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johnsilver
Disagree with Cafardo (again) on LT contracts.. No chance would do anything with Salty, other than go year to year. Bailey? maybe, if it was very team friendly and only covered option years past the 3rd season and Bard? That’s a toughie with him starting now. Bard as a reliever (middle) was an easy LT contract, but just starting to start is almost impossible to gauge his worth.
Bard could be minimal (Setup guy) or off the charts (Josh Johnson) and both sides really should wait until at least the season is over before doing anything, if not even later.
Salty just screams mediocrity. Think in another couple of seasons they will have another patchwork guy developed and let him go. He’s just not that good anyway.. league average and not worth any long term investment.
lefty177
I agree with you on everything you said, i just have a fun fact for you, did you know that the Red Sox catching tandem of Salty & Tek led the majors in HR & RBI? I didn’t know that & found it surprising, totally agree with you though
johnsilver
” did you know that the Red Sox catching tandem of Salty & Tek led the majors in HR & RBI”
Yes. I was and tek is gone because he couldn’t throw, Salty learned to throw and is getting much better on defense, but his OBP skills are still not that good.
My reasons for not paying him and letting him go?
Boston has in it’s system several decent catchers:
Lavarnway
Swihart
Vazquez
Even Dan Butler
Catching is a position they are not weak at and if there is a position where they can save money (since they already are talking of letting youk’s option go) I can easily see them pinching money here, where they have someone who can be replaced.
MaineSox
Yeah, my guess would be that Salty is done in Boston once he becomes a free agent after ’13.
Stephen Goldsmith
If Damon waited a week, could he have been a red sox?
johnsilver
This keeps coming up and Damon is no longer an OF, except in “break glass” situations.
They might as well call up Boras client JD Drew if they want one of his OF Clients and that would not have happened either, but more of a chance.. At least Drew could have HELPED the team by actually playing decent defense in the OF and not losing flyballs in the OF….
jpg1200
If Manny could play lf at fenway all those years I think Damon could handle it and Crawford could have played center when he came back
johnsilver
Jim Rice did also and he wasn’t very good.. Jason Bay.. Have seen many not so good LF over the years patrol LF. They were not all GG’ers like Yaz.
Damon has health issues to go along with his awful arm.. He has issues with vertigo and age.. He loses balls sometimes. Now who wants that in the OF?
It’s why nobody sticks him in the OF anymore, unless “break glass” situation.
hawkny11
Wait! Ellsbury slides into second base and shortstop, Brigniac deposits himself on Jacoby’s back, driving the man’s shoulder into the ground to break his clavicle (or whatever). And this makes Ells injury prone? Ridiculous! This injury could have happened to anyone trying to slide into second base. The Ray’s player could be accused of intentionally injuring Ellbury, IMHO. Even though it was hard to determine that while watching the play, Brigniac did seem to shift his weight to the right as he came down on the prone Red Sox player’s torso. Why not write about the Ray’s player’s headhunting tactics after losing 3 straight at Fenway?
hawkny11
Prediction: Once Salty warms up….. .280/24/70