Manny Trade
July 31, 2008
If Manny gets traded his bat and offensive numbers will be missed and will most likely will be extremely hard to replace in the Boston line up.
The question that keeps coming up in my mind has to be Is Manny being Manny turning into a bigger problem than it appears to us the fans of Red Sox Nation. The concept of Manny being Manny is all fun and games for us the fans, and we all enjoy his on and off the field antics. We all like Manny making cell phone calls from the Monster, or high fiveing Sox fans after catching fly balls. BUT, and this is a big but Manny and his antics are finally starting to cause problems inside the club house and also in the front office. This is just a gut feeling that I have that Manny has become a off the field problem for the team, and a trade may be the best thing for Boston right now. This however is just a feeling of mine the only people that know the truth right now are the ones inside the clubhouse and Red Sox front office.
Anyway here this the deal that could possible go down sometime today. It is a three team deal involving the Marlins, Pirates, and Red Sox.
Marlins get Manny, they will send prospects to the Pirates and the will send Jason Bay and pitcher John Grabow and also Jack Wilson's name has been brought up as well.
If the deal goes down here are some stats on the players the Sox could be picking up to replace Manny.
Bay: batting .282avg 22hr and 64rbi
J. Wilson: batting .276avg 0hr and 13rbi
Grabow: 5-3 with a 3.19era
I found my information at ML B.com here is the link a good read and informed for the possible trade that could go down.
http://pittsburgh.pirates.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080730&content_id=3225532&vkey=news_pit&fext=.jsp&c_id=pit
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