Yaz Sideburn

here's an estimate of what our financial situation will look like next year current team salary - $168.1 million salaries coming off the books david ortiz - $13 million ($12.5 million club option) mike lowell - $12.5 million julio lugo - $9.25 million adrian beltre - $9 million victor martinez - $7.7 million jeremy hermida - $3.3 million jason varitek - $3 million billy wagner - $1 million boof bonser - $.65 million alex gonzalez - $.5 million total - $50.9 million salary pay decreases lackey - $2.75 million wakefield - $2 million total - $4.75 million salary pay increases beckett - $4.9 million youkilis - $2.9 million matsuzaka - $2 million lester - $2 million pedroia - $2 million total - 13.8 million arbitration estimates papelbon - $11.5 million ($2.2 million increase) ellsbury - $2.5 million ($2 million increase) contract buyouts beltre - $1 million hall - $.5 million total - $1.5 million non-tenders okajima - $2.8 million salary decrease delcarmen - $.9 million total - $3.7 million estimated freed up salary - $47.35 million. if the red sox exercise the option on ortiz and trade papelbon, their roster would look like the following with $46.35 million to spend starters c - 1b - kevin youkilis 2b - dustin pedroia ss - marco sctuaro 3b - lf - mike cameron cf - jacoby ellsbury rf - jd drew dh - david ortiz bench c - jarrod saltalamacchia if - jed lowrie if - of - kalish starters jon lester josh beckett clay buchholz john lackey daisuke matsuzaka bullpen cl - daniel bard su - su - mr - scott atchison mr - felix doubront mr - michael bowden mr - tim wakefield

the war values show that he was worth less than $13 million a year and those values tend to be bloated to begin with

usually teams bring in a reliever to do it so if they get tossed they can just bring in another one

damon can be upset all he wants. he wasn't worth the money he made in new york and he certainly wasn't worth more money than what new york offered. not to mention, his eventually replacement was a large reason why we won the world series in 2007

if francona takes him out after he's only given up 5 runs, that would be progress for him

damon's not going to hit for power but it would make quite a difference to get scutaro out of the leadoff spot. it would also allow lowrie to hit second so we could put ortiz 3rd and move drew down in the order damon - .272/.358/.410 lowrie - .299/.413/.517 ortiz - .267/.371/.544 martinez - .281/.332/.441 beltre - .325/.364/.558 drew - .261/.352/.457 lowell - .229/.304/.375 scutaro - .276/.337/.377 mcdonald - .271/.338/.435

johnny damon would do 3 things. he would play better defense than nava, he would be a better leadoff hitter and he would net us a draft pick if we offer him arbitration at the end of the year. he's a point away from becoming a type a free agent as well

i find it suspicous when someone pretends to be a mythical creature like a pirates fan, especially when they do so on a red sox forum. they can't possibly still have beef from 1903.

it doesn't look like it. the white sox just said that they'd put in a claim on him if he goes on waivers and that would block him from going to the yankees or rays

i think damon's in for a rude awakening. he just said he thinks the tigers are still in it and it sounds like he thinks he's going to play a big role on the team. he said he's going to talk to the team's management and if they plan on going with the young guys instead of him, it's a "no brainer" which i assume means that he'll come to boston

this is your first post here and you already know what kind of responses to expect from people. hmmm, that's interesting

i don't have an issue with him throwing up and in. i have an issue with him throwing up and in, then taunting bautista from the mound afterwards. who is he to be taunting the major league home run leader? and you know full well he expected his catcher to step in and protect him, if i'm the catcher that pisses me off

i think there are 2 reasons why damon is saying he's not sure if he'll come back to boston 1. he wants financial incentive to return 2. he doesn't think the red sox actually want him, and just did this to block him from going to tampa bay or new york i have a hard time believing he actually enjoys playing in detroit

if beckett can't have a good outing against seattle, then he's cooked

congress should look into this. this kind of stuff never happens to anyone but the yankees

that was fast. i have to be up early so can't watch this one but i'll be sending bad juju towards the rays in my sleep