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  1. Palodios
    (and might I add, I enjoy having an argument with you much more than many of the other posters on here )
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    We've missed you dearly. Glad to you have back!
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    This is a very good point, and I will assume is the core of your argument. What I'm suggesting is not that he will throw 200 innings and light the world on fire. What I'm suggesting is that as a spot starter, playing in a pinch-- I would take Wakefield over Germano, Miller, and Silva any day of the week.
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    You're banking on some of these guys having years like they used to have a few years ago. Just three years ago, Wakefield pitched 181 innings, with a 112 ERA+, 4.13 ERA, and 1.14 WHIP. His arsenal hasn't changed. What PR fiasco?
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    Ops's Tazawa in 2009 -- .997 2011-- .974 Cook .874 Miller .850 Germano .815 Doubront's was .789 in 2010 and in the .900s this year. Padilla/Silva didn't pitch.
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    45, actually, and he's a knuckleballer, so who even cares how old he is? What has he lost? He's been the same one-trick pony for the last twenty years. The only difference is his health. Look at his splits from last year-- he had a 4.74 ERA before the All-Star break with okay peripherals. He'll probably start out decent and turn terrible when he wears down. Decent for a little while couldn't hurt. And seriously, have you seen the OPS against for the other guys? They're just as bad as he is.
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    Pitchers by ERA 2011 Wakefield 5.12 Miller 5.54 Germano 5.68 Cook -- 6.08 Silva didn't make a major league roster. Tazawa was hurt all year and hasn't shown he can succeed in the MLB-- same with Doubront. Padilla pitched 8 innings. His new found fastball could be good for this team, but who knows? His career WHIP is 1.37. Wakefield's WHIP in 2011 was 1.36.
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    If the Red Sox don't sign Oswalt, then Wakefield sees time in 2012. What do you think Ben is waiting on? If he's going the garbage pile route, Wakefield fits the bill. Seriously, what do they expect out of the group? Most of the them had ERAs in the 4s in weaker divisions. Wakefield is relatively healthy, had a 5.12 ERA last year, and can eat innings. With the way the team looks now, the Red Sox need 2-3 of them to perform-- maybe more with injuries. Wakefield is starting to look just as good as any of those guys, assuming he gets considerable rest. Edit: Just to be clear-- I don't want to this to happen, but quite frankly, they have not made it difficult to earn a spot in this rotation.
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    It was a joke:lol:
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    Back to Garland... if he can healthy, he's probably better than most of the options the Red Sox are looking at. 104 ERA+ for his career, and he averaged 200+ innings from 2002-2010. He's only 32, and he average a 4.42 ERA when he was in the AL.
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    Kazmir turned 28 years old last week. I'm referring to a search for warm bodies at this point:lol:
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    This is something I've mentioned a few times previously. I would be kind of interested to see the Red Sox sign a handful more garbage pitchers. There are a good number of low-risk guys out there. Brandon Web, Jon Garland, Scott Kazmir, Rich Harden and Javier Vazquez have a very good chance of being complete garbage in 2012, but on a 500k deal, what do they have to lose at this point?
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    You guys do realize he has a new account, right? He's Username?
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    The problem with the trade deadline is that your team doesn't always match up. If a GM sees things he likes in another team's players, and things he doesn't like in your team's players, there isn't much you can do... except significantly overpay. The Red Sox were on a championship drive, and all they needed was one more starter. If Fister would have cost a package similar to the ones the Tigers paid-- they would pulled the trigger. I think there were about five different options that would have been at reasonable costs for the Red Sox that they could have done this offseason. I try to think they're not done looking for pitching, but it doesn't seem like anyone is even left on the board and its almost spring.
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    Some expert analysis on the Ortiz arbitration case. All three of the comparisons are players I've mentioned previously as similar contracts for their ability. I don't think Ortiz has a case here. Hopefully he'll accept a 2/18 deal and then those luxury cap savings go somewhere.
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    +10
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    I would much rather have Maholm than nothing at all. And I'd much rather sign a pitcher than sell the farm for someone barely better than Maholm at the deadline.
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    And on that note-- it just seemed like BC was so close. He made great deals out of nothing. Then he waited patiently, patiently, for a quality pitcher to be available at good value.... and now that Roy Oswalt is getting desperate, the FO doesn't let him go in for the kill.
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    Not mad, baffled. It doesn't make sense. Buchholz is a huge part of this organization's future-- I expect them to watch him closely, and count his pitches carefully-- Bard too. All while carrying a closer who pitched 40 innings each of the last two years, and a green setup man. If they couldn't afford Oswalt/Kuroda/Jackson, that's fine, I understand the restrictions of a budget. But why not Maholm/Saunders? Why build a team that is so close to being championship caliber, then trade away the starting shortstop, and make insulting offers to free agents?
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