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  1. The Boomer
    I'm obviously at outlier here, but here goes. Logically Williams Clemens Pedro Emotionally Fisk Pedro Papi
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    I don't think they will; the only reason I said they might is that he will bring back more than Beckett for all the reasons you cite. I think it would be a bad idea to trade core players at this point unless you're really going to tear down the team and if that's the plan then there are people who you could move ahead of Lester. Also, trading him right now would be selling low which is always a bad idea.
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    There is a non-zero chance that football as we know it won't exist in 5-10 years. As more cases of brain damage come out, the NFL, NCAA, and junior leagues have no way to further protect players and there may be rules changes that either maximize safety and impact popularity and/or drive advertisers to other sports. There will always be football in the US as long as there are advertising dollars supporting it but it may not look much like the 2011 NFL. Steroids were/are a real problem for baseball, but they are in no way as central to the game as hitting is to football.
  5. The Boomer
    An overpaid DH who will be an FA at the end of the season? I think you overestimate his value to other teams. Iglesias has a .607 OPS this year. Sounds like he's not ready and needs more time. Assigning 100% of the blame for Bard to the FO when it was a group decision seems a bit over the top.
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    Yes, by all means let's cut the best offensive performer we have in 2012. That sounds like a winning strategy for sure. But: why isn't that master of discipline Bobby V.taking care of this business without the need for such drastic actions?
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    Best: V-Mart Bay Beltre
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    I doubt ESPN sets the standard for good poll questions. I think © and (D) are both too early to settle on, although I do think Bobby V's biggest issue is his lack of willingness to stick to a plan. Either leave pitchers in or have a quick hook; but try to not to both under questionable circumstances in the span of a week.
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    I'm going with B; the sample size is way to small to do anything else. However, I can't see how anyone could possibly choose A.
  13. The Boomer
    I am glad he's going to be there. He deserves to get some kudos for his 8 years with the Sox and 2 WS championships. How he feels about it is irrelevant to me.
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    Not to mention the AL East has become significantly more competitive since 2007. You used to be able to count on automatic wins against Tampa and the Jays and Orioles weren't particularly great teams either.
  18. The Boomer
    Lester has been a slow starter for most of his career, IIRC. Let's see how he looks in May.
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    Interesting look at a pitcher who has moved from the BP with some success (Chris Sale) and Bard: http://www.fangraphs.com/statss.aspx?playerid=10603&position=P http://www.fangraphs.com/statss.aspx?playerid=7115&position=P They look quite similar in pitch values except that Bard's change averages ~4 mph faster than Sale's. Bard has a much better FB and slider though.
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    I recall a lot of people saying letting Bay and V-Mart go were mistakes. A couple of years down the road it doesn't look like it. I always liked Beltre myself and was sorry to see him go.
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    It appears that some are upset when a good portion of a FA contract goes to pay a player for performance on another team. For example, the Angels are paying a boatload of money to Pujols not for future performance but to repay him for the years he was massively underpaid by the Cards. We are paying Lackey back for the pitching he did for the Angels for years, etc. It's not fair and I don't like it much, but this is how FA works. If you want to play the game, you have to pay the price. You can make the case that by overpaying for Paps we're paying ourselves back and that's better then the Lackey model, but I think the Sox simply decided that we were paying enough back pay as it was and couldn't afford to fund any more players' past performance when it robbed from the future performance of the franchise. You can disagree with that position but it's pretty defensible from where I sit. Sure, in hindsight we should have not signed Lackey but that's a choice that Ben doesn't have the luxury of making.
  24. The Boomer
    Paps was a FA this year, so I don't see how it's any different that other players who came in via FA, except they came from other teams. Unless the Sox have some special "homegrown" sauce that means no homegrown player will have a career-ending injury.
  25. The Boomer
    Right, if Paps blows out his shoulder this year then you have one more dead contract to deal with. It's probably not going to happen but if it does it's someone else's problem.
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