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Brooks The Great Major Leaguer

Brooks The Great

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Good deal for Victorino. Never thought he'd get close to 40M. The Red Sox are putting together a decent lineup. Still not impressed with them, but the "experts" will say they are a better team then the O's on paper. They might be right. Of course for the O's, its hard to improve if you dont do anything to improve.

Victorino is injury-prone. He's an unwise move for an organization that has been burnt by bad contracts and injuries over the past couple years.

I agree that the O's need to make some moves to improve.

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Victorino is injury-prone. He's an unwise move for an organization that has been burnt by bad contracts and injuries over the past couple years.

I agree that the O's need to make some moves to improve.

Oh I agree. Victorino got a good deal, but im not sure what Bos is thi.king. Theyve just spent over 75M on Gomes, Napoli, and Victorino. That group may give them what 6-8 more wins?

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Oh I agree. Victorino got a good deal, but im not sure what Bos is thi.king. Theyve just spent over 75M on Gomes, Napoli, and Victorino. That group may give them what 6-8 more wins?

Instead of rebuilding the right way they are trying to win as many games as possible next season.

This is what I was hoping they would do.

Now if they will just trade away some young talent...

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I can't believe the Giants are offering Scutaro three years and over twenty million. Juan Uribe all over again. Seems there's no shortage of teams willing to overpay for aging middle infielders who just had a career year.

Speaking of Juan Uribe, the Dodgers are reportedly "dangling" him...

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Hahahahaha, I love the way BOS is utilizing their payroll flexibility.

Heyman is trolling that Victorino has a 4 year offer. Maybe Boston will increase their offer even more.

SportsGuy (the ESPN variety) just tweeted the following. I personally hope they get Victorino for $13 million over 4 and Hamilton for $25 million over 7.

I'm afraid to mention the latest Red Sox rumor but here's my futuristic response if it happens: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

https://twitter.com/BillSimmons/status/276084530916519936

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Heyman is trolling that Victorino has a 4 year offer. Maybe Boston will increase their offer even more.

SportsGuy (the ESPN variety) just tweeted the following. I personally hope they get Victorino for $13 million over 4 and Hamilton for $25 million over 7.

https://twitter.com/BillSimmons/status/276084530916519936

Awww, come on, mention it.

Why did they trade those contracts if they're just going to replace them with more stupid ones?

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LOL at RedSox. Napoli for 39 M, Victorino for 38 M and Gomes for 10 M. Cherington is not that good actually.

If Victorino gets 38 M for three years, how much Swisher worth? 20 M for 5 years? :laughlol:

Ken Rosenthal ‏@Ken_Rosenthal

Victorino and #RedSox: Three years, $39M.

RedSox going crazy

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Good deal for Victorino. Never thought he'd get close to 40M. The Red Sox are putting together a decent lineup. Still not impressed with them, but the "experts" will say they are a better team then the O's on paper. They might be right. Of course for the O's, its hard to improve if you dont do anything to improve.

Yes, we have a "new" regime, but they are behaving like MacPhail and the gang.

Continue to watch other teams make some incredible signings while we haggle over McClouth and Reynolds.

sigh

MSK

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