Baseball purists love to say "It's all about pitching" and to an extent it is. Sure, A rotation of Josh Beckett, Roy Halladay and Jon Lester would be quite formidable, however they guarantee NOTHING. How many World Series did Maddox, Glavine and Smoltz win? ONE. Because they couldn't hit and patient teams like the Yankees just wore the starters out.
OK, Back to today. Trading for Halladay wipes out your Farm system for the foreseeable future. You can also wave Bye-bye to Josh Beckett in 2011 when he's a free agent. He's not taking a hometown discount this time and the Sox will (and already are) crying poverty (I'll deal with that issue later). Papelbon will also expect a max deal and he will be gone as well. So one year of Halladay, Becker, Lester, and Paplebon. then that's over, now you're right back where you are today minus a proven big game closer AND your farm system is 2-3 years away from bearing any fruit. In my mind, best case scenario, he gets dealt to San Fran and we never see him again.
SOX' POVERTY CRY MAY NEED PIT STOP
It started with the less than "blow 'em away" offer to Mark Teixeira when the Sox would go to more years or more $$$. That laid the ground work for what I fear is coming next. The Cries of Poverty. I can almost hear it now. We won't offer Bay a 5th year because it wouldn't make economical sense. Or, "Papelbon rejects 5 years 45 million". Lowballing players is a good way to shoo them away. You can't cry poverty if you're paying 15 million a year to JD Drew especially when you were bidding against N-O-B-O-D-Y for his services. You can't cry poverty if you just wasted 44 million on Julio Lugo who you were also bidding against NOBODY for his services. And you certainly can not cry poverty when you own half of a NASCAR Racing Team. I'd say 70-80% of Sox fans don't give a royal hoot about NASCAR.
Sox fans, Will you put up with any poverty cry from the Sox? What are you thoughts on Halladay?
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