This post comes to you via Steelers/Ravens rage and MLB idiocy. Let's start with my beloved Red Sox...YOU DON'T TRADE THE FUTURE AWAY W/O A GUARANTEED EXTENSION, NO MATTER WHO YOU'RE SIGNING. Casey Kelly( who will be blanking a scoreboard near you), Anthony Rizzo, Raymond Fuentes, and PTBN have been shipped off to SD to get 1B All-Star Adrian Gonzalez. While San Diego and former Sox staffer turned GM Jed Hoyer pumps their fists for what they got, Red Sox fans should be angry that the team didn't get a guaranteed player to stick around while ushering out the Adrian Beltre era. Will Adrian Gonzalez put up inhuman numbers in Boston? Hell yes, he will. David Ortiz may even see more favorable pitches to him. The Sox address the issue of losing Victor Martinez's power in this deal, but have failed to lock it up much like Jason Bay and V-Mart. Another issue the Sox brass will deal with is the fact that Gonzo has a "surgically repaired" shoulder which in its recent tenure doesn't deal well with such( see Curt Schilling and Jason Bay). Gonzalez seeks a Mark Texiera/Ryan Howard type deal, which if the Sox are continuing to compete at such a high level won't have enough money to stay that competitive by committing such. Should also mean no Carl Crawford which we need another OF because Mike Cameron is so unreliable and the scrubs only provide so much production. In all reality, is the power and money worth it? I think not in the instance the deal was done. Had an extension been met, I'd have been a little less critical, but I'm not buying into the hype to see another great player leave and the Sox wander onto the next hype/high priced investment. The plan of course is to sign him towards the beginning of the season so they won't get hit with the luxury tax.
Did anybody think the Nats had the money to offer and sign Jayson Werth? I sure didn't. I don't think Werth should get $126M either as his production went down considerably this season. The Nats taking the Sox initiative of needing power in the line-up because Josh Willingham and Adam Dunn were just "too expensive". So let me get this straight-- you let two guys go for price cuts to buy some players in the off-season, but spend it all on one guy and still need more players. Seven years? He will be 38 and won't have that kind of power by 34 guaranteed. Way to be Scott Boras, another inflated contract that a player won't live up to.
None of this probably made sense because I'm so flustered and when I get that way I tend to jabber on without much fact-based truths, but here's to a better tomorrow when I don't have to think if I will ever buy a new Gonzalez Red Sox jersey or a Jayson Werth shirt.
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