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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.While some teams are worried about who is their #2 starter...and #3 ...and #4........and #5..............Ok, who is the 5th starter for the Sox? Yikes, what a staff!
Devers was hands off in the Sale trade ... the Sox are high on him replacing Panda.I despise Ton-ass with every fiber of my being, but he and others concerned about the state of the farm system are correct. There is literally nobody remotely close to helping in 2017 or even 2018, at any position.
LH 3B/1B Rafael Devers is by far the best position prospect not already on the 40-man roster, but he's barely 20 years old and hasn't taken even one AA at-bat yet.
With the new luxury tax rules teams don't want to go over the salary limit. teams lose draft picks and other significant penalties.Pure salary dump to avoid luxury taxes; Phillies are paying ALL of his $13.5M salary, which I believe is the final year of his contract.
Yeah, he was a big, big disappoinment last season; and the whole issue with tipping his pitches should've been resolved before he ever threw even one pitch in the big leagues.
erod is another redsox headcase in a long line of head cases. he's mentally and physically fragile and soft. they should have resigned miller.Don't be so pessimistic about Eddie. The book isn't nearly written on him.
And we absolutely should have traded Miller for a good young starting pitching prospect like Eduardo Rodriguez. Even if it fails, that's still a move you try to make 10 times out of 10, because you're leveraging a very short term high value contract for a longer term asset at high higher potential value.
I'll tell you what, if Belichick did baseball, it's the sort of move he'd make. You don't get hung up on the bird in the hand when you're trying to build a perennial winner. You do what you need to do to maximize your present and future value. Miller for E-Rod did that.
Until our franchise gets a lot better at developing its own starting pitching prospects, trades like Miller for E-Rod are just sensible. Even a great reliever is worth giving up for a good lefty power arm with as good a chance as E-Rod had to crack the rotation and stick. If he blows it he blows it, it was still the right move.