FredLynn
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The baseball league minimum salary is now up to $300,000. Thats most of the way to the top 1% of wage earners in this country (they earn about $400,000). I am not disputing how hard these guys work, but on the other hand, I feel like I worked hard to get where I am as well, as, I am sure, did you. If I didn't like the salary or working conditions that my chosen profession offered, like everyone else in this country, I am free to seek employment elsewhere. Similarly, if a baseball player does not care for what is offered, he can also leave. Its a free country. I certainly think that they should try to get what they can, but I still have no sympathy for guys like JD Martinez who is apparently turning down a contract (or at least stalling) worth a reported $120M+. No tears for JD. Sorry. Sign the paper.
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"Suppress" the salaries....an interesting oxymoron. We aren't exactly talking about NORMAL pay rates here. These athletes are talented, no doubt, but they are all being paid outrageous sums to PLAY A GAME. They certainly have the choice to leave their chosen game and sell cars instead. Its hard for me to have any sympathy at all for players who are holding out for salaries well over $100M when they could sign to PLAY THE GAME today and be set for life. Wait.....let me wipe the tear off my cheek.....
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I liked him just fine....its his baseball play that I didn't like. From early on his K to BB ratio portended a disaster, and that is pretty much what happened. Flash in the pan.
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Define "imminent". Is it 24 hours? A week? Two? All these unsigned FAs are not going to be selling used cars come opening day.
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One has to feel a great deal of sorrow for JD Martinez. Seems $120M isn't enough to feed his family. How could we possibly expect him to survive on so little?
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Its more up to his knee than medical science. Generally microfracture therapy (if you can even call it that) is a pretty crappy way to deal with the loss of cartilage in the knee. Sometimes it works briefly, maybe for a year if the patient is lucky, but the new cartilage created doesn't function very well. I think Pedroia will eventually need a joint replacement.
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Oh yeah....him. I will double his pay immediately for that effort.
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Of course not...but none of that has happened yet. In fact, as far as I recall, all that has happened is signing Moreland.
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Its also highly unlikely that DD is going to allow this uncertainty to go on forever. Thats just plain stupid. He will not be making public his negotiating tactics, but I am quite sure that he has a deadline in mind. Eventually it will be time to move on.
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And $2M a day starting.......
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Is there a way to rename this thread? I would suggest "The Cold Stove Thread".....
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You can say that ("his career would have fallen apart) about most pitchers in the game. Very few pitchers maintain their level of excellence. In 2009-2011 he was very very dominant, especially in 2010. I remember watching his 95+ fastball combined with a 90 mph slider, both with very good location when he was on. All you really n need is two pitches as a RP; as a starter you need at least 3 most of the time. Bard never developed that third reliable pitch-AND he lost the ability to locate. I think his lack of success as a SP played with his head and permanently screwed him up: he lost confidence. Had he stayed in the pen, where he belonged until he had that third pitch, I think he would have had a very good career as a RP.
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Yup. Five years: no more. And even that is a stretch for Martinez, who is really going to end up as a DH. I would even prefer four years, though that is probably unlikely to get him. Longer than that (5) financially hobbles the franchise for many years to come. I can put up with one year of mediocrity as long as we have access to next year's FA class.
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As is just about everything else Sox-related this offseason. Meanwhile us ordinary fans sit hear twittling our thumbs waiting for something to happen that is REAL.....and wagging our typing fingers about like chiclets bouncing over a tile floor. Waiting........waiting......
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I would not offer him more years unless he accepts much less money. And thats not going to happen.
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I have tickets to the first ST game against the Twins. Not going there just for that game, obviously.....I have family in the Tampa area.
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^^^^^^ This.
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We will not get him for less than five years; we will likely not even get him for that many years (5). While I agree with you that he isn't worth a long contract at high AAV, thats what it will take to sign him. If we do not improve offensively its going to be a long long summer.
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Everybody cherry picks the stats and data that best support their position...everybody. Its not only true here but its true everywhere else too.
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I am not a big fan of JBJ, but to say that he has "no value except to Red Sox fans" is inaccurate. True, he is not very good offensively, but defensively he is a wizard, and he does have a favorable contract.
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According to BR it was ............JBJ. Bogey wasn't even third. Benintendi was. https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/BOS/2017.shtml
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Guess which position player last year had the second highest WAR value......
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Signing Hosmer would have been even dumber than signing Moreland.
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This is not going to improve our chances next year.
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One thing Jacko is right about: DD is going to have to get one more decent SP. Our depth at the position is suspect.