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mike292929
someone not take their meds today?
wickedkevin
I don’t believe your lowercase quote.
BoomDizzle
I wonder if Cherington learned not to throw a couple hundred million dollars on overrated free agents. Boy Blunder never learned that one.
notsureifsrs
Why are we fiscally responsible? Not because we are cheap; we are not. Not because we are afraid of large commitments; we are not. Not because we would rather pursue non-tenders or particularly enjoy reading through thousands of minor league free agent reports instead; we don’t (well, maybe sometimes). Quite simply, we are fiscally responsible because the alternative would be a disaster. Fiscal irresponsibility is the single quickest way to hamstring a franchise for a decade.
We are fiscally responsible and we value payroll flexibility because we trust our ability to evaluate talent. Our attitude is: give us a talented core and some flexibility and let us go to work. The more talented the core and the more flexibility we have, the better off we will be. Injuries and down-turns in performance will be more manageable if we have flexibility.
sounds clueless
Wek
That sounds as if he’s taking an indirect cheap shot at those who are willing to shell out the $100mil+ contracts.
notsureifsrs
it sounds to me like he’s got a plan for the organization he just took over and is explaining to a notoriously short-sighted fan base why that plan does not include big-ticket free agents right out of the gate. the quote comes from 2003 when he was first hired and and when he pledged, as a plan for long-term organizational success, to turn the red sox into a scouting and player development machine
10 years later, no team in baseball fielded as much homegrown talent as boston and despite big name acquisitions like martinez and gonzalez the farm system remains strong. the outstanding young core they developed ultimately gave them the flexibility to bring in big free agents
those free agents have not performed, but the suggestion that theo ‘never learned’ not to throw big money at them is completely absurd. he learned it almost a decade before he even gave out the contracts. and the only reason he took those risks to begin with is because he had done so well in achieving his primarily goal of organizational player development. his actions were entirely consistent with the philosophy he articulated on day one
Coollet
Who is Derrick Lee?
johnsilver
I don’t agree with needing to look for OF depth at all. CC, Ells and a Ross/Sweeny is well past good enough and then Lin as a possible 5th would be as good, or better than they have had since Drew’s 2nd year and when they still had Crisp as a backup.
Cherrington might want to focus on looking for more bodies as a 5th starter if anything for this team. Every other position on the team is fine, the BP is fine and they are deep in the backup role.
He may want to cease bringing in so many retreads however, or tell them when he signs them the will be playing at AA rather than AAA so his REAL prospects can get the playing time that they deserve against better competition.