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Source: ‘Doubtful’ Red Sox sign pitcher to major league deal 01.25.11 at 4:58 pm ET
By Alex Speier

Joe Beimel (AP)

While the Red Sox have not ruled out any more signings this offseason, a team source on Tuesday characterized it as “doubtful” that the team would sign a pitcher to a major league contract. That echoes the thoughts of GM Theo Epstein earlier this month.

“For the most part we feel good about the team we’re bringing to spring,” Epstein said in mid-January. “I think our big moves are probably over, but you never say never.”

The Red Sox were reported by Maureen Mullen of CSNNE.com (via twitter) to have interest in left-hander Joe Beimel, but if the Sox are indeed pursuing the southpaw specialist, it is unlikely that the team would be offering him anything other than a minor league contract. 

Beimel, 33, made 71 appearances for the Rockies last season, posting a 3.40 earned run average and a 1.36 WHIP over 45 innings. He finished the season with 21 holds and one blown save. Over the last three years, he has a 3.01 ERA in 149 1/3 innings, having punched out 5.3 batters per nine innings with a 1.6 strikeout-to-walk rate, establishing him as a lefty specialist who gets southpaws out with bad contact rather than strikeouts.

Beimel has signed late in spring training in each of the last two seasons, having agreed to a one-year, $850,000 deal with the Rockies last March 23 and having signed with the Nationals on a one-year deal on March 18, 2009.

Though he signed late last year in spring training, the Rockies had actually acquired him from the Nationals at the July 31 trade deadline in 2009. The journeyman has also pitched in the Rangers, Pirates, Twins, Rays and Dodgers organizations. Over his 10-year career, Beimel has tossed 562 1/3 innings through 532 appearances. He’s compiled a 4.16 ERA and 1.48 career WHIP with 315 strikeouts.

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    Tim should spend a little less time on Facebook and a little more time in the locker room righting this ship

  • Anonymous

    God bless Tim for speaking up for Catholics.  He is heads and shoulders above  the other “scarred” players on his team ( Read Canadian) .  The Canadian people today are afraid to speak up  for fear of being arrested. This is what we will be like if we don’s get rid of Obama and his kind.

  • Anonymous

    Why does Tim and other Conservatives want to limit women’s access to reproductive health services?

  • Lorne

    What planet are you living on?  What Canadians are afraid to speak up for fear of being arrested?  Yeesh.  How’s the Tea Party kool-aid taste? 

  • Lorne

    Maybe when he retires from hockey, Tim Thomas will have time to read a bit more, and to educate himself a little.  Until then, he comes across as an uninformed and opinionated idiot.  I mean, anyone who claims Glen Beck as their political inspiration…  that pretty much speaks for itself. 

  • Lorne

    If he doesn’t want to be asked about this stuff, then he should stop posting about it.  Posting PUBLICLY on Facebook makes it no longer a PRIVATE matter. 

  • aaa

    Liberals ask for acceptance all the time but would do away completely with conservatism if they could.  This helps our country go to hell people.

  • Anonymous

    Really?…

    Keep creating these distractions, Tim. ”…nothing to do with the game of hockey or my job as a Boston Bruin.” Yes, you’re paid to be a hockey player but only BECAUSE the MEDIA follows and broadcasts your games. Your job as a Bruin WILL be impacted – eventually.You can’t put that genie back in the bottle… 

  • JD

    Trade Tim-Me now.  Enough of his political beliefs.  Trade him while he could bring something of value in return.  He keeps spewing and nobody is going to want him in their dressing room.

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    If I worked at a catholic institution like Notre Dame, De Paul, etc., I would like the females in my family to have the same benefits as the rest of the country that does not work in catholic institutions have.
    That is all this is. But there is great dislike by a few for the fact that there is a black man in The White House.

    Yes, are we sure Tim Thomas is as smart as posted? His dislike for the black president has driven him to compare gas ovens and genocide to the government asking institutions to provide comparative health care to their employees. Not all employees of catholic hospitals and universities are catholics.

    Nice hockey player but what a total idiot. DON’T CONFUSE TIM THOMAS AND THE TEA BAGGERS WITH THE FACTS.

    I say Thomas is perfect to go on FOX as a commentator next to batsh…t Sarah Palin and the rest and he is perfect to move right into Tea Bagger celebrity chairmanship after he is finished with hockey. Consider the HYPOCRISY in that Thomas belongs to a union that in a sense is responsible for getting him much of the money that he makes. He might think that is his talent but if the Union was not there he would be collecting peanuts just as they were at one time long ago. And sports unions are a democratic and “socialist” idea just as MEDICARE, SOCIAL SECURITY, 911 RESCUE, EMERGENCY ROOMS, ETC.., are. The hypocrits criticize it but they never refuse it. The Tea Baggers call 911 Rescue and drive in beautiful “socialized” interstate highways and get Social Security.

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  • Anonymous

    Hafner is his best comp and that’s not gonna get him over the hump.  I’m virtually certain the Sox will win at a hearing.  Papi should settle now at $13.5MM for one year.  Otherwise, even if we win, we should release him in spring training.  I don’t think its a good idea to have him moping around the lockerroom all year long about his contract (or lack thereof).

  • Grayesun

    Simpletons…please collect your thoughts for a breif moment…the Catholic religion does not and will never condone abortion/contraception, that position prohibits them from dispensing abortion pills/condoms. Catholic women who choose to use these pills or get an abortion, do so without the assistance/support of the church.  The government trying to mandate a fundamental change to Catholic church doctrine are violating the constitution, overreaching into changing religious principles and violating separation of church and state.  Obama told us he wanted to fundamentally change America…tearing down the Catholic church pro-life doctrine would be a major victory for him…but this time he’s bitten off way too much.  Sorry pro-deathers, I’m with Thomas on this one.  

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    You talking about the 98% women who use birth control?…

    PLEASE… the Catholic Church as “victim” is priceless and ridiculous. If Catholics just lived by their own doctrines and not try to make them the law of the land they’d have an ounce of credibility. BTW where’s Bernard Cardinal Law, the pimp who sent known pedophile priests into unsuspecting church communities to DESTROY the lives un the BORN?…Yeah, he’s chillin’ in Rome. Save the victim talk. Face the facts, the CC is the biggest BULLY on the block. 

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