FredLynn
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Awe gee Ellsbury. Someone put a bug up your ass? :dunno:
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If that is true we can take that off his list. Theo is the reasons the franchise is where it is today-and I don't mean that in a good way. Look at the list of FAs he signed that sucked: Cameron. Gagne, Lackey, Renteria, Lugo, Smoltz, Penny....and on and on and on. How much money has he wasted? A ton. I don't expect perfection, just a good performance in each area of his responsibilities. Look how he has handcuffed us this this year. Oh-and he really didn't build the 04 team. That was mostly due to the previous GM. He added some good parts, but its not like he built it from scratch.
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He did a poor job as GM IMO. Too many long expensive FA contracts is the major reason. Hiring an incompetent medical staff is another. Allowing the clubhouse to become a circus is another. He did a fair job drafting players; I will give him that. The current team is not that bad; I agree. Its perhaps good enough to make the playoffs. But with the budget available to it, I expect better.
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Chuck Norris never sleeps....................................................................he waits.
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Ahhhh....personal insults. The last resort of the feeble.
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Sharp as a tack, as usual.
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But Theo did f*** up this team-royally. It will take years for us to undo the damage he brought upon the franchise. Look around-Lackey, Crawford, Jenks, the medical staff that misdiagnosed Ellsbury and failed to diagnose Crawford..and so forth. It was his JOB not to make those mistakes, not our. We are fans; we can be wrong. He can't.....but he was. He did an aweful job as GM here, yet there are those who still think he walks on water. Hard to understand.
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You know what? I would have that MRI machine working 24/7 this year. Its not like an XRay which has potential side effects (there is no safe dose of radiation). An MRI is based on the magnetic properties of atoms and unless you are made of metal, its a very very safe procedure. I have a suspicion that this Crawford thing is going to drag on much longer than they are letting on.
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Damn...missed out on Saunders. One more bum Cherington failed to sign.
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No, they don't. This is a rebuilding year and the main focus should be to stay under the cap and rebuild. That has to be the strategy IMO. The final record this year does not matter one bit to me as long as they remain under the cap and fix the clubhouse. Thats enough to do for one season.
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And McDonald and Aviles.
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GMs are expert at getting creative as regards getting under the cap. I suspect that since it really makes no sense to go just a little over the cap this year with a bunch of Sox fans growling at the team already, unless the owners are more foolish then I suspect, they will either sign Oswalt and exceed the cap greatly or stay under it. Anything else is just plain stupid. Thats what you are saying, and I agree.
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Here is what the intro to the article says. It says we are NEARING the cap, not over it already: As mentioned in this column, the Red Sox may have only limited financial room to maneuver as they go about addressing their needs this offseason. While the team needs to identify two starters to round out the rotation and must decide what kind of additions to make to its bullpen (a matter that could become pressing if, for instance, Daniel Bard was to move to the rotation), the team is already starting to near the luxury tax threshold of $178 million for 2012.
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Reddick is gone; Bowden should be gone too. Salty is counted for $2M already. I think they are very close. My guess is that they are under, barely. Otherwise what the owners are doing makes no sense.
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Reddick is listed; also, those guys who have options can be sent down. Does their salary then count if they never get to the ML? Furthermore, some of those guys who are out of options, like Bowden, could be released.
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Its 129.4+30.4+1.3+12.7. Thats 174.1. What am I missing?
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I added it up to about $174.1M. Is that what you get?
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Couple more articles: http://fullcount.weei.com/sports/boston/baseball/red-sox/tag/luxury-tax/ And THIS, which seems to support Bellhorn's figures, or exceed them slightly: http://fullcount.weei.com/sports/boston/baseball/red-sox/2011/12/05/a-look-at-the-red-sox-payroll-for-2012/