Palodios
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I'm starting to think that Boston is just not a good environment for some players. When they leave, they immediately become superstars. Its painful, but the reality is that just because they became an elite player somewhere else, doesn't necessarily mean that they would become an elite player in this environment and with this park.
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He'll be big time trade bait for a team looking to buy-low. And odds are, he'll go somewhere else and be a 20/20 guy and stay healthy for the rest of his career. Lose-lose really, but maybe he'll bring in a good return.
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What's your ideal 25 man roster for 2013
Palodios replied to MANNYHOF24's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
This is my ideal 25 man roster. Ideally, I would trade Lackey-for-Bay straight-up. Of all the big-money guys that have underperformed, I have the most confidence in Bay. I think Bay's injuries have been bad-luck injuries, and are not about his durability or work ethic. He's been pretty badly shaken up this year after a bad concussion-- Can you really blame him for being hit in the head? I think that returning to Fenway would bring some of his power back, and in the worst case scenario, he'll be gone at the end of the year. He's also known as a phenomenal clubhouse guy, which would be great if he replaced Lackey. -
What's your ideal 25 man roster for 2013
Palodios replied to MANNYHOF24's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
There is a reason why I had options up there. This team is not going to be handing out any contracts longer than three years. Overpaying for a frequently injured mid-tier outfielder is not on their list of priorities. -
What's your ideal 25 man roster for 2013
Palodios replied to MANNYHOF24's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
I really like these threads. Unfortunately, there are just so many holes right now that I can see no way to make just one roster, since pieces have to work together salary-wise, and there are a lot of things the Red Sox can do here this offseason. So, I've provided some of my favorite options. 1B: Carlos Pena/Berkman/Napoli 2B: Pedroia 3B Middlebrooks SS: Ciricao/Iglesias C: Lavarnway LF: Cody Ross/Jason Bay CF: Ellsbury/ Victorino RF: Torii Hunter/ Nick Swisher DH: David Ortiz Bench: Aviles, any catcher besides Salty, and the best 4th OF they can find SP1 Jake Peavy/Lincecum/Johnson SP2 Buchholz SP3 Anibal Sanchez/ Marcum/ Dempster/ Mccarthy SP4 Lester SP5 Lackey/Doubront/Tazawa/Aceves/Mortensen RP1: Adams/Frasor/Krod RP2: Bailey RP3: Tazawa RP4: Bard/Aceves/Melancon RP5: Atchison RP6 Miller RP7 Beslow/Hill/Mortensen -
Small money moves can often be the best ones. Cody Ross, Scutaro, Beltre, Aceves, Dan Wheeler, it seems like this FO rarely makes mistakes with small money, just big money.
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I've said it multiple times, but it bears repeating because I believe it to be a very strong point. The Red Sox will NOT get a true ace this offseason. Is not happening. However, there are a pile of guys that may be acquired for the last year or two of their contracts with Ace Potential. The Red Sox should be scouting right now, scouting hard, and dangling Doubront like candy. I'm explicitly looking at guys like Josh Johnson, Jake Peavy, Tim Lincecum. Timmy had a terrible first half, but has been back to his old self in the second half. Chris Carpenter, Garza, Johan Santana have some major injury concerns but are definitely worth taking a look. Once again, they need to do some serious scouting on those guys, and figure out where it makes sense to overpay for one year, and extend them either immediately or mid-season.
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A core group of players won't necessarily win if the expendable parts suck. If you took Jeter, Pettite, Rivera, and Posada, and surrounded them with Darnell Mcdonald, Mark Melancon, Mike Aviles, James Loney, Aaron Cook, Podsednik and Dice-k, do you think they would have won so many championships? Ofcourse not. Either Pedroia or Ellsbury could turn it around and win a MVP in 2013. Lester and Buchholz have been aces before, and could be again. Ortiz has the highest OPS of any hitter in the majors this year. The Red Sox have work to do. A s*** ton of work to do. But they have the money to do it. If they picked up Victorino, Peavy, traded Doubront for Josh Johnson, and got creative to put a quality bat at 1B, they'll be a very good baseball team in 2013, without doing too much damage to their farm system.
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You're arguing two things: That the Red Sox FO haven't built its own group of winning players. And that this team doesn't have a solid core of players to work with. I disagree.
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Where was Pedro in 2007? Dustin Pedroia's MVP awards: 1. Manny Ramirez's MVP awards: 0. Are you forgetting that Manny Ramirez was a complete hack defensively? All the advanced statistics say this his glove cost the Red Sox a considerable amount of runs.
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Oh, I understand what you mean now. So essentially taking a team with no farm system whatsoever, and no impact players whatsoever and turning it into a winner. Honestly, that scenario seems pretty improbable to me, mostly because they'd be drafting very low in the draft for enough years to make atleast some superstars available. The only teams we see do something like that end up taking several years to make that kind of shift. The reality is that the core players from 2007 came from this ownership, not the ownership before. Schilling, Beckett, Lowell, Ortiz, Pedroia, Lester, Papelbon, Timlin, Okajima. The only impact players still around from the previous era were Manny and Varitek. I would argue that a core of Pedroia, Buchholz, Ellsbury, Lester, Middlebrooks, Ortiz is more than enough foundation to say that the Red Sox will be "building from nothing" is an inaccurate assessment.
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It seems almost as if you forget that 2007 even happened.
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Maybe you need to take a better look at the farm system. From the 2005 and 2006 drafts, they drafted Buchholz and Bard, Masterson. From the 2009 and 2010 drafts they drafted a few prospects in the upper minors for the Red Sox, such as Ranaudo and Workman, Wilson and Hassan. The future has still to be decided on them. So really, there is only that gap of talent from 2007-2008. A group that includes Kelly, Hagadone, Price, Fife, Weiland-- players that never got the opportunity to show what the system churned out. Britton is the only notable pitcher left from that group.
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Didn't they just add like 50 million in the offseason? And then drop 50 million off at the all star break? The money is there, unless they completely decided to throw away the approach they had from last year. They need to fill a stadium. Johnson can help with that one night a week. Ellsbury could do it every night. Unless they want to piss off their brand new fanbase already, they probably will be working on ways to win-now. Maybe Ellsbury is part of that, or maybe, just maybe, there could be a three team trade. Almost any trade involving Ellsbury, and getting back an impact player would be one of those.
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Melky Cabrera: What a classy son of a bitch. Seriously, well played sir.
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Remember when they had Felix and Lee?
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Facts? The fact is that he was an above average shortstop when he was here. That's all I need.
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Bobby Valentine told reporters today that Ellsbury would not be in the lineup because of a situation, and seemed almost embarrassed about it. Either it is something ridiculous like a giant hicky, or maybe the FO told BV to pull him to try to keep the Red Sox's losing streak alive.
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Pretty much all of his other statistics show a different light however. A .597 OPS with Boston is absolutely pathetic. His numbers are so bad that if you took Aviles and played him at first base, he'd be more productive. I'd be more willing to trade for Lars Anderson at this point than keep Loney.
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The CBA changes could be devastating here. Previously, the top 15 were protected, now, the Red Sox won't be so lucky. If Ben Cherrington were clever, he'd work out a deal with the team that the Red Sox would be giving the pick to.
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9/20/ Red Sox @ Rays
Palodios replied to NativeBostonian's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
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Sure, it counts the same, but we're discussing which players would be good to bring into the Red Sox to turn around the issues with starting pitching. If you put Richard into Fenway, which stats do you think are going to be more relevant ? He'd get hammered. His K/9 is about 4. He has a pretty decent number of ground balls, but if you bring him into Fenway, you're paying a premium on him, and only likely to get back around a 4.50 ERA. Doubront will probably give that kind of production, and odds are, he'll be the guy you'd trade for Richard.
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If you look at Richard's splits, it ends up pretty obvious that Petco is doing most of the work. Seriously man, these are pretty insane. 2012 Home 2.75 ERA 2012 Away 4.57 ERA 2011 Home 2.30 ERA 2011 Away 5.30 ERA 2010 Home 3.15 ERA 2010 Away 4.41 ERA 2012 Home 3.82 2012 Away 4.95
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Welcome to 2009.
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Good call. Reports from earlier today are saying that Peavy's option will not be picked up. I would absolutely love to get this guy. If he is willing to come here on a short term, high annual value contract, he could anchor this rotation for the next 2-3 years while the younger players develop, and/or ace becomes available (in the case Peavy doesn't).
