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They win 110 games in the regular season.

If it wasn't for Kinsler, they sweep the WS.

If it's Chavis for Myers and Quantril, that's a good deal IMO.

I've seen it reported differently elsewhere. I've seen where If SD and BOS split 50%, that each has about 7M against lux tax. Though the extension Myers signed in Jan. 2017 calls for him to be paid $61 million ($20 million each season plus a $1 million buyout) through 2022, he’ll cost significantly less against the competitive balance tax threshold. Because Myers -- whose total deal was worth $83 million over six years -- has a backloaded deal, the CBT hit (which is based on average annual value) will be just $13.83 million in each season. If the Sox took on half -- say, $30 million -- of Myers’ remaining salary, they’d take a CBT hit of less than $4 million in each of the next three years. The math is complicated, but that number comes from the money that would be sent from San Diego to Boston being equally spread over the remaining three years, lowering the CBT hit in each season. That scenario would be palatable for the Red Sox 2020, with their projected payroll then estimated to still be less than $200 million. https://www.masslive.com/redsox/2020/02/red-sox-trade-rumors-boston-still-discussing-wil-myers-with-padres-also-interested-in-young-pitchers-report.html Someone needs to teach a class on CBT math.

Maybe Bloom wants to use them as trade chips? Maybe he just likes Myers better? Maybe he is going to use Myers in the OF and move one of our OF assets? Maybe he moves JD and Myers is DH?

Why should I? Nobody else around here does. Weird that I have to be held to a different standard.

We're going to see Dalbec, Chatham and Houck this year. They are all top 10 prospects.

Myers is RHB. Mitch is LHB.

We already do...

Hell yeah.

He'd platoon with Mitch, but I wonder if using Dalbec/Chavis would be better unless they are going to move them as well.

Happy to have him here, glad to see him leave. His regular season numbers from 2019 were worse than his 2018 numbers which most of us weren't happy with.

Bauer is the only good option there. Stroman is fine. The others have various issues (durability, performance, etc.).

Can't forget Pomeranz! Was he even on the postseason roster? Kelly's production can be replicated by any AAAA reliever.

Please don't call JBJ a garbage player.

Can't see the Yanks doing that with Rivera.

Anyway, when you’ve caused Nick Markakis to suggest that perhaps violence is the best course of action, you sort of have a problem on your hands. Here are Crazy Nick’s comments today about the Houston Astros: “I feel like every single guy over there needs a beating. It’s wrong. They’re messing with people’s careers . . . There’s right ways to do it and wrong ways to do it. I 100% disagree with way they did it. There’s a lot of people that were hurt by it, and it was wrong.” As has become custom in these daily ranting, Markakis made sure he gave a shoutout to MLB commissioner Rob Manfred, who he criticized for letting the Astros off “scot free”: “The way he handled the situation, he should be embarrassed of himself.”

Did he close out the series or did someone else? I don't remember them pulling Betts off the field in the 9th inning for a defensive replacement.

You've seen the posts people write on here, right?

They didn't bench him. I'd bet that Mookie would be more likely to do well during the 2020 postseason than Kimbrel.

That devastating loss of Nunez, Holt and Kimbrel (who they didn't even trust to close out games in the WS).

One step forward, two steps back.

Didn't Sosa and McGwire save baseball?

I think the floor for the 2020 team would have been last year's 84 wins, but the ceiling is competing with the Yanks/Rays for the division. It was risky for sure.

It's also the same basic team from 2018 that lapped the field.