Dojji
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The question is, if he was throwing a 100 pitch nono through 6 would Tito leave him in?
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Beckett knows that he walks a pretty fine line, and that his stuff can get out of order pretty easily. I'd rather walk the stiff out there for the rest of the season than force Beckett to throw to a guy he doesn't trust. The only thing about the whole arrangement that really worries me is that it might mean Beckett, who holds a lot of clout as an ace of the team, might put pressure on Theo to pick up the team option on Tek.
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He's below market for his production over the last 3 years or so. He gave us a home town discount, actually. If you were going to keep Thomas, this is about what he would have cost. As the Vezina winner he could probably have found $7M for himself in another market.
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No it doesn't. Tim Thomas' contract was market value for his production. You'd have to believe we'd be better off without him entirely to call that deal terrible. We've tried the whole "throw the early 20's superstar goaltending prospect into the fire" thing ourselves to spectacular failure, and just last year watched the Habs try it, to spectacular failure. How many times are we going to have to watch the stud goaltending prospect fail before we realize the difference between "stud prospect" and "stud player?" Throwing in the 21 year old with minimal veteran support is a move you make when your team is in a low-pressure situation. Not when you're trying to run for a cup.
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You guys are overstating it a little bit. I loved Kessel's potential too, and would rather have made room for him. I think that we could have moved Ryder and probably gotten something done. I especially think we'll miss him in the playoffs. but you don't lose very often when you bet on the Leafs to suck, so I think we're going to wind up with some very high firsts on this one. If we do, the deal still might end up being a wash or even a win. there's no denying that this is a very high-risk move. Especially when we get no actual talent back (only potential talent) for a guy with Kessel's upside.
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http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=499041 Apparently they got two firsts and a second, and Kessel was inked to a cap hit of more than $5M/year by the Leafs. Considering the fail brigade the Leafs are running, though, these could potentially be fairly high first rounders. Their offense is good but soft, their defense is shallow, their goaltender average at best. I still would rather have gotten something that would help us more immediately, considering we're taking 30 goals out of the offense in a year we're competing for a cup. On the other hand, we weren't going to be able to keep Kessel if he was holding out for $5M. No, not even if we hadn't re-upped Tim Thomas. The numbers just don't work.
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That was ball 4
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gottim
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Should be 2-1 right now. Hope we don't pay for that.
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Why the heck are we making the first out at home?
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He's really got his stuff working today.
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The fruit?
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Lowell needs to rest sometime.
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Almost as bad as your choice of prospect analogies
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Not very creative. They used the same theme in 2007.
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[table]Topic|Team|Content Prospect|Yankees|The player in question is made of 150% pure awesomeness. Fear us. Prospect|Sox|He could be good, but this is why he won't be. Signing|Yankees|This is the missing piece. We'll win 160 games, and the umps will screw us out of 2. Signing|Sox|Risky move, overpaid here, they'll regret this. Injury|Yankees|They don't get hurt. Hypothetically, if they did, the recovery will be speedy with no impact to ability. Injury|Sox|Everyone is a ticking time bomb. Once hurt, they'll never heal right.[/table]
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True. But given who the competition was, I'll take a series win at home.
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Yes well, we are smarting for middle infield prospects. He's young enough that I really shouldn't be the only one who starts to take notice of Roque. I'm not exactly holding my breath here, but that was an impressive showing against more or less age appropriate competition. Besides, his name is Ken Roque. So he's got the cool name thing going for him.
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The way I see it we should have lost the second game, we should have won the third -- it balances out.
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Maybe Wagner then. HIS defense is quite solid indeed.
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Honestly, Brown isn't awful as a pitchblocker, he can catch Charlie Zink's knuckler reliably after all. But he's no better than average at that skill and it's probably his big defensive weakness. from what I've heard and seen he's probably good enough at the other catching skills to make up for it.
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My impression based on what I've heard about Lavarnway is that his catching tools are good, but catching skills are very unfinished and that he needs to make a lot of improvements there if he wants a shot at the bigtime as a catcher. Sort of like George Kottaras when we first got him, only more so since Lavarnway is younger.
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The one thing I don't get: If you're going to hit for Drew, and Youkilis is available to hit, then why not hit youkilis for Drew?
