will be irrelevant come Jan 1st when MLB network starts up. I believe that is what tball is referring to.

We already have a better DH candidate than Lars. His name is Max.

Advanced college bats like Smoak don’t need that much time in the minors. Anderson also looks like he could go through a similar route as Davis in playing a little at AA next year, a bit at AAA, and being ready for the Majors.

And while everything can go wrong, I think JD should have some plan for what happens if everything works as they expect with these guys. If JD and co. believe enough in Cruz to have him be the full time starter next year, then they probably believe enough in him to think he can be the ..875-900 OPS guy with plus defense for more than one season. If that’s the case, I would like JD to know the trade market for a Lars Anderson or for Justin Smoak to prevent trading a catcher log jam for a 1B log jam.

…you want a guy with more range in LF.

Much like most baseball players.

with that. I’d rather see them have their cake and eat it, too, but there aren’t a lot of good glove good bat combos available for LF right now.

so if we get offered a stud 3b for teagarden we should do it? whaaaaaaaat

this is like the whole stevoo shit with smoak and why we shouldnt take him and should have taken a pitcher

BPA.

Hughes also has injury concerns that Buchholz doesn’t have.

how much money we’d already spent, I would guess it might have been shittier, though Ahrens has been pretty shitty so far.

What do you personally think we could get for Cat if we wanted to get his entire contract off our books?

feeds into the idea that either of those things would make a ounce of difference in our scouting budget for those places. We offered, to the best of my knowledge, superior contracts to both Inoa and Tazawa, both of whom chose to sign with different teams. I think this whole idea of the major league payroll and the minor league operations payroll are interconnected is a flawed one.

By all accounts, Hicks has been willing to spend as necessary to get the young guys, even with our current contracts on the books, but he’s been reluctant to spend on veterans regardless. I’m not sure how much impact a contract like Cat’s would ultimately have on our budget, but I’d be shocked if it is in any way significant.

Then, there’s the idea that what is done with TT/Salty/Max will have a big hand in shaping our future. Given that this team still has plenty of holes, I think accepting an inferior bid to get rid of a contract is exactly how someone becomes a perpetual wasteland like Pittsburgh. We need to maximize on-field value for these guys, not to draw what has largely been nonexistent lines between scouting and MLB payroll in an effort to justify accepting inferior bids.

And yes, I think that idiotic post of Booth’s is the equivalent of someone saying Bowden for Laird would be totally fair, as long as Texas takes back Mike Lowell. It fullys deserves a EABOD, if not a DiAF

incredibly out of date, thrice posted data that you should be posting right now?

dude runs a moderately popular Red Sox blog out of the thousands that exist in the great cyberwaste land, big whoop.

put up a disclaimer that members of LSB doesn’t speak for you, but when someone maintains something that is patently false, I don’t see why we should give them leeway because they happen to be a SBNation blogger.

Especially when they drag a whole damn virtual short bus with them.

we should put no stock in what he IS now?

that’s a guy who gives up quite a bit of walks, we don’t exactly have fangraphs data to know how many of his pitches fall outside the zone, but the only indicator that we do have (BB/9) shows that he is still very wild. Not to mention that the only year that he has been good (this year) was a mere 100 innings stretched between two levels, neither of which being AAA or the majors (which is important considering the dude is 23). Seriously, what part of “Dude still walked a lot of guys” in AA is wrong?