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At some point, we'll need to score runs. Our inability to get on base was a bigger problem than our pitching last season.

For the same reason that individual members of the teamsters can't agree to work at a lesser wage or fewer hours. The owners signed a collective bargaining agreement.

Basically because their prospective employers form a cartel of 30 or so, which is small, and could weild immense power over them if the union dissolved.

Well, one season is one season, so i do care who's better. But I agree with you - we need to move whichever one we are left with. Our position should be whichever the dodgers want - if they want Maggs, scew Boston; if they want Nomar, then we'll deal with Boston. Just the feeling I get is that we've, for some reason, agreed to participate with Boston, without having the other end of this locked up. And Williamson's price is, what $3 mill? Couldn't we have signed Gordon or the guy we got from the Reds for that price?

That nomar plays a "harder position" is not the way to analyze this. Do we have someone with good numbers to take Maggs position at the easier position???? You add Maggs production and Valentin's production (presuming we trade him) and compare it to Nomar's production plus the production of whoever plays right field. I'd be shocked if we come out ahead. Williamson is a middle reliever - the value is inherently limited no matter how good the stats guys see him. Throw a quality starter in there and it might make sense. And it doesn't solve the long term issue - he's leaving after next year. We plug one hole (and SS was actually the strongest of our holes), create a new one, and still need a CF, middle infielder, and, most of all, a lead off hitter. The only reason to do this deal is to move him.

Aren't the Sox a key player in this - if we aren't there to take Nomar, does that deal get done? It's like it's a given that we will do the bidding that baseball has pronounced we shall do. Wait until you have something worked out with the Dodgers, Kenny, or JUST SAY NO

You're probably right, but they need some O.

Yea but they aren't going to do this deal without us on the sidelines to gobble up Nomar, are they? Let's work on the deal to send nomar to the Dodgers. Or even better, screw Boston (I hate dealing with Gammons' love child) and send Maggs and Valentin to the Mariners for Garcia, Winn (decent lead off hitter), that young middle infielder and one of their stud pitching prospects. Then sign Ponson and then deal Danny Wright for Williamson.

I don't know their contractual situations, but Percival makes nearly EIGHT million and Washburn nearly $4 million. Take Washburn and a lead off hitter if they have one - screw Percival

Yea, I got the right one. He comes to the AL and asked to pitch in the clutch and sports a 6.2 era in that effort. Sounds awfully Rick Whitesque to me Or Todd Ritchie - although his era was only 6.06

Didn't we just not sign a couple of our own bullpen pitchers with similar credentials for the want of 3 or so million? It's almost like KW is reading Peter Gammons articles as his scouting reports - the Nomar articles for the last 5 years (Gammons has told us how great he is) and the Williamson article when the redsox got him last fall

I guess so - but it's not like Williamson is anything special. 6.20 ERAs aren't that hard to find for free. In the meantime, we have a worse hitter than maggs for a year AND we blow an opportunity to get something for him by trading him for pitching and young players.

I agree with you Why do we have to give prospects back? KW, even in his good trades, always seems to overpay on paper. And I don't like the maggs for nomar part of the deal either, but that's another story.