Dipre
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Why the obsession with A-Gon? Considering other alternatives...
Dipre replied to Palodios's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
In all fairness, since you're stating that there are suitable alternatives, couldn't you provide us with some yourself? -
If you call 25 HR's, 35 2B's, and 90 RBI (I know you love RBI's, this is his average season from 2006-08 by the way , '09 he busted a nut), not hitting, then i suppose you would be correct. Given the fact that he played half his games at Safeco and with a pathetic Mariners lineup, adjusting for Fenway and the Sox lineup should improve his numbers just a tad. Listen, you can't just go out and say "he can't do this, he can't do that" without at least presenting a compelling case, between stats and subjective opinion, everyone else will take stats all the time, specially with a sample size as convincing as that.
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Albert Pujols.
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Note to Jacko: In any scenario where Gonzales comes to the Sox, he bats 4th, sandwiched between Youk and V-Mart.
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Jays definitely got quality over quantity, and considering they were only giving up a year of Hallday and some money, i think they came out pretty good in this deal. D'Arnaud is the true centerpiece of the deal, he's the closest to the complete package you'll get in a catching prospect. Drabek is considered by many talent evaluators to have a much higher ceiling than Happ, and that's nothing to sneeze at. They flipped Taylor for Wallace, and if there's someone i'm confident is almost surely going to be able to mash in the Majors, it's him, too bad he makes Edwin Encarnacion look like Scott Rolen.
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Miranda can hit, but as you said yourself, he's not an option due to the Yanks looking for DH flexibility, that being said, i don't mean to be a dick, but why does this warrant its own thread?
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It's quite simple IMO, Beckett's lack of consistency won't allow him to break the bank like he might expect to do so even if he has a monster 2010.
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If Bay signs with the Mets, Holliday with the Cards, and the Sox get A-Gon i will be a happy, happy man.
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The problem is that, again, the only team who has the resources to offer 20 per for a pitcher are the Yankees, the Mets, after they sign one of Holliday/Bay (and they will) won't have the money either, also, remember that teams have the leverage to negotiate with him a longer contract that pays him less AAV than Halladay, because he simply shouldn't be paid more than Halladay or Santana, because they're much better, and it's not the Yankees we're talking about. The point is not the 100 mill, it's the 20 mill AAV. In the contract scenario you just posted, he would make 18.5 annually, not 20, and also, i highly doubt he gets 6 years guaranteed unless a team is really desperate.
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I'm telling you now. Like Gom said: Come Opening Day, Adrian Gonzales will be playing first base for the Red Sox. Theo wants him bad, it's just a matter of deciding who goes between Ellsbury and Westmoreland. You heard it here first.
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No it hasn't. -Rosenthal.
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If Hulett sees consistent time at 3B for this team next year, then we are in big big trouble.
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Theo has to come to terms with the fact that, in order to get Gonzales, either Ellsbury or Westmoreland is going to have to be moved. Get it done Theo!
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*Sigh* Why would you post that? And now i'll have to re-make the "whitest people thread".
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Barry Zito is actually one of the reasons Beckett's gonna have an extremely hard time finding someone to give him a 20 mill AAV. He will probably not be paid more than Halladay, unless the Yanks decide to pony up for him, and i don't see it happening.
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The problem with Beckett is teams have the leverage to negotiate a contract with him that would pay him an AAV that is between what Lackey and Halladay are being paid. It's that simple, he's not better than Halladay, so no one (except the Yanks) will pay him more.
