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Dojji, FA will play at the North Pole for the money! This notion of "FA have to like the place" is pure nonsense. Need to go north of 100 million plus before a guy will even consider turning down a place "he doesn't like".

What is made up, is your arbitrary ass-pull number of 5 years 17M. You have no idea what kind of extension he was looking for, or if he was even looking for an extension. A guy who has three years of control isn't turning down an 85 million dollar extension that matches the base of Matt Holdiay, you mental midget.

Not worth the Sox unloading top prospects out of the system. The Braves sent garbage, not top prospects. Prado was a guy they wanted to get rid of because he was becoming a FA, just like the Red Sox need to get rid of Ellsbury.

Sea, miss you over at BDC Boston Globe. That place is down to about 2 or 3 propaganda posters, lead by that big phony, Moonslavic.

If Victorino can hit for average and steal 30 and play his defense of old this may be an alright sign. Shane, an old man at age 33, has been thrown in 2 dumpsters before the Red Sox gave him a shocking windfall. He hasn't stolen 30 bases since 2010, and is in full decline. It will be embarrassing to watch this guy paid 13 million a year for 3 years.

It was no joke. Cherry is incompetent! This guy was thrown in two dumpsters and is in full decline. They should have never toched this guy, but now that they have they must understand that Shane's only value is in CF. They need to trade Ellsbury and would net more than the draft pick they will get when Ellsbury leaves town in a few months. Cherry's plan of incomptence, replace 30 million on Crawbust and Ellspuff with 23 million on Ellspuff and old Shane as a corner OF'er. Truly, a joke.

but he sprays to all fields from both sides You live in a fantasy world. Nava is a lefty platoon type of guy. I do think there is merit in using him as the backup 1st baseman and 5th OF'er.

You seem obvious. Ben Cherrington?

Nothing made up about it. What is made up is the notion that the Red Sox couldn't have sent better garbage trade package and acuqired J. Upton with a 5 year extesnion at about base 17M a year that would have captured the best available young OF MLB talent from age 25 to age 32, which will be his best years. You must be Cherry. Nice going, nearly 30 million for Shane and Ellsbury and Gomes. Crawford and Ellsbury for nearly 30 million in 2012 is a tough act of incomptence to follow. But you seem to have done it.

200 IP of 4.60 ball would be a massive improvement over 123 IP of 5.23 ERA. Be realistic You live in a fantasy world. Dumpster's coming from NL old pitchers retirement league dumpster and has no chance of pitching 200 innings in the AL and puttuing up 4.60 ball. Soon, it will become obvious why no other teams wanted to bid 26.5 million for Dumpster

Are you retarded? Where do you come up with this stuff? Anyways, who would be surprised if Upton didn't want to go to Boston with the fame the team has for being racist, and the Crawford fiasco. It takes a "mental midget" to discount the possibility of it being the case. In fact, it takes a mental midget to post drivel about "team racist" and "Crawford fiasco" as having anything to do with a decision to lock in about 100 million in an extension over zero from the Braves.

While the leverage point for no-trade clauses is mostly true, a lot of the teams in player's NTC's are actually cities where the player doesn't want to go It takes a mental midget to use "mostly true". Truth isn't in factions. It's true. The extension gets the waiver of the no trade, for nearly 100 million reasons. Your post is blathering contradiction.

Dumpster outproducing Beckett's 2012 will not have any impact because it won't be by much.

Wrong, mental midget, GM's construct the players who included Manny and Schilling who lead the players in production and provide the difference. Tito spitting in the dugout was exposed when those great players aged out and Tito was an embarrassment in a loser clubhouse eating fried chicken, playiing video games and drinking beer and winning zero playoff wins, for the last 3 yeras, and not getting in the playoffs at all for 2 of the last 3 yeras. We'll see what Tito produces in Cleveland, with his spitting magic.

The incompetence of the Crawbust contract cost AGon. Now, borken down platoon guy Napoli can't provide the overall defense or season long production that 1st base requires. The best they can do is use minor league contracts for Sweeney and/or Kotchman. I favor Kotchman, because he is an excellent defender at 1st. Neither can hit, though Kotchman is capable of a decent OBP. The Red Sox need to use AAA for OF depth and go with 4 OF'ers. The emergency smallest corner OF OF'er should be the Ciriaco, who absolutely should be on the active 25 man roster. The Red Sox OF is a mess.

Tito was paid about 10 million and produced zero playoff wins and one playoff team in his last 3 years. All he does is blame his failures on ownership. Patheitc, frankly, and I was not a Tito basher during the last 3 disaster years of his tenure. If Duquette hadn't set the table, Tito would produce about as bad as he'll be with the Guardians. He will be fired after a very short tenure with the Guardians. The first year will allow him the "youth" excuse. The following year will test the patience of the Guardians. The third year they will have had enough of this guy who takes L and R in a batting order without regard to recent splits history and fails to move runners up in situations where percentages scream for it because he believes in swinging away almost every time. His players will not be in shape, nor will they show up ready for hard work. He tries to be a sugar daddy to get players to perform. Manny was a hard worker, which the public doesn't know. It was Schilling and the combination of Manny and Ortiz that was the reason for reaching critical mass on championships, not Tito. Great managers, like LaRussa, can win with different organizations. Farrell is an improvement, but the Red Sox have never even attempted to replace a large fraction of what Manny brought to the table and Ortiz is washed up as a full season producer. Middlebrooks is a solid 5 or 6 hitter, but the Red Sox are truly a joke in 3 and 4 lineup spots in a ballpark that requires elite hitting to be proficient in the 81 games in Fenway. Most teams are going to hit in Fenway, so in 2/3 or moe of these game the roster consturction must be able to out produce other teams, against visiting good pitching. Not the case, for 2013.

J. Upton, as I said in the original post that no one paid any attention, would have waived the no trade clause for the 5 year extension at about base 17M. Amazing how many people don't have a clue how no-trade dynamics work. J. Upton's agent would provide the list each year to reflect the teams that he felt J. Upton would most likely be traded to so he'd have more leverage for an extension. The agent knew the Red Sox were pitiful in the corner OF for 2013, the list is submitted around the first of the year, and they also knew that BJ Upton was on the Braves. Thus the Braves were not on the no-trade. The teams that were on it would have to agree to a large extension to get J. Upton to waive that clause, which he would have. Business talks for any player, and would have trumped fraternity. Oh, well, now there will be a weaker 2013 OF than 2012 OF (subtract Ross, add Gomes, and Ellbury was horrible after getting half the season to not play until he was 200%, and Shane who is a fair CF'er as a bogus corner OF'er) How Cherry spends over 150 million on labor and ends up with old Ortiz, a pretzel prima donna in CF, a CF'er in RF, garbage in LF, a 10M cost S. Drew who has permanently damaged bad wheel and has been in two landfills and any boost from Fenway on splits will be wiped out by terrible SS defense range, and Dumpster, the guy who no one else wanted who was an AL bust on the cheap rental months in TX, how 150M plus is spend again and that's the active roster construction is so bad you couldn't make it up. Red Sox got older, worse, and fail to understand how to construct a roster in Fenway for $100 to 120M a year and get results like the Cardinals. No, I'm not a Cardinals fan.

Braves send garbage to get J. Upton. He's 25 years old and the perfect long term fit for Fenway and the AL. Had they send 2nd rate prospects and put Ellsbury on the trade market to net what the DBacks wanted, they could have offered the extension that would get Upton's no-trade clause waived and acquired J. Upton and obtained the prime years of a young 25 year OF'er and still had him off the books past the age of 32. Couldn't do any better than that, and Cherry doesn't seem to understand that Manny aging out has emasculated the Red Sox offense as a feast on bad pitching and impotent against good pitching team. They have spent nearly a billion dollars on labor and management and have zero playoff wins in nearly a half a decade. Dempster Dumpster is truly a joke at 26.M Old Shane comes out of and Philly and LA Dumster for the joke of 39M Cherry has, once again, spent over 150 million for 2013 labor. He's replaced the record incmpetence of 30 million for Ellsbury and Crawford for 2012 with 23 million for 2nd rate bums Ellsbury and Shane, two CF'ers, one who has problems showing up for work and will soon be a FA, and the other providing terrible value as a corner OF'er. I've been a Red Sox fans since 1967, but I call it like I see it. They need to fire Cherrington for incompetence. This is, at best, a bubble playoff team that will not be a title contender if it does barely make the playoffs, which is dubious. And when the payroll is over 150 million and just making the playoffs is dubious, time to clean out the InEpstein and Cherry stalls and get someone like Duquette who knows what he's doing.