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27 in 2011 and a short season after that which you included because you are making a horrible point.

What’s with this “or not” garbage posting? Anyway, Lowell was coming off one bad year. He wasn’t the train wreck Myers turned his career into.

8 straight games means 2 rainouts!

Rumor is the Pads didn’t want to give up the pitching. If that’s true, Sox are better off walking away IMO.

Seems like Mookie bets on himself.

AGon’s slugging in 2011 was the second highest of his career. How is that not hitting like the NL?

Monster Tix for the price of an XL coffee at Dunkies!

@SoxProspects Rule 5 pick Jonathan Arauz hammers a 3-run blast over the replica monster off Phillies pitcher Cole Irvin to tie up the game 4-4. Arauz hasn't played above Double-A yet but had 11 homers between two levels last season. He's 27th on the #SP60.

Wait until September. They'll be handing them out for free outside the gates.

Ahhh, but there is a 0.0001% mortality rate if you wear the OMITVD branded tin foil hat!

If Sale is wearing it (the most finicky guy in MLB), I think everyone else is fine with wearing it.

I think you're forgetting about the third group of ticket purchasers that will never go away: big business monkeys who use tickets to shmooze clients. I bet pink hats are much more likely to go to a Red Sox game no matter what than a true fan who is pissed that the ownership gave up on this season and traded Mookie.

To be fair, we don't know what JBJ or JD's fWAR will be this ASB either.

Adult diapers are probably more hygienic. Good for you!

@SoxProspects Mata often uses his heavy 2-seam fastball to generate ground outs. Nonetheless, that was a nice strikeout he got on Kyle Garlick (looking with his slider) with one out and two men on. He then got Deivy Grullon swinging on a curveball. Good job pitching himself out of trouble.

Being politically correct by helping to stop the spread of infectious disease! So you're the guy who pisses all over the bathroom seat in a public stall and storms out without washing his hands!

Adrian Gonzalez 2011: 6.2 fWAR JD Martinez 2019: 3.2 fWAR Beckett 2011: 3.8 fWAR JBJ 2019: 1.4 fWAR Beckett was a postseason hero and a frontline starting pitcher. AGon was being lauded as the 2nd best offensive weapon and a great defensive wiz at 1b. People on here were freaking out prior to the AGon trade with the Padres when they thought Theo botched it. We may not think of him fondly now, but he was of more importance to that team than JD is to this one.

@alexspeier Benintendi with a single on a 1-2 curveball from Pivetta to lead off the first. He’s 3-for-4 with a HR in that first AB of the game so far.

@SoxProspects Nice 1st inning for no. 3 on the #SP60, Bryan Mata. Gets Scott Kingery to pop out on one pitch, then gives up a Josh Harrison single before Rhys Hoskins lines into a 5-3 double play. Just 20 years old, Mata spent the second half of 2019 at Double-A Portland.

I guess it really was "or not" harmony! And the Sox have jumped 6 places in the prospect rankings thanks to Bloom.

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2020/02/red-sox-trade-rumors-padres-wil-myers-unlikely.html The Red Sox have been linked to various permutations of trades involving Padres outfielder Wil Myers this offseason — including as recently as last week. However, Alex Speier of the Boston Globe now reports that the two sides are “unlikely” to line up on an agreement. The Red Sox’ interest in working out a trade was largely a means of attempting to purchase some minor league and/or controllable MLB talent by absorbing part of the remaining three years and $61MM on Myers’ contract. It’s not a surprise to see the Red Sox seeking creative ways to bolster their farm and their stock of MLB-ready rotation options. Boston’s farm landed 22nd of 30 in Baseball America’s February ranking of the game’s best minor league systems, and the back of their rotation looks perilously thin. Beyond Chris Sale, Eduardo Rodriguez and Nathan Eovaldi, the Red Sox will likely rely on reclamation project Martin Perez and an unproven internal option (or options). Among the candidates vying for the fifth starter’s job are Hector Velazquez, Matt Hall, Chris Mazza, Mike Shawaryn, Ryan Weber and Kyle Hart. A clear winner might not be declared, as the Sox could shuffle a number of names through that spot or even deploy an opener every fifth day. And, of course, Sale and Eovaldi were far from 100 percent healthy in 2019. The added depth such a move would bring about would be particularly valuable in Boston. As for the Padres, while it’s logical that they’d want to get out from some of the remaining Myers money, Speier indicates that the club isn’t interested in depleting its depth just to save money at this time. Shipping a Cal Quantrill or Joey Lucchesi to Boston thins out their starting depth, and there’s no real means of improving the roster quality right now outside of an additional trade. Bringing a third club into the mix — as has been previously rumored — would give the Padres more options but obviously comes with additional layers of complexity. With Opening Day just one month away, the time to put together a deal of that magnitude is waning.

JD and JBJ in 2020

Why wouldn't they?

We know.

Once the tickets are sold, they don't have to field a viable product especially if they are selling to the fans that they need to rebuild the farm. The Red Sox NATION has already accepted fire sales. Have you forgotten 2012? 2014?