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  1. mvp 78
    Mike Lowell and Rick Porcello played a total of 5 years in BOS. Give me a break about those "extensions." Papi never got a true "long term extension." The Sale extension was a horrible decision for an already injured player that everyone regrets and prevented the Betts extension.
  2. mvp 78
    Cedanne Rafaela is posting cryptically on Twitter and people are believing that a Marlins trade is currently in the works today.
  3. mvp 78
    He'd need them checked for silver bullets ahead of time.
  4. mvp 78
    I had assumed that they could transition Xander to LF at some point. I know everyone thought he'd just move to 3b, but I figured LF could be a good landing point.
  5. mvp 78
    Missed this news over the weekend. @SPChrisHatfield Sad news: Per the MiLB transactions, Big Joe Davis has retired. Big Joe was a fan favorite everywhere he played. He was big in size and personality. He hit the ball damn hard. Best of luck to Joe in whatever is next.
  6. mvp 78
    Pedroia: extended Youk: retired elsewhere Ellsbury: FA Lester: FA Paplebon: FA JBJ: FA Betts: FA Bogey: FA Vaz: Trade ERod: FA Barnes: Extended Raffy: Extended Beni: Traded Whitlock: Extended Casas: ? Bello: ? Houck: ? Mayer: ? Rafaela: ? Bleis: ?
  7. mvp 78
    That is true, but IMO they had 3 franchise guys (Betts, Bogey and Devers) and needed to lock 2 of them up. Only locking one of them up isn't ideal. Letting two of them go for an underwhelming corner OFer, a backup C, a DFA'd prospect and a QO pick is not great!
  8. mvp 78
    It's not "time will tell if 6/168 is a mistake." It's a definite mistake just looking around baseball today. The market spiked this offseason. That contract would be an extremely good value for the Sox going forward even if you have to move Xander off position. It would have been worth it for his leadership and for fan loyalty.
  9. mvp 78
    The fact is that he needed to show Sox fans the money. Betts gone for little return. Bogey gone for barely any return. JD gone for nothing. Eovaldi gone for the same return as Xander somehow. Vaz gone for prospects. The house was being sold off in a yard sale and the fans arguably needed to be shown that they were going to spend on a fan favorite long term. They finally did. That was the narrative. This is just a start though. There is much more work to be done.
  10. mvp 78
    It makes the Bogey contract look bad for sure.
  11. mvp 78
    Xander was apparently willing to do a deal similar to Story's last offseason. If that's true, they were dumb to not sign him then.
  12. mvp 78
    They seem to get too cute and it hasn't quite worked in their favor. It probably cost them in this case. At least they got the deal done. As we've always said, they are a big market team and they can afford it.
  13. mvp 78
    The narrative was John Henry hadn't paid homegrown players. Aside from Pedroia, he really hadn't. That has finally changed. They still messed up with Betts. They still messed up by not extending Xander last offseason as the money would have been a deep discount from what the guys signed for this offseason.
  14. mvp 78
    Similar numbers to Adrian Beltre, except the Devers has a higher SLG and his career numbers are still skewed by his age 20 and 21 seasons. Since 2019: 291 AVG 351 OBP 533 SLG 884 OPS 132 wRC+ Higher OPS than Boggs, Brett, Santo, Molitor, Rolen...
  15. mvp 78
    Mata should be on the roster by June. Rafaela should be on the roster after the trade deadline if he's learned more plate discipline.
  16. mvp 78
    Xander 22: 134 wRC+ 15 HR 377 OBP 456 SLG 9% BB 18.7% K Yoshida 22 (119 games): 21 HR (probably regresses to 15 or less) 447 OBP (probably regresses to near where Bogey was last season) 561 SLG (probably regresses to less than Bogey last season) 16.9% BB (10%?) 8.1% K (15%?) I think he'll be decent enough, but I'm not sure he's a one to one replacement. Bogey is a middle of the order bat. Yoshida really is a replacement for 2021 Kiké. Kiké 21: wRC+ 109 HR 20 HR OBP 337 SLG 449 10.4% BB 18.8% K
  17. mvp 78
    Next offseason, the extensions need to be fast and furious.
  18. mvp 78
    Bloom has more work to do, but this is a good start. Pleased.
  19. mvp 78
    Fans who boo’d Henry need to have statues on Landsdowne now. Bullying works.
  20. mvp 78
    There are some people on here that can't stop thinking about this.
  21. mvp 78
    How can we doubt Red Sox Legend Carlos Baerga?
  22. mvp 78
    @BOSSportsGordo I don’t mean to alarm anybody because he’s been hit or miss before, but Carlos Baerga says the Red Sox are soon to announce an extension of Rafael Devers for 11 years $332M…
  23. mvp 78
    What do you mean? These aren't exciting to you?
  24. mvp 78
    Lowball John.
  25. mvp 78
    And Devers was so annoyed by the comparison that he laughed away Speier when he asked about it. So why could we assume that he'd take any offer based on what Olson made? I think he wanted close to the Machado 10/300.
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