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  1. mvp 78
    I believe the drop in spots affects the overall draft capital to spend on picks which is a bigger issue.
  2. mvp 78
    Moran had one good season in '22. Hard to rely on that really. They do have Harrison (for now), Mullins, Sameniego and Drohan to move through the bullpen too. Unsigned LHP relievers: Justin Wilson Danny Coulombe Andrew Chafin Jalen Beeks Brent Suter Joey Lucchesi and a lot of also rans The best unsigned reliever left may be RHP Seranthony Dominguez. May be out of the Sox price range.
  3. mvp 78
    Wilson signed for 2M last season. Not sure he'd break the bank this year.
  4. mvp 78
    He had 2/80 in hand and opted out for only an additional 3/45?
  5. mvp 78
    It is arbitrary as in the Sox could spend above the 2nd threshold if they wanted to. Other teams spend above that threshold and continue to be competitive. It's not a death knell to an organization. The only retained salary affecting CBT is 2M for Devers. There is nothing for Sale that affects CBT currently. CBT is A measure.
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    But you can't truly say the Sox spent the 7th most in MLB. A lot of it is made up of contracts that have yet to mature (Bello, Anthony) and the Sox have shown that they may just trade those players rather than ultimately pay them. They have signed them to contracts, but they have not paid them in full.
  9. mvp 78
    And we don't really know how relevant each are to JH. Maybe the cash spend is hugely important and maybe not. Maybe the CBT is ultimately the most important nut the Sox are trying to crack right now. My only real point was that the CBT wasn't true "spending." The true "spending" was the cash coming out. The CBT calculation is just made up nonsense MLB negotiated with the union. It's ultimately meaningless and can be changed next season. It's not real. It's just there to presumably for competitive balance, but the Dodgers are in the playoffs year in and a year out no matter what.
  10. mvp 78
    And it wouldn't look pretty either.
  11. mvp 78
    With how he remade the pitching dev here, a few of the smaller orgs would dump their CBO's/GM's to sign him to a POBO/CBO position for their org.
  12. mvp 78
    We are ONLY looking at CBT because it's a CBT threshold that is where an arbitrary budget line in the sand has been made.
  13. mvp 78
    That's not true either. The CBT isn't about spending, it's about AAV. Spending IS cash. AAV has little to do with actual spending. For example: Bregman: paid 20M in '25, 31.6M tax hit Bello: paid 2.5M in '25, 9.2M tax hit Rafaela: paid 1M, 6.2M tax hit Pedroia: paid 2.5M, 0 tax hit Manny: paid 2M, 0 tax hit
  14. mvp 78
    What's the benefit of paying him 18M to have a 100 wRC+ ceiling and only be able to DH? Sox would be better off DFA'ing him.
  15. mvp 78
    For his '23-'24 DH split, his OPS ranks 17th, behind McCutchen, Turner, JD and too close to Daniel Vogelbach for my liking. Not too many guys below him are legitimate players going forward. If you add in '25, he falls to 34th. It's just not a good DH bat.
  16. mvp 78
    He gets paid no matter what. Can they replace him with an internal option that they are already paying (Campbell, Duran, other) and just DFA? Why not just cut your losses and help the roster? We've circled this drain over and over the past few years.
  17. mvp 78
    On 3, Hicks wasn't providing anything but a warm body. I don't think they need to spend to replace him. Does the rule 5 acquisition replace him? Couldn't pitch worse? On 2, if Duran was easy to trade, he'd be gone by now. It's been a few offseasons now with a backlog of OFers and no trades.
  18. mvp 78
    Masa 2025 266 AVG - 8th on BOS (excluding Garcia/Sabol) 307 OBP - 13th 388 SLG - 13th 696 OPS - 13th 302 wOBA - 13th 88 wRC+ - 13th 6.5% Barrels - 13th 44% HardHit - 13th 11.7% K - 1st 4.8% BB - 18th 54.8% GB - 1st 22.6% FB - 19th 26.4 Sprint Speed - 15th Even at his '23-'24 numbers, it's a stretch to keep him at DH. He was not worth it in '25. A slow LHB with no pop that leads the team in ground balls. There's just no real value there IMO.
  19. mvp 78
    Since they aren't signing a Japanese player this year, just dump Masa for pennies on the dollar.
  20. mvp 78
    I have heard it elsewhere as well (i.e. trade for prospects), but I'm not sure if the FO is discussing it.
  21. mvp 78
    By laws of FSG? I'm not so sure since Liverpool is currently 3rd in EPL and has a payroll higher than it has ever been.
  22. mvp 78
    My worry from that same stretch: 4.08 bb/9 255th in MLB for starters above 100 IP (out of 279)
  23. mvp 78
    It was weird to bring Breggie on for only a year with the QO issue and cause the friction with Devers. Even if they end up re-signing him now, the move was a little questionable. An opt out after one year, how did that help the Sox? And now they are willing to move the goal posts and give him a longer term contract? Why? On your last point, going over the CBT in '22 was Bloom's biggest sin. He barely went over and had nothing to show for it. Absolutely brutal.
  24. mvp 78
    They couldn't get anyone to sign on last time. Breslow was the only guy who would take the job. If they fired him at any point in the next few years, Henry would find it even harder to fill the role. Whoever they got would have even less FO experience than Breslow had.
  25. mvp 78
    FSG, which is owned 40% (!!!) by John Henry. Werner is the second largest shareholder. Combined, they are well above 50% and can do whatever they want with FSG.
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