Boston Globe: Adrian Gonzalez a Good Fit For Red Sox
by Matt Buggenhagen on Jul 20, 2009 12:24 PM EDT
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PrintWith the recent injury to Mike Lowell the Red Sox may be looking for some corner infield insurance, and one player that might be a good fit is Padres first baseman Adrian Gonzalez, this according to Nick Cafardo of the Boston Globe.
According to Cafardo the Red Sox have always liked the 27-year-old Gonzalez. He's very durable and could be just the punch the Red Sox are looking for. He's also comes at a very affordable price; $4.75 million next season, and $5.5 million in 2011.
Gonzalez is the prototypical left-handed power hitter for Fenway Park. He already has an impressive home run total on the year with 24, and it's likely that number would increase substantially at Fenway.
"I've never been to Fenway Park,'' Gonzalez said, "but I'm told I would like hitting there.''
However it remains to be seen if Padres GM Kevin Towers would be willing to part with the young first baseman, whose considered one of the cornerstone pieces of the team's future. I would imagine Towers is not actively pursing offers for Gonzalez, but if the Red Sox came along with the right deal I'm sure he'd listen. Unfortunately for Theo Epstein it's likely everyone who speaks to him is going to demand at least one of his young pitchers, and Epstein doesn't seem inclined to deal any of them.
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Going from Petco with zero lineup protection....
to Fenway in the middle of the Red Sox lineup…He will finally get the attention he deserves as one of the best 1B in the game.
But somehow I dont see this happening.
What you fail to understand in your joyless myopia is that baseball is the key to life-- the Rosetta Stone, if you will. If you just understood baseball better all your other questions your, your... the, uh... the aliens, the conspiracies they would all, in their way be answered by the baseball gods.
I've always
loved how Red Sox and even the Boston media rip NY fans for thinking that the rest of the league is the Yanks farm system.
This is a joke. Cafardo should be castrated after putting this in the Globe and allowing it to be spread among fair weather Red Sox fans.
If the cost for Halladay is too much, what would it cost for a 27 y/o complete 1B who makes less than Halladay?
According to Sky Kalkman's TVC
about $40 million dollars.
Factor in jump from PetCo to Fenway….would probably take Lars Anderson, Clay Buchholz and a couple of other very nice prospects.
Ok, I am addicted to the TVC tool now, its official.
Not worth it.
Bradshaw, Cafardo probably wrote this to appeal to the fans who just heard of AGon last week, which, unfortunately, is a huge chunk of Sox fans.
@bs_uf15bosox9be:OverTheMonster-ALLERGEN WARNING:May contain PB.
Everybody wants Gonzalez, whether they have a legitimate need for a 1B or not.
I am happy to introduce All Star Third Baseman, Chone Figgins.
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