I'd be shocked if AJ was offered arbitration.

I'll bet money the Sox offer him a 1 year deal, maybe with a 2nd year team option, for about what he's been making the last few years, and AJ will jump at it because he won't get anything better elsewhere. This also allows Flowers to get back on track in AAA. And I think that's the right path.

 

I'll bet money the Sox offer him a 1 year deal, maybe with a 2nd year team option, for about what he's been making the last few years, and AJ will jump at it because he won't get anything better elsewhere. This also allows Flowers to get back on track in AAA. And I think that's the right path.

If the Sox offer him $6 million a year I would be SHOCKED. That would be about double his market value.

What does that even mean? That's true about every sport.

 

I'm glad I wasn't the only one thinking that.

I'll bet money the Sox offer him a 1 year deal, maybe with a 2nd year team option, for about what he's been making the last few years, and AJ will jump at it because he won't get anything better elsewhere. This also allows Flowers to get back on track in AAA. And I think that's the right path.

 

I agree. There are no other options out there.

 

Sure get rid of AJ and get.......oh ya drop $40M/4yr on Victor Martinez.

 

I agree that AJ may end up overpaid but what real choice do the Sox have? Miguel Olivo??? Tyle rFlowers?????

 

Seriously who is the option?

If the Sox offer him $6 million a year I would be SHOCKED. That would be about double his market value.

 

 

I'm glad I wasn't the only one thinking that.

 

Well crap, I thought he was making $3M for some reason. I'll edit - I suspect they offer him in the vicinity of $3M for a year, or maybe $2M and a team option at $3M, or the like.

 

Well crap, I thought he was making $3M for some reason. I'll edit - I suspect they offer him in the vicinity of $3M for a year, or maybe $2M and a team option at $3M, or the like.

I would think 2 years/$6 million might get the job done.

Well crap, I thought he was making $3M for some reason. I'll edit - I suspect they offer him in the vicinity of $3M for a year, or maybe $2M and a team option at $3M, or the like.

 

FWIW, I didn't even read your post. I was talking about elrock's and sitting there with a 'WTF?' expression on my face.

has the whole board boycotted?? or just not care?? i know the seasons over and all but still do pirates message boards end halfway through the season?? this is still your team!!

 

this was the earliest I completely checked out since winning the WS, and I've been pretty die hard since the 80s.

 

Realizing that MN is going to flat out own us for the foreseeable seasons just drops depression like a hammer. Realizing how much we mortgaged our future with big money aging vets, and fixer upper bargain castoffs, has really sunk in. We don't have the budget to buy the rising star players like the top 3-4 teams, we don't have a mgr that can do special things with what he has, our prospects are mostly very average, and our few bright spot vets are aging and susceptible to sustained injury......ah, I could go on but why bother at this point. When Prospectus comes out next year having us at a 500 team, and counter rage starts here, and the 100 "IF ONLY" statements start flying around the board, it will be just tired hack foreshadowing of the mid-season rage this board and Sox fans will be in, again, over the same old problems of a 100M team with little to show for it. Yeah, keeping Thome would have helped, but MN would still be looking at us in a cloud of dust in their rear view mirror.

Edited September 30, 201015 yr by stretchstretch