보스턴 헤럴드 Welcoming gifts for Francona (커트실링 올경우 5인 선발로테이션 언급)

[언빌리버블]

보스턴 언론에서는 김병현을 역시 실링이 오더라도 5인 선발로테이션에 넣고있네요..

우리나라에서만 트레이드, 악재, 배반 ....   

우리나라 신문들과 비교되는군요.. ㅎㅎ(웬 존버켓과 경쟁? 떠난지가언젠데..)

보스턴 헤럴드 11월25일 화요일자 기사입니다.

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Welcoming gifts for Francona

By Tony Massarotti/Baseball
Tuesday, November 25, 2003

Terry Francona will be back in Boston today, completing the final steps on his way to the Red Sox [stats, schedule] manager's office. And if things go the way Red Sox officials hope and dream by the end of this week, Francona will be the skipper of a stocked team that will be favored to win the 2004 American League East.
 
     What a series of days this could be, eh? Slightly more than a month after a devastating Game 7 loss to the New York Yankees [stats, schedule] in the AL Championship Series, Red Sox general manager Theo Epstein spent yesterday lining up a trade for right-handed ace Curt Schilling and whispering sweet nothings to free agent closer Keith Foulke [stats, news]. All the Sox need to do now is get the team owner to put his John Henry on a pair of sizable checks and the team might even be favored to win the World Series.
 
     Yes, with Schilling and Foulke, the Red Sox could be that good. The team's two greatest needs throughout the 2003 season were another stud at the beginning of a game and a stabilizing presence at the end. Schilling and Foulke do not merely fill those needs; they obviously are among the very best in baseball at what they do.
 
     There are lots of questions to be answered by Sox officials in coming days, including what Schilling's signing means for reigning ace Pedro Martinez [stats, news]. Is Schilling insurance in the event the Sox do not re-sign Martinez, or will the Sox try to sign Martinez to an extension, too? And how will Martinez respond if the Sox were to enter the season with Schilling possessing greater job security?
 
     In the short term, one thing we know for sure is that Francona will be the next manager of this team. According to sources, Francona was due in town today to tend to procedural matters, though the precise nature of those steps was unclear. That could mean that Francona will be in town for a physical exam or that he will be here to put his coaching staff together, but rest assured that he has no more convincing to do to Sox officials who completed their managerial search yesterday with the unfortunate charade that was Demarlo Hale's interview.
 
     Now, with Francona in tow, let the record show that the current ownership and management of the Red Sox are straying from so many of the philosophies they preached upon their arrival.
 
     And we commend them for it.
 
     In pursuing Schilling, the Sox are prepared to give up FOUR young players, including left-hander Casey Fossum. A year ago at this time, remember, the Sox were reluctant to part with Fossum in a trade with the Montreal Expos [stats, schedule] that might have landed them Bartolo Colon. But now they have Fossum and three others sitting on the runway, waiting for the green light to fly to Arizona.
 
     As for Foulke, he is a Type A free agent that will cost the Sox a first-round draft pick to sign, bringing the total number of sacrificial prospects and draft picks to five. Five. That is a high number for any team, particularly one that went on and on about the need for a consistently productive farm system to build a perennial, cost-efficient contender.
 
     Know what else Foulke is? A proven, breathe-easy, cool-as-a-cuke and come-in-from-the-ledge closer. He was the AL Fireman of the Year this season. He can pitch two innings for a save, which will make Bill James happy. And he is about as far as you can get from last year's dreaded closer by committee, which was to this Red Sox management team what the Edsel and DeLorean were to the automobile.
 
     If all of this sounds like year-old criticism of the Red Sox' approach last winter, it is not; in fact, it is quite the opposite. Where Epstein and Co. went out last winter and virtually ignored their pitching staff - at both ends - they are attempting to go out this season and put big guns at the front and back. And when they begin earnest pursuit of a second baseman - Luis Castillo is at the top of their list - they will be looking to add much-needed speed and defense to a lineup that we all know can hit.
 
     In the days following the Game 7 loss to the Yankees, owner Henry remarked that he was inspired by the resolve with which Red Sox fans responded. He vowed to do whatever was necessary to give Red Sox fans a winner, and it certainly seems as if he is living up to his word. The Red Sox recognized their mistakes of last winter. Now they are going out and addressing them, undoubtedly inspired by the relentlessness and grit of a 2003 club that clearly made believers of them, too.
 
     In slightly more than four months, Red Sox followers, your team might be preparing to open the season with a five-man rotation of Martinez, Schilling, Derek Lowe [stats, news], Tim Wakefield [stats, news] and Byung-Hyun Kim [stats, news]. And Keith Foulke could be waiting in the bullpen.
 
      Now all the Sox have to do is see this through.

[BK fighting!!!]

5선발로 시작하더라도 병현선수가 안정적인 모습만 보인다면 언제든 틈은 생길겁니다.선발기회만으로도 뿌듯하고 기쁘네요.

[초강력딱풀]

내년에 보스통 끝내주는군요^^....선발은 페드로(32)-실링(37)-로우(30)-웨이크필드(37)-김병현(24)...마무리는 키스 폴크(31)....감독은 프랑코나........우와 ~~

[단풍나무]

내년을 기대해 BoA요...........^^

[배고파~~]

헉 영어다 무식한게 죄지 난 하나도 무슨말인지 모르겠네...ㅡ.ㅡ;

[tommy the cat]

국내 스포츠 신문들과 정말 대조가 되는 기사군요.

[중독]

다음시즌엔 병현쓰의 선발모습을 보게되다니여......무척 기쁩니다..^_^ 병현쓰 올해 안좋았던일 모두 훌훌 털구 내년엔 화이팅하는 모습 봤으면 해여..^^ 병현쓰 화이링!!!!!!!!!

[혀니홧팅~!]

정말 기대만빵^^

[[굿데이폐간]뱅현사랑]

부상이 걱정되네요..; 실링만 제몫을 다해주면.. 할만할듯.. ㅋㅋ