Sox Interested in Alan Embree? Please, No
by Randy Booth on Mar 17, 2010 9:37 AM EDT
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The Red Sox may be interested in re-acquiring lefthanded reliever Alan Embree.
Really?:
The Red Sox, who have let it be known that they're looking to upgrade their left-handed relief after Hideki Okajima, sent a scout Tuesday to watch 40-year-old Alan Embree throw near his home in Washington state.
"Just doing due diligence,'' one team source said of checking out Embree, who previously pitched for the Sox from 2002-05 and was a key member of the bullpen on the '04 World Series champions. Embree originally came to the Sox in a midseason trade with San Diego primarily engineered by then-assistant GM Theo Epstein, the first major transaction to bear his fingerprints.
No, see, Embree wasn't good in 2005 with the Red Sox and odds are -- shockingly enough -- he wouldn't be good with the Red Sox in 2010. The Red Sox have a ton of bullpen arms that may not even get a sip of the big leagues -- Fabio Castro, Joe Nelson, Ramon A. Ramirez, etc. -- so why lead on another arm?
Stay in Washington, Embree. Please.
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I'll repeat this once again.
The Sox acquired Wagner to get draft picks when he signed elsewhere. They had no intention of re-signing him because he’s be too expensive. Wagner didn’t want to stay in Boston because he wants to close.
The Sox didn’t “let Wagner go.” All parties got something: The Sox got a month of Wagner, strengthening their bullpen for the playoffs. They also got picks when he signed somewhere else. Wagner got a chance to show other teams that he could pitch, so that he could land a closer job. The Mets got payroll relief and something for Wagner, because they weren’t going to offer him arbitration. Understand?
I gotta go 'cause I'm probably definitely gonna nod out again.
by Drugs Delaney on Mar 17, 2010 12:08 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
+10
There’s more to the game than just “Player X is better than player Y”
2 top-50 draft picks and $8 million that can go elsewhere is worth a LOT more than 1 year of an old if still very serviceable reliever.
Think about that Adrian Gonzalez trade you harp about so much. Even if you don’t like to follow the farm system or draft, suffice to say that if the Sox want to make trades for guys like Victor, they need draft picks.
USG
by Ben Buchanan on Mar 17, 2010 2:35 PM EDT up reply actions
I realize Wagner was very good last year
but that doesn’t mean that we need a new lefty in their 40’s- I mean Shouse, Embree… I think the Sox just tend to look at everyone possible, I doubt he’ll be back.
Exactly! +1
Why sign Embree when we can lure Timlin out of retirement… That’s what you meant, right? :)
Mike Timlin in 2008
made me want to vomit every time he pitched. As soon as I saw him warming in game 2 of the ALCS I knew it was over.
Trade Beckett before the deadline
JD Drew the stud who is.
I'm taking suggestions from myself on the 2010 rally song.
Re-sign Victor Martinez, the future DH of the Boston Red Sox
Am I supposed to like John Lackey ?
No kidding.
ing game 2 cost us that series. Can’t believe Tito didn’t pull Beckett.
USG
by Ben Buchanan on Mar 17, 2010 9:47 PM EDT up reply actions
Only as the beginning of a line
It’s trying to interpret it as something else, and gets stuck. But saying “****ing Mike Timlin” works fine.
Personally, I just stick to “frakking,” as it conveys the same meaning, doesn’t run afoul of (most) censors, and reveals that yes, I am in fact a card-carrying dork.
I think because asteriks are used for cod
Like bold I believe…
Yup.
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