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  1. Bellhorn04
    Personally I would not trade either for Harvey. They are 4-5 WAR players who would be very difficult to replace, and there are other pitchers comparable to Harvey that we could acquire.
  2. Bellhorn04
    Cubs are not a joke at all. They beat out the teams with the 2 best records in baseball. Then they ran into a team that is better, or hotter than them right now.
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  4. Bellhorn04
    The Jays pitching is not in great shape at all now. Losing Brett Cecil hurt them, and Price hasn't been the stud horse they needed him to be at the front of the rotation.
  5. Bellhorn04
    Duquette was out of the game a long time and was still able to procure a pretty decent job on returning.
  6. Bellhorn04
    Strapped may not be the right word. They would be severely hampered though. You've got 5 starting pitchers to pay, 3-4 good relievers, 9 position players. The numbers add up in a hurry.
  7. Bellhorn04
    I'm not worried about anything here. I enjoy this stuff. As far as facts go, the Red Sox payrolls for past years are facts. The luxury tax thresholds are facts. The extremely close relationship between the 2 is a fact. I maintain that my point is a very simple one. You just don't seem to get it. No big deal.
  8. Bellhorn04
    My point is pretty simple. We know how much they want to spend on payroll. We know how big the pie is. Which of course is tied into the question of whether we as fans should 'worry' or 'shudder' about such things as signing Price for $30 million a year. IMHO, it has nothing to do with worrying about the billionaire's money. The billionaire will be fine. He will not be reaching into his pocket to pay a nickel. He has an asset that keeps appreciating in value, and that generates more than enough revenue to cover the expenses. Any worry is only about how the $30 million impacts the strength of the team.
  9. Bellhorn04
    What I'm saying is that the Sox have made it clear, through the actual historical data, that their payroll budget matches up with the luxury tax threshold.
  10. Bellhorn04
    And, their payroll budget has been very consistently at or around the luxury tax threshold. The numbers are no mystery.
  11. Bellhorn04
    I don't look at it as worrying about 'billionaire's money'. I look at it as 'the team's money'. John Henry does not dip into his own pocket to pay for the players' salaries. The team has a big pot of revenue that it derives from the fans. It spends a carefully budgeted amount of that money on players. It will not go very far above that budget - because Henry and the other owners do not want to lose money. It's almost like a fantasy baseball team where you have X number of dollars to spend and no more, so the money has to be spent wisely.
  12. Bellhorn04
    No, he didn't screw up the team for years to come, I would never say that. Theo left him a lot of good prospects, and we have acquired some more thanks to the last place finishes.
  13. Bellhorn04
    No, I know that. This comes from Dojji saying 'Everyone and their grandmother knows the real reason he's here is to take over at DH when Big Papi retires.'
  14. Bellhorn04
    This is true, paying Hanley 88 million to take over DH in 2018 doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
  15. Bellhorn04
    I realize he got fired, this is about what other posters here have said. Such as that he left an absolutely golden team set up for sustained success.
  16. Bellhorn04
    I liked Ben and I hope he gets another job. And he definitely did some good things. But he can't be given a pass for back-to-back losing seasons on a huge payroll, or Hanley and Panda, or the terrible 2015 pitching staff.
  17. Bellhorn04
    Ben can be given credit for not trading away the kids like Betts and Bogaerts that he inherited from Theo. That and the E-Rod trade were his biggest contributions to the team's future.
  18. Bellhorn04
    So how do we revamp the bullpen?
  19. Bellhorn04
    That's the way it seems. But an awful lot of Royals hitters squared up on Price after that.
  20. Bellhorn04
    That's an overstatement IMO. He did not leave many pitchers that could be considered golden.
  21. Bellhorn04
    Free agency is now like a casino with incredibly high stakes games. GM's place huge bets that could make or break their team for the next few years.
  22. Bellhorn04
    31-6. That was pretty awesome. I was a fan of his, too bad he turned out to be a criminal.
  23. Bellhorn04
    It's either that or trade a bunch of good prospects, which is a different form of cost.
  24. Bellhorn04
    Of course not. But the allocation of the budget is all part and parcel of the stuff most of us amateur GM's like to jibber-jabber about here on an ongoing basis. PS if they can sign Price for 160 million I don't think Kimmi will shudder.
  25. Bellhorn04
    Actually, SoxHop, the Red Sox have made their budget for payroll fairly clear - they try to keep it at or around the luxury tax threshold, which makes perfect economic sense. The threshold the last few years has been 189 million. But that includes some costs that do not show up in the salary figures you see for the players. The biggest amount is benefit payments which are now somewhere around 12 million a year. So the real budget for salaries is somewhere around 175 million. Signing David Price would be great. But his 30 million a year obviously takes up a big chunk of that payroll budget. That's why it matters to us as fans.
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