I am so beyond sick of Jacoby Ellsbury. I went to the game last night and HEY! What
do you know, Ellsbury was not playing because he had a scheduled off day. No big deal,
you know since we are fighting for the playoffs right now. I am so glad the Red Sox are continuing to
win without prima donnas like Bucholz and Ellsbury. It also gives me more confidence in this team
moving forward. I mean next year we’ll
have Bradley Jr. and Victorino in the 1 and 2 spots. I can live with that. Also it will be the best news in the world to
see the Yankees or Dodgers or some other sucker team sign Ellsbury for a
ridiculous contract and he really is not that great. I'll probably be laughing like the joker the day the news breaks of his ridiculous deal.
Anyway we still have a World Series to win this
year, so Ellsbury can stick around for that and when he does eventually leave the Red Sox will be able to get a 1st round pick out of it. Recent rumors are that the Sox may
get Jake Peavy from the White Sox. That
move doesn’t blow me away but I think the Sox may go thru with it because they
will take on Peavy’s big salary and only have to give up a low level prospect
in return. We won’t have to dump future
guys like Bogarts, Bradley Jr., Webster, Dela Rosa, etc. to get him. It will be a guy a Sox geek like me has never
heard of, like in the Matt Thornton deal.
Also Peavy has a player option for 2015 and he has to pitch 190 innings
in 2014 and 400 total for 2013 & 2014.
He only has 73 innings pitched
this year, so in order for him to get that option he would have to be greater
than Warren Spahn. Not going to
happen, but the Sox can find a way to
use him for an extra year. God knows
we’ll need him again next year when Bucholz breaks another nail and gets put on
the 60 day DL.
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