Winter Meetings, Day Two Recap: A Slow Day For Red Sox

It is your friend.

What looks good on paper doesn’t pan out in day to day play, players get injured, batters get into slumps, a pitcher’s curve ball is too high and inside for a left handed batter, which then goes 420 feet. One pitch can change a game. Teams go into slumps…

In 2008, all the baseball writers thought the Tigers were the team to beat, instead it was the Rays and their starting pitching..

MFY will be good, but there is a difference between a good team and a World Series winning team.

I actually think he’s dying it. If you go back a few weeks, you’ll see his hair is more gray.

when i saw a posting that the red sox had clubs they could exchange lowell’s contract for a similar one. Looks unlikely though, I can’t imagine Theo would go through with that.

I don’t think the Sox will get Bradley, but the Cubs mention an unexpected AL team is interested in Bradley.

Bradley would have an absolutely horrible time in Boston. If Manny was nightmare for Tito, Bradley would 10x worst. Bradley needs a small market team like the Reds, the Rays, Rangers or the Pirates. He probably also needs an African American manager, so he doesn’t revert to “it’s racism!” excuse, that he pretty much used with the Dodgers, A’s, and I think the Padres. I would say he would alright with the Mets, but I think Jerry Manuel is going to be fired in 2010.

I see Bradley a better fit with the MFY than with the Sox. However Bradley OBP stats are dreamy, he can hit, when he wants to. Much like Steve Howe continue to pitch with his huge drug problems because he was a good southpaw reliever, and teams always need one, (like the MFY who loved Howe)

I wouldn’t be completely surprise if the Sox trade for Bradley, given his OBP, I would make a judgement that it would a disaster for all involved.

  Boston is a goddamn pressure cooker for any major league player. For a player as surly as Milton Bradley, who has problems with authority, and states that fellow players are racist at the drop of the hat, (he did this at Jeff Kent) also accused Billy Beane of being a racist.

I have been following Bradley’s career since he was with the Indians, He showed his potential with the Rangers in 2008. I wish he stayed with the Rangers, because he seemed to be happy, and got along with his teammates, The 2009 Milton was the same surly Milton of years past.

The guy needs some medication, and a small market team, he is also very sensitive to criticism. Boston is not the right town for the guy.

Another team that may be interested in him, and I think someone like Griffey Jr. can be a good influence on the guy is Seattle, who need a left fielder..

I don’t think Saunders, Aybar and peanuts gets it done. Not enough upside.

It doesn’t make any sense. The Rangers are paying Michael Young something like 15 mill a year at 3B, so we pay at least 6 mil of Lowell’s contract + what it takes to get Beltre? I’m not convinced that there is going to be a $6 million difference between the two.