How to fix 2026 Red Sox?

[notin]

1 hour ago, JoeBrady said:

If SF could take it back, I'm fairly sure they would.  Devers is notoriously streaky, but in his last 19 games, he has an awful, awful 28/2 K/W with 1 HR.  2nd worse fWAR right now, out of 182 qualified.

To be fair to Devers, he started out like that in Boston last year before morphing into Jimmie Foxx 2.0....

[moonslav59]

58 minutes ago, notin said:

Probably like $50-60mill over the last 10 years.   Not enough to get the meaningful players the Sox could use.   If they didn't gamble on Sandoval and Kluber and Richard, etic, FSG would just have a bigger bottom line.

Or maybe they could extend some of the younger players.  Maybe...

The theory is you get a better pitcher at $50M/5 than signing five 1 year players at $10M a pop.

We really cannot count Giolito as an injured/rehabbing pitcher signed: he got hurt after the signing. Without him, the cost has been... (way more than $50-60M)

Last 8 years:

$145M/5 Sale (we all know his record of missed starts)

$68M/4 Nate (started  2/3rd of his games: 74 out of a possible 112 games)

$21M/1 Buehler

$18M/2 Sandoval

$11M/2 Perez

$10M/1 Richards

$10M/1 Kluber

$10M Paxton

$10M/2 Hendriks

$7M Wacha (did fine when he started)

$5M Hill

 

[Old Red]

Alex is Going, Going, GONE!👏

[moonslav59]

26 minutes ago, Old Red said:

Alex is Going, Going, GONE!👏

Clapping from a non hater.

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