08-10-2009, 09:04 PM
<!--quoteo(post=56854:date=Aug 10 2009, 08:02 PM:name=Baron)-->QUOTE (Baron @ Aug 10 2009, 08:02 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=56853:date=Aug 10 2009, 08:00 PM:name=rok)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (rok @ Aug 10 2009, 08:00 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=56852:date=Aug 10 2009, 07:56 PM:name=Baron)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Baron @ Aug 10 2009, 07:56 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=56848:date=Aug 10 2009, 07:51 PM:name=rok)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (rok @ Aug 10 2009, 07:51 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=56845:date=Aug 10 2009, 07:46 PM:name=Baron)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Baron @ Aug 10 2009, 07:46 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->I think its a great pickup for the Sox. Their weakness is CF and Rios's contract is manageable as a CF. The Sox bought low on a 28 year old who put up an .800ish OPS as a CF last year.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
He's way overpaid for his production. His best season was 2007, and he's never really come close to that again. There's a reason why Toronto didn't want to pay him that salary.
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CFers are usually young and making arbitration amounts or make a lot of money (Beltran, Kosuke, Hunter, Rowand). I think Rios can easily be an 800+ OPS hitter.
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Yeah, but he's played about 100 games in CF over his career, most of them in 2008. I'm sure he's an improvement over Podsednik and Wise for them in CF, but he really isn't a true CF. He's still overpaid IMO. I'm just pointing out the hypocrisy of KW crying poor and then snapping up an overpaid OF.
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He is a CFer, it isn't his fault that Vernon Wells has CF on lockdown in Toronto.
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That doesn't make him a bargain in this economy. Again, KW is a hypocrite.
He's way overpaid for his production. His best season was 2007, and he's never really come close to that again. There's a reason why Toronto didn't want to pay him that salary.
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CFers are usually young and making arbitration amounts or make a lot of money (Beltran, Kosuke, Hunter, Rowand). I think Rios can easily be an 800+ OPS hitter.
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Yeah, but he's played about 100 games in CF over his career, most of them in 2008. I'm sure he's an improvement over Podsednik and Wise for them in CF, but he really isn't a true CF. He's still overpaid IMO. I'm just pointing out the hypocrisy of KW crying poor and then snapping up an overpaid OF.
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He is a CFer, it isn't his fault that Vernon Wells has CF on lockdown in Toronto.
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That doesn't make him a bargain in this economy. Again, KW is a hypocrite.