Comments on: How Marco Scutaro Ripped Off The Red Sox

By: American Flags

American Flags — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 23:43:24 +0000

I don’t get how the Red Sox GM makes brilliant moves and then stupid ones like this. I’m surprised the Giant’s GM didn’t rush to sign this cat. I would expect that from him, but not from the Sox.

By: booyaii

booyaii — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:57:44 +0000

The draft doesn’t include international players now. Its kind of irrelevant that it might in the future.

The argument your making could apply to any team, that no one should sign Scutaro because of the cost of his first round pick. But in this case the Red Sox needed a good shortstop quite badly, look at what kind of offensive numbers the Red Sox shortstop put up last year.

Lastly, if the draft included international players the way your saying it should and will in the future it will drive up free agent signing not limit it. The ‘teams like the sox and yanks’ as you put it wont be getting a shot at Chapman, just like they didn’t get a shot at Strasburg this year. Their first round pick will still be worth so much less than other teams, because it will be at the end of the first round, that they will continue to sign big free agents.

By: BeeZee

BeeZee — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:12:46 +0000

@Norcross – I’m cool with signing a stopgap, but at a pay increase of 500%? Scutaro will be useful, I just don’t know if they needed to spend so much for him AND lose the draft pick.

@Alpine – the draft digression has more to do with the first round draft pick loss than anything else. The international draft is coming and teams are going to need to value their picks more closely. It was more a cautionary tale / lesson than anything else.

By: Alpine McGregor

Alpine McGregor — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:07:23 +0000

Scutaro was signed primarily for his defense. While a first-rounder is a lot to surrender, it’s true, the Sox desperately needed to upgrade their defense and he was the best available option that had some semblance of offensive ability.

I have no idea where you were going with that whole international draft digression, it’s entirely irrelevant to the Scutaro signing. There will be no international draft in 2010.

By: Norcross

Norcross — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:48:52 +0000

I’m not sure it’s that big an error. The focus here was the contract length: 2 years. They’ve got a stud in AA or AAA who’s a year or two away from coming up. This signing gave them the perfect stopgap, and a player who can fill in other places if need be.