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  1. Abreu and Anthony both had higher OPS than Duran last season. Both are younger with more control.
  2. It's not disrespectful to state that Duran should be traded since he's the 4th best OFer on the team and the Sox need the roster space. It's not like I'm saying they should option him to AAA. Restock the farm by trading Duran. He has a ton of trade value. Go get some great prospects.🫠
  3. If so, they should trade Duran since he has so much trade value!!! Stock up on those prospects!!! Rafaela is a better fit for this team than Duran who can only play LF and isn't as good as Abreu or Roman.
  4. Plans change. Contreras will stay at 1b.
  5. He's not a good catcher and never was. He's a good fielding first baseman.
  6. It's worse on a 26 year old (Gen Z). If he was a Millenial, he'd already be downtrodden enough to suck it up and push through. Now, if he was 46, he would have still been old enough to drink water from the garden hose, have his parents pump leaded gas and get his brain scrambled by a metal merry-go-round. At that point, you should just treat him the way Papi treats a dugout phone.
  7. With Marte, he plays 2b for 2-3 years and then transitions to 1b for the end of the contract. Not the end of the world IMO.
  8. He should have been a DH in '25. After his injury, he's definitely a DH going forward. Probably worse than Alonso over there now.
  9. They said Contreras isn't catching.
  10. Rice started 26 G at C as a 26 year old. I doubt he'll be doing that in his 30's. He is also terrible at catching (2.07 poptime is 2nd worst in MLB).
  11. #2 applies to the Sox. They don't have a 1B aside from Contreras.
  12. The budget is the budget apparently.
  13. One of the worst Red Sox to ever do it (-1.5 fWAR). Grateful that we got to see him suffer in '24 with NYY.
  14. As CBO, I'm Alex's boss and can tell him what he needs to believe. I'm selling in '22 so that the Sox can build the next great Red Sox team instead of halfassing it the way Bloom/Breslow did on Earth 1.
  15. Can only start 9 guys. He's the worst of the 4 OFers and can go.
  16. There were no changes in his bat speed from '24 to '25.
  17. Conteras will be 34 this year. Alonso will be 31. If Alonso was showing the same signs of as a career long catcher who was 3 years older, any argument about him signing here should just pack it in. Contreras is a better fit because his glove is better and his contract is only 2 years long. 5 years of Pete Alonso at DH for 30M+? No thanks.
  18. It wasn't hindsight for some of us. I wanted them to sell off on day one of '22. I wanted them to trade Kenley and Martin in '24. They should have tried to go for it in '23 as they didn't really have any pieces to deal off (could have done the deal for Jack Flaherty).
  19. They asked too much apparently. What too much is? Nobody is saying.
  20. Think of all the prospects he could have gotten for Anthony though. 😍
  21. If I had to redo the Red Sox offseason while spending the same money I would: MOVES TO KEEP Contreras trade Durbin trade Oviedo trade Suarez signing FA ADDS Ozuna REPORTED TRADES TO ADD Marte (Mayer plus Early plus another top 20 prospect) THEORETICAL TRADES TO ADD Duran for prospects Masa plus cash for anything ROSTER Narvaez, Contreras, Marte, Story, Durbin, Abreu, Rafaela, Anthony, Ozuna, Wong, Monasterio, Romy, Eaton Crochet, Suarez, Bello, Oviedo, Sandoval, Chapman, Slaten, Whitlock, Weissert, Fitts, Tolle, Crawford, Watson Same payroll, plus the addition of RH power bats at the expense of Sonny Gray and Mayer.
  22. The '22 and '23 deadlines are why Bloom got fired.
  23. Nobody really thinks this.
  24. Nobody thought May was a reasonable pickup. There were calls at the '22-'24 deadlines to either sell or buy. Each season, the Sox kind of hedged their bets instead and the deadlines were wasted. Standing pat and doing nothing is just not a good strategy when you can get a trove of prospects for a reliever like Chris Martin or Kenley Jensen.
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