Hot Stove 2014-15

[BigKen]

Reports this morning all over the TV and radio say that Pablo Sandoval has agreed to a 5 year $95MM contract with the Red Sox.

Not only that, Hanley Ramirez has agreed to a 5 year $90MM contract with the Red Sox.

The Lineup will be ....
1B Mike Napoli (Hanley Ramirez)
2B Dustin Pedroia (Mookie Betts)
SS Xander Bogaerts (Hanley Ramirez)
3B Pablo Sandoval
C Christian Vasquez
RF Shane Victorino
CF Rudy Castillo
LF Hanley Ramirez

 

[BigKen]

With the signing of Sandoval and Ramirez, the Red Sox will certainly be active in th trade market, most likely looking for pitching, starting pitching to be sure.


Most likely candidates to be traded:
1. Yoenis Cespades
2. Xander Bogaerts
3. Jackie Bradley Jr.
4. Mike Napoli
5. Allen Craig
6. Garin Chechinni
7. Daniel Nava
8. Wil Middlebrooks
9. Brock Holt


The most valuable pieces are Cespades, Holt, Bogaerts, Nava and Middlebrooks with Chechinni bot far behind.

 

[poprocksncoke]

Reports this morning all over the TV and radio say that Pablo Sandoval has agreed to a 5 year $95MM contract with the Red Sox.

Not only that, Hanley Ramirez has agreed to a 5 year $90MM contract with the Red Sox.

The Lineup will be ....
1B Mike Napoli (Hanley Ramirez)
2B Dustin Pedroia (Mookie Betts)
SS Xander Bogaerts (Hanley Ramirez)
3B Pablo Sandoval
C Christian Vasquez
RF Shane Victorino
CF Rudy Castillo
LF Hanley Ramirez

Last I heard the Hanley deal was 4 years $88 mil with a 5th year vesting at $22 mil and Sandoval 5 years $100 mil

 

[steveringo]

With the signing of Sandoval and Ramirez, the Red Sox will certainly be active in th trade market, most likely looking for pitching, starting pitching to be sure.


Most likely candidates to be traded:
1. Yoenis Cespades
2. Xander Bogaerts
3. Jackie Bradley Jr.
4. Mike Napoli
5. Allen Craig
6. Garin Chechinni
7. Daniel Nava
8. Wil Middlebrooks
9. Brock Holt


The most valuable pieces are Cespades, Holt, Bogaerts, Nava and Middlebrooks with Chechinni bot far behind.

They won't trade Bogaerts unless they get a huge return.

He won't be traded.

 

[Adanac]

sure hope they can find a way to keep Holt......he did a helluva job for the team last year.

 

[BigKen]

Part of the problem with being a Red Sox fan is that the Boston media convinces you that certain players are just too good to let go. Bogearts has done nothing since he's arrived in Boston. He's barely an adequate shortstop. When he arrived he was expected to be the next Freddie Lynn. He hasn't hit .300, hasn't hit 20 HR and hasn't had 100 RBI. He's been a .935 SS.


I'd trade him in a heartbeat for Cole Hamels along with JBJ and a couple of others.


No player is worth falling in love with.........they'll just break your heart.

 

[BigKen]

Mariners and Padres have contacted the Red Sox and both want Cespedes. Supposedly the Padres will give up Ian Kennedy and the Mariners supposedly are dangling Ish Iwakuma (13-9 3.04) Kennedy is nearly the same salary as Cespedes and is also a free agent in 2016. From here, Iwakuma is a much better deal and he would be the #2 starter in Boston.

 

[poprocksncoke]

Mariners and Padres have contacted the Red Sox and both want Cespedes. Supposedly the Padres will give up Ian Kennedy and the Mariners supposedly are dangling Ish Iwakuma (13-9 3.04) Kennedy is nearly the same salary as Cespedes and is also a free agent in 2016. From here, Iwakuma is a much better deal and he would be the #2 starter in Boston.

Would love this deal!

 

[BigKen]

The bidding has started on John Lester. The Cubs reportedly have offered 6 years and $138,000,000.
The Red Sox have officially offered 6 years and $130,000,000. The San Francisco Giants are reportedly ready to bid higher than the Cubs and the Yankees are supposedly lurking with a blockbuster 7 years, $175,000,000, but no one can confirm whether or not this is a fairy tale.


The Cubs offer looks like a huge amount more than the Red Sox but the reality of it is that it's $1.3M a year more to play for a team that's going pretty much nowhere.


Lester said he'd take a discount to go back to Boston and still has his family there and his wife supposedly loves Boston and really does not want to leave.