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Definitely... This offseason has had a lot of debate but very few moves yet. Paradoxical.

I'm Sagittarius. , you?

yeah, this is becoming a complete joke. Hell, Horoscopes project better than this media guys.

If you check out the last MLBRT post, the last news is what Pal posted. I don't know what to think at this point, though.

Nope, this doesn't sound good at all.

Btw, does anybody know what happened with Garza? The last thing I heard was that he had one foot in Detroit, didn't he?

Almost everybody in this board agrees with this, the problem is that our FO seems that doesn't see this way. They feel comfortable with our current "rotation?" and "depth".

Still talking in with FA pitchers including Oswalt/Jackson?, who are these FA pitches?

My friend, my head is starting to hurt me. Isn't Oswalt in Texas with Nolan?.

Seems like Os already put a multi-year offer, but apparently he rejected. This is an entire mystery. It wouldn't surprise me if a rebuilding/small market team signs him for a long term.

Here the story...

Dammit!

You are mixing things. One thing is a long projection (probabilities/odds) and another realities/outcome. This thread is about projections. The reality could change dramatically for any team. That's other discussion. Nobody is disputing that.

Yup it has not set in stone yet, reason why I still have hopes. Do not take me wrong, beyond how we face next Season, I'll support this team. You bet. If FO/Ben's strategy works out, I'll be the first in celebrate it. I just don't feel comfortable with the current scenario, sorry.

Yup, All teams have QMs. IMO we have more, reason why I do not like the scenario. You do not like casinos/experts predictions but they see more question marks in our team, reason why they project us in this position. If I had to bet, I wouldn't put my money in this current Red Sox. We better bring the SP.

Fearless? We are a mass of question marks. If we get a solid SP, the scenario will be completely different. As constructed, we are a 5-6 team on paper in the AL. As I said, a lot analysts put us in that place. I agree. Sorry but trying to be objective, I just do not see this team in POs. SCM33's opinion seems very realistic to me. A lot question marks. Let's take a tour, 2 huge question marks in our rotation 4-5. A whole mystery in our BP, specially in Bailey/Melancon (injury concerns/performance). Can Youk and Buch be healthy the entire season? Everybody assumes that Crawford will bounce back (I tend to think the same). He is between cottons right now. We need his production early in the season. When is he going to comeback? How long is he going to take to get hot? Will Ortiz put the same numbers? Are Punto/Aviles the solution? Seems like Beckett, Lester, A-Gon, Peddy and Ells are only our sure bets. Plus, The AL seems more competitive this year on paper than recent years. Beyond the 2010 and 2011 outcomes we didn't have these amount of question marks/ red flags on paper and we failed. Yes, these question marks could play in our favor. Nevertheless and beyond baseball, when you have this kind of uncertainty in your business, most of the times it doesn't work out. Some people doesn't see this kind of uncertainty that experts/analysts/casinos/polls and some posters around here see in this team. That give me hopes. We better bring this SP which was our #1 priority this offseason and for whatever reason hasn't been addressed yet. Sounds crazy but this SP could make the difference between go/no-go to POs. As E1 said, we will see.

Hopefully the baseball Gods listen to you Spud. Fingers crossed.

Well, if we go like this, I'm in this bandwagon. I bet that my compa A700 is with us. Tic toc, tic toc....

I just read that Aceves is asking 1.6 and Boston offered him 900 K. They will go to arbitration. I think that Ben is going to lose this one and probably will win Ortiz case. We'll see.

Even If the offer is 5-6 plus 5 in incentives I really doubt that it could work it out. Maybe for Oswalt (injury concerns; btw that offer seems that didn't work it out) but for Jackson? I really doubt it.

if he only wants 1 Y he probably is asking 12-15 M