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How operating income did the Red Sox have just on baseball per Forbes (since the amounts don't include the real estate ventures)? Where did that rank? Big losers?

Abreu 5/8/25 - EOY 693 OPS For a guy you have to platoon, he runs too hot and cold for me worry about trading.

Take Paredes and add some prospect capital rather than 40 man filler.

Barring injury, it's a rotation that should get you to the playoffs.

Story hasn't been a plus offensive player since 2020. If he's batting in the top 5, it's not ideal. He's not "a hole," but he's not always providing great at bats.

Players don't want to stick around for 10 years though?

I'm not a subscriber either. Arias is an extremely advanced hitter already, playing all of 2025 at age 19, so much so that the Red Sox challenged him by moving him up from Low A after just 19 games there in April (and only 54 games there in total). He responded with one of the highest contact rates of any hitter in High A, regardless of age, striking out just 8.9 percent of the time, second among qualifiers behind a 24-year-old org player, while flashing some of his power potential and playing strong defense at short. He rarely swings and misses, with an overall whiff rate of just 12 percent on the year, and just 4 percent on pitches in the zone. He might benefit by swinging a little bit less often — at least until he gets stronger and can do more with the contact he is making, as right now he’s getting the bat to the ball but doesn’t square it up consistently enough, with a weird spike in his pop-up rate in High A last year. He’s barely begun to fill out physically, with room to add probably a full grade of power as he matures, but he’s such a smart hitter that he’s moved up the chain faster than most prospects his age. He’s a natural shortstop with excellent instincts and is at least a 55 defender there already, probably plus or better in the end. He’s less of a finished product than the other players around him in this range of the list, but if he were a college sophomore right now, we’d be talking about him as a potential 1-1 pick in 2027.

No, he said he'd be in the conversation for 1-1 in the 2027 draft, bucko... Law is also the highest guy on Arias. Nobody else has him evaluated like that.

I think I can safely say that the Sox won't be trading with HOU this offseason if it hasn't happened by now.

Erring on the side of caution by signing a DH to play OF. Kinda wild to me.

I would have re-signed Pedro and traded Schilling that offseason.

Wrong, when the Sox are #3 in baseball revenue IMO.

Instead trade for the youthful Sonny Gray and Willson Contreras?

The internal models they had back then must have sucked a butt then.

I've made that claim with evidence to back myself up a few times now. All you have is a quote from FanGraphs that said hitters and pitchers decline at 30, not are more likely to get injured.

Well, he ended up being wrong.

Not in practice though!

On the Opening Day roster isn't the same as starting on Opening Day. If you know you have Duran and Abreu and Rafaela coming soon, why sign Masa? It makes no sense.

I'm not even including the weeks when the whole family is with me and the grocery bill is somehow an additional $150.

Just a little.

It's more fun to empty out your farm system with trades instead?

Good defense. Doesn't chase. Decent pull rate. Excellent hard hit/exit velo. The goal of always staying under the cap may not be a great idea.

I won't tell you what the temp is here today.