Damon to NYY

[wayne1218]

The Red Sox now have until Jan. 8 to sign Damon or lose their rights to negotiations with him until May 1. ... they will probably resign him...

It's reported that he's signing with NY and he can as a FA

[10DimeBry]

It's reported that he's signing with NY and he can as a FA

yes but its tentive as of now. Until he signs sox or any other team can make a higher offer.

[checkers]

yes but its tentative as of now. Until he signs sox or any other team can make a higher offer.

that's right... too much $$ IMO..

[diesel]

Let him go snd replace him with Reed from Seattle who can't hit a lick. What am I missing here. Red Sox upper management is having a horrible off season.

[Hoosier Daddy]

Reed was a top prospect in the White Sox organization, and probably the biggest piece in the Freddy Garcia deal last year. Although up until now, he hasn't shown the ability to hit major league pitching. Boston media will eat him alive when it's mid-May and he's struggling to hit .200.

[diesel]

HD, I sometimes really wonder if people that follow and bet on sports really understand what their watching and betting on

[savage1]

You can laugh at me, but I say without both Damon and Ramirez, the team will be lucky to finish a couple of games over 500 no matter what they do. They aren't going to fill two gaping holes like that in one season and have the chemistry to be able to compete with the Yankees and other teams which have been catching up the past few years.
I hope this post comes back to haunt me ,but I think it is going to be a lean year for the Sox if their offense takes that kind of a hit(no pun intended).

[BettorsChat]

Ramirez is a much bigger loss than Damon. Damon is not worth $13 million, but I don't blame him for taking it.

[savage1]

Ramirez may be a bigger loss in the true sense of offense, but it seems to me that in 2004, the year in which the Sox took it all, Damon was a HUGE part of their success. I say he will be sorely missed;versatile players who know how to win are not found that easily.

[Hoosier Daddy]

they didn't have much team speed to begin with, now losing Damon doesn't help. Who is going to hit leadoff for them? Loretta will be good in the 2-hole, but Damon leaves a HUGE hole as a table setter for Manny/Ortiz.

If they lost Manny, and didn't get an All-star caliber player back, they might finish behind Toronto and maybe Baltimore or Tampa, if either team could get pitching. Boston's pitching staff is in shambles, too.

[savage1]

they didn't have much team speed to begin with, now losing Damon doesn't help. Who is going to hit leadoff for them? Loretta will be good in the 2-hole, but Damon leaves a HUGE hole as a table setter for Manny/Ortiz.

If they lost Manny, and didn't get an All-star caliber player back, they might finish behind Toronto and maybe Baltimore or Tampa, if either team could get pitching. Boston's pitching staff is in shambles, too.

Hoosier-I have been a Sox diehard since 1952, but I couldn't agree more.
Beckett will help, but at this point I have really bad vibes about the upcoming season.
Keep in mind that this management has spent a lot of money and brought a WS to Boston;now they feel it is THEIR turn to profit which means less payroll.
Obviously if they can create the perception that this team has a chance to win it all, than all the better for them.
One thing they will never have to worry about is selling out the ballpark, as every game has been sold out for the last 4 or 5 years.
Things could change a little, but at this juncture I am more negative about the upcoming season than I have been in years.
Remember finishing 500 is ok for some teams, but for teams like the Sox, not making the playoffs is considered failure.
If Manny and Damon go, I give them at best about a 10% chance of making the playoffs.

[jhedrick]

I cannot believe ****** Damon is worth 13 million per!!! And for four years none-the-less!!! he is barely a defensive upgrade from bernie!!! Neither has an arm and Damon covers a bit more ground. And how much more can Damon bring offensively??? His speed is the biggest attribute he brings but bernie signed for 1 year, 1.2 million and JDamon covets that $$$??? What the FU**???

[BillMill71]

Well if Furcal was worth 12 million per it almost makes Damon look like a bargain.

But as a Yankee fan, I am not sure I like this deal, especially defensively as stated by other posters

[sports junkie]

This just proves how much of an absolute joke MLB is becoming......i mean, give me a freakin' break.....this so called "great rivalry" has gotten way too overhyped, how can anything be a rivalry when star players are going to the other team, it just shows you that damon and just about every other mlb player are just sell outs.....money is above everything....well ahead of loyalty, star players should never be allowed to sign with rivalry, in division teams.....but thats the way it is, and these players are just so overpaid its not even funny, burnett, damon, b.j. ryan, to name a few this year, who got about 20 million more than they're worth, and teams that can't afford these types of contracts, which is about 85% of the teams, are just going to be losers every year in and year out, unless they have a lucky dream season which will come as often as about 1 in every 50 years......a lot of these offseason moves are just proving that MLB is basically just an absolute joke of an organization, and its players are the most overpaid, unloyal, biggest bunch of babies out there......Damon will look like a fag in his Yankees uniform, and his cut hair, and clean face.......he may have a big contract, but he's nothing but a sell out, selfish bastard in the public eye

[savage1]

I blame players, agents and owners equally for this madness, and one of the reasons I have not attended a Red Sox game in peson(I watch them all on Cable) is that in my own little way I personally don't want to encourage/contribute to the out of control ticket prices which are a result of the above.