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Rauch, i have no faith in Person, Cotts or Grilli.

I hope Ginter has a good spring, i've always felt he'll be a damn good reliever if given the chance and i think Rauch might be down to final option too, so he's almost a given to make the team.

How many options do Rauch and Ginter have left?

Once the Sox's get their own channel (next season) they should have more ST games on TV.

You can take the Nets off the list, Tump is not involved.

Dempster + Injuries = Done Minor league deal, nothing more.

The point i was making is that Cotts could still shift the trade heavily in our favor. I'm not a big Cotts fan, but the potential is there.

Don't forget he gave up Neal Cotts in the deal. They had Foulke for one season, we'll have Cotts for a while.

Yeah, it's definitely too late now, but come the All-Star beark and the trade deadline teams will get more desperate. KW better get busy than if were out of the race by than.

I think this team needs to start over, deal Mags, Konerko (it should be easier midseason), Koch (same as Konerko), and if E-Lo gets off to a good start try and sign him to a 3 year extension, if he declines; trade him. Next season, i'd look for as much young pitching i can find and spend every available penny to acquire it, along with the best SS (other than Nomar) the market has to offer.

Even in Forbes you won't find a team with a operating profit above $20M and you'll probably find the Sox's come close to breaking even every season.

He's just pulling numbers out of his ass. No team in baseball makes a $30M profit.

Mike Jackson -----> http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mlb/transact...th=12&year=2003

I guarantee the Bulls would sell for a lot more than $330M, hell i bet JR could get like $500M if he decided to sell.

Yeah, Trump isn't gonna get into baseball to lose money.

He was the closer for the Tribe in '99, right? Anyway, i remember him being a pretty good pitcher, hopefully he has one good season left in him.

Whatever happened to Mike Jackson, he was a pretty good reliever, but i didn't hear s*** about him in 2003.

I think Helling will become a pretty good middle relief guy for them. I doubt they give him a chance to start.

I'll say 4th or 5th, 6th at worse.

I'm willing to bet everything i own that he'll be in the rotation at the start of the season. The way i see it KW has already promised Scho a spot.

He would gave gotten $2.0-2.4M in arbitration, so even if he meets all bonuses we still save a few bucks.

Trading PK for Erstad dose nothing money wise. Erstad 2004: $7.5M 2005: $8.0M 2006: $8.5M I'd rather keep PK.

Boston won't take PK, we'd have to trade PK to another team and take on Damon's salary. My point being if we can get rid of PK's salary, there's better options than taking on Damon's $7.5M.

He'll do much worse, but for $7.5M you can get much more than what Damon offers.

.345 OBP in 2003 .356 OBP in 2002 .324 OBP in 2001 .347 OBP in his career Maybe its just me, but don't you need to get on base to be a lead off guy?