The Red Sox

[UMFan83]

How many teams have started off 0-5 and even made the playoffs?

 

I think they ought to panic and make a 46 player trade (23 from each side except SS and closer) with the Cubs while paying the difference in payroll. If that's too difficult, they should panic into a deal of Gonzalez, Pedroia, and Crawford for Pena, DeWitt, and Soriano. :yahoo:

 

An unusually realistic trade idea from you.

 

I forgot that we need to keep Soto too.

 

The sad thing is that even if this trade was offered to the Cubs, they'd probably turn it down because we couldnt take on all that salary.

[Guest]

How many teams have started off 0-5 and even made the playoffs?

 

I think they ought to panic and make a 46 player trade (23 from each side except SS and closer) with the Cubs while paying the difference in payroll. If that's too difficult, they should panic into a deal of Gonzalez, Pedroia, and Crawford for Pena, DeWitt, and Soriano. :yahoo:

 

An unusually realistic trade idea from you.

 

I forgot that we need to keep Soto too.

 

The sad thing is that even if this trade was offered to the Cubs, they'd probably turn it down because we couldnt take on all that salary.

 

The six-player deal would actually require the Red Sox to take on salary this year.

 

Soriano (18M), Pena (10M) and DeWitt (0.4M) are 28.4M total while Crawford (14M), Gonzalez (5.5M) and Pedroia (5.5M) are only 25M total. Even if we had to pay some/all of Crawford's signing bonus (6M), it would only be a small payroll gain for the Cubs.

 

Obviously over the length of the deals for all six players, even before Gonzalez gets the monster extension, the Cubs would have to pick up a lot of salary.

[Backtobanks]

The sad thing is that even if this trade was offered to the Cubs, they'd probably turn it down because we couldnt take on all that salary.

 

The six-player deal would actually require the Red Sox to take on salary this year.

 

Soriano (18M), Pena (10M) and DeWitt (0.4M) are 28.4M total while Crawford (14M), Gonzalez (5.5M) and Pedroia (5.5M) are only 25M total. Even if we had to pay some/all of Crawford's signing bonus (6M), it would only be a small payroll gain for the Cubs.

 

Obviously over the length of the deals for all six players, even before Gonzalez gets the monster extension, the Cubs would have to pick up a lot of salary.

 

And think of all the money we would save by not having to bid on Pujols.

[ManCrushOnNomar]

I feel like there needs to be a third team for a true b2b trade proposal.