Jacoby_Ellsbury
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I still hold out faint hope that Ortiz can hit reasonably well the rest of the year, so I wouldn't DFA him yet. Varitek they could DFA tomorrow and I wouldn't give a s***.
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Wanted him last offseason. But if we do get him, everyone will complaining about his lack of a bat by June.
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Did it have any other destination (considering the time at which it was created)?
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How is it awful and indefensible? Virtually nothing was sacrificed to get him. Cincinnati is eating a portion of his contract. We gave up a nothing minor leaguer. I'm sure if Lowrie's injury troubles were as daunting before the deadline as they are now, Theo would have taken measures to acquire something other than a non-longterm solution at the position. I prefer Gonzalez to Chris Woodward, definitely.
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Conjecture. Missing the point. Guzman is hardly rock-solid on both sides of the ball.
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For a team like the Giants, who have always been a team with good pitching that just needs a bat, Lowell would have been a good fit. The Red Sox would have asked for anything useful in return. Why does it matter how Lowell's looked this season? His 2009 performance is moot in this discussion. Guzman isn't Lowell in that there is nothing exciting about his offense or defense. Lowell's defense would have been a question mark to whoever acquired him, but his bat isn't a mystery. Anybody that would take Guzman off our hands would only be doing so as a stopgap for another MiLB shortstop they hope to take over the job in another year. No, it would have put him in another uniform.
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He hasn't OPS'd .800 in either of the past two seasons, and his OBP is merely average. All well and good, but not worth his contract.
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Yes, then Teixeira returned to the Yankees to see if they would up their offer, which they did. This has been covered many, many, many times - the Red Sox were not getting Teixeira. The plan, if they ultimately did somehow get Tex, was to trade Lowell, who still some had some value left at that point. He would have flipped to SF or maybe the Dodgers. Because Lowell could've and would've been dealt in that scenario. There are several NL teams that could have used a bat at little cost (in prospects, Sox probably would have eaten a bit of his contract as well). Guzman, would be untradeable. At this point in his career, he isn't great at either side of the game (batting/fielding). He's a complete waste of money. Lowell still has a good bat. Gonzalez can still play defense. Guzman isn't great at either.
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Why wouldn't it? Until you've taken a good long look at the team's income statements, why scoff at the prospect of $8 million getting in the way of future moves? This isn't Monopoly money we're dealing with here.
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He's on the books for the same amount for next season. No team is going to take on that contract. It could very well hinder our offseason moves and/or next year's trade deadline.
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Adrian beltre hits DL with injured Testicle (No Joke)
Jacoby_Ellsbury replied to Javier Lopez's topic in Other Baseball
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As Crespo said, the FO was thinking Lowrie would be the answer at that point. Well, he's on the DL again. Shame on the FO for not forseeing that.
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Great point. The FO knows more than we do about his injury, and maybe that contributed to them making this move.
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Also more expensive, since Scutaro could end up being a Type A free agent. And why not? Because there's two middle infield spots. Drew is cheap and one of the only bright spots in their organization right now. I think they'd trade Haren before Drew. Andrus plays for the Rangers, the very team we're facing this weekend in a critical series with wild card implications. I think they're in it. Andrus is also very young and under control for a while. He will not be traded unless Jon Daniels is a total idiot. Eckstein? No. So why wasn't he acquired?
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And how about the waiver period? And why didn't Theo make that move, then?
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Has he been available during the waiver period?
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Source? And what was the price tag?
