Red Sox Looking At Nick Johnson?

But nine times out of 10, a player the Sox sign is most likely to be a good-to-great with the on-base ability. It seems like the Red Sox’s priorities this offseason, at least, have been OBP and defense. The Red Sox are of course looking at all the attributes, but Theo knows what works.

And it is a shame that OBP is no longer a secret and, as you wrote, is being overpaid for.

I’m Omar Minaya and I disapprove this message

OBP=Not making outs
To answer your question: Yes, his name is Adrian Beltre

if we are going to move Youk over to third, it needs to be for someone exceptional to come over to first.

is that for some reason Theo’s main offseason goal is to destroy Omar’s offseason. Or he’s planning on trading relievers.

I feel like our bullpen is pretty massive already. Though really, if it was something like $1.5 mill/2 years, that’s hardly anything. I do like his profile a lot, a hard throwing, reliever can be slightly wild, as long as he’s not the guy we’re throwing up there to get the last out when the bases are loaded. I probably like what I’ve seen of him better than the million of other options I’ve seen for our bullpen- but I don’t even see more than one slot available there.

I have no doubt about that.

Snowball diagnoses a team on a 3-game sample.

Actually, no, a 2-game sample, since those weren’t the issues in the 3rd game at all.

We lost the division because the Yankees won 102 games.
We lost in the playoffs because we played badly for 3 games.
We give ourselves the best shot at both the division and the world series by making the best team possible, and just because defense isn’t broken down as easily as offense doesn’t make it any less important.

winning percentage is a relation between runs scored and runs against approximately in the proportion of RS to the 1.93 power divided by RA to the 1.93 power. Or to simplify it, which is a higher number – 2/1 or 3/2? Both are one run more, but the 2/1 is a much higher number. Preventing defensively is better than producing an equal number offensively.

Here’s another simplified example. If a hypothetical .500 team averages 5 runs scored per game and 5 runs against per game, and then improves its runs against by 5 runs per game (down to 0 allowed) it will go undefeated. If it instead improves its offense by 5 runs per game to an average of 10 runs per game, it’s not at all necessarily going to go undefeated because it could lose one game 5 to 3 and win the next one 17 to 5 to maintain its average.

Theo is recognizing that one weakness was defense particularly on the left side of the field, and another was #4 and #5 pitchers (with Dice-K and Wake’s injuries and the poor Penny/Smoltz attempts.

I’m not too concerned about the offensive dropoff from Bay to Cameron because we’ve improved SS offense a bit to make up for that plus having a full season of V-Mart at C over 1/2 last year with tek starting.

Finally, remember – Theo isn’t finished!

I feel like I’ve been writing that a lot over the past two days. A lot of newbees around.

-1

keep other teams from winning games.

Girls won’t make cute signs that have sexual references directed at Ells because they know he would get beat up after the game for being such a young stud.

more like a pug than any human should.