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  1. Spitball
    I believe the Sox will let Drew walk without a qualifying order. This is a new era in Boston and things will be done differently. They won't sink big dollars into a multi-year contract for a player who can be replaced by a top prospect. Xavier Bogaerts and Jackie Bradley are cheap, young, talented, and under team control for several more years. They are the future. Drew and Ellsbury will be expensive and in the Red Sox rear-view windows.
  2. Spitball
    I doubt the Sox are serious players for Ellsbury this winter. They have Victorino and Gomes signed through next year. Jackie Bradley, Jr. is the center fielder for the next several years. The Sox will make Ells a qualifying offer, and that might give them a chance at resigning him.
  3. Spitball
    Lou Brock and Ricky Henderson played left field and not center field. That is significant to their long term successes. Center field takes a lot out of a player's legs. Fred Lynn and Eric Davis were two of the most gifted athletes I have ever witnessed. Both broke down from injuries due to playing center field.
  4. Spitball
    I think sometimes we nitpick on wording so we can question someone's post. It is probably not a valid nor fair way to participate in the discussion process. I believe I am guilty of this myself.
  5. Spitball
    http://www.csnne.com/baseball-boston-red-sox/red-sox-call-middlebrooks-snyder-dl
  6. Spitball
    I don't think there is reason to panic because the Sox have lost two straight to Kansas City, one of the hottest teams in baseball right now. I do believe there will be a move made eventually, but I don't think the Holt/Snyder combo is destroying the offense.
  7. Spitball
    Unless the Mets have a top ten pick (possible), I don't know if they will be players for Ellsbury. Last winter, they refused to sign Bourn because they did not want to surrender their number one draft pick. Even when the price for Bourn dropped considerably, they wanted an arbitrator to rule on the draft pick loss first. There are a lot of teams on the fringes of that top ten draft pick category. I hope we don't start seeing teams going with the "youth movement" philosophy to disguise an attempt to reach the bottom ten category. Surely it won't happen.
  8. Spitball
    Boston would still get the same picking position after round one and before round two. The only difference would be that the team signing Ellsbury (provided they have a top 10 pick) would not lose their pick.
  9. Spitball
    Pal is correct on the compensation pick, but I agree with you on Seattle being a likely landing spot for Ellsbury. They are currently not a bottom 10 team but are not too far away. In any event, they are desperate to get offense and will overpay. Also, Ellsbury is from the Pacific Northwest. I mentioned this on an earlier thread.
  10. Spitball
    I believe the Red Sox will definitely make Ellsbury a qualifying offer...And that could make things interesting. Under baseball's collective bargaining agreement of last year, teams may tender their free agents a guaranteed one-year "qualifying offer" that is equal to the average salary of the 125 highest-paid players from the most recently completed season. Last year, it was $13.3 million. Also, any team signing a free agent that has been offered a qualifying offer will be required to give up its highest draft position (the top ten positions are protected). Two of Boras's clients last year, Kyle Lohse and Michael Bourn, had to settle for less than they had hoped because they received and turned down qualifying offers. Teams were hesitant to lose that draft pick. Has Boras learned anything about dealing with that "qualifying offer" from last year?
  11. Spitball
    Shields was coming off a better season and was signed to a better contract going forward. Lester and the Sox were mere pawns in the trade negotiations.
  12. Spitball
    I believe Gomes and Dempster were brought in as much for their baseball skills as their positive clubhouse presences. I believe it was viewed as necessary after Beckett, Gonzalez, Valentine, et al soured the atmosphere last year.
  13. Spitball
    I agree with Showalter for the very first time: http://espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/story/_/id/9527967/buck-showalter-guarantees-new-york-yankees-sign-matt-wieters-alex-rodriguez-suspended-2014-season
  14. Spitball
    I hate to see Iglesias traded, but Xander Bogaerts is the shortstop of the future. Peavy is not the pitcher he once was but a nice addition. I like the trade.
  15. Spitball
    This is all I see and it does not inspire too much excitement.
  16. Spitball
    RIP, George Scott. The Boomer was one of my favorites. Nomar was great, but number 5 in a Red Sox uniform will always bring to mind George Scott.
  17. Spitball
    From MLBTradeRumors.com:
  18. Spitball
    According to Yahoo, Pujols will undergo surgery and surely be out for the season.
  19. Spitball
    Samardzija would be at least the number two starter until Buchholz comes back. He is now what the Sox can only hope Allen Webster will one day be. It will take a lot so I'd would offer up a package that featured Webster. If it would take much more, I'd tell them to forget it.
  20. Spitball
    I don't think the rotation is in trouble unless Buchholz is out for much longer or comes back a less dominant pitcher. I see the Cubs are now shopping Jeff Samardzija. The guy has looked very good the couple of times I have seen him.
  21. Spitball
    Hahahaha! Great one, Bell! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49EoV50oba0
  22. Spitball
    The Rangers and Orioles might have just established a "sellers' market," but there is very else out there.
  23. Spitball
    He is 6'3" and 185 pounds. Derek Jeter, Troy Tulowitzki, Hanley Ramirez, Brandon Crawford, Jhonny Peralta, and a few others are all about that size.
  24. Spitball
    With Ellsbury and Choo both being represented by Boras, I'm pretty sure both will be difficult signings. It should be interesting to see how Boras plays it this year with the qualifying offer concept that screwed things up for Michael Bourn and Kyle Lohse. I am sure The Sox will offer Ellsbury the qualifying offer but not so sure Cincinnati does the same with Choo.
  25. Spitball
    Perhaps I did not make my point clearly enough. On a steal of second base, the runner takes off for second the moment the pitcher moves toward his release point. On a steal of third, the runner can take off as the pitcher goes into his motion and before the commitment to deliver. In a totally unrelated note and using Bill James's Pythagorean record formula, The Red Sox should have a winning percentage of .600 which is pretty damn close to their actual record of .598%. Btw, Tampa Bay's Pythagorean record should be .571% and it is actually .573%. The Yankees are over-performing with actual winning percentage of .537 compared to their projected .497%.
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