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  1. Palodios
    The best CF I've heard rumors of is Denard Span. Top notch defense, 20 SB, career .350 OBP. The Nationals are shopping him... depends on if they are looking for a real return or just to dump him, but he seems like a perfect fill-in while we wait for Bradley.
  2. Palodios
    I kept talking about this when the Red Sox signed John Lackey. There are times when your organization simply needs the innings. Jackson had one of his usual meh years, but when you have your next wave of young pitchers coming up from the minors, you might want to rush them, but not THAT much. Soaking up the innings helps when bridging the gap.
  3. Palodios
    The Red Sox heavily favor talent, and draft position. Guys like Xander and Jackie will get every opportunity, but others (mostly Dojji-type prospects) like Nava need to do their best at every single opportunity, or else they get stuck in the system. Compare Britton and Workman: Workman, 2nd round draft choice, 6.97 ERA in the regular season as a reliever. Sneaks into the postseason, 8.2 IP, 0 ER. Britton, 18th round pick, 3.82 ERA in the regular season as a reliever. Franklin "Big Game" Morales got the nod ahead of him. Morales was the only member on the postseason roster who simply added no value to the team.
  4. Palodios
    I just don't understand the infatuation with Beltran. Losing your first round pick for a 37 year old near-DH with an .830 OPS last year seems completely and utterly idiotic. The only way it makes sense is if the Red Sox grab their 3 QO picks and dump their other picks and just go on a spending spree for other QO players. Maybe there are a few guys out there who seem interesting to them, won't cost large amounts of money, but other teams have been hesitating because of the draft pick. If you use a 1st round pick on Choo or McCann, spending some combination of picks 2-4 on Granderson, Morales, Beltran and Kuroda seem less painful. That being said, it seems like too many moving pieces, especially because it would require the Sox to drop a pitcher beforehand.
  5. Palodios
    If a team wants Tanaka, it needs to outbid everyone else and has no idea how much everyone else is bidding (according to the current rules). I also think that Dice-k may have influenced the bidding on Darvish. That contract was such a huge failure that teams may have been hesitant to bid too high. Darvish has arguably been a big success. The Yankees reportedly big 30 million and 15 million on Dice-k and Darvish respectively. I doubt they stay down that low if they really want Tanaka.
  6. Palodios
    Their bid was very short, wasn't it?
  7. Palodios
    Poor word choice probably, but you know what I mean.
  8. Palodios
    What if it takes 150 million to get him? We've never seen a posting fee where an even heavier hitter was involved, like either the Yankees or Dodgers. At that rate, I'd rather sell the farm for Scherzer/Price, and re-up.
  9. Palodios
    Tanaka seems like a perfect fit for the Yanks. They have money to spend, but they don't want to go above the luxury tax, they won't have to give up their low draft pick, they need a starter to replace Petite and or Kuroda. It just makes sense that it will happen.
  10. Palodios
    Yankees front-runners for Tanaka, with a possibly 75-80 million dollar posting fee. http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2013/11/yankees-making-tanaka-a-top-priority-wont-pursue-ervin-santana.html
  11. Palodios
    So far it seems like Ben doesn't mancrush as easily as Theo. He seems much more cool and calculated, although I fully admit that is an weightless opinion.
  12. Palodios
    The Red Sox won the offseason last year by signing the Cherrington Seven, not the Jays.
  13. Palodios
    You generally expect a player to perform well for the first half of the deal. The second half is where they fall off a cliff. You want the player for the early years, but not the late years.
  14. Palodios
    The package for 1 year of A-gon will pale in comparison to 3 years of Stanton.
  15. Palodios
    It tends to be 50/50. We saw it with Cody Ross and Beltre, but not so much with Agon/Napoli.
  16. Palodios
    If Stanton is available as a free agent at the age of 27, he may very well be one of those players almost worth a 10 year deal. If the Red Sox are smart, they give him all those years, and give him an opt-out after year 5. So, at 32 at the end of his prime, he'll look at his current contract, decided it might be better for him to re-sign a bigger deal, and leave before the contract gets ugly. The Yankees did this in the past with Soriano, although on much smaller terms.
  17. Palodios
    The grass is always greener. Why trade the farm for a guy like Stanton when Napoli outproduced him last year? Top defense at the position, highest pitches taken in the majors, and a pretty good bat too.
  18. Palodios
    The Red Sox have the depth to sustain losing some of their free agents, but they have no one behind Napoli. Really hoping they get that one done. Not liking these reports of the Sox being cheap. There are situations where you take the arbitration pick and run, but this is not one of them.
  19. Palodios
    So you're saying the Red Sox go looking for excuses to spend money, but they should go after McCann? Doesn't that destroy your entire point? #SignRuiz
  20. Palodios
    And even if they would, I doubt they'd take Webster and RDLR back for him
  21. Palodios
    I don't see how that would be different than jettisoning a guy from the 40 man roster to make room for a new signee. Sometimes the guys you trade turn into miracles. It sucks but it happens.
  22. Palodios
    My original point was very clearly about getting players at low-cost. I don't understand why it matters where they come from (assuming they won't cost real prospects to obtain).
  23. Palodios
    In all fairness, Brad Penny, pre-Frankenstein Colon, Padilla, a 40-something Smoltz, Aaron Cook, Carlos Silva, etc are not in the same tier as some of the better bargain-signings this year.
  24. Palodios
    I may have referred to the bargain-bin as a pile of free agents earlier, but the idea is the same. Get a guy who has succeeded in the past, and can be had for far less than his full potential.
  25. Palodios
    If your scouts are telling you... "Roy Halladay looks like he is back. Get this guy" Do you hesitate to pay him 8-10 million for one season?
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