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The Boston Red Sox did not take out an insurance policy on Pablo Sandoval's contract, Tom Werner told WEEI's Ordway, Merloni & Fauria this week. "No, we do not," said the chairman when asked if the team had insurance on Sandoval's shoulder. "I've been listening on the radio, and the fact is that it's a case by case basis. We have insurance on some players, not all players. Collecting on insurance is not the easiest thing. You have the debate about how much insurance, and when do you collect? So we do it on a case by case basis, and we did not do it with Pablo." And If David Price’s elbow goes, it’s possible the Red Sox could recoup some of their investment via an insurance policy — if they indeed took one. They don’t usually like to, as Red Sox president Sam Kennedy explained on the CSNNE Baseball Show podcast. “The cost-benefit usually isn’t there. It’s incredibly expensive,” Kennedy said of insurance policies. “And there’s certain things that have to trigger the payment vis a vis the player when they get hurt. So, it typically doesn’t make sense. “On some occasions it does, but it’s usually too costly and clubs don’t often insure big contracts because it’s hard to recoup based upon how many days the guys are on the DL so on and so forth. There’s a reason why the insurance business is a very profitable industry.” Kennedy likened the insurance policies to gambling. “It’s like walking into a casino, and saying, well, how did they build this place?” Kennedy said. “Well, they didn’t build it with your winnings. It’s something that we don’t have a policy either against it or for it, but we’ve looked at it in just about every case or occasion and most times we walk away and we’ve not done it.” I'm not sure if the Sox have confirmed if they paid for insurance on Price or not.

I think it would be better for them to cap the top salary at something like $40M and adjust all WAR $ values from there. If the best player was 8 WAR, you'd give 5M for 1 WAR. That way, you wouldn't have Judge showing a value of $66M. I just don't think the market could bear a $60M salary right now. When your output is that screwy, fix your equation.

https://www.fangraphs.com/depthcharts.aspx?position=Standings Interesting that the Tribune has the Sox offense seeing positive regression in 2018 with the Yankees showing negative regression...

Speak it brother Moon!

Thanks Giancarlo! Since he didn't want to come here in the first place.

You can't separate the good moves from the bad moves. Ben and Theo should have put their foot down if they were against the bad moves. Neither have come out after the fact and said "I didn't want to do that." Theo just said he felt had to feed the monster and gave in to it.

Sounds like a weasel word to me.

All praise to the Fangraphs Tribune! Praise! Praise! Shout Hosanna!

Your arbitrary starting and ending dates are completely silly tho. That's probably the worst way to look at anything ever.

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Pretend money. Stanton was "worth" $55.5M last year. Talk about a franchise crippling deal!

But then you are thinning out your prospect pool?

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I remember Hicks playing very well.

Keirmaier and Pillar are really good and we have had numerous opportunities to watch them the past few years. Hicks seems pretty good too.

If Speier is talking about it, the Sox must be considering it at some level.

I efffffing love it because it conveys so much.

@mike_petriello A very fun an extreme troll-face fact is that Denard Span out-hit Evan Longoria in 2017... Span: .272/.329/.427 102 wRC+ Longoria: .261/.313/.424 96 wRC+ Longoria is probably the most overrated 3b playing right now.

That's why you just dump him. Don't give the union a reason to fight about it.

10th ranked defensive CF. If Zimmer played more games, JBJ would fall to 11th.

Many. They are legion.

Yup.

The Rays weren't sending him to BOS. Not a chance.

The Lugo contract was fine and less than 10 AAV.

LOL, ok. When was the last time Hanley had a .900 OPS when playing a full season? Travis had a .820 OPS in AA when he was 22 prior to injury. If you don't think he can add power after healing up and growing, I'm not sure what to tell you.