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2016 MLB Season - Curses, foiled again?

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Sale to Red Sox

John Tomase - WEEI
Dave Dombrowski just pulled off a blockbuster.

The Red Sox president of baseball operations on Tuesday swung for the fences and acquired White Sox ace Chris Sale, according to Ken Rosenthal of FoxSports. The cost was steep — top prospects Yoan Moncada and Michael Kopech, along with two others.

Sale, 27, gives the Red Sox a third Cy Young-caliber starter, joining defending winner Rick Porcello and former winner David Price. Sale has never won a Cy Young, but he has finished in the top five four times, including this past season, when he went 17-10 with a 3.34 ERA and a league-leading six complete games.

He set a career-high in innings (226 2/3) while striking out 233. He’s on one of the most affordable contracts in baseball, signed through 2017 with team options for 2018 ($12.5 million) and 2019 ($13.5 million).

The cost of acquiring Sale, who has also been linked to the Nationals, was astounding. Moncada is considered by many the best prospect in baseball, and Kopech has routinely hit 100 mph as a starter.

Sale attended Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers, home of Red Sox spring training.
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With Jeter having his number retired, that means the Yankees have retired numbers 1-10, and there are no single-digit numbers left for the current Yankees to wear.
 
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Go Sox. Just start printing those World Series tickets now baby!

Seriously, I like this deal. For those of you not from Boston, think of the greatest player of all time at each position. I can guarantee you that whoever you come up with, the local press has a guy in the Sox minor league system who's projected to be as good or better. :rolleyes: In reality these people rarely pan out, particularly their pitchers with Lester the last good one (Buccholz sucks) from over a decade ago. The "top prospect in all of baseball" (Moncada) has the problem a lot of Cuban ball players do - he can't hit major league pitching. Good riddance. I'd trade prospects for young stars every time.
 
Rover said:
Go Sox. Just start printing those World Series tickets now baby!

Seriously, I like this deal. For those of you not from Boston, think of the greatest player of all time at each position. I can guarantee you that whoever you come up with, the local press has a guy in the Sox minor league system who's projected to be as good or better. :rolleyes: In reality these people rarely pan out, particularly their pitchers with Lester the last good one (Buccholz sucks) from over a decade ago. The "top prospect in all of baseball" (Moncada) has the problem a lot of Cuban ball players do - he can't hit major league pitching. Good riddance. I'd trade prospects for young stars every time.
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Farrell can't screw this up, can he? If he manages like Terry in 2007 and the staff is injury free, the Sox should be OK.
 
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joecct said:
Farrell can't screw this up, can he? If he manages like Terry in 2007 and the staff is injury free, the Sox should be OK.
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If he can get out of the way like he did in 2013, it should work.
 
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Cubs get Davis from Royals for Soler. Bye bye Chapman and your ridiculous contract demands.
 
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"Yay"? "Boo"? I don't even know anymore.

Prosecutors in Fort Lee, New Jersey dropped assault charges against New York Mets closer Jeurys Familia today. He appeared in court alongside his wife, who had previously requested that the case be dismissed.
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So, on the one hand, maybe there was no assault? (Highly unlikely) Or maybe she saw no choice because her financial security is tied to her abuser so she had to eat the charge? (Much more likely) Or maybe it was one of those borderline cases where there might have been violence and the couple themselves was shocked into sensibility of the frailty of life, love, and marriage, and they will move on from this as better people? (Likelihood unknown)

I just don't know how to feel about this. Its almost as if life is too complex to be reduced to a quick internet reaction based on scant evidence.
 
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Kepler said:
I just don't know how to feel about this. Its almost as if life is too complex to be reduced to a quick internet reaction based on scant evidence.
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I think in this case you're just supposed to yell "cuck!" alot. Seems to be the new fad.
 
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