Marco Scutaro

but if Scutaro gets arbitration and accepts, I think we’d lose out on a 0 million 1 year deal unless we signed Holliday first.

Not sure what they have planned for him though and he’s only like 20 so he would take at least a year or two to develop. Almost better off waiting for Iglesias.

The former isn’t really worth noting, based on his balance in the minors – it was just the result of having a broken wrist. If his wrist is fine in spring training, go for it.

The Sox can sign someone like Adam Everett as insurance.

is wayyyy too much for a guy who has had one great year. I have no doubt he’ll probably do well nexy year, but not $8 million worth of well.

Gordon Edes is just speculating. I’m sure they’ll offer it because they really want the draft pick, he really wants a multi-year, which he won’t get through arbitration, and if he did accept and ended up with them, they could always trade him and we’d almost certainly take on the salary. Really very little risk for them.

Scutaro did just fine in the AL East last year. He wasn’t the reason the Jays had a bad year.

Had the second best year of his career last year, which is probably unlikely to duplicate itself. He also makes $21 million a year, compared to the $5 million Scutaro will be getting from us, which gives us a lot more flexibility than paying someone like that would (IF there were even any available). The fact is, Scutaro is the best ss available this year- you can’t just make em appear by wanting one. There is no team which is comprised entirely of the best players at their relative positions. Scutaro is not championship caliber in that he, himself won’t win us a championship, but he is in that if he is close to last years success, he will easily be contributing to making an already strong team even better.

For the record, in 2009, Scutaros “nice salary” was $1.5 million after bonuses. Compared to Jeter’s $21 million. If they performed on the same level, that would be sad.

We won titles with Lugo and OCab.