, and last yr was his first yr in the real big leagues, 16 wins isn't bad at all, we got 200+ innings out of him and he pitched the most of any of our pitchers. The only thing that wasn't great was the 5.01 ERA. But in this argument we thinking of Beckett as a rookie and those wouldn't be bad numbers at all. I'm just throwing it out there cause I was reading somewhere else where someone was making this argument.

Awesome find Nate! Thats the most beautiful thing I have seen all winter! GO SOX!

http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/powerRankings Not a bad list, I like how he says the NL central winner might have a losing record:lol: Too Bad Linda is not around to see someone other then us say the LA Dodgers offensive is suspect.

Thats a hell of a deal! Nice job Minny, if they can get Morneau to take a contract like that they might beable to sign Santaana. I thought the M&M boys where looking at atleast 50M in a long term contract, but then again he had one really good yr so it seems to be a fair one.

This is one of the reasons when people ask me if I miss living in America I say no. And i'm actually upset with the Sox too, bitching about something this trivial. Im living in Holland and there is very little sensorship for anything here, theres nudity on regular tv, swearing, all kinds of different ads and commercials and theres no more violence, drunk driving ect here then there is in America probably even less. Now they want to bitch and wine because theres an ad with Dice K downing a beer. What the f*** is the world coming too? http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/6463356

It matters because the Sox rule states you have to be on the team for 10yrs and in the HOF. So as of right now hes is s*** out of luck.

Ya Coors field is heading back to the Glory days of 15+ runs a game and guys with enormous stats(Bichete,Castilla,Galaraga), Now it will be Helton back up to his big numbers, Holliday breaking records and some unknown hitting 40 jacks. This is a conspiracy! They want someone to break Bonds record and Coors will be the easiest place to do it!LOL GO HOLLIDAY! Helton= .365 avg 43 HRS 135RBI Holliday= .409 avg. 79 HRS 158 RBI's Those are my predictions on those two LOL

Anyone playing in any big tournaments this summer? My team just signed up to play in an international 5 day tourney in Austria! I'm excited about it, it should be a blast. My arms gonna be tired tho since we have like only 4 pitchers LOL.

Hinske might have an avg. bat off the bench but his D in the OF is like watching two Monkey's Fing a football.

Did Pedro play for us for 10 yrs? What about Clemens? Wakefield is third in team history in Wins and has been here longer then 10yrs. I would have to think they might consider Manny too. And if ortiz plays for us for another 6yrs and play like he has the past 4 then he might get considered too.