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  1. Bellhorn04
    With one caveat - some players seem to do extraordinarily well in the walk year! Victor Martinez being a notable fresh example.
  2. Bellhorn04
    Well, I'm getting a little confused here I guess. I thought the idea of taking Howard with Hamels was that it would reduce the prospect haul wanted by the Phillies. If they're not getting much salary relief on Howard they're still going to want the prospects.
  3. Bellhorn04
    There's a $10 million buyout on Howard's 2017 option. A team acquiring him is either on the hook for $60 million for 2 years, or $73 million for 3 years.
  4. Bellhorn04
    Well, we're starting to hear some noise now at least.
  5. Bellhorn04
    The A's are a small market team who had a chance to go for a title. It failed dismally, but I don't think it was a bad move. It's not like they gave up a couple of top prospects. They gave up a guy who they only had under contract for 1.3 years, and a guy who nobody seems very sure how good he actually is.
  6. Bellhorn04
    That raises the grim prospect of trading Napoli and finding Craig's bat is as bad as it looked last year.
  7. Bellhorn04
    I don't see that. The A's were going for it this year, and they would only have Cespedes one more year.
  8. Bellhorn04
    What I'm hearing is that Headley could get something like 4 years for 48 million.
  9. Bellhorn04
    It might be just Kool-Aid, but he did finish well last year. In September he gave up 5 walks in 24 innings.
  10. Bellhorn04
    The problem with the idea is what I bolded. I'm pretty sure the Red Sox are going to make the kind of moves that at least give them a chance on paper to be a playoff team. They're not going to send a message that they're already looking beyond 2015. I'm taking the PR component into account.
  11. Bellhorn04
    No offence, but that'd be crazy. Lincecum has been very bad for 3 consecutive seasons. He had a 4.74 ERA and a 1.39 WHIP last year. And SF has a pitcher-friendly park. On top of that, he makes $18 million next year.
  12. Bellhorn04
    Ryan Howard is just about done.
  13. Bellhorn04
    Miller had a great season, especially after being traded, but $40 million for a reliever with 1 career save seems insane to me.
  14. Bellhorn04
    I loved those late 70's teams especially. But the thing that was crushing was never being able to win it all, of course. The new ownership has delivered championships. The championships completed me as a Sox fan. The loyalty was finally rewarded. That's why I'm still loyal to them. 700hitter, are you a Red Sox season ticket holder? Season ticket holders fall into a special category for me. They are the real financial supporters of the team.
  15. Bellhorn04
    I think everybody and their dog knows the Sox have to acquire 2 good starters for 2015.
  16. Bellhorn04
    The question is, can a team like the Marlins afford to break the bank for one player? Their total payroll for 2014 was less than $50 million. Stanton will be looking for around $30 million per, which means he'll be taking up about half the annual payroll. It leaves them little money to spend anywhere else.
  17. Bellhorn04
    I think what they're doing is two things: 1) Confirming that there's no way they can meet his demands; 2) The PR thing you're suggesting. It's the only thing they can do, really. Things are setting up for him to be traded by this year's deadline.
  18. Bellhorn04
    We shouldn't really have to argue as much as we do about who's a #1 or a #2 etc. If the guy is in the top 20% statistically he's a #1. The next 20% are #2's etc.
  19. Bellhorn04
    He really is the gift that keeps on giving.
  20. Bellhorn04
    My guess would be Scherzer to the Yankees.
  21. Bellhorn04
    You're not getting under my skin at all, trust me. It's called disagreeing. We freed up a ton of money with that deal, and we won a World Series with guys that were signed with some of the money. That's a pretty big positive right there that you seem to be completely dismissing. Most Sox fans feel the AGon trade was a huge benefit for the team. Your position is in the minority.
  22. Bellhorn04
    Yes, I know exactly what you can do, believe me LOL. But 'in the end, they didn't trade an unproven prospect for proven talent'? You can do a lot better than that.
  23. Bellhorn04
    I thought you were an advocate of trading unproven prospects for proven talent.
  24. Bellhorn04
    Your deal proposal is a reasonable one. You could look at the actual deal as 12 million for Year 1 and 6 million for Year 2.
  25. Bellhorn04
    Oh well, we also got a major addition by subtraction on Crawford & Beckett.
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