Dojji
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Mark Teixeira signing and the fallout in RSN
Dojji replied to jacksonianmarch's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
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THe Papelbon thing is a bridge we can cross when we come to it. We have the ability to pay our guys if all they want is to be paid..
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They'll be delighted to hear it.
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There's no room for Cabrera even if a trade is brewing. He's AAA fodder.
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Cabrera = Aardsma redux. He'll get his strikeouts and a lot of them but he doesn't know where the ball is going. Perez is your classic Shortstop McNoodlebat.
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No: His physical concerns aren't enough to consider sending him packing but if he doesn't believe in the team, which is what those statements we keep hearing about his lack of faith in a post-Manny lineup signify, it's unlikely that he'll perform at his past level even when healthy and then it *is* time to move him. If the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak I don't mind letting a guy persevere, but let me doubt his spirit and I'm all for him going somewhere else. If Ortiz had not been quoted as saying he thought the lineup needed changing I'd be right there with you but he did so I'm not.
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If that's the case then what's really happening is Ortiz is he's failing to believe in his post-Manny teammates and that's a lack of leadership talking. If that's the case than it's time for a new home for Big Papi whether he's healthy or not.
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In on it? No. In on keeping it out of the headlines? That's not so bold. There's a lot of stuff that we only really learn about months or years after the fact and I'm sure there's a ton of stuff that goes down that we never learn of.
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YEah, my question is, all else equal why should they be protected?
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Oh he's going to fall off at some point all right, it would be insane to suggest Ortiz can only improve, but the point is that he's not that old at age 33 and should have a couple peak years left, health permitting. We don't have a long trend or even a multiple year trend suggesting otherwise, at least not yet, so IMHO it's crazy to start running the guy out of town because he got hurt once.
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*sighhhhhhhhhhh* David Ortiz by OPS+ by season 2003: 144 2004: 145 2005: 158 2006: 161 2007: 171 2008: 123 (injury) The guy is 33. That's not exactly Old Man Methuselah. Frank Thomas has a very similar body type and was a productive hitter at age 39.
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Going from Eric Mangini to Napoleon Dynamite would be a nice upgrade for New York.
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And yet still better than Dunn, who can't play 1B at all. BTW I love Ortiz' one-year decline phase. No thought at all given to the possibility that it might have just been an off year sparked by a freak injury. No, it must be the beginning of the end.
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Actually with the Astros and Clemens but I suspect and I'm not alone in this that it was done to help Roger cover up for a PED suspension
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Really, really doubt Dunn's being signed to play a regular 1B.
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All for it. Great Big Papi insurance and if he's willing to play a limited non-guaranteed role there's plenty of opportunities to get him playing time. I wish he could play RF though, then it'd be like Hinske.
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Lucic being there would have meant Komisarek sized hole in the glass.
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Here's what I don't get: If you have two first rounders for whatever reason and sign a second type A free agent exactly why don't you lose the other one instead of your "natural" second rounder?
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Sucks. Now we might not get any compensation at all. If Tek can't latch on to a team we won't get anything. At least we've preserved our own picks though. Do the Yankees have a pick above the 4th round right now?
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In before the ban.
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Not so good at this tiknoleggy stuff but here's the link.
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Well then I wasn't responding directly to you. There is a sentiment on the forum though that Buchholz and Masterson are so dear that maybe we can deal Bowden for something. That has gradually turned into trade suggestions that are basically Bowden-for-anything-that-walks-and-can-hold-a-baseball-glove. Do not want Montero. I'm sure he's a fine NL West catcher but considering he'd have to improve his game markedly to make it as the starting catcher in the AL East, no thanks. Definitely don't want anything that morphologically resembles Eric Byrnes.
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Loved Thomas putting one of the Kostitsyn brothers down.
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Dude, just because Bowden is the most expendable of our young pitching troika doesn't mean he's ACTUALLY expendable. You really want to hold on to all three of Buchholz, Bowden and Masterson if at all possible. Having 2 young starters who can step into an injury-prone rotation at a week's notice is more than a convenience. it might very well be an absolute necessity. Especially if 3 of our starters are Penny, Wakefield and a 41 year old Smoltz. If you need a spot start on short notice and only have one guy in Pawtucket there's about a 3 in 5 chance that the guy has started too recently to make that start and you're left to use a scrub. With 2 guys the odds of being able to replace on short notice with a quality pitcher are much higher. WIth 3 you might be able to quit the Hansacks of the world altogether.
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Plenty of room for Dawson to be a fine outfielder and not in Evans' league. Evans was up there with Al Kaline and Roberto Clemente as a defender. A lot of great OF's aren't as good as those guys.
