Red Sox About To Get Something "Significant" For Theo?

Well, this story seems like it will never end. I have no idea when they will finally announce the deal, but at least one executive thinks the Cubs will end up paying a heavy price...

"One AL GM who is not associated with either team tells Nick Cafardo in Sunday's Boston Globe that the Cubs could end up paying a significant price. "I don't think MLB wants executives leaving their teams before their contracts are up and therefore he will try to deter teams from doing that again," the GM said (ESPN)."

This is the first time we have heard that the Red Sox will really be getting anything of note. As much as I want this GM to be right, I would be shocked, because like I said this is the first time we have heard this at all. Most of the time it was about a low prospect who we would likely never see. Then again, I guess it depends on your definition of "significant".

Update On Red Sox Compensation For Epstein

The latest on this mess is that it's now in Seligs hands. The Red Sox are asking for way more then the Cubs are willing to give. Here is what Theo had to say on WEEI on week or so ago...

"Throughout the history of baseball, there's really only a handful of instances in which there's been any compensation whatsoever for executives." He added that in those cases, "compensation has been pretty reasonable. When Andy MacPhail, who had won two World Series, left on a lateral move from Minnesota to Chicago back in '94, his compensation was the 30th-ranked prospect in the Cubs' system [Hector Trinidad] and a little bit of cash." In Epstein's opinion, "There's no precedent for major, major compensation here."

The Red Sox say that Theo is more valuable then any guy who moved to another team. They also say that the move he made is in fact is a lateral move. I doubt the Red Sox win this argument, and they will be lucky if they get a top 25 prospect in the Cubs system, which blows and just shows just another instance where the Red Sox owners have messed up.

I Don't Really Get What The Red Sox Are Doing

I have been looking at this Red Sox offseason and although it could seem disappointing they have done pretty well, with their new nickle and dime technique. They have completely reformed their bullpen and got 2 pretty good young pitchers to be be their set up man(Mark Melancon) and closer(Andrew Bailey) and all they had to give up was Jed Lowrie, Kyle Weiland, and Josh Reddick. Not bad.

But I will not, and I cannot accept the fact that Carlos Silva will be on this team and have a role on it. This guy is the worst, and yesterday we signed him and 11 others to minor league deals. I know that there is a good chance he still won't make the team, but I literally woke up last night in a cold sweat nightmare thinking about his 87 MPH fastball that can't break glass, his hanging curve and his remarkably low K rate.

It's became more and more evident that the Sox just don't want to spend money, so if that's the case you can throw names like Edwin Jackson who is demanding a 5 year 60 million dollar deal, and Hiroki Kuroda who wants a 1 or 2 year deal at 11 million each out the door. And all of us can dream about Matt Garza, but the Cubs are asking for an absurd amount of prospects from teams and since leaving the Sox, I don't think Theo would be willing to go out of his way to give them a pitcher. We can't even get compensation for him from the Cubs.

So who will we be stuck with at our 5 spot? We have Lester, Beckett, Buchholz, Bard right now, so if I had to predict who are going to be the candidates, I'll go with Joe Saunders, Rich Harden or Chris Young. And my preference out of those 3 would probably be Saunders...