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Keith Law Ranked the Red Sox to have the #5 farm system. Baseball Prospectus gave them six top 100 prospects. Xander #2, Bradley #23, Barnes, Owens, Cecchini, Swihart.
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I still don't understand how losing Salty actually hurt the Red Sox. Pitchers actively tried to not throw to him. Beckett blatantly refused, and Lester may have asked nicely. A year ago, I believed that the Red Sox pitching staff's ERA could drop an average of .30 points solely by getting rid of him.
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Marahiro Tanaka And Sox Starting Rotation.
Palodios replied to marklmw's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
There have been a lot of the same teams going to the world series lately. The Giants, Rangers, Tigers, Red Sox, Phillies have all been there twice since 2006, and the Cardinals three times. It seems like it comes down to good team management, and pitching... but it seems like it is much easier to be successful in the middle of the pack salary-wise than the bottom. -
Fortunately you will get more wish. More and more superstars are being locked up early, and for their careers. We'll have the luxury of seeing Pedroia his entire career, and by the sound of it, Lester too. Ortiz. Possibly Buchholz, although that is assuming he'll have a short career. And a big pile of youngsters that will get long term deals early in their team control. Drew isn't one of this team's guys -- he's a mercenary -- unless they feel like solidifying the SS role that hasn't seen stability at all in the last decade.
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Fred, the Yankees just spent 500 million dollars on their roster after an awful season, and spent money on a pile of win-now signings that will hurt them in the years ahead. It doesn't matter how the Red Sox do, it just depends on how the Yankees do. If the Red Sox and Rays can hit them on both ends --a losing record early, and no playoffs on the end -- their fanbase will continue to plummet more than it already has. This is a team whose fanbase probably hasn't seen a losing season since before they were born.
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Yankees interested in Ervin Santana. This is getting ridiculous... I don't understand how the rest of the league has stood for this all these years.
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Juan Pierre is still available. I wonder if he would accept a minor league assignment as well. Sometimes it is good to have a spare guy like him on the roster. Quintin Berry certainly had his value.
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It does have an opt-out clause, but many times players are willing to wait a month or two to see how things work out, and someone will probably get injured by then. That is one of the perks of being the defending champs is that these types of guys tend to be willing to wait a month to get onto the roster.
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Jose Mijares! Can we talk about him? 29 years old. Career 3.30 ERA, 8ish K/9, World Series Champion, lefthander with mid 90's fastball. Splits aren't vastly different. He had a rough 2013, but when your BABIP was the highest in baseball, a 4.20 ERA doesn't seem that bad. What a great minor league signing. They can stash him in the minors until someone gets hurt, and you have a serviceable 6th inning option to keep the team afloat. Low ground ball numbers will hurt, but Bradley + Victorino will be solid in the outfield.
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Not sarcastic at all.
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If he thought Lester is a 1/2 then why drop a paragraph arguing on semantics on why I thought Lester was a 1/2 ? I really tried to avoid this argument.
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I generalized him as a #1/#2 for the sole purpose of avoiding this argument. If you consider him a #3, I don't even know what you to tell you.
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I said that to SS as a joke. It wasn't directed at you.
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The real problem is that people fuel the fire. Someone called me dumb just a page ago, and I let it go. I used to get worked up about little potshots, but I find that I enjoy this place a lot more if I just let it go.
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175 for Tanaka is going to warp the market. Lester has proven much more as a borderline #1/ high end #2, has been very healthy, and his habit of improving as the season progresses makes him postseason viable. 140 on the open market seems like a good starting point, so 110-120 seems about right for the Red Sox.
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You can sneak years in there by adding in a current contract year -- 6/100 including this year. Maybe add a signing bonus, saying 110/6 with a club option?
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This is the quote that stands out to me "'I want to win. If that means taking a Pedroia deal where you stay here for less money to be happy and be competitive and win every year, let's do it. Let's get it done."
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In all fairness, I don't pull the race card often. No one should be happy about good Red Sox players going to the Yankees, and no Red Sox fans should consider Jeter their favorite player. Those are the only times I can think of that I have used it
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It tends to be hit or miss. I just found that post to be a particularly large miss.
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The Mets have been bargain hunting for most of the season. It seems like they stick their nose in on a free agent, realize he is too much, and step back. Stephen Drew may fall to him simply because he will be the biggest bargain of the offseason.
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To paraphrase what he said "Hey -- a good player is joining the Yankees instead of the Red Sox! Hooray!" That is not going against conventional wisdom. That is going against common sense... unless he is a Yankee fan.
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Has SoxSport been a Yankee fan all this time? So many things make sense to me right now.
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The Red Sox are constructed pretty much the same as they were last year when they won the world series excepted they traded Salty for AJ, and lost Ellsbury. There is something about a team that has 6 reliable starters, and 7 legitimate starting prospects options behind those starters. The bullpen will walk the fewest batters in the majors this year. Most positions have prospects waiting in line drooling to take over a spot in case of an injury. They have money, and plenty of trade chips available for a mid-year trade. And Cherrington still has plenty of time to make a trade in the next month. Things are good in Red Sox nation. The Yankees on the other hand, added a lot of talent... but also subtracted a lot of talent from an 80something win team that is only getting older.
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The more I think about the big league contract, the less I am concerned about it. Sure, if he ends up on the 25 man roster, there is a chance he might knock off one of the other guys, or push Bradley to AAA. But the only way that happens is if He's actually healthy and performing well enough that the team doesn't DFA him during spring training OR He's healthy and someone else is not healthy or productive. 700k is a lot of money to most of us, but it only works out to be $200k relevant to the luxury cap because the team would need to fill the 40 man roster with league minimum salaries anyway.
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Brewers get Garza. That was quick. 4/52, and no draft pick compensation. He has plenty of potential to be both a bust and a steal.
