Comments on: Red Sox and Ryan Sweeney avoid arbitration with one-year, $1.75 million deal http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/01/13/red-sox-and-ryan-sweeney-avoid-arbitration-with-one-year-1-75-million-deal/ Baseball. Baseball. And then a bit more baseball. Fri, 24 May 2013 14:45:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: 1943mrmojorisin1971 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/01/13/red-sox-and-ryan-sweeney-avoid-arbitration-with-one-year-1-75-million-deal/comment-page-1/#comment-247504 Sat, 14 Jan 2012 19:41:35 +0000 http://nbchardballtalk.wordpress.com/?p=106494#comment-247504 Couldn’t or didn’t want to?

]]> By: 1943mrmojorisin1971 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/01/13/red-sox-and-ryan-sweeney-avoid-arbitration-with-one-year-1-75-million-deal/comment-page-1/#comment-247503 Sat, 14 Jan 2012 19:41:12 +0000 http://nbchardballtalk.wordpress.com/?p=106494#comment-247503 Be that as it may, the Sox haven’t had much luck getting anything out of pitchers past their prime. Smoltz and Colon are just a couple of names that come to mind.

]]> By: Ari Collins http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/01/13/red-sox-and-ryan-sweeney-avoid-arbitration-with-one-year-1-75-million-deal/comment-page-1/#comment-247411 Sat, 14 Jan 2012 16:18:26 +0000 http://nbchardballtalk.wordpress.com/?p=106494#comment-247411 Sweeney has a .700 OPS against righties, Aviles and McDonald .800 against lefties. And Sweeney’s finally going to a good hitter’s park (though not a total bandbox if you’re a lefty). I’d say .700-.750.

Considering what Boston got out of RF last year (.670 OPS), that’s an improvement.

]]> By: Ari Collins http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/01/13/red-sox-and-ryan-sweeney-avoid-arbitration-with-one-year-1-75-million-deal/comment-page-1/#comment-247406 Sat, 14 Jan 2012 16:04:50 +0000 http://nbchardballtalk.wordpress.com/?p=106494#comment-247406 Rumor has it the Sox simply couldn’t match Kuroda’s price tag, and Oswalt is similarly out of reach. Oh well. Unless you’re the Yankees, you can only buy so much.

]]> By: hushbrother http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/01/13/red-sox-and-ryan-sweeney-avoid-arbitration-with-one-year-1-75-million-deal/comment-page-1/#comment-247398 Sat, 14 Jan 2012 15:42:42 +0000 http://nbchardballtalk.wordpress.com/?p=106494#comment-247398 That doesn’t seem like much of a platoon in right field. Unless Sweeney unexpectedly mashes it could combine for an OPS of around .650-.700.

]]> By: aceshigh11 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/01/13/red-sox-and-ryan-sweeney-avoid-arbitration-with-one-year-1-75-million-deal/comment-page-1/#comment-247394 Sat, 14 Jan 2012 15:15:40 +0000 http://nbchardballtalk.wordpress.com/?p=106494#comment-247394 True, but the two pitchers the Yankees acquired still leaves them with a huge advantage relative to the Sox.

They’d better get busy, even though there isn’t much left out there.

]]> By: aceshigh11 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/01/13/red-sox-and-ryan-sweeney-avoid-arbitration-with-one-year-1-75-million-deal/comment-page-1/#comment-247393 Sat, 14 Jan 2012 15:13:39 +0000 http://nbchardballtalk.wordpress.com/?p=106494#comment-247393 Smoltz 2.0?

That’s quite an exaggeration. Oswalt isn’t NEARLY as old or as past his prime as Smoltz was.

Not saying that Oswalt is the ideal choice for the Sox…he would be a big risk given his bad back for the asking price, but the Smoltz comparison is imperfect.

]]> By: 1943mrmojorisin1971 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/01/13/red-sox-and-ryan-sweeney-avoid-arbitration-with-one-year-1-75-million-deal/comment-page-1/#comment-247357 Sat, 14 Jan 2012 10:10:11 +0000 http://nbchardballtalk.wordpress.com/?p=106494#comment-247357 I don’t really know what to think of the Sox at this point. On one hand, Pedroia, Gonzo, and Ellsbury are among the league’s best. On the other, the Crawford contract almost makes me wonder if Theo didn’t leave the new Cubs to join the actual Cubs. They lost an All Star closer and replaced him with a younger but not as solid one.

The main thing is their rotation still needs fixing, and now that the Yankees have addressed that same problem methinks the Sox will have to get to work. The only problem is with what the Yankees just did there isn’t a lot left for them. Oswalt would be Smoltz 2.0 and Edwin Jackson is Edwin Jackson. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see what happens now.

]]> By: 1943mrmojorisin1971 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/01/13/red-sox-and-ryan-sweeney-avoid-arbitration-with-one-year-1-75-million-deal/comment-page-1/#comment-247355 Sat, 14 Jan 2012 10:00:46 +0000 http://nbchardballtalk.wordpress.com/?p=106494#comment-247355 Whatever, they can have his 30+ HRs while he struggles to reach the Mendoza Line.

]]> By: uyf1950 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/01/13/red-sox-and-ryan-sweeney-avoid-arbitration-with-one-year-1-75-million-deal/comment-page-1/#comment-247297 Sat, 14 Jan 2012 03:11:03 +0000 http://nbchardballtalk.wordpress.com/?p=106494#comment-247297 …and I read just a few minutes ago that the Yankees are looking at Carlos Pena for some more offense.

Big Advantage Yankees.

]]> By: hammyofdoom http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/01/13/red-sox-and-ryan-sweeney-avoid-arbitration-with-one-year-1-75-million-deal/comment-page-1/#comment-247296 Sat, 14 Jan 2012 03:10:23 +0000 http://nbchardballtalk.wordpress.com/?p=106494#comment-247296 The sad, crippling irony of the yankees making headlines about acquiring two starting pitchers while the Red Sox sign a 4th outfielder to a MLB contract was not lost on moi.

]]> By: bigharold http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/01/13/red-sox-and-ryan-sweeney-avoid-arbitration-with-one-year-1-75-million-deal/comment-page-1/#comment-247291 Sat, 14 Jan 2012 02:52:13 +0000 http://nbchardballtalk.wordpress.com/?p=106494#comment-247291 So far today the RS offered Capt Sucker Punch a minor league deal, .. perhaps, .. to come back and be third stink catcher and avoid arbitration with a 1.75 Mil contract

The Yankees make a move for a very good young pitcher and sign Kuroda.

Advantage Yankees.

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