Bellhorn04
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Yes, it could be ugly. Or we could be fortunate and find the nugget in the dung pile. We're not in a comfortable position, I agree. Personally I accept that it's our reality for this year.
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That depends on a lot of things. Catastrophe is a possibility but far from a certainty IMO.
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2 questions: -How many postseason games does it take to not be SSS. -Should postseason games be given more weight than reg season games.
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I agree with all that.
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Players unhappy with the Valentine as manager?
Bellhorn04 replied to SCM33's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
He has two of them actually...he's the man with the crystal balls. -
Panning for gold and finding a nugget in a pile of dung.
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Very sorry to hear it. One year older than me.
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Fred, I just can't get as emotional about it anymore. Maybe I've kind of distanced myself from it a bit. I've been following this team for 40+ years and it's taken its toll. Maybe they weren't prepared to start the season. I will readily admit it could be true. But then they played .650 ball for a few months. It was just a really bizarre season. And I have said repeatedly that it was Francona's time to go. But yes, I was a Francona man.
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They're going to need a whole separate training facility just for the dumpster projects.
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Woo-hoo! The Red Sox have officially set a new major league record for offseason signings of pitching reclamation projects.
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Anybody that thinks we should have said adios to Ortiz and gone with Lavarnway at DH needs to take a look at what that lineup would look like.
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Shoppach's overall offensive numbers, needless to say, are very s*****.
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Okay, I'm going to take a shot at clarifying the 2012 payroll for luxury tax purposes, based on Alex Speier's numbers. Here we go: 1 Gonzalez 22.00 2 Crawford 20.29 3 Beckett 17.00 4 Lackey 16.50 5 Ortiz 14.58 6 Youkilis 10.31 7 Matsuzaka 8.67 8 Ellsbury 8.05 9 Buchholz 7.38 10 Pedroia 6.80 11 Lester 6.00 12 Jenks 6.00 13 Bailey 3.90 14 Ross 3.00 15 Salty 2.50 16 Iglesias 2.06 17 Sweeney 1.75 18 Bard 1.61 19 Punto 1.50 20 Shoppach 1.35 21 Aceves 1.28 22 Aviles 1.20 23 Albers 1.05 24 Miller 1.04 25 Morales 0.85 25 man total 166.67 26-40 man total 8.00 Benefits 10.50 Bonuses 2.00 Total 187.17 The 26-40 number represents players like Tazawa, Melancon, McDonald, Doubrant etc. who complete the 40 man roster. Some of their salaries are not finalized yet, but none of them will be much more than 500K. According to Speier, we are not getting any relief in 2012 from the club option for a 6th year in Lackey's contract. Any questions?
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Spitball, here are 2 examples, and I'm very confident I'm right on this: 1) A-Gon extension. When the Sox acquired him he had one year remaining on his contract for $6 million. They signed him to a 7 year extension for $154 million after Opening Day of 2011. Therefore his salary for 2011 for LT purposes was $6 million. For 2012-2018 it will be $22 million per year, the average value. If he had signed the extension before Opening Day, it would have become in effect an 8 year deal for $160 million, or $20 million per year from 2011-2018. 2) Billy Wagner trade. Wagner's salary that year with the Mets was about $10 million. The Red Sox traded for him in August. The amount of his salary that they carried for LT purposes was their pro-rated portion of the $10 million-about $3 million.
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It's two different things, Spitball-the rules pertaining to mid-season trades and the rules pertaining to the timing of signing contract extensions.
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With regard to Oswalt's health, things have really taken a turn here toward pessimism. I would agree that there are concerns, but he did make all of his starts from August on. And he has been meeting with teams. I don't think the fact that no one has signed him means that everyone's been going over his medical records with him.
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The killer there, though, is the 40% LT. 10 million = 14 million.
