G-Snarls

Just like the old days!!

Speaking if which, did I ever mention that I was at Wrigley field for Kosuke Fukudome's major league debut? Cubs fans were pretty excited... For a brief period of time.

Wow there are a ton of "new" posters this week

Absolutely possible

Not what this (poorly written) article suggests:

Oh...

It gives almost all the control to the player 20 teams will post 20M then he gets to pick which team he negotiates with Way different than how Darvish came over

Go for it Alex. If the posting fee is only 20mil? If it falls to you DO it.

I don't know a that I can think of a rookie who really deserves it any more than Redmond does

Fine by me. Just don't want Yanks or Red Sox to get him.

I honestly don't understand the Tigers FO at all

Wow. Well then you mostly are paying the player. All for it. But why is t he Japan league willing to do this??

Pretty much all bad news in these tidbits

Must think they won't sign here

May have just missed this in the thread but it was brought up on PTS today. AA was "trying to get in on the conversation " for Fister but Dombrowski told him "we're looking for something specific and you don't have it" So much like 15-20 other GM's, AA just wasn't given a chance to even try and work out a trade. Sucks.

Count me among the few who actually prefer NL baseball I like an occasional team like the 2010 Phillies, 2011 Cardinals, 2012 Pirates but no one favorite ongoing team

Yes, Rasmus would do it I thinks

LOL, fixed

Agree Rasmus LF Gose CF Bautista RF Pillar 4th OF Melky DH If you can get something decent for Lind

Ruiz at end of three years = same age AJP and David Ross are NOW They totally should have signed him

Don't you only get your draft pick back a certain number of times??

Lind for Polanco or Meadows

Sounds like 18 WITH incentives http://fullcount.weei.com/sports/boston/baseball/red-sox/2013/12/04/red-sox-offer-to-jarrod-saltalamacchia-topped-out-at-two-years-around-18-million/ According to multiple industry sources familiar with the talks, the Red Sox have been determined this offseason to limit offers to any free agent catchers to two years in order to avoid blocking the path to the majors of prospects Christian Vazquez and Blake Swihart. The team’s conversations with free agent Jarrod Saltalamacchia reflected that approach, with one industry source suggesting that the Sox and the catcher talked about structuring a two-year deal that featured incentives that would allow it to top out around $18 million. Such a deal could have offered the 28-year-old a higher average annual value than the three-year, $21 million deal to which he ended up agreeing with the Marlins, but for Saltalamacchia, the desire for a three-year deal was absolute. Had the Sox offered the same three-year, $21 million guarantee that Miami ultimately presented, there would have been a strong chance that Saltalamacchia would have accepted in order to return to Boston. But the Sox never considered moving to that length. Ultimately, that proved a deal-breaker — just as it had with Carlos Ruiz earlier in the offseason. While the Sox had been willing to go beyond two years with Brian McCann (before he signed his five-year, $85 million deal with the Yankees), he represented a different degree of flexibility given that the team viewed him as having the offense to emerge as a future DH or first baseman by the third year of a deal. Saltalamacchia and Ruiz being pursued solely as a catcher, thus creating the possibility of a bottleneck for Vazquez and/or Swihart. Hence, the Sox felt that their best course — with McCann and Ruiz off the market and no common ground for Saltalamacchia — was to sign A.J. Pierzynski for one year at $8.25 million, a contract that will permit the team the greatest degree of flexibility entering 2015.