I commented over at Baseball Crank about the Manny Ramirez for Jason Bay (&etc.) trade:
I’m relieved. Manny had the air of a man about to develop a limp and take September off. I’ve seen that season and once was enough.
This trade is an interesting illustration of how the rich clubs get richer. Not only did the Red Sox have a few prospects to deal — evidence of a fully developed farm system — but they could afford to eat a huge chunk of Manny’s contract. Everyone knows that the Yankees, Mets, Red Sox and Dodgers have the bucks to sign big name free agents. They also have the bucks to make them go away.
The sad thing for the Pirates is not they lost Jason Bay a year ahead of schedule, but that they had to go begging other teams for prospects.
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