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"Perfect" in terms of how they perceived that guy to be at the time. Yes, there was significant risk because you don't know how his game would translate as well as the inherent risk of pitcher injury. Typically, Japanese pitchers do well. Maybe he's more Yu Darvish than Pedro Martinez (very good not great), but that's not a bad thing. I don't see him flaming out unless it's due to injury.

7.2 4.2 5.9 7.5 4.6 3.4 I would NOT say the samples look the same to me. Wheeler's second best season is +1 greater than Burnes. Same with the third season. Burnes is also trending DOWN, especially when you look on Statcast. That's not the case for Wheeler.

It's more about him being HEALTHY. '22 arm issue we knew about '23 came back too soon

Now? They just don't like where the current roster is positioned w/o Anthony/Mayer/Teel and weren't going to jump on anyone unless the perfect option (Yamamoto) was there.

Buoyed by his 7.5 fWAR three years ago.

There both was and was not standing offer to Montgomery if you believe it.

Utterly meaningless. I think it matters that Whitlock has added a pitch. I think it matters that Story looks confident and healthy. I think it matters that the Sox have determined that they want Rafaela to start in CF. I think it matters that Duran is still hitting. I think it matters that we've seen immediate returns from Bailey.

He'll also swing at a lot of pitches other hitters wouldn't swing at.

They met with Yamamoto and made some sort of offer. My guess is that they'll spend on a certain pitcher type at the right time. I think they just looked at this year and figured it wasn't worth spending money on this club with this FA class.

Maybe???????????????????

Sox could have offered 3/75 and he would have turned them down IMO.

Our nightmare is over.

Now I’m the one getting critiqued for word choice!!! Cancel culture run amok!!!

He did a decent job with the Cubs. Bailey did a decent job with the Giants. We'll see how it works out here.

Cora is a very good manager in a lame duck year who will be managing a better team next year. Sad.

@BOSSportsGordo Hard to not like what you saw from Richard Fitts today against the defending champs: 3.1 IP, 2 H, 0 ER, 1 BB, 3 Ks Good velocity, nice slider, felt in command. Gonna be an interesting guy to watch this year. Posted this here so that I don't get yelled at elsewhere for being too trusting.

That's the rumor since he really had no Spring Training.

Maybe? 1b's aren't really bringing in the dough the way they used to.

Prior to BOS season opener or is it too late already since LAD had their opener?

It's not like they are having Weissert take over closing duties or looked at Walter's ST numbers and pushed him into the MLB rotation. The difference between Bernardino and Weissert isn't that great. The call was really between releasing Joely and keeping Bernardino on the 26 man or keeping Joely and optioning Bernardino. Not sure they need Joely AND Bernardino.

So is everyone else.

I don't think anyone is saying that trust Bailey and Crag blindly with the pitching staff. I think, for the most part, they/we/I just believe that it should be better than it was under Bloom, because it really couldn't get much worse than what we saw the past few years. They were s*** last year, maybe they can reach boring mediocrity this year or next? Nobody here thinks this is a top 10 pitching staff or even has a future trending that direction. I haven't seen anyone make that case. I guess I don't know where you're pulling out this "trust" issue from. Should we be ranting about Bailey? He hasn't done much yet to rant about. Should we be praising Crag? I don't think anyone has praised him at all aside from being glad that he put some additional focus on pitching development which was grossly ignored for the past decade plus. Most of the opinions have been thoroughly in the middle of the road. If the Sox are going to be under Henry's misery thumb for the next few years, it's hard to get pissed off at anyone except for the people signing the checks and approving the budget.

@BOSSportsGordo Nick Yorke will begin the season in AA, per @bradfo . Gets called up once Grissom is added to BOS roster?

And if we all believe this is a last place team, what exactly is our trust meter set to? It's not set very high?