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To: DiB who wrote (85004)	10/27/2003 6:47:08 PM
From: reaper	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 209892

OT -- there is no way they get rid of Kim, unless he brings extraordinary value in a trade (highly unlikely). he's still just a child (24 years old) and has a fantastic arm. for all the damn hand-wringing, the kid did put up an 610 OPS against for us this year (629 as a whole, including his time w/ D'Backs) which while not in the Gagne / Rivera / Wagner / Smoltz league is better than anything Oogie, for example, has ever done. not to say its going to happen, but if Kim can put up a 700 OPS against as a starter, that would make him about the 30th-best starter in baseball and in the same league as Bartolo Colon, who the Yankees are gonna sign for 4 years at $15mm per this winter. Grady Little cannot handle a pitching staff (let's see, he had 3 different bullpens in Boston, filled with excellent arms, and NONE of them worked; at what point do we blame Grady and not the personnel) and i mostly blame him, and the alarmist local media, for Kim's (perceived) poor performance. as for who manages the team next year, i frankly do not care. there are rumors that the White Rat will pull a McKeon and come out of retirement for the job, and Jim Fregosi's name has been tossed around as well. Larry Dierker has also been mentioned. all 3 are IMO sufficiently good strategists and could likely handle the player egos and the media. Leyland has already said no. Remy i don't know. i frankly really like the idea of a Glenn Hoffman or Bud Black, but at the same time they might get eaten alive in the media when the first losing streak comes (and it will). the problem the Red Sox have is that the 2004 team and the 2005 team are likely to be substantially different (since all of Trot, Pedro, Nomar, Tek, and Lowe, and likely Ortiz, Millar, and Mueller as well, will be free agents) and the right guy to manage the 2004 team (a team poised to make another run at the World Series) is probably different from the right guy to manage the 2005 team (a likely re-building year for another run in 2006-07), so frankly if they could bring in a Fregosi for a year to grab for the brass ring, and then bring in a more forward-thinking, younger guy in 2005 (i.e. somebody who understands Theo's "bullpen by committee" philosophy, though you don't have to be young to embrace the theory, as Jack McKeon has proved over and over again), that would be my preference, but i don't think there's any way that can happen. anyway, should be a very interesting winter across all of baseball. Yankees have a LOT of holes to fill (they'll non-tender Boone, likely move Soriano to RF, and need to fill 3 starting pitching slots) and the Dodgers and Orioles apparantly have money to spend. you know what i would LOVE to see. us somehow move Kevin Millar and sign Derrek Lee. given the Marlins financial issues i don't think they can afford to retain Lee ('cause he's gonna want a 5-year extension for good money and his arbitration number is clearly gonna be $7.5mm-ish) but they clearly can't just non-tender a guy that good (though Minny did it with Poppy Ortiz last year). Lee had a quite good year this year and IMO is poised for monster production the next two years (precisely what i said about Trot and Ortiz in the spring). if they had Lee at 1B they could have me play 2B and still score more than the did this year. Cheers