Red Sox buy a team ….

[icehog3]

Injuries always hurt more in NY, Thomas. I think it's the water.

[AdamJoshua]

Originally Posted by icehog3

Injuries always hurt more in NY, Thomas. I think it's the water.

^ This ... I mean Arod missed what an entire year?

[The Poet]

Originally Posted by icehog3

Injuries always hurt more in NY, Thomas. I think it's the water.

That's not what Captain Sully said.

Originally Posted by AdamJoshua

^ This ... I mean Arod missed what an entire year?

Never saw him pitch, so I really don't see the relevance.

But to get back to the original topic, this was cut from Jeff Passan's story on Yahoo about the Ramirez and Sandoval purchase.

Money still rules baseball more than it does any professional sport.

Were the Red Sox not a financial behemoth, one of the sport’s three powerhouses alongside the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers, they would see a perfectly palatable path to respectability through their wide swath of future major league talent currently in the minors.

For a team like the Red Sox, which over the last three years sandwiched last-place finishes around a World Series championship, the ability to swallow the risk of multiyear deals amounts to perhaps the greatest competitive advantage that exists in baseball today. If Ramirez bombs out at shortstop or left field or first base or DH or wherever the Red Sox end up using him, they will survive. And should Sandoval’s weight become an issue or his bat disappear or some other malady hit, they will again survive.