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  1. mvp 78
    Yankees also had much better depth at Catcher than the Sox. I think clearing up his 40 man roster spot so they could bring in some higher priced players was more important to them than working on a guy whose ceiling is MLB backup Catcher.
  2. mvp 78
    Per FanGraphs, he was worth about 8M in his first stint with the Sox. Clearly, he was overpaid, but we've had much worse contracts.
  3. mvp 78
    Who is we? Abreu is cheap. Moving him was part of a deal to bring back a frontline starter. They made a deal that didn't include Abreu. No reason to move him now. Right now, he's locked in as the everyday RFer. I may be one of the few people not overly concerned about the lefthandedness of the lineup.
  4. mvp 78
    And he only hit 23 the previous two seasons combined. Of his 7 years in MLB, only 3 have had a wRC+ above 100. Sox lucked into a good season with him. Time to move on.
  5. mvp 78
    Agreed. A lot of people just find a reason to complain either way. The Sox are in a bit of a mess of their own making, but simply loading up on one particular FA class won't fix the situation. To me, FA success rate is about 50% so there's a good chance most deals you sign just won't work out.
  6. mvp 78
    Teoscar would've signed for multiple seasons and is a guy who can play 140 games every damn season. It's not an equivalent move.
  7. mvp 78
    Dumping Abreu without adding another OFer aside from Anthony is even wilder than giving O'Neill the QO.
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  9. mvp 78
    He's the most deserving Red Sox to be excluded (aside from Clemens). The Veterans Committee stuff is always very obscure and never pans out the way it should. Makes no sense that it has the ability to enshrine Harold Baines and not more deserving players like Whitaker, Grich and Evans.
  10. mvp 78
    The only one calling him the steal of the winter is you, bub. Others just think he can stick as a backup catcher which isn't exactly high praise if you look at the state of catching across the game.
  11. mvp 78
    Moving Abreu because you signed O'Neill to a one year deal is WILD.
  12. mvp 78
    As a player gets into his 30's, I believe they are more likely to go with long term security over a short term payday like a 30M 1 year proposal. Bregman/Boras is waiting out the market and hoping that another team comes into to beat the Astros offer. It'll be brutal if the Astros pull their offer and he has to take less.
  13. mvp 78
    I'm not sure, but his blocking and framing were bad in both years, but worse in '24. He excelled in CS (92nd percentile) in '23, but fell in '24 (58th percentile). His defensive game fell off in all aspects in '24.
  14. mvp 78
    Man, if we only had an ownership group that cared.... MLB's 2024 revenues: $12.1 billion According to Forbes, Major League Baseball's 2024 revenues were a record $12.1 billion. That's up from $11.6 billion in 2023. Revenues for just the 30 clubs, not including league revenues, were $11.34 billion, or $378 million per club. That number does not include ancillary revenues from things such as real estate/mixed-use development around ballparks such as The Battery in Atlanta, Ballpark Village in St. Louis, and other similar enterprises. Those things are considered non-baseball revenue, even if those developments would not be feasible without baseball games being played in the middle of 'em. Nor does it include revenue from team-owned sports networks like the Yankees' YES Network or the Cubs' Marquee Sports Network.
  15. mvp 78
    That's your worry? I think you're going to need to extrapolate on this as to why "it's not a good sign."
  16. mvp 78
    '24 was his 3rd year in Salem. He's a guy with an unimpressive fastball and nothing jumps off the page at you except for his high BB rate.
  17. mvp 78
    For a guy who misses A LOT of time historically, it's silly to offer him 20M+ for a year.
  18. mvp 78
    It's why they didn't offer it.
  19. mvp 78
    Right now, Bello is so far behind Houck that he's not even in the same conversation even if you just go back his second half stats. Houck's 2024 > Bello's second half in ERA+/WHIP/HR9/SOperBB. Let's not anoint Bello as the best anything until he at least appears in an AS Game.
  20. mvp 78
    TBF, they underperformed and were supposed to win 48 games if you believe in Pythagoras.
  21. mvp 78
    Would be a great get for a guy with declining defense and injury issues that cause him to miss 50+ games every year.
  22. mvp 78
    O'Neill signed for 3/49.5. That's more than I would have wanted to spend on an oft injured guy like O'Neill. Teoscar's 3/66 is much more palatable, but the Sox didn't want to go there for whatever reason. It sounds like they are counting on a bounceback year from RHB Story and the addition of RHB Campbell instead of going to the FA marketplace.
  23. mvp 78
    The discussion was "why would Bregman rather a confirmed long term 5/6 year deal over a short term 1 year deal." Appreciate the ad hominem out of nowhere though!
  24. mvp 78
    I don't think Logan Webb was available. Manaea was relegated to the bullpen for a lot of the time he was with Bailey in SF. Maybe the two don't see eye to eye?
  25. mvp 78
    And if he comes here and gets injured or just hits the way he did last season? He'll be out millions upon millions of dollars.
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