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Ufortunatly I am really lacking power in the infield, I have Sean Casey, Luis Castillo and Chone Figgins. The trade has been Vetoed a second time now, I guess I will have to pick up Dallas McPherson and hope he gets healthy.

Thats about what I thought and it was the other guy who offered me Blalock.

Just a quick question, would any of you consider Blalock for Pedro an unfair trade? It was vetoed in one of my fantasy leagues so I thought I would get some opinions.

I'm so going to win this year!

Beckett's health problems concern me. Back problems are never good and the blister issues are still a concern. Injuries can happen to anyone but Beckett's track record makes him more of a risk.

Harden

Had to bump this, it just wasn't right that it was on the second page.

That depends on how good the rest of your starting pitching is.

Looks like we are short one team. Do we have someone lined up to take the last spot?

Fiction- Buehrle and Garcia will get 17 and 16 wins respectivly. Fiction- Willie will be gone part way through springtraining. Fact- El Duque will be good for 150 innings. Fiction- Hermanson will be the closer by June. Fiction- He will have a good year but will not beet his career numbers. Fiction- He won't be back until mid May and they will use him cautiously at first. Fact- He can bat lefty and he is in shape, they will find ways to get him in the lineup at DH or in the OF. Fact- B-Mac gets in done after getting called up to make a spot start in a double header in August. The last one is to tough to call as I can really see things going either way for the Sox this year.

The Sox will lose the first game of the season in a blowout causing half of the posters on the site to spend the rest of the night posting in what will eventually become a thirty page thread about how KW is an idiot and should be fired. Jermaine Dye will ground into two double plays in the game and those same posters will be calling for his head. Podsednik will be thrown out in the fourth inning on his first stolen base attempt of the year and people will be longing for the days of Willie Harris. A J will be struck out in each of his four at bats causing people to say he is trying to play bad to help the Twins. Iguchi will commit two errors in the game once again causing people to demand Willie Harris regain his starting spot. Hermanson and Vizcaino will combine to give up 6 runs in the 7th inning causing many posters to post about how they knew those two would suck all along. The Sox will then go on to have their best record since 2000 and all those same posters will say they were always behind this team and loved all of KW's moves. Now for a serious prediction Dustin Hermanson will be the regular closer by June.

I'm in for League 2

QUOTE(YoungstownIndians @ Feb 7, 2005 -> 08:52 PM) Your pen sucked. Just not as bad as ours. You guys blew leads against us, cough9-0cough; Matt Lawton to center, and you did the same to us. Those back to back extra inning victories on JOSE JIMENEZ. With HOWRY-WICKMAN 3 BLOWN SAVES BEFORE 22 So we DEFINATELY Improved. Those surgicaly repaired arms didn't hold up that well last season, in September Howry's ERA was 5.06 and Wickman's was 6.30 that would have me quite concerned about the end of my bullpen.

QUOTE(Jeckle2000 @ Jan 7, 2005 -> 04:27 PM) I really don't want Vazquez here. Does he have better "stuff" then Garland? More then likely. Does he have so much better stuff that he's worth over 6 Mil dollars more then Garland? NO WAY IN HELL! Not only that i've heard he can opt out of his contract at the end of the year if he doesn't like us or make us trade him. So if he tanks it and he forces a trade then we'd be giving Garland and whatever prospect for s***. I don't want him here. We have a pretty good idea what Garland will do, he's done it the last three years. For all we know Vazquez could get lit up in the cell. No way should we pay 6 mil more plus prospects for a maybe! He can't opt out of his contract, he can demand a trade after the season though. The trade demand is a bit of an empty threat though because if the team doesn't trade him by March 15 I think it is he has to recind his demand or opt for free agency and he would be stupid to walk away from all that guarenteed money.

Of course the dbacks would turn it down, but at this point I don't see Vazquez being worth any more to the Sox.

The only way I would take Vazquez is if the Dbacks took Contreras and Everett, if thats not enough for them they could have Borchard too. Any more than that and its not worth it IMO.

Beuhrle - 16 Garcia - 16 Hernandez - 10 Garland - 13 Contreras - 10

He is definitly a risk, but at this point it may be a risk the Sox have to take because if we stand pat it will be another .500 season if we are lucky.

I wish he was though.

Lee and Bmac for Hudson with the clause that we have time to negotiate an extention. Then trade Contreras for a mid level OF and sign Wilson Alvarez to be the fifth starter.

I'd take any of those places over toronto, awful place. Awful.

I agree no one in their right mind would want to live in the hell hole that is toronto,The asshole of Canada.

What do expect from a Drunken Canadian.... Wait I think Drunken Canadian is being redundant.

Actually it's about 84 cents on the dollar right now And since the players get paid in americen dollars he would actually be making more in toronto.

I'd take both and trade Contreras.