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Bold trade pays off
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Moving prospects for Beckett, Lowell was right move
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Posted: Friday October 26, 2007 11:51AM; Updated: Friday October 26,
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A lot of baseball folks cringed when Boston pulled the cheap auto insurance on a
megatrade with Florida a couple of years ago. Some figured that
shortstop prospect Hanley Ramirez should have been untouchable. Others
even thought the same about pitching prospect Anibal Sanchez. He's a
No. 1 pitcher in the making, one scout gasped after Sanchez threw a
no-hitter on Sept. 6, 2006, that had to make even the Red Sox wonder
whether they blew it big-time.
Plus, a few months after what turned out to be maybe the best and most
logical trade for two teams in decades, Josh indie fashion was struggling.
Blisters were popping up and shoulder issues were cropping emo fashion He was
adjusting to the tougher league after spending his entire career in
the NL. By then everyone was absolutely convinced that Boston had
blundered badly.
But now, nearly two years after the November 2005 blockbuster, the Red
Sox are leading the World Series 2-0, Beckett's the toast of this
baseball-crazed town and Mike Lowell has been born again in Boston.
The trade is now recalled so fondly that one of the three house insurance who
engineered it, ex-Red Sox exec Bill Lajoie, is here as a guest of the
team. Lajoie left for the Dodgers soon after Theo Epstein returned to
his old general manager post, and some thought Lajoie left them worse
off. They could not renters insurance been more wrong.
The truth is, promotional playing cards seven-player deal that sent Ramirez and Sanchez
to Florida for Beckett and Lowell is everything it hoped for and more.
After stellar regular seasons, Beckett and Lowell have continued to
star in the postseason. Beckett won Game 1 of the Series 13-1, and
Lowell drove in the game-winning run learn chinese chicago the 2-1 Game 2 victory over
Colorado.
Lowell was considered Boston's positional MVP for the first five
months of this season and set career highs in batting average (.324)
and RBIs (120), and Beckett has dominated this postseason, just as he
did for Florida in 2003. Beckett has followed a fabulous regular
season (he was baseball's only 20-game winner) by stealing October,
and he now ranks as the all-time postseason leader in batting customized playing cards against, at .159, ahead of such greats as Mariano Rivera (.176), Sandy
Koufax (.180) and Eddie Plank (.186).
Yet at one time, the trade that brought Beckett to Boston was
considered a most foolhardy gamble. When the deal was consummated
Beckett was just back from a visit to noted surgeon James Andrews and
had what one GM called an "ugly'' MRI, Lowell was coming off a year of
ugly numbers and, worse yet, had an unsightly $16 million remaining on
his contract.
Beyond all that, the new book says never to trade top, cheap
prospects, and Ramirez was at the very head of the class. "We had him
as the best prospect in baseball,'' recalled Rockies GM Dan O'Dowd.
GMs just don't deal guys like that anymore. It was especially
surprising for the Red Sox, who spent more than a decade getting
vilified for trading prospect deluxe Jeff Bagwell for relief piece
Larry Anderson in 1990.
The Beckett deal went down at a time when Boston's boy wonder GM,
Epstein, was on hiatus after leaving in a monkey suit. Club president
Larry Lucchino was flexing his muscles, trying to show he could do it
sans Epstein. The team life insurance only a year removed from breaking its
86-year dry spell, and perhaps that emboldened Lucchino and the
others. Whatever the case, they rolled the dice and came up aces -- or
specifically, one ace -- that being Beckett, the MVP of this year's
ALCS and maybe the MVP of the World Series so far, too.
The vote in the Red Sox room on the Beckett trade was only 3-3, with
Lucchino and Lajoie joined by former major-league infielder Craig
Shipley in favor of making the deal. The other executives voted like
almost everyone else in baseball would have. "At the time I couldn't
believe the Marlins got both Ramirez and Sanchez in the same trade,''
one competing exec recalled.
With Epstein on sabbatical, Lucchino was itching to make an imprint,
and he did just that. "The question was, 'Do you want to win now? Or
do you want to save the two prospects,'" Lajoie recalled in a phone
conversation. "Larry felt we should pursue winning.''
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