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``We came out of spring training, everybody said, `Well, you have extra starting pitching,' " Schilling said. ``Nobody ever has extra starting pitching. If you have it on Monday, you don't have it on Sunday. It never fails. ``So many things happened to us so fast that it became a surplus to a lack of very quickly here. I think it's a lesson that people like [general manager] Theo [ Epstein] will have to learn only one time. I don't think it will ever be an issue again." Boston's Opening Day payroll was $120.1 million -- second only to the Yankees ($198 million) -- but below the luxury-tax threshold. The Sox already have nearly $100 million in guaranteed salaries next season, but with the current collective bargaining agreement due to expire in December, it's unknown what the luxury-tax threshold will be in 2007. |
Red Sox ace Curt Schilling, who has never been shy about suggesting he has a direct pipeline to management, said he expects the Sox will not be bound by luxury-tax constraints when they address needs this winter.