09/16 Sox at Pittsburgh

[curiousd]

THey are just not very talented. The whole generation of our future stars-- Bradley, Middlebrooks, Bogaert, De La ROsa, Webster, Workman and Ranaudo have been tremendously over-rated by the organization. I think changes are needed to our scouting and talent development departments.

XB is hitting much better now. There is reason for optimism regarding XB, in my opinion.

But what RS are presently doing with WM and JBJ is surreal.....RS management is surely not playing WM and JBJ to win games, and if RS think they are going to shop those two guys around, this is like a dog and pony show without the pony.

[Bellhorn04]

XB is hitting much better now. There is reason for optimism regarding XB, in my opinion.

But what RS are presently doing with WM and JBJ is surreal.....RS management is surely not playing WM and JBJ to win games, and if RS think they are going to shop those two guys around, this is like a dog and pony show without the pony.

I think they might end up trading WMB. He'll be easy to trade because he's still pre-arb. They won't get much back obviously, somebody might give up a 'middling' prospect.

[Spudboy]

I think they might end up trading WMB. He'll be easy to trade because he's still pre-arb. They won't get much back obviously, somebody might give up a 'middling' prospect.

Or, and it won't surprise me, they may hold onto him and see what he does in spring training and go from there. That could be justified in their minds because WM has been hurt so much over the past few years. I keep saying that power ( or in Wm's case, the promise of power ) is intoxicating.

Who knows what they will do?

[Palodios]

How many options does WMB have? No chance they trade him unless they have to, or if they can get a lot for him (or for him and others).

[a700hitter]

How many options does WMB have? No chance they trade him unless they have to, or if they can get a lot for him (or for him and others).

An incentive to trade him in his devalued state is that he would be clogging Checinni's (sp) path at AAA.

[jad]

Thank goodness they got rid of all that deadwood pitching to produce the swat for this 5-hit attack.

[Elktonnick]

The only way the Sox could get anything of value for WMB is if they included Jenny Dell as part of the deal. OOPS they cut DEll from NESN. There goes that idea

[Palodios]

An incentive to trade him in his devalued state is that he would be clogging Checinni's (sp) path at AAA.

He still has more value in our AA than someone else's AAA. He's exactly the kind of player that is going to leave and immediately figure it out in another organization.