Kimmi
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Valid point about the cascading effect that losing one reliever has on the rest of the bullpen. This is precisely why I always thought it was a bad idea to trade Paps at the end of last season, when many people were for that idea. I hate losing Papelbon too, but another GM's willingness to fork out a bad contract should not mean that the Red Sox should buy into it. We have enough bad contracts on our hands to deal with as is. Adding another one would only make things worse for the long term. A good, consistent closer can be found for a lot less money.
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Papelbon was the best closer available and one of the best in the business. I hate to see him go. That said, it would have been insane to sign him to a 4 year deal @ $12.5 mil per year. Long term contracts for relievers are never a good idea. Take the draft picks, and take the money saved on a closer, and put it to use where we really need it - in the rotation.
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That seems to be a chief criticism of Drew, that he wasn't a Dirt Dog. I bet that if he had produced exactly the same, played the same number of games, but dove for balls more frequently, ran into walls a few more times, and slammed his helmet a few times, many Drew critics would have a different opinion of worth while with the Red Sox. Drew sucked this year, there's no sugarcoating that. Over the first four years, however, Drew was worth his contract. Unfortunately, his contract was one year too long, which is almost always the case with long term deals.
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Just wondering Elktonnick, if you HAD to pick one single stat as the best stat to measure a player's offensive production, what would you use? Obviously, trying to evaluate a player on a single stat is ridiculous, but I'm wondering where you rank OPS and OPS+ relative to the other stats out there. In your opinion, is it a better measure of a player's offensive production, than RBIs, for instance?
