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mvp 78
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Trading Arenado for Casas is just terrible even if the Cards were eating the whole contract. 

Bellhorn04
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Agreed on all points.  But Henry and the front office have clearly demonstrated over the last 5 years that they don't care much about what we expect.  Henry took it to the next level by criticizing, e

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notin

BTV would think you’re a Mets’ fan. Boston gives up Yoshida (-21), Abreu (29.7), and Casas (27.9) to receive Miller (54.4), Garver (-13) and Haniger (-18).  Lose about $10mil in surplus value.

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I like that we put Garcia and dobbins on the 40. I love that we jettisoned Campbell!!  
I would like to thank the angels for talking about offering pivetta a three year deal!!!!

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I was fairly confident from early on Pivetta would decline, but started getting quite nervous about it late afternoon yesterday.  Credit to Bres for reading that market correctly. There was a fair amount of surprise, and even horror at the QO. Like their Draft 5 moves, too. 

 

I keep allowing myself to (stupidly) dream of Soto on this team, but in the likely event he isn't, this off season feels very exciting. 

 

Narrator: But this, in fact, was as exciting as it got, and once more the evil Red Sox owner chuckled his way through Christmas, another hoodwinking pulled off. 

mvp 78 GOAT

mvp 78

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1 hour ago, Hitch said:

I was fairly confident from early on Pivetta would decline, but started getting quite nervous about it late afternoon yesterday.  Credit to Bres for reading that market correctly. There was a fair amount of surprise, and even horror at the QO. Like their Draft 5 moves, too. 

 

I keep allowing myself to (stupidly) dream of Soto on this team, but in the likely event he isn't, this off season feels very exciting. 

 

Narrator: But this, in fact, was as exciting as it got, and once more the evil Red Sox owner chuckled his way through Christmas, another hoodwinking pulled off. 

Be sure to drink your Ovaltine????

mvp 78 GOAT

mvp 78

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No excuses for the Sox and the CBT. They were under last year. They can go over this year. The tax penalties are less than what they paid Sale to play elsewhere.

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That says it all, MVP.

The kids are ready. The foundation is set. Maybe they think giving the kids one year to get established, and waiting another winter makes more sense, but Red Sox Nation is tired of waiting. The time is now! 

mvp 78 GOAT

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16 minutes ago, moonslav59 said:

That says it all, MVP.

The kids are ready. The foundation is set. Maybe they think giving the kids one year to get established, and waiting another winter makes more sense, but Red Sox Nation is tired of waiting. The time is now! 

They have $50M coming off the books after this season. There is no reason to not exceed the CBT by 40M. 

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4 minutes ago, mvp 78 said:

They have $50M coming off the books after this season. There is no reason to not exceed the CBT by 40M. 

I totally agree, but I am so far from expecting we even go over the line by $19.9M, it's not funny.

I doubt we go over it at all.

I could even see us coming $5-15M short. That's how low my expectations have sunk.

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9 minutes ago, moonslav59 said:

I totally agree, but I am so far from expecting we even go over the line by $19.9M, it's not funny.

I doubt we go over it at all.

I could even see us coming $5-15M short. That's how low my expectations have sunk.

I agree, I'm just saying there's no excuse not to get that high. The penalties are meaningless. They'll be close enough to the CBT that they could reset next season. 

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moonslav59

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34 minutes ago, mvp 78 said:

I agree, I'm just saying there's no excuse not to get that high. The penalties are meaningless. They'll be close enough to the CBT that they could reset next season. 

I get your point and agree 100%.

We don't even have expensive arbs, this winter and not much, next winter.

No excuses, at all.

oldtimer FCL Red Sox

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1 hour ago, moonslav59 said:

I get your point and agree 100%.

We don't even have expensive arbs, this winter and not much, next winter.

No excuses, at all.

If we expend the big bucks, let's do it wisely. 

notin MVP

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22 minutes ago, oldtimer said:

If we expend the big bucks, let's do it wisely. 

No!

 

Spend recklessly and wantonly!!

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5 minutes ago, notin said:

No!

 

Spend recklessly and wantonly!!

A waterslide from the Monster Seats TM  down to the bottom of Fisk Pole TM. The ladder is already in play, so why not a waterslide?  

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18 minutes ago, mvp 78 said:

A waterslide from the Monster Seats TM  down to the bottom of Fisk Pole TM. The ladder is already in play, so why not a waterslide?  

For a sec, thought you were paraphrasing "Helter Skelter" -- I almost scrambled for the blow-torch in the tool shed.

mvp 78 GOAT

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1 hour ago, 5GoldGlovesOF,75 said:

For a sec, thought you were paraphrasing "Helter Skelter" -- I almost scrambled for the blow-torch in the tool shed.

Manson had an angelic voice. 

Larry Cook FCL Red Sox

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2025 projected starting infield defense 

1st base - cassas - dumpster fire.

2nd base - Campbell - average 

SS - story - above average 

3rd base - devers - dumpster fire 

catcher - wong - dumpster fire 

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Speaking of recklessly and wantonly, the Angels signed Yusei Kikuchi (2.2 bWAR in the past 3 years) to a 3 year deal worth $63mill.  That goes a long way towards explaining why Pivetta (6.6 bWAR over the past 3 years) turned down a QO…

Bellhorn04 MVP

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39 minutes ago, notin said:

Speaking of recklessly and wantonly, the Angels signed Yusei Kikuchi (2.2 bWAR in the past 3 years) to a 3 year deal worth $63mill.  That goes a long way towards explaining why Pivetta (6.6 bWAR over the past 3 years) turned down a QO…

That's more guaranteed money than 2023 CYA winner Blake Snell got from the Giants.

Larry Cook FCL Red Sox

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1 hour ago, notin said:

Speaking of recklessly and wantonly, the Angels signed Yusei Kikuchi (2.2 bWAR in the past 3 years) to a 3 year deal worth $63mill.  That goes a long way towards explaining why Pivetta (6.6 bWAR over the past 3 years) turned down a QO…

Did pivetta just price himself out of a deal with the angels 

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