neilpatrickharris

Love it, and the optout/cheap option allows us to pursue someone like Gonzalez in the future if he becomes available

This last page has been all sorts of awesome

Have you met Suns yet?

Speed is measured when the ball comes out of the hand, doesn't matter if the mound is 60 ft or 60 miles away. Now reaction time on the other hand would be a viable measurement

There is no way anyone in a softball league throws 103. Otherwise He'd be in the majors

People come to watch a winning product. Obviously "charm" was not enough to fill the stands in the 80's and 90's

I don't think this is necessarily true. Teams will be much more reluctant to part with key major league contributors (IE Buchholz, Ellsbury, Bard) mid-season

They're both similar in terms of offensive output: Ellsbury: 08: 16.2 VORP 09: 41.4 Span: 08: 20.5 VORP 09: 37.5 Not to mention Span spent almost all of 08' as a corner OF along with half of 09' which gives his value a bit of a hit

Besides every aspect...

Please don't tell me you buy into that theory

Because he was coming off two consecutive good years? He had a 3.56 and a 4.22 ERA in the two prior seasons in his age 25 and age 26 seasons. Hindsight is really 20/20 right Perez is only 27, when it rains it pours with him but when he's on, he's a damn good pitcher

In a market where Chone Figgins (a significantly better player all-around) gets 9mil, how can Beltre (coming off a sub .700 OPS season) get anymore than 5-7mil? What teams would pay more than that for Beltre? In a league where plus defense is only really highly valued by a few GM I just don't see a well below-average corner infielder getting more than what I suggested above.

How can you assume Cameron was plan B? Maybe the Red Sox looked at his declining defense and decided he wasn't the right fit for the next 4/5 years. Cameron is only a two year commitment and by that time Reddick/Kalish/Westmoreland may be ready to go. Do you really think a front office planted a story for a reporter as a way of pumping up Kotchman's popularity? Did you also consider that perhaps this is a slow offseason and writers need something to write about? If you want to dispute the stuff said in the article I'm all ears, but fact is that he's an excellent defensive 1B who's shown good offensive ability in his limited major league time.

Not completely. Point was that Theo hasn't budged on a Buchholz deal yet and given his run to end the season it seems completely improbable.

Key difference being that after the deadline was when Buchholz had his run of dominance