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  1. Oh, I can see that point of view as well. It's just that he's also a guy who has only made $14 million in his career including this year. If he gets some serious out-of-nowhere injury this year, he'll have said goodbye to 10 times that amount. It's a risky play from that perspective.
  2. That is a crazy amount of money to turn down alright.
  3. Cordero has pitched 8 scoreless with a .399 OPS allowed. Pretty hard to do better. Apparently Breslow will start on the DL.
  4. The Yankees aren't using their starting lineup for these games any more than other teams do. For Thursday's game at Jet Blue the Yankee starting lineup was this: Suzuki Anna Nunez Teixeira Cervelli Sizemore Solarte Almonte Wheeler Like the Red Sox, they've been using their starters in home games but very few starters in away games.
  5. Man, old Cliffy Lee sure mows us down most of the time doesn't he?
  6. Maybe Montero and Pineda will both have good years, who knows? That's the beauty of baseball. There's so much s*** you just can't predict, even if you're the world's greatest Sabrmetrics guy.
  7. Your numbers are indeed correct.
  8. Patience with the kids now.
  9. Drew will get signed by somebody, even if it's not until after the draft in June, when there will be no draft pick given up to sign him.
  10. Probably not much chance of sticking, but it's interesting they kept him up longer than Brentz. We could see him this year, that's for sure.
  11. I'm hfxsoxnut on BDC. I was hfxbob on Sawxheads. So I think you know me pretty well.
  12. He's a 28-year old veteran of the minors. .794 OPS in 3 seasons of AAA. He doubled and homered yesterday, but off Erik Bedard and a Santiago Garrido.
  13. I imagine Girardi will do some tinkering with the lineup in the early going depending on results. I think Ellsbury is your opening day leadoff hitter though.
  14. I think a certain amount of lack of focus and complacency is okay at this point. It's up to Farrell to get them back into focus in the next 3 weeks. I think he's quite capable of doing that.
  15. Lester, Lackey, Buchholz and Peavy have pitched a combined total of 1 inning in spring games so far.
  16. Grady Sizemore. I'm starting to get a good feeling that he's going be a nice surprise and a contributor for us this year.
  17. Josh Beckett. I think Beckett might have a surprisingly good bounceback season. And yes, I'm basing that solely on the reports of his first spring outing. He seems to think he's healthy again.
  18. I'm not much into those detailed predictions of what's going to happen in the upcoming season with final standings and playoff results. But I thought it might be fun to just toss out some random predictions of what individual players might do. First up: Jacoby Ellsbury. I have a feeling Ellsbury is going to have a big year. Not 2011 big, but a little better than 2013. I think he will be jacked to show the Yankee fans his stuff. He might need to be careful, in fact, that he doesn't get too jacked and hurt himself trying to do too much. So there you have it - just a random hunch, totally unsupported by any metrics whatsoever.
  19. Speaking only for myself, some of it is probably wishful thinking. But Sabathia's innings load has been huge. 2,900 major league innings including postseason.
  20. Not quite. We're not TB. Just listen to what Lucchino says. The Red Sox don't like handing out megadeals to FA's but they know it has to be done sometimes. They will take a 'balanced approach', which only makes sense when you're a wealthy team. Lester is a good bet. A big strong lefty who has succeeded in the AL East and just took us to a World Series. Guys like him don't grow on trees. The prospects are just that.
  21. Would you stop with the crying poor for the Red Sox? Our payroll this year will be right at the luxury tax threshold, the same as it has been for several years. We're a wealthy team.
  22. Get serious. Burnett obviously benefitted hugely from moving to the NL. His career ERA in the AL is 4.39. His ERA with the Yankees was 4.79. 'The past 2 seasons' is just one cherry-picked parameter.
  23. You and I are in complete agreement on this issue, but things have really gotten insane when we can refer to 17 million a year for pitching as peanuts.
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