Matsuzaka coming to US to play in MLB

[Sean Mota]

Here's the best quote about how to describe Boston & the Mets

Here, though, is what the Red Sox never acknowledged: Although the Yankees could indeed outspend them, the Red Sox, in turn, could outspend the other 28 teams in baseball.
Do the Gettys complain about the Rockefellers?
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/columns/story?id=2662770

It was the Red Sox's misfortune that the one club with more resources just happened to be their longtime rival, with whom they're locked in an annual battle for divisional supremacy.

That's not some cruel inequity; that's merely geographic bad luck.
What's clear now is that the Red Sox have few, if any, payroll limitations. They've been outspent by only the Yankees for the last five years. Even before the Yanks dealt for Alex Rodriguez, the highest-paid player in the history of the game, the Red Sox had the ignominious distinction of signing a player to the second-largest contract in the history of the game.
And now, presuming the Red Sox sign Matsuzaka, their Japanese superstar will earn substantially more than the Yankees paid theirs, Hideki Matsui, in his first MLB contract.

It's a well-established fact that, even with the introduction of revenue sharing and the competitive balance tax, baseball still can't lay claim to a level economic landscape. No amount of income redistribution can put a team in, say, Milwaukee on equal footing with one in Los Angeles.
Once again next season, the Red Sox will charge the highest average ticket prices in the industry. They will reap a fortune from NESN, their own regional TV network, and they will reap the benefits of the first year of the richest radio rights deal in sports, signed this past spring.
To their credit, they will reinvest in the on-field product. Their payroll, pegged at nearly $130 million last season, likely will nip at the luxury tax threshold of $148 million after Matsuzaka is signed and additional holes are filled in right field, shortstop and the bullpen.

No one ever called the Red Sox needlessly thrifty. But now, as they begin negotiations to land the most expensive international free agent ever, they no longer can label themselves the Yankees' poor cousins. And for that, we should all be thankful.

 

[Sean Mota]

Red Sox trying to low-ball, the $51M Bid? Do not think so...

BOSTON -- The Boston Red Sox cannot reduce their $51.1 million bid for Daisuke Matsuzaka in order to sign him, even if his Japanese team agrees to take less, baseball officials said Tuesday.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2678439

 

[Ramy]

Red Sox signed him to a 6 year deal worth $52 million. So that means they paid a total of $103 million.

 

[Paul Wozniak]

More money than brains.

 

[vurbano]

Thats funny ESPNHD says his agent blew it and didnt get enough money. Also the BoSox got him locked into 6 years which should be his prime.