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Agreed. They've been running their internal value system out there since the Lester days. It has less to do with trying to save a buck and more to do with trying to look smart in front of other owners. Henry COULD outspend everyone else, but that just wouldn't be sporting of him. He still worries about revenue sharing to smaller clubs (unlike other bigger clubs) and wants to win the same way he made all his money back in the day. I've said it over and over again, but just rewatch the Henry scene in Moneyball. It's all you need to know. I would bet everything that he looks at the '25 Dodgers and Mets the same way he looked at the Yankees 20+ years ago. John Henry: For forty-one million, you built a playoff team. You lost Damon, Giambi, Isringhausen, Pena and you won more games without them than you did with them. You won the exact same number of games that the Yankees won, but the Yankees spent one point four million per win and you paid two hundred and sixty thousand. I know you've taken it in the teeth out there, but the first guy through the wall. It always gets bloody, always. It's the threat of not just the way of doing business, but in their minds it's threatening the game. But really what it's threatening is their livelihoods, it's threatening their jobs, it's threatening the way that they do things. And every time that happens, whether it's the government or a way of doing business or whatever it is, the people are holding the reins, have their hands on the switch. They go bat s*** crazy. I mean, anybody who's not building a team right and rebuilding it using your model, they're dinosaurs. They'll be sitting on their ass on the sofa in October, watching the Boston Red Sox win the World Series.

I don't think they really liked the RHB on the market and they didn't want to sign relievers to deals longer than one year. The guys that got one year deals were potentially not seen as upgrades. That's my only guess on the matter. There's nothing new to be found here and nothing enlightening. We already know what the CBO is going to say before he says it. Breslow may just be a little more artful than Bloom was.

O'Neill '24 2.5 fWAR Renfroe '21 2.6 fWAR They can always find these guys IF THEY WANT TO.

He could be replaced, but I wouldn't have brought him back. His contract isn't worth it IMO. There were other similar bats for cheaper. Sox didn't grab them though.

Probably needs to do a lot of rehab considering his shoulder injury.

It's great news for the Sox if he Grissom can turn into a 4th OFer.

One year for a QO guy? Pass.

Send Grissom to LF.

https://www.spotrac.com/mlb/agents The only agencies close to Boras are Wasserman and CAA IMO. Boras' name seems to come up more than others, but I'm not running a spreadsheet on this one.

The most people will say it's the best.

Well, Pythagoras had them as big time underperformers last season and they've signed more FA MLB players this offseason than the Red Sox. I think they can limp to 60 wins.

Paul DeJong RHB Good Defender Experience at 3B

AL East NYY 87 wins BOS 84 wins BAL 83 wins TB 83 wins TOR 82 wins

Octopussy is far superior to Casablanca because it's in color and features James Bond in a crocodile submersible. "Of all the croc joints in all the towns in the world, she swims into mine." "I'm shocked, shocked to find that gatoring is going on in here." "Bellow it, Sam." "We'll always have the Nile."

We made it...

When you don't spend, it's all you got.

I kind of agree that it's hard to pin down what this team will be. At best, this starting rotation could be dominant and the Sox offense is just good enough (Devers, Casas, Duran, Campbell, Anthony) to slide them towards 90 wins and an easy playoff birth. At worst, injuries and bad defense hampers the pitching while the offense suffers through a mediocre year as the Sox fall below .500 again.

It's more about the "vibes" of him being the big dog rather than him actually being the big dog.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LdTe2EbrLk

The hitters that were drafted really didn't show much at all. Every guy had an OPS under 500! Neely, Clarke, Aita and Tygart got decent signing bonuses. If I had to hitch my cart to two of those 4 horses it would be Neely (closer) and Tygart (bulk innings guy like Crawford). We've already heard a lot about Cason and Tolle so not much of a need to mention those two.

Boras isn't in a hurry because all he cares about is the total dollars involved. He'll drag this on until players start reporting.

We would have found something else to talk about if we had to. Trading Casas or Abreu still has a lot of mileage left.

Well, we don't want to trade for Arrenado's contract and we don't want to have to bid against other teams for Bregman or give him a long contract (the better player). What to do? What to do?