Rogue Nine

...Julio Lugo is retiring.

David Mailman, a 7th rounder in 2007 who signed a $550,000 signing bonus, has decided to retire and go to college. Going to miss seeing his name on minor lines, we still have some good ones, but the name Mailman always delivered.

But it's cool because there's totally a plan guys!

Sorry about the caps, reflex, sort of like the windmill thing Bogar does with his arm. Wouldn't mind seeing him promoted to bench coach and I don't know, someone with the ability to make the stop hand signal once in a while to take his place.

Tito will be replacing Valentine on Sunday Night Baseball which just became 1000% more watchable in my book. Will also make appearances on Baseball Tonight, and apparently write for ESPN.com and ESPNBoston.com. Great for Tito and great for fans of the game.

This is EXACTLY the sort of move the Sox should be making. Sanchez isn't great, but he's better than what we have and relatively cheap. The Sox are currently looking at a rotation that in April will be much like we had in September, I would have killed to have Sanchez here in September.

Great article on Justin Masterson and how he gathered the team together to send Hannahan back home to see his wife give birth. I wish we still had him, but I can't blame Theo for the trade.

I'm lost in the tenses and it might just be a lost in translation thing, maybe he's just answering a tweet asking what a 'dream come true' scenario might be. But he may also be announcing that the Union are acquiring JPA and that he's very excited about it.

"The weather here in Boston is "wicked" nice." Would love to see this guy sign, seemed like he was one of the long shots of the class. A visit doesn't mean a contract, but it's far from a bad sign for sure.

Sort of surprised he didn't do this the moment we traded for Bedard.