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Tag Archives: Boston Red Sox
Papelbon to the Phillies
CHRIS PUMMER: The merits of forking over big money to a relief pitcher are dubious, but if the Phillies were bound and determined to spend that cash on someone to accumulate saves, picking Jonathan Papelbon over Ryan Madson was the right choice. Continue reading
Toxic Red Sox
CHRIS PUMMER: Despite the frenzy created by the Boston Globe’s report that Red Sox pitchers were drinking beer, playing video games and ordering fried chicken during games, those extra-curricular activities likely had nothing to do with the team’s stunning September collapse. Continue reading
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Tagged baseball, beer, Boston Red Sox, Chicken, clubhouse, fried chicken, John Lackey, Jon Lester, Josh Beckett, mi, MLB, Popeye's, rally beer
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Baseball Winter Meetings Recap
HOWARD MEGDAL: This season’s winter meetings produced a huge number of moves, as usual. Briefly, here’s how I see them. Continue reading
The Victor Martinez Signing
CHRIS PUMMER Injury and workload concerns mean there’s no such thing as a slam-dunk solution for teams at the catcher position, especially when gambling on a player as old as Martinez. The downfall here seems to be relatively minimal for a big-payroll team like Detroit, and the upside makes it a pretty reasonable gamble.
HOWARD MEGDAL: At four years and $50 million, the Tigers were taking a real chance on Victor Martinez as a full-time catcher. As it stands now, Martinez will be an extremely overpaid DH and 1B, as per Detroit’s plan, with a bit of catching thrown in. And even that assumes he’ll continue hitting in his age 32-35 seasons as he did through age 31- no safe bet. Continue reading
Expanded MLB Playoffs
CHRIS PUMMER: The dollars make sense for everyone, and really, so does this expansion.
HOWARD MEGDAL: My concerns are two-fold about the potential for expanding baseball playoffs: diluting playoff baseball, and potentially shortening the regular season. Continue reading
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Tagged Anaheim Angels, Baltimore Orioles, baseball, Boston Red Sox, Bud Selig, Butt Selig, expansion, Florida Marlins, MLB, New York Yankees, playoffs, postseason, profit, Toronto Blue Jays, Wild Card
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More Deserving Fanbase: Cubs or Indians?
BRAD GOLDBACH: In terms of fan bases in suffering, not many can compete with the Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Indians, but when looking at an all-sports landscape, those fan bases aren’t even in the same league of pain.
Cleveland seems to be in permanent sports purgatory, while Chicago, Cubs aside, has done pretty well for itself over the years.
SHANNON MCCARTHY: The Cubs drought is an integral part of the fabric of baseball. Who would we at once mock and empathize with, what curse would we invoke if they were to go and do the unthinkable? The Curse of the Really Crappy Sports City doesn’t quite have the same ring to it. (Sorry, Cleveland, it’s all I can come up with.) Continue reading
Liverpool Sold
HOWARD MEGDAL: Listen, Liverpool fans: I get it. You are rightly upset with the ownership of Hicks and Gillette.
But your anger toward Americans in general is clouding what a great gift the ownership of John Henry will be.
KAREN PATEL:I think the way that a minority of Liverpool fans directed their feelings of Tom Hicks and George Gillett were wrong – namely flag burning and inappropriate name calling relating to the two Texans’ country of birth. The way that Hicks and Gillett bled dry one of the most decorated football clubs in the world has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that they are American but unfortunately the actions of a few Liverpool fans has tarred the rest of us with the same brush. Continue reading
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Tagged baseball, Boston Red Sox, Football, John Henry, Liverpool, Soccer, Texas Rangers, Tom Hicks
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Josh Beckett Extension
HOWARD MEGDAL: There are lots of ways for me to show why I am such a big fan of Boston’s decision to sign Josh Beckett to a four-year, $68 million contract. But I think the easiest one is a comparison to the four-year, $80 million deal Roy Halladay signed with the Phillies- one most people feel was less than Halladay would have earned on the free agent market.
CHRIS PUMMER: If the Sox were going to pay retail, maybe they could have done better by waiting until Beckett hit free agency. Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Red Sox, Josh Beckett, K/9, Philadelphia Phillies, Roy Halladay
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Perpetual Post AL East Preview
STEPHON JOHNSON: While I tire of the “American League is better than the National League” talk, there’s no denying how good the American League East is.
EMMA SPAN: The 2010 AL East race in a nutshell: Continue reading
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Tagged 2010, Baltimore Orioles, Boston Red Sox, MLB, New York Yankees, Predictions, Tampa Bay Rays, Toronto Blue Jays, World Series
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