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Originally Posted by dylanmarsh
And my beloved Red Sox (better known as God's Team), signed Matt Mantei to a one-year, $750K contract. |
Nobody commented on that signing, but I LOVE that deal for the Red Sox. It has the potential to be the best bullpend aquisitions in the offseason. If he stays healthy (BIG if) he will be just as good as or better than Foulke.
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Originally Posted by thrsn0730
True ... as long as you don't mind playing for a team that loses around 100 games a year. And where in the world did they find that kind of coin? I thought the reason they were going to trade Randy Johnson and not bring back Sexson was they were in such bad financial shape.
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First of all, the 110 losses was an arberation. Take a team and remove a 40HR slugger, destroy the LF'ers throwing arm (which fucks his offensive game up too), trade away one of the top CF's in the game, and then add injuries to both catchers, your 2B, two starting pitchers and replace all of those guys with AAA and AA players and see if any team can avoid that record. It was train wreck after train wreck last year. This year could be totally different.
Finding that money was no problem. We have three players under contract for 2005 (RJ-16, Gonzo-10, Webb-about 2) and lots of young pre-arbitration players that can make big contributions. That is 28M and we plan on having a payroll of about 75M.
We've tried out hardest to resign Sexson to a fair contract for both sides. We offered 3yr/30M but we tied some of the first two years' money to him staying healthy. He wouldn't take it. We did offer arbitration to Richie but I doubt he'll take it. If he did we'd have one hell of a middle of the lineup.
The only word on trading RJ came from RJ himself. He wants out and the team wants to keep him. We told him we'd try to accomidate him so we've tried to make deals. Basically we set the price so high that nobody will take it, therefore he'll probably stay which is fine with the management.
I have mixed feelings about the Glaus signing. Although we can afford him, we have somewhere around $150M in deferred salaries that we owe. There is loads of talent in the farm system (superstar types) that are going to make an impact by 2007. I would have been fine with staying in last place for two years and getting rid of the deferred money ASAP.