The Red Sox won the right to negotiate with Matsuzaka with a winning bid of $51.1 million. They have until midnight December 15th to strike a deal. In doing so the Red Sox unexpectedly got exclusive rights to the Yankee's number one priority in the offseason and signed a big game pitcher and potential #1 ace. The Yankees will now be forced to go to ( Read more... )

The Cleveland Plain Dealer is reporting that the Devil Rays have won the bidding for left-handed third baseman Akinori Iwamura. Pitcher Kei Igawa is also due to play a part in one of the most notable influxes of Japanese talent in the history of MLB. It had potential to be even more significant but Kiroki Kuroda, who led the Japanese league in ERA ( Read more... )

Sox Getting Matsuzaka?

This so far is the only rumor to be mentioned at all by ESPN. What do you guys and gals think about the craziness that is Matsuzaka and who wants to start a pool on when the winner will be announced? Is this the future of MLB?!?!

Here's an interesting story on Matsuzaka including how long it will be until we know who won. It also includes something I've been wondering about, the team that wins the biding has every right to then trade Matsuzaka. There's also an interesting piece of information about how Boras could possibly take the issue to court trying to win Matsuzaka the ( Read more... )

Nomar Garciaparra filed for free agency today. The Red Sox and Theo Epstein should do the right thing and bring back Nomar.

Buy or Sell?

I'm curious as to what you guys think of all the talk about Matsuzaka. Here's a video I found of him on YouTube.


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What do you guys and gals think of the supposed foreign substance on Kenny Rogers' hand tonight? Do any of you actually believe a foreign substance on his hand had any affect on the Yankees series? I've heard Yankees fans retroactively claiming he doctored the ball in that series as well but is there actually any evidence?

Is there any official word yet on whether not he's been fired? Also, I'd be interested to know what Yankees fans think of the rumored move.

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Yeah and the Red Sox can't spend as much as the Yankees...

OOOOOKKKKK

You can't afford to pay for higher end players but you can buy half of a NASCAR team?