Yesterday, the Yankees informed Andruw Jones that he will not be on the ALDS roster against the Orioles. Jones says that he understands the move and won't consider retirement as a result, writes Dan Martin of the New York Post. “I’m going to be playing,” said the 35-year-old. “I don’t know where, but I’m not done playing.” Jones will be a free agent this winter as his one-year, $2MM deal expires. Here's more out of the AL East..
- The Red Sox have plenty of money to work with this winter thanks to their blockbuster deal with the Dodgers, but there isn't much for them to spend it on, notes John Tomase of the Boston Herald. Tomase could see Boston targeting Adam LaRoche and Mike Napoli, but the Red Sox would be wary of a substantial long-term commitment to the latter.
- If the Red Sox can't pry John Farrell away from the Blue Jays, Scott Lauber of the Boston Herald suggests that they could instead target Toronto's first base coach Torey Lovullo.
- The Daisuke Matsuzaka era in Boston came and went without a bang, writes Steve Buckley of the Boston Herald. Despite Dice-K's less-than-impressive pitching with the Red Sox, Buckley hopes that the club continues to put a strong emphasis on international scouting.
I’d let the Sox take Farrell, then promote Butterfield and hire Vizquel as the new 3rd base/Infield Instructor.
that is a good idea i think just make sure you get something nice for farrel, Mark Malencon? seems fair
Melancon overall had a bad season but I still wouldn’t trade him away for just a manager. Want a fair price, how about Chris Carpenter.
Chris Carpenter? no thanks. probably just join Drabek and Hutchison on the blown-arm list… and then re-emerge three years later somewhere else with a Cy Young and WS ring. History repeats!
He was pretty good in Houston, I doubt they drop him without trying to up his value first.
what about vizquel this year leads you to believe he’d be a good instructor.
Andruw should finish is Career with the Atlanta Braves!!!!
Maybe not the major need for atlanta to have a guy like Andruw Jones in their line up but if his cheap I will take him. Who knows, he might get momentum and Play awesome once again :). Go Braves!!!
Actually the Matsuzaka era did go out with a bang. In his last month 4 out of 5 games he allowed more runs than innings pitched and gave up 7 home runs. Different kind of bang but still.
So much for “Fort Knox” haha…thanks Boras
Sometimes you have to wish that Boras and Matsuzaka had taken that jet to Japan during the winter of ’06, rather than cave at the last moment and sign for the “low” amount of 6/48m Boras whined about.
Remember.. He was wanting upwards of 15mAAV over 6 seasons and “holding firm” til the last minute Boston had given him for a deadline of “yay or nay”.
That 100m could have been used in much better ways. His “help” wasn’t that critical towards the ’07 WS Championship.
Matsuzaka was pretty good in his first few years. I don’t think that it was that he wasn’t good enough, but rather that the workload that he went through while he was in japan just wore him out.
Interesting to see who/if Dice-K signs with, or if he even gets an offer. Maybe Seattle or Arizona. Twins? Whichever, he gets one year at minimum. Hope he saved his $$$.
Why don’t the Red Sox give Dave Magadan a look he has been a great hitting coach and has been with the organization for a while… Much rather have him then Bogar.
Andruw is a class act. I don’t know how much he has left but it was nice to see him still contribute something after the Dodgers debacle.
@facebook-677389932:disqus What the Red Sox really should do is invest the money they saved by making the Dodgers trade into developing or prospects and scouting instead of spending big on the weak free agent market we have this year or by making desperation trades just to put us back in the division race next year. I think rebuilding our team so that we can be competitive for the 2014 season is the way to go, I think we can do this by getting rid of Ellsbury, Lackey, and Salty by trades allowing us to start players like De La Rosa, Lavarnway and Kalish giving them much needed experience. Then I think we should retain Ortiz and Ross on 2 year deals and sign Carlos Pena on a cheap 1 year deal {allowing us to sign Kendys Morales next year}. Finally I think we should consider Manny Acta, Dave Martinez, and Sandy Alomar as our replacement for Bobby V.
The panic moves of the GMs and front office have doomed the Sox!