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Seamaholic
I read that story about Vazquez and immediately thought: They’re going to trade him. This is their way of bumping up his value. Been a Sox observer too long I guess.
VAR
That’s funny. I read it an though they’re going to trade Swihart.
Seamaholic
Worth too much in my estimation. Swihart has the ceiling of a perennial all-star. Boy can hit, and isn’t THAT far behind Vazquez defensively. I think they make a push for Russel Martin and trade Vazquez, giving Swihart one more year.
DarthMurph
They don’t have any reason to sign Martin, who’s going to be a desired commodity. There are far better uses for their money.
VAR
I don’t see Russell Martin in the Red Sox future regardless. No reason to sign him if you keep Vaz or wait a year for Swihart. Sign a stop gap for a year if you trade Vaz, but Martin isn’t in the budget. I think Swihart is the centerpiece they use to bring back a top of the rotation pitcher.
Eric D.
I see more of their backup option being Geovany Soto. Has a decent upside and is pretty low risk.
Damon Bowman
Signing Martin makes no sense for Boston and Martin isn’t coming to Boston to keep a seat warm for Vasquez. Martin will sign a 2- or 3-year deal with a contender who can use him behind the plate for maybe 100 games and find some starts for him at 1B & DH as well. Think Texas or Detroit if somebody steals V-Mart from them.
Bob Bunker
I really hope not. He looks like a legitimate hitter at the catcher position and his defensive I keep hearing is improving. Catchers can provide so much value and be undervalued for real big cost savings.
Eric D.
Does mean Swihart is getting dealt? I really hope not. Offense is hard to come by, especially in a catcher.
start_wearing_purple
The only way Swihart gets traded is if he’s headlining a major deal. My guess is Swihart is more seen as Ortiz’s future replacement.
Eric D.
I don’t think the Red Sox will waste Swihart as the full time DH. His defense, while not as good as Vazquez’, will still be above average and putting him in the DH role wouldn’t make sense unless it’s an every 5th game kind of thing. I could see Swihart playing 1st in the future once Napoli hits free agency though.
Gnotorious
I still see the Red Sox trading for Gattis as a stopgap until then moving him to dh once Ortiz retires.
Stonehands
I like that idea, although I would rather not give up anything significant for Gattis with his limited defensive ability
MaineSox
Swihart could be the long-term solution at 3B if they really view Vazquez as the long-term solution at C.
MB923
In ALCS Game 6 against Schilling, I Never understood why Torre did not have any Yankee bunt the ball.
rct 2
Because it would have involved doing something other than staring silently off into space.
Karkat
I was surprised as well. Boston media was all over that possibility
bill baldwin 2
As much as I admire, respect, and am grateful to David Ross for all he has brought to the Red Sox over the past two years, the sad reality is his weak offense. So, why not make Blake Zwihart the 2nd Red Sox Major League catcher and be done with it?
UK Tiger
Two years (even with an option) and $30m for Cruz, that just wont get it done and i suspect the O’s know that too.
Coming off a season like hes just had, you have to think Cruz is looking for possibly more years and definitely more dollars than that.
I think they’ll make him an offer, it’ll be knocked back, they’ll thank him for his contribution and wave him into the sunset and a four year deal somewhere.
Karkat
It takes some trust in your medical staff to be down with a procedure based on “well it worked on a corpse.”