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  1. mvp 78
    Yeah, JBJ would have gotten the Albies deal, not an Acuna deal.
  2. mvp 78
    Players don't typically make THAT much the first year in arbitration. A lot of JBJ's value comes from his glove which isn't adequately reimbursed through ARB procedures either.
  3. mvp 78
    2013 2021 I wouldn't take my chances on all of those things breaking right this year. My guess would be: Sale pitches most of the year, but his numbers are more like 2019 than anything else. Paxton pitches about 75 innings and has long IL stints. Bello is good. Whitlock pitches like a #3. Sox don't pick up anyone remarkable in FA for the rotation. Yes, this is the most 85 win team of all time.
  4. mvp 78
    The guy they should have extended after 2016 was Betts: 8.2 fWAR. If they were going to focus extensions that offseason it would have started and ended with him.
  5. mvp 78
    They wouldn't have signed him to a 10/120M contract after 2016. Yes, there is a risk though. I don't remember too many of these early extension contracts becoming bad deals for the clubs though.
  6. mvp 78
    The wild card is the rotation. IF Sale pitches close to a full season and what he provides. IF Paxton can go 150 innings. IF Bello can add on to what he did last year. IF Whitlock can be a 3rd starter or better.
  7. mvp 78
    So they lock up JBJ in 2016 and he ends up signing a cheaper Jayson Heyward contract? 8/whatever. It's not great, but I'm guessing they would have been buying out some ARB years getting some sort of discount.
  8. mvp 78
    Joely 2M Kenley 16M Turner 11M Martin 7M Yoshida 18M So they still have about 26 left to spend on 2-4 players. Per the FanGraphs crowdsource: Kluber 12M Andrus 10M Lugo 5M
  9. mvp 78
    Locking JBJ up after 2018 doesn't equate to what we're proposing with Bello and Casas.
  10. mvp 78
    Hard to disagree.
  11. mvp 78
    That would make sense to me too. I think I'd want at least one full season of these guys before I went long.
  12. mvp 78
    The way to help with fans patience: give them players to root for in the meantime like re-signing Mookie or Xander.
  13. mvp 78
    Again, this offseason is Bloom's legacy. He got a pass for Mookie leaving. If the Sox are not good this year, it's because of his roster construction over the past few years. His inaction and curious small-market moves have not put the Sox in the position to win for the most part. 2021 was a good season. 2020 and 2022 were not.
  14. mvp 78
    The window was closing! We didn't really know how true that was though.
  15. mvp 78
    Yup.
  16. mvp 78
    The least likely thing to happen this offseason is that Raffy is extended. They have the money to do so, they don't have the willingness. The most likely option is that they go into the season with him as the 3B and still say they are committed to extending him during the year but we hear all throughout the year that Devers "hasn't heard anything."
  17. mvp 78
    It sucks.
  18. mvp 78
    Are you comfortable with locking them up now? After next season?
  19. mvp 78
    I'm not sure fans really cared about the loss of Price or Kimbrel. I think losing Betts, Xander and Raffy are BIG concerns.
  20. mvp 78
    Looks like Rojas is a really good defender at all IF positions. Does seem like a guy Bloom would want.
  21. mvp 78
    Is this your belief, or just what you think the organization currently believes? If they don't offer Raffy 10/300, why?
  22. mvp 78
    To me, Story had moments that were reminiscent of Pedey at 2b. He was really good there.
  23. mvp 78
    There are people that want to believe that it will all work out in the end and that the Sox will field a competitive team in April. I'm not going to definitively state that this team is going to be a train wreck, but I don't see this team making any sort of playoff run unless there is some significant changes that we haven't seen yet. FA wise, there isn't much left out there to obtain. Is Bloom intentionally dumping Ben/DD guys because he wants to put his stamp on the organization? I don't believe it. Is he trying to sign guys to a set "market rate" that he refuses to go over, which has caused him to be left in the dust by a changing FA market? YES.
  24. mvp 78
    There's a big difference between losing 32 year old Pedro (who only had one great season left in him) and what happened with Xander and Mookie.
  25. mvp 78
    Without shifting, I don't think lumbering guys can be put at 2b anymore.
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