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TonySoprano Hangout Grand Counsel

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Hearing the Red Sux just signed Crawford kinda takes the wind out of my sails.

I'm glad that I'm not the only one that feels this way. The Sox add two big pieces to their offense whereas one of the guys we have added, would have been ours already had we offered arbitration. I'm supposed to be doing back flips over the few million Andy saved on Koji when I look at the well over $200 million plus that the Red Sox have committed to improving their team?

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Hearing the Red Sux just signed Crawford kinda takes the wind out of my sails.

They will live to regret this signing. His range isn't as valuable in left for them unless they put him in center. His best tool, speed, will invariably start to fail with age. $20mm a year for 7 years is too much. Beltran was a better player. Look what happened to him.

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Sounds like it could be Jacobson and Hoey per Zrebiec's latest.

I heard from a scout that Minnesota is very high on Jacobson. The question is who the other reliever is. If Minnesota would really accept a Jacobson + Hoey deal, we need to be all over that.

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They will live to regret this signing. His range isn't as valuable in left for them unless they put him in center. His best tool, speed, will invariably start to fail with age. $20mm a year for 7 years is too much. Beltran was a better player. Look what happened to him.

Yeah maybe but the Red Sox will get rid of him for prospects before that happens. That's the difference between the Red Sox and crappy orgs.

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Yep, we get Reynold's, they get AGon, we get Koji, they get Crawford.

:mad::mad::angryfire::angryfire::cussing::cussing:

They lose Beltre; we lose Wiggy.

They lose V-Mart; we lose C-Pat.

If we take care of our stuff then it doesn't matter what they do.

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They will live to regret this signing. His range isn't as valuable in left for them unless they put him in center. His best tool, speed, will invariably start to fail with age. $20mm a year for 7 years is too much. Beltran was a better player. Look what happened to him.

That's a good point. His defense is going to be somewhat wasted in home games.

I'm not convinced they'll regret this because of how high their budget is, but it's a contract that can only make sense for a few teams imo.

I understand the frustration regarding the Sox making these moves, and I share that sentiment, but at the same time, these were not moves that the O's should have pulled off.

7/156 for Crawford? That doesn't make sense for us and I don't recall people thinking we should approach that type of contract for him.

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Per Dan Connolly on Twitter:

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#Orioles potential trade for J.J. Hardy and Bendan Harris culd b annced Thursday. #Twins likely wuld receive 2 Ps, maybe Hoey & Jacobson

Much better than dealing Reimold. Looks like AM is buying more bats.

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