This team could really, really use a break right about now. The offense is dead. I'm thinking this is about when Lars Anderson gets called up and posts a 1000 ops for the rest of the season. Or we trade Bowden plus someone else for Adam Dunn or Nick Johnson.
His career line is .272 .397 .450 good for a 124 career ops + and he has a decent glove. He's always produced when healthy, that's just not very often. We don't need him to be an everyday player though, so if the price is right, I'm all for it. I heard somewhere that Theo turned down a Nats offer of Delcarmen for Johnson. That's too much IMO, but I'm all for Saito/ Bowden. I'm really all for trading Bowden in general actually. He doesn't miss enough bats, his stuff isn't great, and there's a huge organizational logjam at the spot anyways.
I agree about Bowden, I just can't stand Johnson and think they could get a much better return on Bowden. Plus he's always hurt.
Sometimes you don't seem like you know anything about baseball at all. Mocking Sox fans for thinking they had excellent depth in the starting rotation coming into the season is not something people who DO know about baseball would do. The fact is, the Sox did and still do have excellent depth at SP. I've never been that high on Bowden, but he'd be a serviceable 5th starter for a Major League team at worst, and maybe slightly better than that. Meanwhile the Yankees are probably going to have to run Sergio Mitre out there while Boston still (even with Matsuzaka on the DL and Masterson in the bullpen) has no room in their rotation for a guy at AAA with a WHIP under 1.
Well it's actually 9 now because Junichi Tazawa is coming along quite nicely down at AA and will probably be ready by next year.
Unless J.P Ricciardi is lying, it sounds like Toronto is going to be the first team to start dumping some serious salary and selling off pieces. That means they're probably going to be trying to get rid of the Rollen/Rios/Wells types along with Halladay. If the Sox get Halladay, the rotation would be beyond words. I bet they might pick up Lyle Overbay or Scott Rollen though. If they do decide to go after Halladay full press, Buchholz/Anderson + someone else would probably get it done. I would be all for a deal like that too. If the Yankees decide they really, really want him, they will get him. But I'm not sure if Cashman is going to be all for once again blowing up his farm system for a pitcher in his 30's.
And sometimes (actually, a lot of the time), it seems like your panties come pre-bunched. Well, gee, running Mitre out there doesn't have anything at all to do with having the guys that were their #6 and #7 starters on the year doing well in the pen now, does it? Or with having their #8 guy injured, as well. Yes, the Sox had excellent rotation depth on paper. Maybe you, personally, weren't high on Bowden, but I have to listen to the clowns in my lab talk about the Sox on a daily basis, and all I heard leading up to the season was that the Sox had eight guys who would be top three starters on just about any team in the league, and how once Smoltz came back it'd be nine. Ridiculous. Seeing Matsuzaka suffer a mean reversion and watching Smoltz struggle, and now hearing about how Bowden isn't that great after all, well... let me just say that I find it all quite amusing. So chill.
