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I'm going to look at the other side of the coin as well in order to be fair. Crawford, Kalish, D-K and even Bailey are expected to return at some points in the season. Right?. If they return strong and healthy, and our current team stays healthy/solid by the time, be careful with the Boston Red Sox, we could even make the WS, I mean it. :thumbsup:
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IMO We would have been fine with Lav/Youk/Aviles sharing the DH/SS/3B. Our offense probably wouldn't have been the #1 like last year but It would have been solid even without Ortiz. Our offense is not the problem IMO. On the other hand, our pitching scares me a lot ORS, in both BP and rotation. If one of our top 3 goes to DL for a long time or underperform we will be in a big predicament again this season. If this happens, Probably we will live some september flashes again (knocking wood). By now, we have lost our titular closer and this hasn't even started. I'm crossing my fingers, and hopefully everything will be right with our team.
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Well, that is another good perspective, looking at it year by year.
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Hell, if 178 is the cap and ESPN is correct or kind of, NY is over by around 15. If the strategy was stay under the cap, fine... but as I said early, Still, they could use Ortiz money in pitching. They chose other strategy/plan. They signed Ortiz, and the rest is history. In the the end only time will tell if they made the right moves.
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I do not know man, they say that NY is at 196 M in the same list.
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At baseball reference: Signed Players With Guaranteed Contracts (does not include players with options) $36 M Dollars Committed Value of Guaranteed Contracts (no options are exercised and includes buyouts) $170.1M
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Looking at ESPN we are at 160... I think this is not accurate or updated. http://espndeportes.espn.go.com/beisbol/mlb/equipo/salaries/_/nombre/bos/boston-red-sox
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174 is the final number? what is the 2012 cap number? 180?
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Luchino? Ok blame Luchino then Well, we have not won a single playoff game in 3 years, right?, maybe my bar is higher, but if you want to say 3; 3 then.
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Beyond the name, those were FO's decisions. In the end we could pay for those decisions for 4th year in a row. Only time will tell, though.
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Letting Pap walk was his worst mistake. Ortiz was his 2nd worst mistake. Scu's departure was his 3rd worst mistake. Signing these "pitching depth" and coverting Bard as starter could be his 4th worst mistake.
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Way to go SoxSports
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I like Ortiz, but even without Ortiz this offense would have been solid. With 15 MUSD you could bring guys like Buehrle, Jackson, Kuroda and even keep Wheeler and probably even keep Scutaro. Instead you kept Ortiz, get rid of Scu and "invested" on "pitching depth" and are betting on develop a reliever as starter. I didn't like the "plan" either, but as I said only time will tell.
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As simple as this.
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I would have used Ortiz money in pitching. Ex. Buehrle and Wheeler and share the DH/SS/3B load between Lav/Youk/Aviles. Also, I would have kept Scutaro as well instead of investing on some of those "pitchers" I won't put a first and last name on this but as some have said here; from my outside-in analisys this team didn't plan well this offseason. Only time and results will tell, though.
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Hell, our situation is unbelievable.
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pffff...
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Really? I didn't know that he pitched 16 times in the 9th inning with saving situations. I still prefer him eating innings, but if he takes the job as closer, I wonder who would eat those innings. Albers?
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I like Aceves and he is great eating tons of innings but he is not a closer. On the other hand, we need to be creative. I do not like Melancon as closer but he has had experience closing and he probably will be the "natural next option" until Bailey backs. We'll see.
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IMO only a few can be called natural/real closers. This is not a trivial job IMO. This is a specialty. You need guts. You need nerves of steel. You need to handle tons of pressure; arguably they handle the most pressure situations in a baseball game.
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Prediction Time: Who makes the playoffs from both leagues
iortiz replied to MANNYHOF24's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
I like Miami. If Johnson and Reyes stay healthy, Henley bounce back and Buherle put his career numbers, be careful with them. -
As I said, they were losses by injuries/underperformance, part time/full time, but losses in the end. I do not know who overrates closers, but IMO closers are a key part of the game; they several times mark the difference between win/lose a game, go/no-go to playoffs; no more, no less.
