And Then There Were None.

Jeremy Hermida and the Red Sox have agreed to a contract for next season. Hermida will make $3.345 million. I'm not super impressed with the idea of Hermida but I guess that it's not a bad deal.

And the Rest. Almost.

Sean McAdam has Manny Delcarmen agreeing to a $905,000 deal with a $15,000 incentive for sixty-five appearances and Ramon Ramirez signing for $1.175 million.

Which leaves Jeremy Hermida as the lone hold out.

Joy in Boston.

This past weekend Jeremy Hermida was in town for the Jimmy Fund event and talked to CSNNE:



He sounds excited about playing here, "This is a real baseball town and I'm excited to play here and excited to play for these fans and put a Red Sox uniform on and do anything I can to help that team win. I'm very excited to be here and be part of this team."

Yup. Excited. I'm also glad that it's a real baseball town and not one of those imaginary ones, like Mudville or something, because that would suck.

Soup's On.

So Bud Selig wants to push the World Series into November? Fine. We'll just have to start the hot stove season the day after it ends.

The Sox announced today that they've acquired Jeremy Hermida from the Florida Marlins for Hunter Jones and Jose Alvarez. The question is: Why?

Hermida is a former first round draft pick who hasn't really lived up to expectations. He had a nice year in 2007 but has been less impressive since then. His numbers last year may have been hurt by a strained oblique. He does have pretty good plate discipline, I guess. Hermida has played mostly right field in his career but played fifty-one games in left last season; either way, he's better defensively than Jason Bay (which isn't saying much) but he isn't fabulous.

I don't know. He does fit into Theo's dream roster filled with players whose names begin with J.