Red Sox Ask For Your Help

[darjarbinx]

not2shaby said:

You dont read the dynasty anyways Bravest. Nothing of it's realistic almost. I play every game with Matt Clement, and somehow the team wins every game they play. It's kinda gay, but I dont mess with it, I just play the games and write up.

What do you mean by this?

[not2shaby]

I just meant that he left the site. I dont have a great count of people who've clicked the link on the site, and he acted like he'd never read my site again. I was just like, as if you ever do lol. Nothing offensive.

As for him saying it wouldnt be unrealistic, I'm going to get that. People are going to hate that the team is 15-4. However, I only play games with Matt Clement. It's a project of mine to try and get a full season in, plus I thought it might keep it a little realistic. Thats all.

[darjarbinx]

Oh I see, you only pitch the game Clement plays and sim the others.

[nafsder2007]

I don't see either trades as being realistic.

The Braves have a history of developing their own young pitchers. They don't need an aging veteran who is coming off a season where he had to inject himself in the ankle with pain killers in order to simply get out on the playing field. And they would never trade the cornerstone of their franchise, a player who is just hitting his prime and who can go .300 30 100 year in and year out, in Andruw Jones, for a player like Curt Schilling.

The Indians would never consider trading a young gun who has never failed to post double digit win totals and can shoulder 200+ innings a season in C.C. Sabathia for an "ace" who hasn't really been an ace since his days in Philly.

If I were you, I'd look for one of two things: a team in desperate need of a superstar or a team in desperate need of getting rid of their pitcher as well.

Baseball is a game of dollars and cents. A well known superstar like Schilling would be just what a perenial cellar dwellar needs to bring fans to the park. Take a team like the Pirates. You could go for a young guy in Josh Fogg or Zach Duke (don't even know if he's in the game under his real name...he came up from AAA Indianapolis and is having quite a season this year, so he might be in the Brewers organization in the game...anyway, he's 4-0 with a 0.92 ERA and is averaging almost 7 Ks a game...I have to read about him every day in the paper since he played for Indianapolis) or an older vet in Mark Redman. Redman has always been a consistantly decent pitcher and could be a solid fourth of fifth guy in the rotation and Fogg normaly posts double digit wins even playing for the struggling Pirates. His ERA is kind of high, but his walks are low, and with a team like the Sox, they can give up 4 runs a game and still get the win. The Pirates can't really solve your 2B predicament, but Jack Wilson would be a decent backup to Bellhorn if you traded for him and switched him to SS. He's never played there before, but defensively he's solid and offensively, he's had one solid year and a bunch of decent ones.

Or you could do something that seems very common in this age of overpaid players: take another team's baggage off of their hands. Sidney Ponson of the O's and Eric Milton of the Reds are both mistakes for their respective teams because their contract is higher than their preformance. Both would be decent spot starters of fifth men in the rotation, but they are both paid to preform as an ace. You aren't looking for an ace, just a starter, and either would do just fine given that you don't mind their hefty contracts. Of course the Sox don't have the lowest payroll anyway...what's a few more million dollars going to do?

And then again, you could take a page from the real Sox and just make him a reliever. No reason to trade a guy who can still pitch.

[Boller2Clayton]

Damn, thats a long post nafsder, my CPU got bored while I took so long to read it....but anyways I'd say go for Roberts and bigbie or sumthing of that sort

[nafsder2007]

boller2clayton said:

Damn, thats a long post nafsder, my CPU got bored while I took so long to read it....but anyways I'd say go for Roberts and bigbie or sumthing of that sort

I pity you if it takes "so long" to read that. My post probably takes up less than a page of a novel.

[sep]

Ya B2C that took 4 mins to read, not that long, suck it up.

[Boller2Clayton]

Yeah, I know. But I was just trying to be funny, I find your posts very interesting to read. You always seem to have good interesting, and funny posts. Sorry if you misunderstood me.

[bravest]

Half of a four minute novel page would mean eight minutes to finish a single page.

If the book was 300 pages, it would take you 2400 minutes (40 hours) to finish that book.

Sep, you're WAY off.

[N2Sports]

Well Bronson Arroyo wouldn't be a bad starter. So what I would do if you want young talent, is trade Schilling for maybe three real good prospects or a veteran and two prostpects.

Marcus Giles is better than Furcal. So you could try to get maybe John Thompson and Marcus Giles.

[N2Sports]

Well another proposal. I noticed that you are 15-4 in your season. Now Schilling may be unhappy, but he as one person is not going to bring donw team chemistry or anything, so I would just wait till close to trade deadline, when teams are pratically giving away players. You might be able to get more than you could now.