Odds and Ends: Lugo, Murton, Scherzer

Well the comment was deleted while i typed this (presumably because it was rude) but in response to the actual point: "Why would the red sox sign lugo to a 5 year contract if lowrie was ready?"

Lowrie was in high A the year before they signed Lugo where he had a horrible season (mostly due to injury). 2007 was his break out year where he tore through AA and AAA (297/410/501 and 300/356/506 respectively). Based on 2007 they NOW know he is ready. Before 2007 there was question about whether he'd even make it to the majors much less as a shortstop.

Also, one little nitpick, Lugo is signed to a 4 year contract with a vesting option, NOT a 5 year contract (it'll be extremely easy to make sure the option doesn't vest).

Lastly, the jury may still be out on whether Lowrie CAN actually play shortstop in the majors, but considering Lugo has made 6 errors in 16 games (the current major league leader at ANY position), he's not exactly proving himself capable either.

Get ready to add Soriano to the list of worst contracts of all time.

Son of a...

'Zona's scouting department is just ridiculous. They're already killing teams with a mix of high draft picks (Upton, Drew, Jackson), smart signings (Hudson, Byrnes), sweet trade acquisitions (Haren, Young) and late draft gems (Webb, Reynolds, Owings wasn't really late, but he wasn't a first or second rounder, so...) Byrnes is 32, Hudson's 30... If you take Randy Johnson out of the equation, those guys (and Doug Davis) are the oldest contributors on the roster! Now it turns out Scherzer is friggin' lightning in a bottle- some combo of Lincecum and Joba... They're going to dominate the NL for the next decade! Hell, they may actually have the talent to beat an AL team!!! Throw in Gerardo Parra and Jarrod Parker, who's further off, but who I'm more excited about as a prospect than even Scherzer, and... Damn. I'm not even a D'backs fan; I'm just impressed. That organization is run superbly. Then again, for an O's fan, anything looks good in contrast!

Forget a bag of peanuts. If the sox are allowed to lick the salt left behind from the peanuts they'd get a good return for lugo.

On a side note, I'd have to agree with Dave about comment deleting. We're mostly adults here, you'd expect we'd be able to shake off coarse language on the internet.

If being told to use your brain for something obvious is grounds for banning and deletion than you got some issues Tim. That is the definition of a think skin.

Why would you curb solid discussion?

Its your thing but that seems very childish.

I'll respect the proper grammar deleting. But I dont want to post and be on sites that delete because people differ with the sites owners opinion and he cant take it.

Thats low class.