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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Jun 27, 2013 16:32:09 GMT -5
Almost planned on going to that game but couldn't go. Sad day.
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Post by fenwaythehardway on Jun 27, 2013 18:27:43 GMT -5
I think you're right. They have to adapt to the new business model that's a result of the updated CBA. I don't know that they can. The Marlins? They're probably still profitable...
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Post by jimed14 on Jun 27, 2013 20:43:15 GMT -5
Yeah, I'm sure Loria and company made that pick with the intention to not sign him. What a joke of an organization. Why didn't they trade it then?
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Post by jimed14 on Jun 27, 2013 20:45:48 GMT -5
Done deal: a 92-pitch complete game by Holland, completely negating the left-heavy lineup which could only dream about those right-field stands today. Then there's the righty hitters in that Yankees' lineup. Most of them look like a collection of the finest quad-A players money can buy - but shouldn't. David Adams, Alberto Gonzalez, Jayson Nix, and Vernon Wells, who's way past his pull date at this point, are the unusual suspects. Holland also made them look like the dregs that they be. Holland didn't even have to break a sweat. That was the easiest shutout of the MFY's I've seen at Yankee Stadium in a very long time. There should be a lot more of those with that lineup.
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Post by chavopepe2 on Jun 27, 2013 20:52:39 GMT -5
Yeah, I'm sure Loria and company made that pick with the intention to not sign him. What a joke of an organization. Why didn't they trade it then? Compensatory picks can only be traded once and they acquired the pick from Pittsburgh in the Gorkys Hernandez/Gaby Sanchez trade.
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Post by jimed14 on Jun 27, 2013 20:57:04 GMT -5
Why didn't they trade it then? Compensatory picks can only be traded once and they acquired the pick from Pittsburgh in the Gorkys Hernandez/Gaby Sanchez trade. I thought we're talking about their competitive balance pick? I'm confused now. lol If they didn't want to pay the guy, why didn't they take a prospect instead when they made the trade? This makes no sense. It's probably a rhetorical question because it's the Marlins.
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Post by polarbear91 on Jun 27, 2013 21:06:38 GMT -5
Compensatory picks can only be traded once and they acquired the pick from Pittsburgh in the Gorkys Hernandez/Gaby Sanchez trade. I thought we're talking about their competitive balance pick? I'm confused now. lol If they didn't want to pay the guy, why didn't they take a prospect instead when they made the trade? This makes no sense. It's probably a rhetorical question because it's the Marlins. Please refer to the posts at the end of the last page. The Marlins and Krook had agreed to a contract. Krook failed the physical and the offer was rescinded. I hate sounding like a Marlins apologist, I think they are as inept as everyone else, just not in this case it seems.
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Post by vermontsox1 on Jul 1, 2013 21:13:05 GMT -5
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Post by Oregon Norm on Jul 2, 2013 0:12:00 GMT -5
We have a tendency to take the recent past and use it as a template for our vision of the future. It's human nature. You might want to believe that the financial advisers for an MLB team would be immune from that sort of narrow-think. But as this example shows, it ain't necessarily so. 8% might have seemed like the going rate at the time, but a lot has happened since then. Prime rate indeed. The man had a plan and he's taking it to the bank.
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Post by ray88h66 on Jul 2, 2013 15:00:01 GMT -5
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Post by amfox1 on Jul 2, 2013 15:18:19 GMT -5
Hope not. Depends on Buchholz's health, WMB's ability to snap out of his funk and Bailey. A bullpen arm is most likely IMO, for someone of the excess arms/OFers that would otherwise need to be placed on the 40-man roster at the end of the year.
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Post by brianthetaoist on Jul 2, 2013 15:35:00 GMT -5
Everything about that WSJ article is awesome. Anyone who can pull off that contract after a rocky tenure playing for Bobby Valentine is ok in my book.
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Post by James Dunne on Jul 2, 2013 20:48:43 GMT -5
PSA: If you have MLB Network, you should turn to it. Homer Bailey is having a good pitching game.
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Post by adiospaydro2005 on Jul 2, 2013 20:49:27 GMT -5
Bailey doing something good thru 81/3 innings tonight.
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Post by amfox1 on Jul 2, 2013 20:55:11 GMT -5
Bailey finishes it off - a no-no. Throwing 97 in the 9th.
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Post by kylecleric on Jul 2, 2013 21:15:56 GMT -5
Maybe the Red Sox are not better than we think. Maybe the rest of the league is worse.
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Post by James Dunne on Jul 2, 2013 21:32:31 GMT -5
Maybe the Red Sox are not better than we think. Maybe the rest of the league is worse. That's obviously a cynical way of looking at it, but in a way you're on to something. Talent is the most spread out around the league that it's been since about 1993-ish. There are several reasons for this, but the biggest is that second-tier payroll teams are locking up elite stars early, so Felix Hernandez, Joe Mauer, Joey Votto and others aren't reaching free agency. It's made for a very competitive league with no elite teams and a lot of good baseball.
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Post by kylecleric on Jul 2, 2013 21:49:42 GMT -5
Maybe the Red Sox are not better than we think. Maybe the rest of the league is worse. That's obviously a cynical way of looking at it, but in a way you're on to something. Talent is the most spread out around the league that it's been since about 1993-ish. There are several reasons for this, but the biggest is that second-tier payroll teams are locking up elite stars early, so Felix Hernandez, Joe Mauer, Joey Votto and others aren't reaching free agency. It's made for a very competitive league with no elite teams and a lot of good baseball. True. But while in the past couple of seasons, we've had players underperform, this year we have had the luck of better production than expected.
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Post by ray88h66 on Jul 3, 2013 6:21:11 GMT -5
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Post by brianthetaoist on Jul 3, 2013 7:27:55 GMT -5
That's a great idea for a gift.
Sunday, September 15th, Rivera's last game in Fenway ... might be especially nice with the Sox heading for a playoff berth and the Yankees playing out the string in a miserable season.
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Post by ibsmith85 on Jul 3, 2013 7:43:41 GMT -5
Classy move by the Twins, Rivera's smile says it all.
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Post by bluechip on Jul 3, 2013 7:45:08 GMT -5
I like Rivera, but it seems a little weird to me that a player would donate a bat he broke facing Rivera to be made into a memento. I remember a story about a young opposing pitcher who struck out Ted Williams, then asked him after the game to sign the strikeout ball. It did not go over well.
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Jul 3, 2013 15:37:38 GMT -5
Manny is back, on a minor league deal with the Rangers.
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Post by rangoon82 on Jul 3, 2013 15:52:31 GMT -5
Manny!! Stilla huge fan.
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Post by adiospaydro2005 on Jul 3, 2013 18:20:28 GMT -5
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