WTF is happening to the Old Towne Team

[Skald]

Ok, am I the only one thinnking that the new 'GM by committee' is in the Green Monster hitting the crack pipe?

-1 yr and they give up on a player who is an all-star (Rentaria, and its very common for NL hitters to come over to the AL). Trade it for a position player we just traded for (3B) instead of getting one we need (SP, SS to name 2, and Atlanta is FULL of nice SP prospects.)

-Trade Wake's catcher who can actually handle the knuckleball for a 2B we didn't need and could have easily resigne Graf (Tek is 0-4 with a 8+ era when handling Tim).

 

[KingCobra58]

Maybe it's just me, but do you sometimes get the feeling that the Sox brass has hired Jeremy Jacobs as a consultant? [cry]

 

[Adam_MA]

More importantly though...

None of this has ANY bearing on anything REAL and/or IMPORTANT in aspect of our existance...

It's only a team, not here to entertain you, but to MAKE money...

Don't take it personally...

Adam

 

[Skald]

More importantly though...

None of this has ANY bearing on anything REAL and/or IMPORTANT in aspect of our existance...

It's only a team, not here to entertain you, but to MAKE money...

Don't take it personally...

Adam

I'm a diehard Sox fan. I was one of the kids who dreamed of playing first base, and was one of the few had the talent to just natuarlly hit a baseball and have great plate discpline.

 

[Adam_MA]

Why didn't you go pro then?

 

[Skald]

Maybe it's just me, but do you sometimes get the feeling that the Sox brass has hired Jeremy Jacobs as a consultant? [cry]

I think more along the lines of Harry Sinden. or JJ Harrington from before.

 

[C-pher]

Hey, I'm glad that they got rid of 3 million of dead weight. Yes, he did pretty well over in the NL, but come on, it's the National League.

I don't know why they traded Cabara in the first place. He would have stayed for about a mil or so. He's doing a lot better than Rentawreck did this whole year...

I'm miffed by getting rid of Wake, but hell it's not going to upset me.

Now, it's winter meetings, so they wouldn't have traded Hanley Ramirez and Rentawreck if they didn't have a plan to pick up a short stop, which I've heard was they were going back after Cabara, but we'll have to see. I don't think that he would be the short money that he would have been if we kept him.

 

[Admin]

3 mill? I thought Rentawreck was making 10.

 

[C-pher]

Sorry Adam, but I love Baseball. So this is fun to talk and bitch about.

And hell, it's the SOX!!

I'm all the way to the right looking at the picture

 

[Adam_MA]

And hell, it's the SOX!!

Yep... Just a short 85 more years to go! [twisted]

 

[Skald]

I'm miffed by getting rid of Wake, but hell it's not going to upset me.

They didn't get rid of Wake, they got rid of the catcher who could catch him without doing a bad job. I think if they got rid of Wake to many fans would be pissed off. I mean, he stuck with the team for so long and done so much when asked.

 

[Garys]

If there were a "franchise" player in Baseball, it would be Varitek or Wakefield. They're that important to the team.

As to Mirabelli, as tough as it may seem, I think it's to his benefit. He's good enough to play every day and he never will as long as he's with the Sox. Varitek is just too good.

Rentaria is a NL player who just couldn't adapt to AL style play. He's better off and so are the Sox.

I was pleasantly surprise to see that the offered arbitration to Mueller and Graffanino. Mueller may well not accept it, but Graffanino probably will. One of the two guys filling in for the GM slot was quoted as saying that Graffanino can play "any position" in the in field. To me that means either they think he can be a starting Short Stop or he's going to be their utility guy. They still have a big hole at first that needs filling.

Speaking of the Herald, there was an item about Roger Clemens and the Astros declining to offer him arbitration. The GM was quoted as saying that Clemens is at the end of a great career, not in the middle of a great career. I wonder if the GM was channelling Dan "Twilight of his career" Duquette?

Gary

 

[C-pher]

I'm miffed by getting rid of Wake, but hell it's not going to upset me.

They didn't get rid of Wake, they got rid of the catcher who could catch him without doing a bad job. I think if they got rid of Wake to many fans would be pissed off. I mean, he stuck with the team for so long and done so much when asked.

I'm sorry, I'm a dink. Yes, that's what I meant. I was thinking Doug, and said Wakefield... Cross in the wires.


And Derek, I was thinking a year. I think that he was making like 3 mil a year.

News today is that Miguel want's to come over to the Sox. That would fill our Shortstop, and that means that we can still chase out a guy for first.

 

[Skald]

I hope we get Miggy. I mean, he's a proven performer.