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So now he is desperately trying to re-open negotiations with AZ. All things being equal, I believe he goes back to AZ. Maybe even some things being less, he goes back. But how much less, is the question. All things won't be equal. I seriously doubt AZ comes close to a 5 year offer.

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Pretty incredible. 4 in the top 28 on graduates and top 2 currently.

No. Moncada is still higher than many seem to think he should be...basically even with Beni.

Yes, the situation with Moustakas and LoMo seem more troubling. Not a whisper.

Me, too. It might be more about my thoughts on Marrero than great expectations for Lin, but Marrero is out of options, so he might stay a while, at least until Pedey returns and we know more about Marco.

Lin looked really good last year, but he's never put up offensive numbers like that before- in any extended period of time. Since he has options, he's probably below Marrero, and Holt & Hernandez look better.

I can't wait till the first pitch of ST'ing- with or without JD.

I've always been high on ERod. I loved the Miller trade (but hoped we resigned Miller that winter).

There's no way we know, if the surgery helps. It may end up being "sunk cost", and we can DFA him in May or June, if that happens. It's not like we have some stud on the farm that HRam is keeping down. There's no argument that Holt, Swihart, Marrero or Brentz is more deserving.

He won't win, unless he doing great and we had no better option, and we denied him PAs. If he's doing great, that's not bad. If we sign a better DH option like JD FT or Duda vs RHPs, there's no way HRam can win a case. Only an injur that forces JD to play OF or HRam to DH or play 1B could cause the vest.

Must be pretty comfortable to say that in this day and age. Did you ever actively opposed racism? I have, more than once, but I have also failed to do so when I was in a segregated high school and 5 years later when I was in Korea. I said I wasn't going to respond, but I will one last time. My grandfather was a racist, who had "many black friends." My Dad doesn't have a racist bone in his body. My 5 sisters and I were the only white kids in an all black inner city Catholic School in Milwaukee. We marched in protest to the Vietnam War and for Civil Rights. I have worked my entire life to improve racial relations, peace and equality. After retiring, I have been a full time volunteer ESL teacher at a Title 1 school for 10 years. I'm not out to vilify past persons, but I'm not going to glorify them either, or explain away their actions and inactions based on the "everyone else was doing it" argument. I deal with that flawed logic everyday with middle school students. I'd prefer not to deal with it here with adults.

Most people value getting as much money as possible, including Henry and DD.

This only happens, if HRam is doing great. That should not be a bad thing.

If we're going to pay HRam $22M, we might as well see if the surgery helped. HRam is not far removed from some good to monstrously good seasons. He's been up and down much of the last few years, and this may end up being an up year. Give him a shot. Make sure we have someone to legitimately take some of his ABs away, so he does not vest. If he's having a monster year, we may have to worry about the vest or upsetting him by benching him during a monster year, but that does not seem like a bad problem to have. His next winter trade value would be high after a monster year. The only possible losing situation I see as a possibility is if he's doing pretty well and thinks he's doing better than management thinks, and we restrict his ABs leading to him pouting or complaining/distracting. Signing JD, loMo or Duda should insure a legitimate reason to limit HRam's PAs, unless a 1Bman, DH or OF'er gets hurt..

Maybe the surgery will end the reoccurring issues with his knee once and for all. We should not rush him back!

I can't imagine Boras recommending a 1 year deal. I don't see any other team out there offering 4+ years at $25M+. I still think he ends up here.

We offered JD a fair contract. If he chooses to go elsewhere, I'm fine, as long as option B is still on the board and obtainable. I don't feel any anger towards JD for wanting more. I actually think he's lucky to be a FA this year rather than next, but maybe that's just me. He's the cream of this year's crop. He won't be next year. He'll be a year older. He most likely will not repeat 2017 numbers in 2018. He's not likely to do any better after a "pillow contract" with AZ. My guess is, he will take the Boston offer once he knows nobody will come close to it, which makes me wonder why we keep bidding against ourselves so often. $104-108M/4 might have blown away the next best offer.

...this is my last post on here. Me, too.

That's how I see it. I don't blame JD for trying to make his big pay day the biggest he can possibly get. I'm thankful that DD is seemingly holding firm. I don't think a pillow contract will work for JD. The Sox offer is likely the best. If he doesn't want it, then that's the way it is.

I think the percent of decent and thoughtful people was higher than you think back in the day. Yes, many good and great people have a skeleton (or two) in their closet. Nobody is perfect, and I don't expect perfection from anyone. There's a lot of gray in between the black and white.

MLBTR,,, 8:27pm: USA Today’s Bob Nightengale tweets that, in addition to the five-year offer from the Red Sox (which he pegs around $120MM), Martinez has discussed both long- and short-term scenarios to return to the Diamondbacks. A shorter-term deal to return to the D-backs would come as something of a surprise, though it’d be somewhat similar to Yoenis Cespedes’ initial deal to return to the Mets. Unable to find the long-term pact he sought on the open market in the 2015-16 offseason, Cespedes instead returned to the Mets on a three-year, $75MM contract with an opt-out after the first season of the contract. He’d go on to sign a four-year, $110MM pact with the Mets the following offseason. Nightengale reported earlier today that the only other formal offer that Martinez had received outside of Boston was a one-year pact to return to Arizona, though certainly that doesn’t mean that Martinez and Boras haven’t discussed other parameters with the Diamondbacks (or potentially with other clubs whose interest has yet to be firmly reported). 7:30pm: Boras, unsurprisingly, rejected the notion that Martinez is unhappy with any potential suitor, writes Michael Silverman of the Boston Herald. Rather, the agent tells Silverman that Martinez is “involved in multiple negotiations and is pleased with the participants and the good faith process,” calling suggestions to the contrary “not accurate.”

Good point, but the free agents of 5 years ago were sucking out of the gate.

Yawkey is a product of his time. So were so many visionaries that changed the world. Ignorance and lock-stepping are no excuses. Look, it's not like i have no sympathy for the 90% that bought the whole scheme (along with so many still buying it today), but I'm certainly not going to glorify a racist, because he started a foundation that's been helping many unfortunate people.

I have none, other than maybe it being an admirable stab at guilt relief.