TheMino007

Lackey doesn't want to sign with the Red Sox, he has said he doesn't like playing in Fenway Park and I think he wants to go somewhere were he can be the staff ace. I think he stays on the West Coast, in the AL West, or somewhere in his home state of Texas, maybe the Rangers. Adrian Gonzalez isn't going anywhere because the Padres don't have to trade him, the guy doesn't even make 5 mill a year and I think he'll only make like 7 mill in 2011. Prince Fielder won't get trade and I think he'll ultimately end up in free agency in the 2010 offseaon. Miguel Cabrera, besides Hallday, is the realest possibility. I would rather have the Sox just swallow $ and take on a big contract like Magglio Ordonez rather than give up bigger amounts of prospects in order to get Miggy.

I'm only for getting Halladay if the Sox can lock him up for the long term. Why are people complaining about his innings pitching? The guy is 32, not 37. The guy is just a work horse and won't have any shoulder problems, not all pitchers are fragile and need to be babied. This guy is the real deal. I said during the trade deadline last year, a rotation of Beckett, Lester, Halladay; that is impossible to beat in a short series. Pitching wins championships. If your not going to better offensively, than get better with pitching. If you give up less runs then you don't need to score more runs. Believe it or not as bad as the offense was at times last year, the Sox were 3rd in the AL in runs last year. I'd love to just have the Sox trade for Miguel Cabrera and sign John Lackey, but that simply isn't going to happen. Re-sign Bay, sure up the back end of the pen, trade for Halladay, and sign Gonzo to play SS for one more year and I'll be set. I think guys like Mike Lowell and Ortiz will be effective if healthy, and the offense isn't as bad as everyone will think. You bat Ortiz 6th or 7th and you will be fine; granted the team still has no true cleanup hitter, but the Sox can always re-evaluate at the trade deadline and make a move then.

If your relying on JD Drew to be a big RBI masher, your in trouble, anyways RBI's as a stat are overrated

If the guy was on the field enough he could be a good player. Baseball players are soft, but this guy takes it to a whole new level

No.

beside from his .390 OBP, every other facet of his game doesn't warrant him making 14 million dollars. Great defense, nothing spectacular, pretty good arm, but don't try to B.S. the fact that he hasn't lived up to the contract that he signed. I was some-what of a Drew defender for years b/c the guy would always turn it on in the playoffs and get several big hits, but as a whole his three years here have been pedestrian at best. Guy isn't a bad player, but he isn't worth 14 million dollars.

The whole propaganda thing isn't as crazy as it sounds. When the Sox FO feels that they can't re-sign a player or no longer want their services, they try to drag their name through the mud. I saw it in the Duquette era with Mo Vaughn and Roger Clemens, and in the Epstein administration with Nomar, Pedro, and Johnny Damon. I'm convinced that Bay is pretty much as good as gone. Hope he just signs with the Mariners and we don't have to worry about him coming back and biting us a lot.

once your done at the JD Drew jack-off session, you will understand what the rest of New England has been saying since the deal was signed

Pass on Beltre. Too risky, why should the Sox lock him up with a multi-year deal when he is basically the same offensive player as Mike Lowell. The range at 3B increase substantially, but I don't see it being worth the risk to sign Beltre.

We are in fact looking for a stop gap solution at SS until Iglesias is ready, and Hanley won't be that solution. From what I've heard and read he is projected to be a CF in a couple of years. You trade for him next year, have him play SS for a year or two until Iglesias is ready, then move him into CF and shifts Ellsbury to LF if Bay leaves of Holliday isn't signed, or put him in RF when Drew's abyss of a contract expires

Totally agree. Worse case scenario is that he is the DH in a couple years. Then you can sign Crawford to play LF in 11, slide Bay to the DH and hopefully have Gonzalez or Cabrera or some beast at first base and Youk at third

Alex Gonzalez is the answer at SS for the 2010 season. For pretty cheap money I'll take the gold glove caliber defense and a guy who for some reason hits better when on a contending team. There shouldn't really be any debate or discussion as to who should be starting at SS next year for this team. ALEX GONZALEZ.

The Sox could use some help in the bullpen too. It completely feel apart in the second half. I hope Wagner returns and the Sox make a run at signing Rafael Soriano. He's one of the best bullpen arms in the majors and would add some much needed quality depth to our bullpen.

Should the Sox look into trading for Brandon Wood?

Nick Johnson should be a plan B option for 1st base. Guy had a .415 OBP last year, which I belive was 3rd in all of baseball. Knock on the guy is that can't stay healthy, but he did have 580 AB's last season. Hopefully he would be signed to a one year deal as more of a stop gap solution, also the Sox can benefit from his defense before it declines too much in the upcoming years.

Can the Bruins just get some damn momentum for when Savard returns? Lucic is back so lets go. Raask was shaky but got the job done last night. Beregon's move in the SO was one of the best I've seen all year.

Bill Hasselman and Mike Stanely FTW

Bay just turned down the Red Sox's offer of 4 years and 60 million. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/baseball/mlb/11/19/bay.redsox/index.html

Oh god, Mauer is going to be a ton of money. That will drive up the negotiations price of V-Mart. I agree its better to get this thing done sooner rater than later. Offer him 3 years, 36 million and see if he bites.

In order to win a championship you must have three reliable starting pitchers. Dice-K nor Clay are reliable.... yet. If both live up to what they can be I think both a legit number three starters in any ones rotation. But I don't want to take that risk. I want the Sox to sign Lackey and to have the best top of the rotation in the AL. Dice-K needs to make sure he can keep his arm in shape and pitch like he did in 07. Will Buchholz continue to improve this year, or was last years stretch of great pitching just a fluke?

thats what I was pretty much trying to get across.

He has more offensive value as a catcher than a first basemen, I don't know why you can't wrap your head around it

great news, the B's are close to signing Savard to a 7 year, 39 million dollar extension, it would pay out 5.57 mill over the first 5 years with a buyout for the last two http://www.nesn.com/2009/11/report-bruins-marc-savard-close-to-sevenyear-extension.html

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=4663979