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They'll extend him and Devers by opening day 2022.

No, the problem was bringing in both Hanley AND Pablo and not just one of them.

Plus, finally being able to trade Pedroia.

The "sell Panda hats" plan?

How much does it pay? Benefits?

Are you Lou Merloni?

Everyone else adds through the draft too.

I haven't seen enough of DeShields for me to want him in CF. Just seems like an underwhelming option.

It had a nice whiplash to it. The opposite of this offseason.

335 BABIP was career high too.

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Could probably get him for less. 1/3.5?

I'd take Tanaka and Kluber. Grab JBJ, but anticipate only getting Pillar. Sign Wong, but settle on a cheaper option like Hernandez. RP would be Colome and some other filler.

Not having a 2020 is the big problem. Hard to really move a franchise up or down in the rankings when you don't have games to go on.

And a much cheaper contract most likely. I'd still prefer JBJ on a 2/3 year deal at 8 AAV, but think he signs for more than that.

It was just a saying to make Sox fans feel better about perpetually looking up at the Yanks in the standings. BS then. BS now.

When they signed Panda and Hanley within 24 hours of each other, most people on here were just confused as to what the plan was. Turns out, there was no plan.

Me either. The talk about Sox being interested in DJ is weird to me. More like they were doing due diligence at the start of FA period.

Pillar is a piece of crap, but he's cheap and can be a place holder for a year or two.

"Oh, they aren't signing Lester because they will use that money on Scherzer." LOL Nope. "Sox have no 1b of note in the minors. Napoli is gone soon enough. Sox need a young 1b. Why not sign Abreu?" LOL Nope.

Bello has been steadily climbing all the rankings.

@redsoxstats The idea of the Red Sox signing LeMahieu seems to go against everything we've heard so far this winter. Tough to see that fit for many reasons, including how Fenway would seemingly take away from his home run totals. 7 of his 10 HR this year were non-barreled, 6 into right field.

Or if Cora does.

If they believe in Duran, there's no reason to use prospect capital on a trade for CF.

Notes from the article above: Song eligible for early release in May. Jimenez weight on the instructs roster was 50 lbs heavier than last year. Just filled out and is still a plus plus runner (70 grade, was 80). Expects Bazardo to be in the relief pitching mix in BOS. Down on Yorke. Doesn't believe in his power and he put on weight. System Overview This system is not very good because it still lacks the top end prospects that drive the empirically-derived farm rankings here at the site. But it is about 10 prospects deeper than last year’s list as the Red Sox were 2020 sellers at the onset of a rebuild that was partly ownership-imposed and partly caused by the unsustainable way Dave Dombrowski ran the show. Boston’s 2020 was the rebuild equivalent of a sprinter made of molasses coming out of the blocks. Part of this is because the most talented part of the Betts trade, Alex Verdugo, is no longer a prospect, part of it is because Boston had no second rounder in 2020 because of their sign-stealing scandal, and part of it is because the young Latin American core of this system didn’t really have a chance to get a traditional year of development and evaluation. Some of it is also, at least at this website, because I didn’t like their draft. I watched film (some from last summer and some from the alt site), talked to pro scouts who saw Nick Yorke after the draft, and doubled back to some crosscheckers on the West Coast who saw him before it. Their opinions were enough to move my pre-draft evaluation of him pretty considerably, but their class still feels sub-par to me. I’m not keen on positionless hitters, and the Red Sox may have drafted two of them. The shortened draft also punished Boston and other teams with thin farm systems, and made it impossible to find late-round diamonds in the rough like Boston did with Blalock and Cellucci in 2019. They did sign more undrafted free agents than other clubs, which makes sense considering the state of this system, though it’s also confirmation that the org is aware it needs more talent. It’s fairly likely that whoever the Red Sox draft fourth overall in the 2021 Draft will immediately become their top prospect, and rumors of an Andrew Benintendi trade may yet cause this list to grow before the end of the offseason. It’d be smart if Boston flexed its financial might to take on some bad contracts (with prospects attached, of course) while other teams are especially desperate to get rid of them, but it doesn’t seem like ownership would allow that.