Dojji
-
Posts
18,632 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Boston Red Sox Videos
2026 Boston Red Sox Top Prospects Ranking
Boston Red Sox Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits
Guides & Resources
2025 Boston Red Sox Draft Pick Tracker
News
Forums
Blogs
Events
Store
Downloads
Gallery
Everything posted by Dojji
-
-
Exceeding the payroll of whoever they faced by a titanic margin.
-
-
But that's a difference of semantics. He is after all currently a Yankee. And even if that is true, his current contract was given to him by the Yankees and was a pay raise on Hicks's boondoggle.
-
There's a nontrivial difference between having an $80M financial advantage over a self-professed small market team like the Rockies, and having that same $80M advantage over the second largest payroll in the league. if you can't figure that out yourself, I pity you. Every team you played in the playoffs this year had 60% of your payroll or smaller. Indeed seeing as you have more than $70M over any other team this year that was almost the guaranteed outcome. And it certainly was not true of the Red Sox in 2007.
-
Do we need to bust out the chart again?
-
With the caveat that a discussion on whether and how those flaws should be amended is legitimate, I agree.
-
Because they got Lars Anderson or Anthony Rizzo back and also 2-3 other very interesting high ceiling prospects?
-
I'm a little nervous about Votto if only because his career BABIP is .350 and his LD% has dropped steadily. If we got him, I'd be at least a little worried about regression Looks like he wouldn't be a bad Fenway hitter -- he goes to left field a lot. Other than that one small BABIP-fueled concern, I wouldn't have a problem with getting Votto.
-
Huh. I read an article that said it had. I could be relying on bogus info.
-
The tremendous amount of revenue the Yankees take in convinces me otherwise. Neither do their ticket prices. If they can charge THAT and still fill their taxpayer's boondoggle of a stadium, there's money and demand enough to go around. I'd say $100M. It's a good round number and remember we're talking about a maximum. But yeah, I agree it should happen, and I agree it won't. Throw in a dramatic lowering of the luxtax threshhold (1.5x the league's average payroll) and an exponential penalty for going dramatically over it and I'm on board. That way the Yankees can't complain about being singled out, and yet their offense-to-common-decency salary structure is going to mean the Steinbrenners are paying through the ears.
-
Uhh guys? He's already picked up the option. Whether that means he's here next year or that he just gets a $3M farewell gift is a question for Theo to answer.
-
I'll add "if the Mariners can score another bigtime bat" onto that list of caveats, but I basically agree. For the Mariners, contention or not will come down to what they can muster for a lineup.
-
We could turn him around as a bit part in a Halladay trade. The Blue Jays might have been interested on Hermida but waiting to sign him on the cheap after he was released. Certainly they do need another young cormer outfielder somehow, and Hermida would be a solid fit for them considering where that franchise is right now.
-
It's an option. It should be somewhere on the list -- well down below trying to acquire Holliday, Bay, Gonzalez, Cabrera and Hanley.
-
I'd go after Miguel Cabrera, at least as one of a number of options. Even if his defense tanks like some seem to think it will (I see no reason to believe it must), he's an elite bat and has demonstrated in the past that he can tolerate a move into the outfield. He's about on par with Jason Bay in left field, if you're willing to pay Bay you should be willing to pay for the same or better production in a body 5 years younger. That said, the Tigers really haven't showed any signals that they're really thinking of packing it in at the moment and haven't really thrown out any obvious signals that they're considering blowing it up. They'd like to shed salary I'm sure, but shedding it by getting rid of their best player isn't probably what they have in mind.
-
Time for a third team in New York. If there's that much revenue to go round, it should go round further. Either that, or it's time to do what the NFL does, have the league claim the media rights for each team, and if the owners haven't lynched you yet, distribute that revenue more evenly.
-
And I'll assume, since it's convenient for you to believe this, that the Vezina should have no impact on contract or salary.
-
it's either that, or a flat out lie about Tim Thomas' contract. The number that's important is not the dollars, it's the cap hit. That's at a solid $5M
-
You're blaming Thomas for Rask's salary? That's hardly fair.
-
... you mean, well? Brown turned in an All star caliber year at age 38 and was New York's problem the next year. http://www.svenllama.com/blog/blogimages/bloodysock.jpghttp://www.redsox.davecash.net/images/world_series_2004_trophy.jpg http://multimedia.heraldinteractive.com/images/58bf1b60f2_ltpSchillingHayOff062308.jpg http://www.franklin.ma.us/auto/upload/schools/horace/307-world_series_trophy.jpg
-
-
Heck, I think we should try very hard to negotiate a contract window if we want to go after Halladay. Lock him down at $20M a year for the next 5-6 years. He'll be worth it and that would really justify the prospects going the other way IMHO.
-
http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20091108&content_id=7638454&vkey=news_bos&fext=.jsp&c_id=bos
-
as long as it doesn't cost us Buchholz I'm all for it.
