Tom was prescient as to the results of this team. Here's his comment from January.
I'm on board with the "Theo is rebuilding" as a theme for this year. So now it's time for some low stress baseball. Ray PS. No wonder he's kicking my ass in Roto. On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Tom Salemi <[email protected]> wrote: > As am I. I just take exception to the tone of such articles that fawn over > Theo's brilliance in acquiring players like Beltre. > > -- > This is simply a tremendous addition for the Red Sox. They got a +3 win > player with upside, at age 30, on a one year deal for $10 million. They > significantly upgraded over *Mike > Lowell*<http://www.fangraphs.com/statss.aspx?playerid=527&position=3B>, > and put their defense back on track to being an asset, not a liability. Theo > Epstein saw an opportunity to add undervalued assets and made huge > improvements to the team by bringing in both Cameron and Beltre. > > Boston fans, get ready to be spoiled. You’ll never see another third > baseman play the hot corner as well as you’ll see it played in 2010. > -- > > I don't think Cameron and Beltre count as HUGE IMPROVEMENTS to the team. > > Bottomline, Theo is wisely saving his chits for the next off-season. He'll > go hard after Mauer and Gonzalez. Maybe take a shot at Lee, who knows. I'd > enjoy watching Carl Crawford play everyday for the Sox. We'll see if Theo > agrees. > > I'm fine with that. It's a sound strategy, and it's one that I recognize > Theo can't say publicly. We need to win the World Series, or at least beat > the Yankees, every year. > > But just because I agree with the strategy doesn't mean I have to buy into > the fawning that will go on this off-season. If Beltre were that exceptional > a signing why wasn't anyone else interested in him? Perhaps all other MLB > teams are just managed by dummies. > > In closing, Theo did a good job with what he had to deal with. I just don't > think his performance needs any lipstick. > > > > On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Steve Ouellette > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Not saying that it's THE key to winning. It's just one way of winning. If >> you can score 1,000 runs you can outslug people. If you've got a brilliant >> pitching staff, you can win lots of low-scoring games. Any way that you can >> score more runs or allow fewer runs makes you better. I'm just saying adding >> to the defense may be an underppreciated way of improving a team's run >> differential, thus cheaper. If the defense can stop 50 runs from scoring, >> that helps exactly as much as adding 50 runs to the offense. >> >> And I don't know what Ray is trying to say. The best defensive teams >> didn't win last year, so defense doesn't matter? >> >> I don't think anyone expected that ragtag collection the Mariners threw >> out there to win 85 games last year and have the best ERA in the American >> League. That defense (and that park) made Jarrod Washburn a star, and he >> flat out sucks. Nobody predicted San Francisco, the top defensive team in >> the NL, to win 88 games either. Some experts thought they'd be the worst >> team in the league. >> >> The difference between those teams and the Sox is that Boston also has a >> very competitive offense. I'm looking forward to 2010. >> >> Steve O >> >> >> On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Tom Salemi <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I agree with the first part, and I'm fine with that. I trust Theo's >>> measure of value. He's right a lot more than he's wrong, with the most >>> glaring example of the latter being Texiera, but the Yanks probably would >>> have just bid $1 more. >>> >>> And I'm on board with his signing Lackey. Love the deal. And Beltre is a >>> good deal as well for the Sox as well. Gives us great flexibility. >>> >>> But I'm just not buying the notion that we've disovered the secretthat >>> defense is the THE key to winning, and that's why we're adding capable >>> fielders. We signed the capable fielders because they're willing to play for >>> short money. >>> . >>> . >>> >>> On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Steve Ouellette < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Really? It seems obvious to me that -- unable or unwilling to pony up >>>> for Holliday or Bay -- the Sox decided to focus on defense and pitching. >>>> >>>> Steve O >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> But I'm not going to lean too heavily on the defense argument. 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