2014 season

I hate the idea of losing Lester, we better get a King's ransom for him, They had better be major spenders next off season

Ez wrote:

I hate the idea of losing Lester,  we better get a King's ransom for him, They had better be major spenders next off season

they won't get anything to replace him, and that is the rreal issue.

if you trade Lester, then there is ahuge hole in your rotation that needs to be filled, and what do you do?? go out and try to sign a different pitcher to take his place?? anyone close to him will cost you just as much, and then you have to hope he can perform in the firestorm of boston sports.


otherwise what?? bring up someone like henry owens?/ who is no doubt good, but not ready for the majors yet.


to me it's a stupid move, and creates more problems than it solves.


you're not going to get a power hitter, because anyone you trade him to is going to be a team in contention and they are not going to sacrifice a power hitter to get a pitcher. power hitters are more scarce than pitchers right now.

If Cherrington trades him, it's got to be considered as bad of a move as Texas trading Kinsler for Fielder.

now's there's talk of lackey going too, which is not surprising either.
they can get something for him, and the contract he has is going to cause issues next year if not re-done.


it's going to be interesting to see what happens between now and tomorrow afternoon.


of course, maybe nothing happens, but I really think the red sox need to make some serious moves here and at the end of the season and change the face of this team.


I'm willing to watch what's left of what has been a terrible season if they make changes to become the long term contender they think they should be with the youth and few key veterans

Pedroia CAN'T go anywhere!

Ez wrote:

Pedroia CAN'T go anywhere!

him and ortiz I think are about the ONLY 2 guys they won't entertain a trade for

Doubront Gone to the Cubbies for a player to be named later

iwantmycrayons wrote:

Ez wrote:

Pedroia CAN'T go anywhere!

him and ortiz I think are about the ONLY 2 guys they won't entertain a trade for

I would be infuriated if they did!

Ez wrote:

iwantmycrayons wrote:

Ez wrote:

Pedroia CAN'T go anywhere!

him and ortiz I think are about the ONLY 2 guys they won't entertain a trade for

I would be infuriated if they did!

well ortiz is the only power they have right now, ad pedey has a contract nobody will want the way he is hitting, and he's the heart and soul( what little heart and soul they have) of the team.


they may end up with a worse record than Bobby V's debacle

they are on pace for 72 wins, but I don't think they will get that far.

I wouldn't let Farrell go though

Lester for Yoenis Cespedes, Cespedes will fit right in at Fenway, Gonna miss the hell outta Lester though.

http://fullcount.weei.com/sports/boston/baseball/red-sox/2014/07/31/red-sox-acquired-jon-lester-jonny-gomes-for-yoenis-cespedes/

Lester and Gomes to the oakland a's for Cespedes

sad day for sox fans, but Oakland probably does not have the money to re-sign him

now there is a huge hole in the rotation, which might get bigger if they trade lackey too, which at this point you might as well

Yea, I really hope LEster wants to come back

Ez wrote:

Yea, I really hope LEster wants to come back

it'll cost 150 million to bring him back or he will be in effin pinstripes   

Cespedes is a good one to get though.

i think he has more HR's than everyone who has played the outfield for the sox this year combined

How much longer does he have on his contract?

Ez wrote:

How much longer does he have on his contract?

says he's a free agent after next season

but he will be 30 and the red sox won't re-sign him   

the phillies will have to wait 5-6 more years before they will sign him

Well crap, hopefully he plays well at Fenway and they resign him, they need help in the outfield

Lackey to the Cards for Allen Craig and Joe Kelly

next up Andrew miller, maybe koji


The equipment manager and uniform guys are gonna be busy today

teams gonna look quite different next year


on a side note apparently jon lester is favoriting tweets that mention him coming back next near   

He has said he wants to come back, I am praying it happens!

Drew to the Yankees for Johnson

 

Miller to Orioles for pitching prospect.


well that was an active trade day

should've gotten more than a propect for miller, but they did make some moves to improve the lineup.

now if they have any pitchers to fill out the rotation, they may have aqctually improved the team.


won't be long before ranaudo comes up to get a start, and owens moves up to AAA to see what he has.

Still no trades for the Phils

I know they don't have much but I really thought Byrd would go.

Price to the Tigers, they now have the last 3 Cy Young winners as their 1-2-3 starters

Ez wrote:

Price to the Tigers, they now have the last 3 Cy Young winners as their 1-2-3 starters

that will match up Ok with the a's pitching, they have a pretty good rotation themselves.

Yea, barring injuries, that is your ALCS

or should be, but stranger things have happened.

So how is the media reactiing up there Clarke?

the media thinks that they made some good moves, and that the team is much better prepared to make a run at contention in 2015. some of the fans are unhappy, but i think they did pretty well.

they were going nowhere this year, and getting some major league pieces in the fold for next year will help. the big question is whether the pitching prospects can come through. there are going to be alot of young pitchers on the team next year, and they need to produce for this team to be a contender.

right now they have way too many outfielders, look for them to make some waiver deals to get rid of one or two.


the outfield should be JBJ in center, Cespedes in Right ( with that cannon of an arm) and probably craig in left.

that leaves victorino as a platoon guy, and nava and carp in the lurch.


They will get rid of carp before the waiver deadline, but what do you do with victorino??


I suppose of JBJ doesn't start hitting they can play him in center.


also, Biogarts will be at short, and probably middlebrooks at third, but where does Holt fit in??


you need his bat at leadoff, but they have nowhere to play him at the moment.



should be interesting watching what they do for a lineup the next few weeks



I would think the 3-4-5-6- batters are ortiz, craig napoli cespedes in some order, but we will see.


they had to do something, and cherrington has proven he isn't afraid to completely re-make a team to be a contender

Yea, I am hopeful, Cespedes is a solid player, and they have him signed through next season, so at least he isn't a rental. Scherzer should be a FA next season and it doesn't look like he will sign with Detroit, so they better make a run at him and Lester, overall, I thnik we got some good pieces!

classy guy.


on another note, Craig is already hurt, and Bucholz appears to have had a flare up of the bard's syndrome again.

they had better make some serious noise in the off season.

The offseason has started right?

Ez wrote:

The offseason has started right?

pretty much has for me, I'll catch a game if nothing else is on at this point, and I have a DVR full of shit I need to watch soon.

Fun baseball is scoring one run in three games

or losing 11 of the last 13 games, while scoring 2 or fewer runs 41 times over the season so far

my bad, they scored 2

ironically, Ryan Howard was responsible for both runs

of course it took 15 innings


are those your stats? or mine?   

Both?  

  I'm glad we can all keep a sense of humor about it

I read a post from someone on the sports website i read about the sox.


it said that he refers to the team as the "reigning world series champuion boston red sox" and it helps when he is disgusted with the team.


hard to believe that just 1 year ago at this time, the biggest problem the sox had was which one of the 6 starters they had is going to start, and if they could make it to 100 wins by the end of the season.

as of the trade deadline, the only pitcher from that rotation left is bucholz, and I don't think he was even playing yet last year from the damn stiff neck that plagued him for 4 months.

I can live with this being a down season, but they better be prepared to open the check book in the off season, this won't fly for another season, I just hope all the new names that are going to be released for this Biogenesis crap aren't from Boston, I had callers this morning who want Ortiz to be one of those names so bad, I hope he isn't!

Ez wrote:

I can live with this being a down season, but they better be prepared to open the check book in the off season, this won't fly for another season, I just hope all the new names that are going to be released for this Biogenesis crap aren't from Boston, I had callers this morning who want Ortiz to be one of those names so bad, I hope he isn't!

me too, we'll see, i'm over the steroids crap, my opinion, let them take whatever the fuck they want to, I don't care, if they want to look like Hulk hogan and swing tree trunks and hit 700 foot homers let them!!!   

Ez wrote:

I can live with this being a down season, but they better be prepared to open the check book in the off season, this won't fly for another season, I just hope all the new names that are going to be released for this Biogenesis crap aren't from Boston, I had callers this morning who want Ortiz to be one of those names so bad, I hope he isn't!

mlb rumors says there are "fairly significant" but not "major" names

meanwhile, our GM has announced that we won't contend next year and probably not the next

at this point even I think he needs to go - he's done absolutely nothing this season.  2 more seasons of this isn't going to fly.  I think they had 10,000 in attendance last night.  they need to move now before they run out of money.  If it means dropping Howard then it must be done.

blondie wrote:

Ez wrote:

I can live with this being a down season, but they better be prepared to open the check book in the off season, this won't fly for another season, I just hope all the new names that are going to be released for this Biogenesis crap aren't from Boston, I had callers this morning who want Ortiz to be one of those names so bad, I hope he isn't!

mlb rumors says there are "fairly significant" but not "major" names

meanwhile, our GM has announced that we won't contend next year and probably not the next

at this point even I think he needs to go - he's done absolutely nothing this season.  2 more seasons of this isn't going to fly.  I think they had 10,000 in attendance last night.  they need to move now before they run out of money.  If it means dropping Howard then it must be done.

philly fans must be a mellow bunch   if our GM said that Fenway would be in flames right now