Dipre
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So who's opinion is more important about how much profit the team makes? The ownership, or us as fans. The problem is , you're failing to see that the reason the Sox are spending money is not because of some new desire to break the bank. It was simply a perfect storm of available players and money coming off the books. If you'll notice, they'll start next year with right around the same payroll they had in 2010. So they're still operating withing the limits of their budget, not a "we can do it 'cause we have money" mentality.
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You don't need to drop any more bricks. You sign Russell Martin, and do the following against lefties: Crawford LF Pedroia 2B Gonzales 1B Youkilis 3B Cameron RF Varitek DH Martin C Scoot/Lowrie SS Ellsbury CF (Not necessarily the lineup, but you get my point). That seems pretty competent IMO.
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That's because (and i don't mean this as an insult) you don't understand the way economics work apparently. Baseball is a business, and businesses operate on a profit margin. If you go and check the income/ expenditures of the teams with the top ten records in baseball last year (and the Mets) you'll notice they all operated with roughly a 30% profit when you compare how much money the teams generate and how much they spend on the teams. This "have as much money to do whatever they want in Free Agency" stuff is nonsense. They have an ownership group that wants to make money and win at the same time, but that also creates a line where a specific limit will be put on the money spent. Even more interesting, even though the Red Sox aren't the most profitable franchise (they're actually third behind both New York teams) they spend like the second most profitable and operate right around the same profit margin of the Yankees.
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Your logic is faulty. Baseball is a business. There is no "no limits". That is nonsense. Even the Yankees have their limits, but they're expanded far more than the other team. The Red Sox have their limits, and they operate within a budget, saying otherwise is ignorant.
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Memo to Angels and Rangers: Sign Cliff Lee! That way i can have my keg party with my strippers, my foam machine and my jello shots.
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a700 treatment for you too.
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Memo to a700: You don't get to bitch, whine and moan about anything, they went out and got A-Gon (and you managed to bitch about that too) now they got your guy. Your bitching and moaning rights are hereby revoked.
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If i see him bitch about anything, i swear to God.....
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Absolutely hate the contract. But this keeps him away from the Yankees and really improves the roster for the short-term.
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On the bright side, this leaves a700 with absolutely nothing to bitch about for the following season which makes me extremely happy.
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I think my left nut just went out of its sack. What.The.f***?
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If he stays in Texas, not only am i going to laugh at everyone who assured he's going to the Yankees, but i will also add Jell-O shots to the keg party i'll be throwing.
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My perfect "rest of offseason" scenario: Sox get: Martin Willingham/Ordonez/Beltran Guerrier Fuentes Yankees get: Crap. Angels get: Crawford Texas gets: Lee The above post doesn't represent a scenario i've personally ever said i've wanted. What i'm saying is that if they were to choose between the two, i'd go with Lee because Crawford is a flawed ballplayer and he's terribly overrated.
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Yet it's still better than giving Crawford 120 million + because he can run, even though he can't hit lefties. Oh, and while factoring in his OPS while adding SB to it, you have to substract the CS, and find out how many of those SB came against lefty pitching, and i'm willing to bet not many because he can't hit lefties at all.
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It's a contract swap. And even if the Mets did eat some more salary, how much more could it be? And the eight million you would save from trading Dice-K somewhere else (while maybe getting something valuable in return) would be neutralized because they're included in the Beltran transaction.
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Jenks and Fuentes. /offseason.
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Beltran (18.5 million) - Dice K (8 million) = 10.5 million. Ordonez (12 million) - Dice-K (8 million)= 4 million.
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I don't like Downs due to his type A status, agree on Guerrier and Martin. Apparently the Nats are asking for the world for Willingham, but he makes a ton of sense.
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Pretty much. On a side note, i'd actually be O.K with a Kalish/Darnell platoon. On another side note, if the Sox acquire Russell Martin, any OF bat + Lee acquisitions really become a pipe dream.
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Then you'd have to send them a good prospect (unlikely) or a player on the Major League roster, creating another hole which will cost money to fill. That becomes salary relief for the Beltran deal, reducing his salary. If you give up Dice-K to turn Beltran's 18 million salary into 12 million it's not the same as signing Ordonez for 12 million then trading Dice-K and getting 8 million of real salary relief. Again you move a piece from the ML roster that would need replacing, not to mention that i posted in another thread how Tito said that they don't view Lowrie as the starting SS, but rather Scutaro. Beltran and Lee simply don't make sense on a bunch of levels.
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