mvp 78

He's spending, but not spending in the way I want him to.

Sure!

(x) doubt https://bosoxinjection.com/2020/05/15/red-sox-signed-willie-mays/ As Mays recounts in the book, when he was a teenager playing for the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro Leagues, the Red Sox had a minor league team that shared a field with them. Multiple teams scouted Mays, including the Red Sox, and former Sox scout George Digby actually had a deal in place to purchase Mays’ contract for $4500 in 1950 before it was scuttled by the front office. “I had Willie Mays bought for $4500,” Digby told me when I interviewed him in 2005. “I called up the Red Sox. I said, ‘I got Willie Mays. He’ll break the color line.'” “The owner of the Black Barons had told us we could have Mays for $4500. I said, ‘I’ll be back to you by tomorrow.’ Glennon had asked me, ‘What do you think?’ I said, ‘I think he’s a big leaguer.’ We could have had Mays in center and [Ted] Williams in left.” Instead, as Digby recounted, Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey and General Manager Joe Cronin passed on Mays, saying they “already had made up their minds they weren’t going to take any black players.” Indeed, the Red Sox had years earlier passed on signing Jackie Robinson, with then General Manager Eddie Collins and Yawkey passing for the same shameful reason.

@JonHeyman Danny Santana Red Sox deal: $1.75M base, $1M incentives plus 100k bonus if he starts in AAA to finish getting ready. Plus opt out.

Probably needs to start in AAA, but that season doesn't begin until May. If he's hitting well, may as well give him a shot.

Hell yes

It should be Kiké, but I have a suspicion it'll be Verdugo.

Not a whole lot left: Matt Adams DH / 1B Jorge Bonifacio LF Ryan Braun DH / RF Zack Cozart 3B Daniel Descalso 2B Tyler Flowers C Logan Forsythe 2B Maikel Franco 3B Jedd Gyorko 1B / 3B Nick Markakis LF / RF Logan Morrison DH / 1B Yasiel Puig RF Josh Reddick RF Addison Russell 2B / SS Danny Santana CF / 1B Neil Walker 2B Matt Wieters C

The Beni and JBJ wing of the OF trifecta were just marketing. They are fine players, but I'd rather keep Xander and Devers around. Both of them had waning production. Aside from winxdancexrepeat, those two guys are very replaceable.

My Christian name: "most people"

Betts: worth the $$$ JBJ: not worth the $$$ Beni: not a good fit in BOS I only regret losing Betts.

JBJ won't be playing CF for the Brewers either. @Haudricourt Craig Counsell: "Lorenzo Cain is our centerfielder." And he left it at that.

It's only $1M less than what the Sox paid for Kiké, Renfroe and Marwin combined. Sox were better suited to buy in bulk and improve the bottom part of their roster. I'm surprised he got a deal that high considering how long it took to get him signed.

2/24 wouldn’t be a good signing for the Sox. Too much $$$ IMO.

Source: Jackie Bradley Jr. is heading to the Milwaukee Brewers. Two-year, $24 million deal with a player option after the first year.

He doesn’t have ace upside. Don’t worry about his age or years of control. He’s a good pitcher, but don’t get carried away.

Kyle Lewis is Pablito. Pablito is Kyle Lewis.

Dunn was my favorite non-Sox player when he was around.

It's like raaaaaii-aaainnn, nope just harmoney...

@jcmccaffrey In regards to Dalbec hitting 30 or more homers, no Red Sox rookie has ever hit more than 34, that was Walt Droppo in 1950. Ted Williams hit 31 in his rookie season in 1939 and Nomar Garciaparra hit 30 in 1997. That's it. Just three Red Sox rookies with 30 or more homers. Dalbec hitting 35.

It's why they had to include AGon.

1. Pedro 2. Lowe/Tek 3. Schilling from AZ 4. Sale 5. Beckett/Lowell 6. OCab 7. Dodger dump

The concern was that his k% would go up and up and he'd never adjust. What if he can adjust and just has real easy power? Fun would be an understatement.

Maybe Bobby Dalbec is Adam Dunn instead of Joey Gallo.

He hit another one to RCF that went even further. The two gifs are almost identical except that there were different pitchers.