Manny Ramirez

Buster Olney writes on ESPN.com:

• By the way: Manny Ramirez’s time running to first base on a chopper hit down the third-base line in the seventh inning of John Lackey’s no-hitter was 5.25 seconds — faster than the six seconds it took him to get to first on the back end of a double-play groundout Monday. To put those times in perspective, five seconds is considered glacial by baseball scouts. With his team eight outs away from being no-hit, the guy dogged it running to first.

So as the Red Sox look for some creative way to make a Ramirez deal, they must consider these questions: Will Ramirez simply lay down in the last two months of his contract, now that he knows he’s not coming back to the Red Sox? And will he be a daily problem that will distract from the larger concern of winning ballgames?

If the answers to these questions are yes, they should dump him.

Also on ESPN.com:

The deadline to trade Manny Ramirez is essentially 4 p.m. ET Wednesday. As a 10-5 guy (10 years in the majors, five years with the same team), Ramirez has the right to veto any deal. If he waives a trade to a team, he must sign the paperwork 24 hours prior to the deal. So at the least, Ramirez will have to officially waive his no-trade rights to teams he would be willing to go to by 4 p.m. ET today.

It is possible Ramirez already has signed away his no-trade rights to certain teams, but it is unknown whether he has done so.

Jerry Remy on WEEI this morning on talking with Manny yesterday before the game “He was happy, fun, i don’t know what happened but it’s a totally different guy… I saw him yesterday, he asked me if he was traded, I said you got two more days and you don’t want to really go…. he said yes I do, I want to find peace.”

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