FredLynn
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Well, Foulke worked out, right?
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I do not agree with his premise, and I do research when I see fit to do it. I do not know how it would come out since it hasn't been done. Furthermore, in the process of a debate EVERYONE uses numbers and data that support their own position.
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I am no fan of Slappy, but he has done well with the Yankees. He has given them some numbers. During his 8 years his OPS is .941 and he has averaged over 35 HR a year. Same for Mark Teixeira, though not quite as much. His OPS in three years as a Yankee is .877. Both have been productive. We get Crawford (OPS with the Sox: .694) and Cameron (OPS: .637) and Drew who never even reached 70 RBIs in his five year Sox career and wouldn't play if he had a hangnail. The point is that there are many many FAs who worked out for their team. Even Epstein got a few of them; just not enough. His ratio of failures to successes is atrocious. He did well in other areas, but failed miserably in getting his money's worth out of FAs. Thats really not even debatable IMO. Its all over the media. And that shortcoming significantly affects his overall grade as our GM. He WASTED way too much of the franchise's resources in signing lemons, lemons that we will be stuck with for years after he leaves.
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You are sure I will do it? LOL. No, I am not going to do it. Sorry. If you want it done you will have to do it. Here is what I am saying: Epstein is a poor judge of FA talent and executed far more busts than finds during his tenure here, and that that affects his overall grade in terms of his performance. I am not making a negative judgement about his trades or his minor league acquisitions via drafting. Lets give him an "A" for the latter categories, for the sake of the debate. How would you grade his FA acquisitions and how would that affect his overall grade as GM? You already know what I think about this. It has a profound affect on his grade.
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Not that I know of. Unless he was there under a different name.
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Fixed.
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Not buying it. This sounds like the kind of excuses that our FO has been spoon feeding us for years. Baseball history is littered with not only highly paid busts but highly paid "finds". Sabathia. Rodriguez (like it or not, his numbers so far in pinstripes are excellent). Pedro Martinez. Manny Ramirez. All of those guys and many many more provided some return for the investment. Its just too bad that our soon to be ex GM couldn't have a better track record and fewer excuses that will follow him out the door.
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I promise not to be a **** if you stop being one.
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He hit .235 with an OPS of .554 at Pawtucket this year. No matter how good he is in the field, he is a black hole at the plate. Unless that changes he is not ML material.
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"Its good to be da King" Mel Brooks
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Papi sounds like he's done with Boston
FredLynn replied to jacksonianmarch's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Here are the FA 3B available after next year: Third Basemen Geoff Blum Miguel Cairo Brandon Inge * Maicer Izturis Chipper Jones * Kevin Kouzmanoff Placido Polanco * Mark Reynolds * Scott Rolen Mark Teahen Ty Wigginton * David Wright * Kevin Youkilis * And here are the available FA SP. Its a pretty good list. We ought to wait until then to pursue a very good SP and consider next year to be a rebuilding year. We need it: Starting Pitchers Scott Baker * Joe Blanton Matt Cain Fausto Carmona * Kevin Correia John Danks Jorge De La Rosa * R.A. Dickey * Scott Feldman * Gavin Floyd * Zack Greinke Jeremy Guthrie Cole Hamels Dan Haren * Tim Hudson * Colby Lewis Francisco Liriano Kyle Lohse Derek Lowe Shaun Marcum Daisuke Matsuzaka Brandon McCarthy Brett Myers * Carl Pavano Jake Peavy * Anibal Sanchez Jonathan Sanchez Ervin Santana * Joe Saunders James Shields * Jake Westbrook * Randy Wolf * Carlos Zambrano * -
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Its too soon for me to make enemies here..........
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I just don't see it the way you do Forsythe. I understand where you are coming from, but I think that if you add up ALL of the pieces its just not as rosy a picture as you paint. In a small market he would not even have had access to some of the "finds". He would have had to rely much more heavily on his farm system, much of which he is not even responsible for (as someone mentioned earlier, he hires guys to do that job). Without as many FA finds his record would be even worse than it was here. With the Red Sox he was given a huge budget and squandered much of it. It didn't have to be that way if he were a better judge of FA talent. He isn't. He gets a "C" from me. Sorry.
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Papi sounds like he's done with Boston
FredLynn replied to jacksonianmarch's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
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And he is going to have company. The very best way for the fans to express their displeasure is to boycott opening day. If no improvement is seen, no apologies issued, more boycotts. The owners under$tand that language be$t of any language.
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Go ahead. Total it up. Maybe I made a calculation error. And I got your point. He is still very poor judge of FA talent IMO. FREE AGENTS Finds DH David Ortiz (2003, 1 year, $1.2 million) INF Bill Mueller (2002, 2 years, $4.5 million) RHP Keith Foulke (2004, 3 years, $20.2 million) LHP Hideki Okajima (2006, 2 years, $2.5 million) RHP Takashi Saito (2009, 1 year, $1.5 million) 3B Adrian Beltre (2010, 1 year, $9 million) RHP Alfredo Aceves (2011, I year, $650,000) Busts SS Edgar Renteria (2004, 4 years, $40 million) RHP Matt Clement (2004, 3 years, $25.8 million) SS Julio Lugo (2006, 4 years, $36 million) RHP Daisuke Matsuzaka (2006, 6 years, $52 million plus $51 million posting fee) RHP Brad Penny (2008, 1 year, $5 million) RHP John Smoltz (2009, 1 year, $5.5 million) RHP John Lackey (2009, 5 years, $82.5 million) OF Mike Cameron (2009, 2 years, $15.5 million) RHP Bobby Jenks (2 years, $12 million)
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I don't think that its realistic to expect Beckett to be going anywhere. We could certainly use a pitcher that is better than Beckett/Lester. Those kinds of pitchers will become available after next season. This year should be a rebuilding year. We ought to be positioning ourselves for a run in 2013. If I were the new GM I would tell Beckett that he needs to apologize publicly for his role in the antics that went on this year and that he needs to promise publicly that it won't be repeated and that he will be working his butt off make amends for his bad behavior. If he did that I would be willing to give him a second chance.
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Papi sounds like he's done with Boston
FredLynn replied to jacksonianmarch's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
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