Monday’s Links – The Shallows

Options are getting mighty thin.

All’s quiet on the Western front

For all the build up heading into Las Vegas, the 2008 Winter Meetings has started off with more of a whimper than a bang.

There seems to be more posturing than action at every turn, and maybe that's to be expected in a market that shows more signs of mirroring the overall economic climate than the continued bonanza that free agents were hoping for.

Take for example Rafael Furcal and Francisco Rodriguez, who both turned their backs on lucrative contract offers because they expected more to be out there this winter.

Why Red Sox should not sign Mark Teixeira

Mark Teixeira - ccho

I am not a proponent of signing Mark Teixeira, as talented as he is.

While signing Teixeira and trading Mike Lowell are possibilities, it would mean investing money in a position that we do not have foreseeable issues at for the next two years and perhaps beyond

The premise for signing Teixeira, many people seem to believe, is predicated on the fact that they think David Ortiz is done. Sorry, I'm not prepared to write off a hitter who has finished in the top five of MVP voting five straight years after one injury-marred season.

2009 Free Agent Checkup

The Red Sox hit a bump in the road over the weekend and through Monday in the Metrodome, losing three…

I’m fed up with Julio Lugo

I tried. Honest, I did. I tried to like him. I advocated signing him last year. He was the best…

Would the Sox have interest in Furcal?

I happened on this in Buster Olney’s blog today and it didn’t sit right with me; “Heard this: Rafael Furcal…