moonslav59

I feel the same, and the Yanks are too deep to try a plan B of signing 2-4 mid range free agents, instead. Is signing Kikuchi, Britton and Moose really an option?

I agree, but I also think he made some marginal plays look harder than they were by doing his jumping, twisting twirl throw, when others would have simply planted their foot and throw the guy out easily. For that, I feel, some thought he was a better defend er than he actually was. Man, they guy could hit! Except for his 2001 injury season, he hit over .867 for all 7 years, including being over .946 for 3 straight seasons.

Okay, he hit well for another couple years or so, but was never a FT'er and ended up below .793 with the CWS and LADs. Not bad, but not the Nomar we knew.

I thought we had sufficient pitching depth last year, although we ended up needing to trade Beeks for Eovaldi. Sale Price Porcello ERod Pomeranz Wright Johnson Velazquez Beeks Cuevas Haley We basically got nothing from Wright & Pom, Sale and ERod missed significant time and we still won by a pretty comfortable margin, in hindsight. Our pen consisted of... Kimbrel Kelly C Smith Thornburg Barnes Hembree Workman Smith and Thornburg gave us just about zilch, but we had this depth: Brasier Wright, Johnson & Velazquez Poyner Walden Scott Brasier turned into a gem. Beeks got us Eovaldi. Despite all the missed time by so many key pitchers, we only needed to add one pitcher (Eovaldi). We have the same starters returning, except for Pom. Beeks & Pom are replaced by Eovalid. Our pen looks short, but I don't think DD is done.

Yes. It's not like we have oodles of ML ready prospects needing innings at AA and AAA. We still have room for a couple more guys like Putnam and Ramirez.

Kinsler signs for $8M/2 with the Padres.

There's still a lot here to dig up, if one is so inclined.

They actually get paid less than other entertainers like Rock stars and Oprah.

Was Theo the GM, when they offered that contract to Nomar?

I'm certain we acquire a solid RP'er somehow.

You want to keep some room at AAA and AA for rising young prospects, so we shouldn't sign 20 guys like this. (Not that this is what you were saying.)

He got injured, apparently in a non-baseball way, and the Sox did not pursue getting out of paying him, or something like that. I know we offered him a big deal, and he turned it down. Some thought he was pouting and feigning injury. I never liked his defense and thought he was all flash and not a plus defender, but man he could hit up until we traded him. Again, fantastic timing on the trade.

How many for Barnes and Thornburg? I guess they made their choice on who they think our closer will be.

Got that right!

Brantley to Astros for $32M/2.

Man, we are bored, aren't we?

1,000 Harold Baines's would make the Hall worthless and futile. Just one comes close.

I understand your feelings, and I hope Betts retires in a Sox uniform. I don't think it should be an automatic decision to match any offer made to our aging stars, however.\\ I was glad to see Nomar go and predicted the trade would bring us a ring based on a massive improvement to our SS defense.

Yes, it's a good starting point with possibilities to have great gains without adding any new players. Of course, someone will get hurt, but it will take a lot of injuries to cancel out the above additions, and I didn't even mention Pedey.

Ah, come on! You didn't like... "Instead of building newer and larger weapons of mass destruction, I think mankind should try to get more use out of the ones we have" "I think the mistake a lot of us make is thinking the state-appointed shrink is our friend" "If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason." "One thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse" "If I had a mine shaft, I don't think I would just abandon it. There's got to be a better way." "Broken promises don't upset me. I just think, why did they believe me?" "When I found the skull in the woods, the first thing I did was call the police. But then I got curious about it. I picked it up, and started wondering who this person was, and why he had deer horns." "The people in the village were real poor, so none of the children had any toys. But this one little boy had gotten an old enema bag and filled it with rocks, and he would go around and whap the other children across the face with it. Man, I think my heart almost broke. Later the boy came up and offered to give me the toy. This was too much! I reached out my hand, but then he ran away. I chased him down and took the enema bag. He cried a little, but that's the way of these people." "Laurie got offended that I used the word "puke." But to me, that's what her dinner tasted like." "The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face"

Harvey signs with the Angels for $11M /1 year with $3M in possible incentives.

I get that, but 2 ER for 1 more IP is an 18.00 ERA. I doubt the staffs suffered to that extent.

Maybe hire Jack Handy for even more deeper thoughts!

No team would claim him, but he might end up like Pablo- playing for min wage as we pay the remainder of the salary owed. (I'm guessing that salary would count against our luxury budget.)

I think the Sox also understood the theory of diminishing returns as players age. If there is one area the Sox have excelled in, it seems to be knowing when to let their best players walk. They've swung and missed on a few, for sure, like Lester, DLowe and Beltre, but by and large, we've done an excellent job knowing when enough is enough and not overpaying our aging stars for past value. Even the Damon departure made sense, as he could only DH or play LF for us in his latter years, and we had those slots filled up. I hated seeing Pedro go, but we knew his arm was held together by a thread. We paid Schilling $8M to not play his last year. The Manny trade worked. Dumping Beckett and CC brought us the 2013 ring. (Even trading AGon worked as Napoli did better.) A walking Ellsbury was a godsend. Trading Nomar in the nick of time. He sucked afterwards and cabrera brought us a ring in 2004, and his comp picks were Ellsbury & Lowrie! Bill Mueller walked and played just one more year. Jason Bay quickly imploded after we let him walk. Papelbon had some good years after leaving but turned into trouble.