1. 10-27-14 08:07 PM #1
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    Report: Red Sox coaches 'hate' Cespedes

    Could the Yoenis Cespedes era in Boston be coming to a premature end?

    One report from the New York Daily News seems to thinks so.

    Bill Madden of the Daily News writes that Cespedes' signing with the Roc Nation agency may be the final straw that prompts the Sox to trade him away while they can, and not run the risk of losing him via free agency.

    The fear is that Cespedes' asking price is going to rise with the new agency much like it did for Robinson Cano when he signed with Roc Nation and signed a massive deal with the Mariners.

    Perhaps if Red Sox coaches were big fans of Cespedes, they'd try to get a deal done, but the report, quoting a Red Sox insider, also says “[Cespedes] marches to his own drum and the coaches all hate him."

    Cespedes reportedly is not a fan of Boston, either.

    But Cespedes does provide the much-needed power that the Sox lineup lacked in the middle of the order last year.

    If these reports are true that Cespedes and the Sox aren't fans of each other, then perhaps a trade is the best option. Boston will have to get a legitimate starting pitcher back in return at least, as power is hard to come by these days and there isn't anybody in the Sox minor leagues ready to add a great deal of it.

    Fellow Red Sox and Cuban Rusney Castillo had signed with Roc Nation and that did not scare the Red Sox away from signing him to a seven-year, $72.5 million deal.
    Cespedes hit .269 with five home runs and 33 RBI for the Red Sox in 51 games last season.
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    Nashy baseballs over Start this thread next spring cuz

    Thanks
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    Can't believe a New York paper about a redsox story. Yankees just jealous they didnt get him.
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  4. 10-27-14 08:19 PM #4
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    ^
    Yanks problem wasn't in the outfield.
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  5. 10-27-14 08:25 PM #5
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    Quote Originally Posted by stevenash View Post
    ^
    Yanks problem wasn't in the outfield.
    Tell that to the gaping hole in right field that Beltran was supposed to help fill that they had to use 40 year-old Ichiro and a ton of other guys at
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  6. 10-27-14 08:29 PM #6
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    lol. if yanks had a legit starting rotation and not 3-4 fill ins for most of the season they would have made the playoffs

    business as usual
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  7. 10-27-14 08:31 PM #7
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    Ichiro at 40 can cover more ground than 90 percent of the 25 year olds.
    Gardner and Ellsbury were fine too.
    Yanks didn't have a Lester to deal Oakland.
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    They need pitching anyway
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  9. 10-27-14 08:41 PM #9
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    All the coaches hate him? What is this the 4th grade?
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    Quote Originally Posted by smitch124 View Post
    All the coaches hate him? What is this the 4th grade?
    i know right?
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    And Bill Madden is not a beat writer, his home base is the Daily News, he's national, he's syndicated, he's on the Hall of Fame Committee, and has been on the Overview Committee.
    He's 68, been writing baseball for 50 years, has hundreds of reliable sources, and his intergrity is like this "If Madden reports it, it's more than accurate"
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    Quote Originally Posted by Big Bear View Post
    i know right?
    That quote is from a Red Sox insider.
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    Quote Originally Posted by stevenash View Post
    That quote is from a Red Sox insider.
    I'm not saying the quote is inaccurate, I just think the Red Sox coaches need to grow up a bit.
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  14. 10-27-14 08:59 PM #14
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    Cespedes is the talent people pay to watch. Fire those coaching idiots if they don't like him
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    Hope the Mets can snatch him up. We need someone to bat 5th behind Duda.
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    Mets are just a few pieces away from being legit. SS and a masher
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  17. 10-28-14 10:55 AM #17
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    KC should pick him up. Get in a three way with another team or give them Big Game, George Brett and a prospect or one of the three outta the pen.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TwoWays View Post
    Cespedes is the talent people pay to watch. Fire those coaching idiots if they don't like him
    5 HR and 33 RBI in 51 games and a .263 career BA is the "talent people pay to watch"?
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    Quote Originally Posted by I/O View Post
    KC should pick him up. Get in a three way with another team or give them Big Game, George Brett and a prospect or one of the three outta the pen.
    Buddy Biancalana?

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    Rusty Kuntz?

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    Fukkin guy sucks who gives a shit
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    Quote Originally Posted by NYSportsGuy210 View Post
    Hope the Mets can snatch him up. We need someone to bat 5th behind Duda.
    Yeah just what the Mets need- Another overrated cokk who will bat 210 with Granderfuk. Mets need anything but this jerkoff.
    They need to do what they have to do to get Tulo this off season. That's it.
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    Cespedes is not overrated and i bet they would be a playoff team with cespedes if that kid with the glass arm can stay healthy
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    Quote Originally Posted by BennyBigNuts View Post
    They need to do what they have to do to get Tulo this off season. That's it.
    Very risky.
    Hasn't played a full season in almost 5 years, guaranteed to wind up on the DL for 30-40 games a year.
    Every year.
    If I'm in the Wilpon group, the only way I sign Tulo is to buy insurance from Lloyds of London on Tulo to offset my losses when he goes down.

    Car-Go, same risk.

    There are two shortstops on the FA market worth anything, Han-Ram, who LA isn't going to pay 100 million for, plus they got Kyle Seager's brother at SS waiting on the farm Corey Seager, who scouts say is bigger, younger and better than his older brother and can't wait to play him, Mets will not pay Han-Ram anyway, there's talk Ramierez winds up in Houston to play along side Altuve, ain't gonna happen, Astro's have Carlos Correa coming up, kid is a beast, at 18 led the midwest league in OPS at .872.

    As-Cabrera can be had, he's better than anything Mets trot out right now, but he's not going to lead them to the promised land.
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    good luck fielding a team of coaches to play ball. yeah, fans should be excited to watch.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TwoWays View Post
    good luck fielding a team of coaches to play ball. yeah, fans should be excited to watch.
    Oakland is not going to take Cespedes back, he hates the city of Boston, he ain't going to play there again.
    Even if the Mets paid him, he ain't hitting 35 homers in that grave yard.
    KC doesn't want to pay Shields, he ain't going to KC, White Sox? hmmm.
    Is not going to Cleveland or Detroit, so not going to Miinny, or Baltimore, they got a guy like him, Andrew Jones.
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    Quote Originally Posted by stevenash View Post
    Oakland is not going to take Cespedes back, he hates the city of Boston, he ain't going to play there again.
    Even if the Mets paid him, he ain't hitting 35 homers in that grave yard.
    KC doesn't want to pay Shields, he ain't going to KC, White Sox? hmmm.
    Is not going to Cleveland or Detroit, so not going to Miinny, or Baltimore, they got a guy like him, Andrew Jones.
    Does Boston need a shortstop? There ain't much else they would move or worth moving from that team to match.
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    Quote Originally Posted by I/O View Post
    Does Boston need a shortstop? There ain't much else they would move or worth moving from that team to match.
    Sox are in love with Boeagart
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    Quote Originally Posted by BennyBigNuts View Post
    Yeah just what the Mets need- Another overrated cokk who will bat 210 with Granderfuk. Mets need anything but this jerkoff.
    They need to do what they have to do to get Tulo this off season. That's it.
    Yea pay $20 million a year to a kid who'll play 90 games a year....idiot.
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