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I'd definately consider Carlos Lee for Russ Ortiz. Ortiz is a proven winner and a real good pitcher. Still, I really hate giving up Caballo, I like the way our offense is going to look next year with him and Caballo their. That way their is a lot less pressure on Crede, Olivo, Rowand, and Jimenez.

THe defense is looking like pure crap and Miller already has one pick. :metal

Personally, I think their is no reason the wild card winner shouldn't come from the central. The Twins and Sox should beat up on the other crappy teams, and if they can take care of other bad teams like Texas, Toronto, Baltimore, and Tampa, they should easily have a better record then the other teams, mainly the ones in the AL West.

Sssh....Don't jinx it Michelle...Remember lose Chicago lose

They are going to play Burris the 2nd half or at least thats what they are expected to do.

Lets go Bears Just don't win, thats all I ask Chicago. Play your asses off and play a great game, but somehow make sure you lose.

Do you have a list of all the teams in it Alex? That way its easy for me to make my picks

Well, yours may be set up so you have to click on attach signature near the bottom of the posts, for all posts that are after your original post.

I really think we will see BA rank us as one of the top 5 organizations in all of baseball. After one year, it looks like they had one of the best drafts in the majors last year, as did the Chicago Cubs. Of course, it takes a long time to truly judge a draft, but the Sox found a ton of talent in later rounds and I love knowing that we have a guy that knows his stuff when it comes to building a farm system. Rarely do we have empty spots where their aren't any prospects. The systems are all pretty even, although the higher levels are a bit thin, since most are at the major league level now. Still, they have Diaz and Rauch already their as well as Hummell and Borchard.

If Michelle is being optimistic about the Sox winning the division then their is definately a possibility Every year I say the Sox can win the division, or at least the past 3. The reason I say it, is because we can. The players are going to have to continue developing, but this offense is good, and the pen is really good, while the staff is marginal, but has the ability to be real good, and it will be good if the Sox bring in a pitcher or two.

I'm also leaving out Edwin Yan, like Andy Sisco or whatever his name is. We have a coupe really good 3rd baseman that were in the Rookie Leagues. Also forgot Jeremy Reed Casey Rogowski Wyatt Allen

Lol, I loved Boomer too, but he was known as an ass who got in trouble. Koch don't get in trouble. Still, I love the attitude of pitchers when they put the blame on themselves and want the ball in their hands. The one thing I hated about Foulke is he didn't want to close. He was damn good at it, but you can only be so good if thats something you don't want to do.

Our farm system is getting pretty stocked right now. To me its stronger then it was the previous two to three years even. Diaz Honel Rauch Stewart Phillips Ryan Wing Brian West Guillermo Reyes Tim Hummell Joe Borchard Andy Gonzalez Anthony Webster Ring Majewski Malone Ulacia Stumm Almonte Then a ton of people in rookie ball were really ripping it up. My mind is forgetting a ton of names right now, but hey, its the offseason, and I'm cramming for finals,

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Like I say, if we sign him, just expect him their in 2 years. I like the move cause it means you could get a guy thats an ace at a measly 3.5 mill a year, and thats if he pans out. Otherwise he gets 500k and a buyout. To me its well worth the wait. The Sox just can't hope and plan on him to pan out this year, so they need other pickups.

I love this guys attitude. He just wants the ball in his hands, no ifs ands or butts. If he fails he blames no one but himself, thats just how I like it to be.

Its because he has little experience. If I recall right it took the Sox a while to sign Gonzalez and he only played in the short season last year or something like that. I'm not positive on this though.

I've seen two different things, one says that the Sox still have a little bit of time to sign him still, while others say they had to make the decision by December 7th, and thats how I always understood it works. My guess is he's been released. He made good money last year, so the Sox probably feel they can spend that 3.5 mill on someone better, like Omar Daal, and then add the extra pitcher using whatever means they were planning on to lure in another starter.

I'm with Mike on the idea that he should have a quicker recovery because he knows how to pitch and relies on movement, and those are typically things that you don't lose after tommy john, it simply takes a bit of time to refind your delivery.

Thanks for that info abozchiu. Gonzalez and Webster both sound like studs. I trust Cerb (Mike Doyle) a ton on prospects. My specialty tends to be the pitching prospects.

I tend to agree with you RT. Byrd proved it in the Al central and typically it is much tougher to pitch in the American League then the national league. Byrd reminds me of Maddux and he's really getting smarter as the seasons go on. He has great movement and locates his pitches. To me he'd be a great pickup because he can help act as a coach(Something KC coaches and the GM raved about him last year) and he can help us win. The guy had a fantastic era, and threw innings.

Man oh man, that guy really thought our system stinks. He aught to look at the Twinkie system which is stocked in the outfield department and they have Mauer, but they don't have much other then that. They also have had some high first round pitchers that became busts/or have yet to develop(ie, Adam Johnson or whatever his name is, out of Cal State Fullerton)

I think its Crosby and if we get him, I'm going to be real happy cause he's a good prospect, who has a pretty high ceiling. I remember watching him play for Long Beach State and he was real good. Yes, we have a lot of infield prospects, but to me, you can never have too many. Plus, its good to have a backup in case some of them fail. And we all know I have my grand plan of dumping Manos By the way welcome to the board RT59.

I know what you mean APU. FREEDOM Of Speach is a great thing. Also, don't worry Roman, you aren't racist, spiff's just messing with ya.

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