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Papi grand slam Incredible

They're calling Dombrowski the Trade Master here

Doesn't look like it. LOL.

Victorino breaks up the no hitter That's fine. I just want a humiliating victory, with the despondent Red Sox headed to Detroit knowing they have to face Verlander in game 3, already down 2 games to 0.

Yes. Have to wait at least a year.

This is making me deliriously happy

Holy s*** what a play by Pedroia

If only he had apprenticed under Billy Beane instead of J. P. Ricciardi.

Oh, absolutely If all star break 2014 this team is out of the playoff picture already it's clearly time to give up. And you could get fantastic returns on guys like Lind, Bautista, Santos and Buerhle at that point from teams on the bubble, with money and holes in their lineups/rotations/bullpens. If the team contends in 2014, then you keep the majority of these guys and continue to tweak, carefully trading guys away to keep the farm in reasonable shape and filling holes where you need to.

This is all exactly right. Did we like AA going all in this off season with no thought of the future? No. But now that he's done it and ONE season has failed (mostly due to a crazy number of under performances and injuries) it's not time to abandon ship.

Alex? Is that you??

Exactly how I feel. This hasn't failed yet. Load up again as best you can this off season. If it's clearly still not working by mid 2014 start dealing guys away at the trade deadline and focus in getting younger and cheaper.

He is 5 or more years older I guess so probably yeah just based on that Though he was obviously much better in his prime than Fielder ever was or will be. And always in way better shape than Prince.

Quick poll: Which contract looks worse when it's all over, Fielder's or Pujols'?

They sure got "Boras"ed with Fielder...

Just about every one of us wanted the Jays to sign Anibal Sanchez last year. Gotta say I'd feel better about the 2014 rotation if we had him in there with Dickey and Buerhle already.

Red Sox one hit? Goddammit you won't see that very often. But I like it.

Finally a run 1-0 Tigers

Nope. Their bats have been s*** right down. Edit: Shut right down. LOL

The players the Dodgers got from Boston added up to 7 WAR this year, and the Red Sox essentially just saved a crapload of money and bought cheaper players through free agency.

Interesting write up on the impact of the massive Red Sox Dodgers trade from August 2012. Quite poigant given that the two teams are where they are right now, and could even face each other in the WS: http://mlb.si.com/2013/10/09/red-sox-dodgers-trade-carl-crawford-adrian-gonzalez-josh-beckett-james-loney/?sct=mlb_t2_a5

Rosenthal giving the nod to Red Sox in this series: http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/alcs-boston-red-sox-detroit-tigers-ken-rosenthal-pick-justin-verlander-max-scherzer-jon-lester-clay-buchholz-101113

Yankees Expected To Aggressively Pursue Tanaka By Steve Adams [October 11, 2013 at 9:00am CST] Masahiro Tanaka's video-game numbers for NPB's Rakuten Golden Eagles this season have turned quite a few heads in the United States, and according to George A. King III of the New York Post, the Yankees "are going to be serious players" for the Japanese ace. King spoke with several executives who guessed that the posting fee for Tanaka could go as high as $60MM, but the Yankees aren't overly concerned about that number given the fact that the posting fee wouldn't count against their stated desire to get underneath baseball's $189MM luxury tax threshhold. The expected $50-60MM contract that would go along with such a posting fee -- contract totals are usually in the same ballpark as the posting fee -- certainly would. King writes that assistant GM Billy Eppler and pro scout/former Mariners manager Don Wakamatsu have both watched Tanaka extensively this season. While the common consensus has been that Tanaka is a lesser prospect than Yu Darvish was prior to joining the Majors, King spoke to a scout who prefers Tanaka to Darvish: "He is better than Darvish because he is a strike thrower," the scout said. "Overall, Darvish’s stuff might be a little bit better, but this guy knows how to pitch. He is like Kuroda, he has a lot of guts. He throws four pitches but when it gets to [stone]-cutting time, it’s fastball and splitter." Tanaka, who doesn't turn 25 years old until Nov. 1, is 22-0 for the Golden Eagles with a 1.23 ERA. His strikeout rate has dipped slightly from previous seasons, though he still manages nearly eight whiffs per nine innings and has averaged just over one walk per nine innings as well. His splitter is such a wipeout pitch that Baseball America's Ben Badler called it perhaps the best splitter in the world back in late August. The Yankees will have competition for Tanaka -- one talent evaluator told King that the Red Sox, Dodgers and Rangers will be in the mix as well -- but they also have a clear need for starting pitching with Andy Pettitte's retirement and Hiroki Kuroda's uncertain future. New York also saw CC Sabathia decline in 2013 and is unsure what, if anything, they can receive in the future from Michael Pineda.

They think it's ridiculous and don't understand it They think AA is under huge pressure to fix the team for 2014 or he's gone Suggested maybe Motttola was fired for someone Gibby wanted (not yet announced) and Murphy feels slighted and quit

PTS now discussing these coaching changes