After it was announced late this week that the Red Sox would spend $3 million to buy first-round pick Casey Kelly away from a football scholarship at Tennessee, multiple sources indicate that they are close to spending over $5 million more on three later picks with first-round talent. Fourth- and fifth-round outfielders Pete Hissey and Ryan Westmoreland are both monster athletes and tough signs, but the Red Sox have seemingly come to terms with both for "greater than seven-figues," with Westmoreland reported approaching $2 million. The most shocking rumor floating around at this time is that the Red Sox are also very close to signing 20th-round pick Alex Meyer. The six-foot-seven power righty from Indiana has first-round stuff, but he was considered all but unsignable due to the Boras factor and a strong commitment to the University of Kentucky. The hottest rumor among scouting circles has $2 million looking like it will take care of both those issues. Also look for the team to sign their sixth-round pick, Yale catcher Ryan Lavarnway, for late-third round money.http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=7823
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Goldstein: Sox "Seemingly Come to Terms" with Hissey & Westmoreland, Meyer "Very Close"
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Goldstein: Sox "Seemingly Come to Terms" with Hissey & Westmoreland, Meyer "Very Close" |
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This just made my night, although I thought that Meyer would be an incredible sign, I never really thought it would happen. Add Hissey and Westmoreland to that
and I'm ecstatic that this is even rumored to happen. How much weight should this be given?
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holy crap.
can you say best draft ever? |
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Posts: 12475 07/18/08 9:29 PM Moderator |
Yay!!1! We win!
BRING REESE HOME
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Posts: 1127 07/18/08 9:32 PM Veteran Member |
westmoreland, hissey and meyer would be a great influx of talent for the red sox system. i suspect that these signings will all come close to the August 15,
2008 deadline given that they would be way over slot values. not to be greedy, but it would be nice to hear some additional surprise signings such as moore,
orpesa and cooper.
Poorest spending of $3 million that I have ever seen.-fcastig 0220
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Posts: 13189 07/18/08 9:32 PM Moderator |
Bravo Red Sox. This is what a big market team should do. Flex its muscles.
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weihbe6 wrote: Hi, my name is the 2005 draft, have we met yet!!!! Edit: Snarky comment aside, I will love this organization if Meyer becomes a part of it. I was thinking 1.7-2 million would get it done. In my mind, the top notch HS arms are my main concern, I know they would get at least one of Hissey/Westmoreland signed.
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With the big name prospects, Buchholz, Lowrie, Masterson on their way to the bigs or already there this is a great way to restock the farm system. I didn't
think that my confidence in Theo and company could get any bigger, but now I can say it has reached a new high.
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Hairps wrote: I think the board collectively fangasmed reading this. |
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Matt Marquis ..... If you are paying attention to what seems to be happening here, wouldn't you like to be part of the action??
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ancientsoxfogey wrote: Might as well take Navery Moore too. Who would want to be the guy left behind on a bare Vandy roster? The Red Sox can do him the favor of letting him play with the guys that he assumed would be his teammates. |
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Posts: 1085 07/18/08 9:51 PM Veteran Member |
Never been so happy to eat my words. They are going to blow away all of their previous records. jsinger is right - this is how a big market team flexes its
muscles. Prepare for some high profile misses, but I guess it only takes one hit to make it worthwhile.
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Posts: 33 07/18/08 9:54 PM |
If they can add Hissey, Westmoreland, and Meyer for $5mm, that is money well spent.
Probably better odds than 17-year old international players. And $5 mm for three good drafted players is better expected value than $50mm for a veteran free agent in the long run. Great move by the Sox, if true. |
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Get this guys done now so we can have a relatively slow day on Aug 15 when we sign Moore and Miller, I still have hopes.
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If these signings go down you have to believe the Red Sox felt the international free agent market was weaker than years past and did not want to get into a
bidding war for Michael Inoa. For the 4.25mil the A's paid for Inoa the Red Sox can get 3 players of talent for that money which is the better way to go.
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Posts: 3104 07/18/08 10:18 PM Veteran Member |
Good point jsinger -- Beane's approach has historically been to value things that other people don't and to look for the type of talent that is most
undervalued relative to its potential payback. Has he gone out on a limb here, and have the Sox stolen that page from his playbook in this situation?
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Posts: 2195 07/18/08 10:21 PM Veteran Member |
jsinger121 wrote: I always thought that the International market didn't affect how the Sox approach the draft but you do make a good point that sometimes quantity is
better than putting all your eggs in one basket. Also if the Sox felt this way about the Int market I completely agree with them, most of this guys were in the
Engel Beltre/Oscar Tejeda range but they got much more than they deserve not so much Inoa, though he got much more than he deserve, but more so the
questionable bats.
Boston doesn't deserve me.
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I kinda like the international market theory, but celtic makes a good point as well: they've graduated or traded a ton of prospects, so while the system is
far from depleted it doesn't have a ton of high level talent (apologies to Lars, Reddick, Bowden, Kalish and company). I was cautiously hopeful, given all
the signability picks, but it looks like the organization is giong from broke with this one, commissioner be damned.
Now lets just cross our fingers and hope this information has some validity...nothing is more painful than the gift you didn't expect--only to have it taken away from you. |
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Posts: 382 07/18/08 10:36 PM Veteran Member |
While this is exciting news, I'll wait for more official confirmation before popping the corks on any champagne bottles. I just remember reading similar
things on PGCrosschecker last year, only to be disappointed in the end...
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I really hope this won't be one of these times where the report ends up being way off and we only get one of those guys if any. I REALLY hope this is true.
If so then a big thank you and high five to Theo and the gang. This would be fantastic. Great time to be a sox fan. When was the last time the sox had a farm
system like this?
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I have no doubt that they pony up for one of Hissey/Westmoreland, both is just icing on the cake. I think Meyer is the key, especially if Kelly is going to be
given every opportunity to stick at SS. I know the Sox rotation is set for the next 2-3 years, but they are going to need some young/fresh/cheap arms to come
up and contribute around 2011/2012 when Wake is finally done, Beckett will be looking for a major pay day when his current deal is up, and I doubt they are
going to want to pay Dice-K what he/Boras thinks he's worth. Not to mention the fact that Buchholz and Lester won't come cheap anymore as they approach
free agency. I would love a legit HS starter or two to go with the guys already in Lowell. Through the war of attrition you would hope that at least two of
those guys would be ready to contribute in 2012.
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