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Guessing that means that Wakefield plans on retiring after the 2 years are up (assuming he becomes #1 in wins). Makes sense.

He is a credible inning-eater, win or lose. Teams have to manage 9 times 162 or about 1500 innings a year. Your first 3 starters hopefully take 30 games times 6 innings or about 200 each. Or a little more. That’s 600. Another 400 split between 4th and fifth starters. Wake takes his 150-200 more or less. That leaves innings 800-1000 to the fifth starters and developing starters. 500 to your bullpen, probably 50 innings x 10 folks. Wake not being there means you have to carry ineeffective starters or burn your bullpen. Whether Wake wins or loses, you can keep him out there, and he makes the Red Sox more effective as a team. Oh, BTW, this year he won!

Wakefield is the best Sox teammate ever. He has survived nearly 15 years with the organization and has done whatever he has been asked to do. Unlike many of his previous teammates he has pushed his talent to the limit without complaining or demanding more. The Red Sox as a team are part of the our community and Tim is the lead dog of that team…congrats to him and the organization!!!!!!

While recognizing that we aren’t talking a ton of money, I really don’t get this from the Red Sox standpoint. You guarantee him $5M instead of $4m. You lose the option. (What if he has two awesome years and decides to keep pitching?) If he is bad in 2010, you could have renegotiated 2011 to “correct value” anyway. I really just don’t see what the Red Sox had to gain. Seems like the gained $500K in 2008 to put $1.5M in 2011 at risk and lose the 2012 option, however small the option value is.

Love Wake. Really hope he can get those 18 wins.

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