Red Sox Get Bullpen Help… Sign Japanese Lefty
Thursday, November 30th, 2006The Red Sox agreed to a contract with Japanese relief pitcher Hideki Okajima today… a two-year deal that provides salaries of $1.25 million per year for 2007 and 2008, and also includes a $1.75 million team option for 2009.
The 30-year-old southpaw was 2-2, with 4 saves and a (career low) 2.14 ERA in 2006 [...]
MLB Warns That Red Sox - Lions Cannot Make A “Side Deal’
Wednesday, November 29th, 2006Major League Baseball is trying to get out in front of rumors that the Red Sox may be in Japan seeking to ‘cut a deal’ with the Seibu Lions that would have the Japanese team forfeit some of the posting fee offered by the Red Sox in order to assist the team in signing pitcher [...]
Red Sox Make Offer To Matsuzaka… Lucchino In Japan As The Clock Ticks
Tuesday, November 28th, 2006You have got to hand it to the Red Sox front office… they knew who they wanted and they have gone after him full throttle.
The Red Sox have extended a formal offer to Daisuke Matsuzaka through his agent, Scott Boras. The contract offer is reportedly in the ballpark of four or five years at [...]
Red Sox Looking To Japan Once Again… This Time For Bullpen Help
Tuesday, November 28th, 2006According to a report on ESPN.com, the Red Sox are currently engaged in negotiations to sign another Japanese pitcher… this time, a lefty reliever.
The Red Sox apparently have their eyes on Hideki Okajima, a 30-year-old left-handed reliever who went 2-2 with 4 saves and a stellar 2.14 ERA for the Nippon Ham Fighters in 2006. [...]
Many Manny Rumors Making The Rounds
Monday, November 27th, 2006According to ESPN.com, one big league official says: “I wouldn’t be shocked if the Red Sox traded (Manny Ramirez) by Saturday”. Are the days of ‘Manny Being Manny’ near their end in Boston?
Ramirez has said repeatedly that he wants out of The Hub… apparently finding the magnifying glass of Boston Baseball to his dislike. [...]
Red Sox Options At Closer Dwindling: Baez Signs With Orioles
Monday, November 27th, 2006The Red Sox search for a closer continues to get more desperate as available candidates sign with other teams to serve as set-up men. According to the Baltimore Sun, free-agent reliever Danys Baez reached an agreement with the Baltimore Orioles yesterday on a three-year, $19 million contract… subject to Baez passing a physical sometime [...]
Astros Idiocy Out Of This World
Saturday, November 25th, 2006News Flash: the Houston Astros signed free agent outfielder Carlos Lee to a six-year, $100 million contract yesterday.
That’s $16,666,666.66 per year (with an odd penny thrown in for good measure). Are you kidding me?? For Carlos Lee??
Don’t get me wrong, Lee is a very good hitter… but hardly worth the exorbitant sum [...]
Twins 1B Morneau Wins AL MVP Award
Tuesday, November 21st, 2006With a few weeks left in the regular season, I wrote an article proffering that I would vote for Minnesota Twins pitcher Johan Santana as AL MVP… and I offered my 1st through 5th place votes thusly: Santana, Boston 1B David Ortiz, NY SS Derek Jeter, CWS OF Jermaine Dye and Twins 1B Justin [...]
Red Sox Brass Meets With D-Mat
Tuesday, November 21st, 2006Japanese pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka has confirmed what the Red Sox brass earlier declined to confirm: that Red Sox owners John W Henry, Larry Lucchino and Tom Werner, GM Theo Epstein, and manager Terry Francona flew to Los Angeles sometime late last week in order to meet with Matsuzaka, known as ‘D-Mat’, and agent Scott [...]
Baseball Owners and GMs Opening Their Checkbooks
Monday, November 20th, 2006Mamas don’t let you babies grow up to be cowboys!
When they are born, put a baseball glove in the crib and have them wearing it before they turn one… then make sure they are gripping a baseball for three hours every day by the time they are three. If you do that, [...]
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