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Yahoo! Sports: MLB - Red Sox agree to $4.5 million, one-year deal with Nomo
Dan Duquette is on a winning streak. Nomo at a single year for less than Dustin Hermansen money. The best part is that Tomo Ohka and Trot Nixon haven't been traded. Plus, they still have a couple of bullets (albeit plastic ones) to fire on the trade front with Troy O'Leary and Scott Hatteberg (though I would keep Hatteberg).
I've liked Nomo for awhile now, and he is a major league average starter. I was a little worried that American League batters were going to adjust to him in his second year and hurt him, but his best two months last year were August and September, so that doesn't appear to be the case.
The Sox have about 18 potential starters. Martinez, Arrojo and Nomo will start. Castillo, Wakefield, Schourek, Saberhagen, Pena, Cho, Kim and the two guys I was expecting in the rotation, Crawford and Ohka are the other possibilities. Given this depth, I wouldn't mind trading some pitching for a hitter. I wonder what it would take to get a Lance Berkman or Daryle Ward from Houston.
This move was a bit of a surprise for me, so I wouldn't be a bit surprised to see Boston ship off some pitchers and a surplus hitter for one more big bat, preferably a first baseman.
Dan Duquette is on a winning streak. Nomo at a single year for less than Dustin Hermansen money. The best part is that Tomo Ohka and Trot Nixon haven't been traded. Plus, they still have a couple of bullets (albeit plastic ones) to fire on the trade front with Troy O'Leary and Scott Hatteberg (though I would keep Hatteberg).
I've liked Nomo for awhile now, and he is a major league average starter. I was a little worried that American League batters were going to adjust to him in his second year and hurt him, but his best two months last year were August and September, so that doesn't appear to be the case.
The Sox have about 18 potential starters. Martinez, Arrojo and Nomo will start. Castillo, Wakefield, Schourek, Saberhagen, Pena, Cho, Kim and the two guys I was expecting in the rotation, Crawford and Ohka are the other possibilities. Given this depth, I wouldn't mind trading some pitching for a hitter. I wonder what it would take to get a Lance Berkman or Daryle Ward from Houston.
This move was a bit of a surprise for me, so I wouldn't be a bit surprised to see Boston ship off some pitchers and a surplus hitter for one more big bat, preferably a first baseman.
posted by Sean Foran # 9:54 AM 
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