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  1. FredLynn
    I hit the nail on the head this year, didn't I?
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    I agree. I would much rather stay under the threshold this year so we can exceed it next year and not get stuck with the 50% tax. I don't see us going anywhere this year anyway, and furthermore, next year's FA class is much better than this year's.
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    Saunders is a piece of s*** as a pitcher. He is in the same category of Tim Wakefield. No way in hell I want him in a Sox uniform.
  4. FredLynn
    How much do you think Santa wants for Roy Oswalt? We have about $5M to spend this year.
  5. FredLynn
    I think the Cubs have every right to ask for more than that in compensation for relieving us of Epstein.
  6. FredLynn
    We aren't getting Oswalt. We aren't getting Madsen. And we aren't even getting Cordero. Once Ortiz gets his money there will be almost no money left to spend on those guys unless we exceed the luxury tax threshold significantly. And that isn't happening, nor should it this year.
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    Its entirely possible that the franchise will be sold before he is traded, later this season. Then the new owners can negotiate a better deal or re-sign him.
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    They Angels are going to regret this deal. Pujols is truly great now; he will also be 32 years old soon. How productive will he be when he is 35 or 36? Even if he is productive then that still leaves about six years of overpaying him. I am glad the Angels made that deal and not us.
  12. FredLynn
    The league OWNS the Hornets. Up until now they have allowed the Hornets' management to do what they like. However, if Paul is traded the value of the team decreases. The league is trying to protect its assets.
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    Minor correction: it will be the LACK of pitching.
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    Unfortunately, we are going to need 8 or 9 warm bodies that impersonate SP this year. Niese could fit right in. After all, we signed Miller.
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    Yes, we ARE screwed this year. We are not getting any quality pitching to help us unless one of the bums we hire does an about face and suddenly becomes competent. That could happen I suppose, especially in the pen which is always a crapshoot. Epstein has screwed this franchise for years to come because of his long term expensive contracts with guys like Lackey, Matsusaka, and Crawford-and probably Beckett is in that category too. Even if Bard and Aceves become SP how many innings do you really think they will be tossing this year, their first in the majors as SP? 160? Less? So we will need to be 8 or 9 SP deep, and when you are that deep you can bet the lower tier consists of sub-bums like Wakefield and Miller. We are just going to have to tolerate the losses this year and hope that enough $$ comes off the books over the next 2-3 years to enable us to secure good pitching talent and hope that our GM (who I regard as suspect since he was trained by Epstein) exercises good judgement in that selection.
  20. FredLynn
    There is no one out there who can be had for a reasonable price (ie the amount of money the team has to spend) who will help us significantly this year. Hence, we signed Andrew Miller.
  21. FredLynn
    What do you think we can get for Miller? Honestly, he is a worthless bum.
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    Yeah, but WE got Andrew Miller.
  24. FredLynn
    Nope. Not this year. Maybe not next year either. But in 2-3 years we should, hopefully, become relevant again.
  25. FredLynn
    He will be here next year. There are NO other teams out there willing to pay him the "amount of respect" he thinks he deserves. In staying on the roster next year he will prevent us from having the flexibility to give some of the other position players a breather by DH'ing for the day, he will block Lavarnway from DH'ing some of the time, he will prevent the team from getting two good draft picks for his aging body, and he will continue whining in a self-important manner just like he is doing right now. He is a cancer on the team and is preventing us from completing the necessary housecleaning job we have to do.
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