Sign Buehrle, trade Crede and Dye

[elrockinMT]

Who's to say we couldn't play better with Josh Fields at 3B and ??? player in RF?

 

Seriously, many Sox fans thought we were committing suicide by replacing Garcia and McCarthy with Danks, and that's turned out to be the best move, hasn't it?

 

We need an injection of youth, speed, enthusiasm, excitement....something.

If we ARE able to keep Buehrle, we then have four starters in the vicinity of $45-50 million....and then Danks.

 

We can't keep Crede and Dye AND Buehrle. The math's impossible for this franchise. And it makes no sense to keep Crede when we have a farm system that has produced a replacement in Fields.

 

As some of the BA backers have mentioned, BA and Sweeney and Fields HAVE to succeed for this franchise to be a viable, competitive member of the AL Central in 2008-2010. We can't afford free agents for those three positions AND Thome/Konerko add another $22-23 million per year. Right there, the four pitchers and Thome/Konerko would equal our entire payroll for the 2005 championship team.

 

And you still have to figure out what to do with Iguchi and Uribe...

 

If the franchise wants to win they have to pay. These folks are our best option to do that. I can see Pods moving somewhere else next year and Fields taking over in LF.

 

Exactly the point is you cant afford to sit around and wait for things to get better. You cant sit here and wait for Thome and Pods to come back and give them a couple weeks to get back in a rhythm and just hope everything will be ok. Heck by the time that happens, if it happens, this team might be 12 games out. If you want survive at least for this year you need to do something now. The Mack/Ozuna/Cintron/Terrero circus isn't an answer its not going to prevent us from dipping below .500. The only thing you can do is add some life to the lineup, new talented excited life. Bring up Fields and Owens, and along with Sweeney get these guys moving. Then get Pods and Thome back and hit the ground running in a lineup that is already kicking. If you just try and survive and wait until Pods and Thome get back most likely it will just be too late, it always works out that way.

 

 

Yes you can wait. The season is early and by making drastic changes now it might really mess up things for later in the season. I think any talk now of trades, etc, is a knee jerk reaction

Edited May 3, 2007 by elrockinMT