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Originally Posted by One Red Seat
If we are just talking about the quality of play, then 700's right, you make that trade every day (assuming it was possible - which I doubt because no-brainers aren't usually true). What has yet to enter the discussion is what salary do you pare to put him on the roster? Like it or not, this team intends to come in right around LT threshold, so in terms of adding elite, established talent, you have to make room somewhere. No Drew? Ok, who plays RF? Crisp is gone? Ok, who plays CF?
It's easy to just sit there and say, I don't care what it costs, but that's not reality. If you want to opine what the GM should do, you need to address all the variables of roster construction. Failure to do that is about the same thing as turning off the "fair trade" button in an MLB video game and romping through a season.
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I trealize the realities of the situation, but we are only speaking hypothitically here. If you have a chance to get a stud like Andruw Jones, Oswalt etc., you do it and let the pointy headed numbers guys tell you how to make it work. Maybe you salary dump another guy on your roster, restructure a contract, or something else. There are numerous ways to make things work financially when you have the resources of the Red Sox.