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  1. Palodios
    The Red Sox gained a lot of leverage after the Shields contract. If Shields is only worth 75 million, is Hamels really worth 110? Teams seem to have hit their salary limits early this year, judging by the number of high end relievers left available, so Cole may have fewer suitors that Amaro expected.
  2. Palodios
    Cole casually mentioned that he wanted to be traded to a contender.
  3. Palodios
    For modern day, we'd be talking Swihart + Owens for Chris Sale. Most of us would say yes to that. Unfortunately, the White Sox believe they'll contend, and I don't see many other 25 year old aces available, except maybe Strasburg, who is not healthy.
  4. Palodios
    Baltimore has several core players in free agent years. Matt Wieters, Chris Davis, Wei-yen Chen, and to a lesser extent Tommy Hunter, Darren O'Day, and Bud Norris. I see them trying to get value on those guys at the deadline if they're not ahead.
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    That's true, but I have heard the younger the player the faster recovery. We'll see.
  6. Palodios
    "Its the hall of fame, not the hall of very good. " Carlos Delgado had a career .930 OPS, and barely broke 20 votes. Even guys with real awards like Posey and Mauer are going to struggle to make it in -- Posada is probably on the wrong side of the fence.
  7. Palodios
    Scenario 4: Tanaka hurts his elbow early in spring training, and misses all of 2015. He comes back May 2016, dominates the rest of the regular season until getting shelled in a wildcard game. Finally, he opts out and signs with the Dodgers.
  8. Palodios
    Unfortunately, behind home plate is no longer a place for your average fans.
  9. Palodios
    Hmmm
  10. Palodios
    That's not how I remember the New Yankee Stadium. It is on the edge of a crappy part of the city, and is still mostly about baseball -- there aren't exactly boutiques or big scale retail. Maybe I spend too much time in the bleachers, but no one in Fenway is ever paying attention to the games.
  11. Palodios
    Hopefully the top of the order will wear down the opposing pitcher before it gets to Bogaerts.
  12. Palodios
    Also, a new stadium means will have to put a good team on the field. I don't want Fenway to turn into Wrigley... a place that sells out just because its Wrigley. Please don't continue this conversation in this thread, but most of us seem to agree the Red Sox are a pitcher short this offseason.
  13. Palodios
    Over the years, I've sat in the Green Monster, loge behind home plate, Green Monster standing room, right field boxes, obstructed right field seats, hung around standing room behind home plate, and mostly a ton of time in bleachers. I've come in from the Green Line D East and West, the commuter rail from Framingham, the commuter rail from Providence, and by foot. I have never dared drive to a game, but I have taken a few bus trips. I have also been to a dozen other major league stadiums. Fenway is dirty. The right field seats face the outfield -- even the premium lower level ones. View obstruction is common. Transportation is always a nightmare, and parking around Fenway is nearly nonexistent. Seats are expensive. Good seats, extremely so. People barely watch the game unless they're sitting behind home plate, because that's the only place in the whole park with a good view.
  14. Palodios
    I am convinced that they should move the Pawsox up to Fenway for the novelty, and then build a new stadium, perhaps near seaport for the major league team. The city and stadium have never been equipped to handle the fans, and it is clear they haven't helped chip in to help maintain those green line trains.
  15. Palodios
    I think there is room for both. Vazquez can catch 100 games. Swihart can catch 60 games, and play 80 games at either 1B or DH. It keeps them both fresh. Vazquez's splits show him as a better hitter against lefties, so maybe he can get relieved against tough righties by Swihart, and then someone with good splits against RHP takes over Swihart's other position. Maybe it could be a Nava/Swihart platoon at 1B -- Nava's career split against RHP is excellent .293/.385/.428/.813.
  16. Palodios
    Tex will be 35. Beltran will be 38. Ellsbury has had two season ending injuries already. McCann has caught 110+ games every year since he was 21 -- his body must be 35 in non-catcher years. The other guys have career OPSes that are average at best.
  17. Palodios
    There was also only 100 million people in the US, versus 300 million -- plus you have a large population in Japan, DR, Cuba, etc.
  18. Palodios
    GC was never a power prospect, was he? He is a patient contact hitter who stopped making contact in 2014 -- that's the big concern with him.
  19. Palodios
    Despite all the arguing that happens on Talksox, I would guess that 90% of us believe the Red Sox fall into that range.
  20. Palodios
    The Yankees are facing a problem we'll see with Pedroia, Napoli and Victorino. When players put their bodies on the line for enough years (refering to Nap at Catcher), it takes a toll, and they start to decline. Could they all see career averages again? Absolutely, but the odds are not great. The Yankee lineup is made entirely of those kinds of players.
  21. Palodios
    There is the possibility that the Phillies are so bad this year that they fire Amaro before the trade deadline, and someone else takes over. This team looks ugly on paper.
  22. Palodios
    Cliff Lee turns 37 this year? Is that right? 2/50 for him seems a lot more for him than I thought -- especially with prospects. My bet is that he goes to the Yankees for a no-name prospect midseason.
  23. Palodios
    Would someone like to make the spring training thread?
  24. Palodios
    You're right about 365 -- I am looking at a betting aggregator, and it seems like the Red Sox are consistently in 5th or 6th place. That being said, the Jays are 11th, the Yankees are 14th, the O's 15th, and the Rays 25th. http://www.oddschecker.com/baseball/mlb/world-series/winner If I wanted an opinion from an outside source, I would trust 20 different betting sites who make money off their success before I trust 2 talking heads who only make money off opinions.
  25. Palodios
    The Blue Monster (Why hasn't anyone coined this yet? It seems perfect) was a much needed investment for the Red Sox's spring training facility. I don't know why it took so long for them to come up with this.
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