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  1. My problem was the sentence structure then, not the math. All my posts can't be bangers.
  2. It removes the BIGGEST distraction for sure.
  3. Is Bloom George?
  4. There was no reason to extend an injured Chris Sale.
  5. Did I say they played a combined 5 years? Porcello 5 years. Lowell 5 years.
  6. BTV has Devers and Duran as the same trade value right now.
  7. I would never! My kids probably would tho.
  8. Murphy has 6 years of control though?!?!?!?!
  9. Cora knows these guys. I'm sure FO asked Cora about it. Cora stated that he wanted Raffy here long term and that he's ready to be the team leader. Well, now Raffy's the leader.
  10. Trade would probably include Rojas or Wendle too just to wrap up the MIF drama.
  11. Holy water? I'm not good on my vampiric lore TBH.
  12. 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.
  13. Cedanne Rafaela is posting cryptically on Twitter and people are believing that a Marlins trade is currently in the works today.
  14. He'd need them checked for silver bullets ahead of time.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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: ?
  18. 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!
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. It makes the Bogey contract look bad for sure.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
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