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Mets Today: Coco Crisp Traded to Royals
SmackCaster SmackBlog: Boston Red Sox trade Coco Crisp
FanHouse: Coco Crisp Traded to Royals
Bucs Dugout: Link Roundup: Do the Pirates Need a Mentor?
Keep Your Sox On - Red Sox Baseball Blog About Red Sox Baseball: “MVP”edroia, “KC”oco and a Requiem for My Dream
Coco Crisp Traded to Royals
Mets Today —
The Red Sox have dealt centerfielder Coco Crisp to the Royals for reliever Ramiro Ramirez.
Who knew the Royals had such a surplus of quality bullpen arms?
The trade is the second made by Kansas City this offseason. A few weeks ago they traded reliever Leo Nunez for first baseman Mike Jacobs.
A few things to glean from this transaction, the first being, wow, the cost of a decent, young, middle reliever is a starting centerfielder. I realize Coco Crisp isn’t exactly an All-Star, but centerfielders who can play strong defense and ...
Boston Red Sox trade Coco Crisp
SmackCaster SmackBlog —
... Talk about being punished. The Boston Red Sox sent Coco Crisp to the outpost known as the Kansas City Royals in return for reliever Ramon Ramirez. Well, if Crisp stays in KC he won’t see the playoffs again for a while the way things are going out there. ...
Coco Crisp Traded to Royals
FanHouse —
by Jacob Wheatley-Schaller Filed under: Red Sox, Royals, AL Central, AL East, MLB TransactionsDayton Moore's busy offseason continued on Wednesday as he made another trade, acquiring outfielder Coco Crisp from the Red Sox in exchange for reliever Ramon Ramirez. Crisp had been on the trading block for awhile, ever since the emergence of Jacoby Ellsbury in the Boston outfield. He's a career .280 hitter, who draws a decent amount of walks, doesn't have much power, and is a threat to run, ...
Link Roundup: Do the Pirates Need a Mentor?
Bucs Dugout —
... -P- The Red Sox have traded Coco Crisp to the Royals for reliever Ramon Ramirez. For the Sox, it's pretty simple; they get a useful player in return for one they didn't need much. They can find someone else to be their fourth outfielder for less than the $6 million they would have had to pay Crisp, though they will miss his defense. ...
“MVP”edroia, “KC”oco and a Requiem for My Dream
Keep Your Sox On - Red Sox Baseball Blog About Red Sox Baseball —
... Second order of business: wishing Coco Crisp a fond farewell . This needed to happen and the returns were nearly exactly what the Sox needed. ...
Royals seem intent on remaining mediocre
ESPN Feed: neyer rob —
... . And now they've traded middle reliever Ramon Ramirez for outfielder Coco Crisp . At least one longtime Royals fan (who happens to be my brother) is, shall we say, perplexed: In a vacuum, Coco Crisp is more valuable than Ramon Ramirez, Mike Jacobs more valuable than Leo Nunez. But a baseball team is not built in a vacuum. Jacobs and Crisp might push the Royals from 75 wins to 77 or 78 wins. And I'm not at all sure why you make deals that have absolutely no chance of someday getting you to 85-90 wins. If you're a 75-win team and you're going to trade two pretty good ...
MLB Weekly: Free Agents Bobby Abreu & Rafael Furcal
Hip 2 Da Game —
... - The Red Sox have traded CF Coco Crisp to the Royals for relief pitcher Ramon Ramirez. Crisp will most likely be the Royals starting CF. Ramirez is pretty much an unknown pitcher, but he did have a 2.64 ERA with 70 K's in 71.2 innings. ...
