Baseball winter meetings.
Where the rumour mill is running rampant concerning my beloved 2007 world champion Boston Red Sox. Supposedly they are the front runners for acquiring the best pitcher in baseball, Johan Santana of the Minnesota Twins. The cost would be 3-4 near major league prospect, plus signing him to a new contract of say $25 million per year.
The trend lately has been that the Red Sox make one big splash about this time. Last year (while I was in the hospital) they won the rights for Dice-K Matsuzaka, the best pitcher in Japan, by shelling out $51 million or so in change to the Seibu Lions. Two years ago they acquired post season hero Josh Beckett from the Florida Marlins for uber-prospect Hanley Ramirez and absorbing the albatross contract of Mike Lowell. Well it was albatross at the time (coming off a terrible year), but of course he rebounded, became the World Series MVP, and earned a raise up to 12.5 million per year for 3 years.
So I have been busy checking Sons of Sam Horn hourly for updates. The Twins and Red Sox now are bickering over the prospects to be sent to the Twins. Will we get Santana? Stay Tuned.
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