A guy who could get Red Sox bashing rolling--Rob Bradford of the Boston Herald

Joel Sherman (NY Post) today says baseball's draft is rigged in favor of the Yankees. A Boston Herald columnist, Rob Bradford, today says the Red Sox now control the draft. The contexts are quite different:

• Joel Sherman:

"3. The draft is rigged now. Players such as Kennedy, Joba Chamberlain and Andrew Brackman fall deep enough in the draft so that the Yanks can overpay them when other clubs won't. The Yanks have to feel confident that in the next few drafts they will find more Kennedys." (Context of Sherman's statements was detailing why the Yankees should've traded for Santana)

• Rob Bradford:

"The way the MLB draft is currently constituted, the Red Sox can win the World Series every year and still have an upper hand on the majority of the teams below them in the selection process. The reason? Agents (or advisors) make it clear to teams throughout the draft order that their clients will only enter professional baseball on certain financial terms.

• The trend has left baseball’s underprivileged, both talent-wise and financially, passing on talent. Meanwhile, the Red Sox can swoop in and take players they would normally have crossed off their board long before. It is a flaw in the system, but one the Sox have expertly taken advantage of.

Add it all up and here the Red Sox sit, champions of the world and the envy of most everybody circulating through the vastness that is this year’s winter meetings. Santana is a pretty good hood ornament, as are the top-notch Red Sox minor leaguers who entered into baseball’s consciousness over the last couple of days.

• But none of it compares to the machine that has become the Rolls-Royce of baseball, the Red Sox."

(Bradford's context was just to say the Red Sox are superior in every way).

• Item from Joel Sherman's column in the NY Post, "Kennedy Made Decision 'Ian' Harder, but Deal Still Should've Happened," 12/5/07
• Item from Rob Bradford's Boston Herald column, "Wannabe Champs Can Only Bow at King's Feet," 12/5/07

(Ahem). Fine, except for 1 problem-a "character issue." Red Sox radio. Every minute of every game, regular AND postseason, (you of course expect to be in the post season), has been ruined by the flawed view of Larry Lucchino who has insisted on the horrendous GLENN GEFFNER to ruin the entire game with Joe Castiglione. Indefinitely. You can't listen to a Red Sox radio game now. If you can't listen to the 'Rolls-Royce of baseball' what's the point in having such a good team? (sm)

Tweet Stumbleupon StumbleUpon