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  1. Buzzkill Pauley

    The Unbalanced 40-man Roster

    After looking up a few things in response to a question about Tzu-Wei Lin in another thread, I started looking into the 40-man roster in an effort to make this very slow offseason go a little faster. And that’s when it struck me — the Red Sox 40-man roster is severely unbalanced right now...
  2. Buzzkill Pauley

    Who is the Sox 2VP?

    You know the drill. And you also know Sale is the team MVP. But who's the second-most important player on the 2017 Red Sox? A vote for Panda is actually a vote for his abject failure which lead DDski to DFA his butt and bring aboard not only super-utility hero Eduardo Nunez, but also...
  3. Buzzkill Pauley

    Post All-Star Rotation Order?

    Not to look ahead of the SURPRISING Tampa Devil Rays of Saint Petersburg, but... I haven't heard any rumblings about how Farrell plans to arrange the rotation after the All-Star break. Then again, I really don't pay much attention to the Boston sports media circus, either. So whenever some...
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    2017 Red Sox Payroll - 180 is enough?

    Since arbitration figures were mostly settled yesterday, we know what the Sox are committed to in 2017, aside from Pomeranz, Abad, Rutledge, and the "minimum" salary guys. I place that in quotation marks, because last year Bogaerts was paid $650k -- well over the minimum for 2+ years MLB AST --...
  5. Buzzkill Pauley

    Too Much Pitching? The 2017 40-man Crunch

    Well, this has been quite a week. Who'd have ever thought the Sox would actually land Josh Rutledge? But rather than gumming up threads about any particular moves, I figured a new thread about the 40-man roster would be in order. Because it's now more unbalanced than any time I can remember...
  6. Buzzkill Pauley

    FIRE JOHN FARRELL (v.2)

    John Farrell - Pitching Guru and Leader of Men: 2011 TOR - 4.29 FIP (11th in AL), 4.70 RA/G (11th in AL) 2012 TOR - 4.66 FIP (13th in AL), 4.84 RA/G (11th in AL) 2013 BOS - 3.84 FIP ( 7th in AL), 4.05 RA/G ( 6th in AL) 2014 BOS - 3.93 FIP (10th in AL), 4.41 RA/G (11th in AL) 2015 BOS - 4.17 FIP...
  7. Buzzkill Pauley

    Where did all the southpaws go?

    Convince your President to trade away three of your five MLB-ready LHSP to divisional rivals? A steady diet of Elias, Owens, and Johnson would almost certainly turn Chris Young the Younger all beast mode. But sadly, although the Sox have 5 LHSP on the 40-man, the AL East field only has 4 on...
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    Should the Sox try to build a "superteam" in Salem next April?

    The Sox promoting first Benintendi, and then Espinoza, into the heat of Greenville's playoff run started me thinking about next season, and about the value of prospects playing to win for (and in) the minor league playoffs. How valuable is it, for an organization to cultivate not only its...
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