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Which ones? Not Liverpool. Not the Penguins.

Just showing his true self.

That was over a decade ago. Let it go man....

Gallo has been a below average fielder the past two seasons.

There weren't any guys on the FA market that were worth the contract over that time. 2020 - Cole/Strasburg/Wheeler/Ryu/Keuchel/Hamels/Gibson/Gausman - couldn't spend! 2021 - Bauer/Stroman/Morton/Smyly/Kluber - bad class! 2022 - Scherzer/Verlander/Stroman/Ray/Gausman/ERod - mix of old guys and guys Sox don't value enough 2023 - Verlander/deGrom/Rodon/Bassitt/Kershaw/Taillon/Walker/Eovaldi/Eflin/Clevinger - went over in '22, can't go over again!!!

Wacha and Turner shouldn't be counted on any list as "losing out" on guys. Both were fine enough, but... Betts is tier 1. Bogey is tier 2 (mainly because of the guy above him). ERod, Eovaldi are tier 3. Schwarber, Turner, Wacha and everyone else is tier 4 and below.

Casas will be better IMO. Devers will be about the same. It just got magnified because of how horrible SS and 2B was as well.

I would sign Duvall and play him in LF. Push Masa to DH for the majority of this starts. I think that fixes most of the OF defensive woes. I know Duvall has played most of his career in CF and RF but I think he's slowing down a bit at his age and Fenway may be a little too big for him in RF.

The Red Sox didn't have an impossible budget situation either..........................

For children?

It's all it ever has been.

The only caveat is that you can watch the MiLB teams now. The POR team should be fun to watch this Spring.

Gee, how do teams like the Dodgers keep doing it in impossible budget circumstances?!?!?!?

Bloom just needed one more offseason to dawdle and he could have figured it out!

The turnover has nothing to do with Bloom. It has everything to do with ownership not wanting to spend to keep people around. One of Mookie or Xander should still be here. Benintendi is an ok MLB player. It's fine that he's gone as he's a little overrated. Vazquez is too expensive for what he is, so fine. JD has been pretty good since he left. Seems like maybe a missed opportunity to keep him around because they don't want a fulltime DH? ERod has been worth his contract everywhere he went. Sox should have re-signed him. The TEX Eovaldi deal was really reasonable. The Sox rotation desperately needs a guy like him too. If the Sox rotation was Giolito/ERod/Eovaldi/Bello/Pivetta, I think we'd feel a little better about their chances this year. Brasier sucked at the end, but went to the Dodgers to develop a cutter and became a lockdown reliever. That's more of a mark on the Sox pitching dept than anything else... So there's about 5 other guys that could still be here if not for Sox incompetence.

I mean, the Sox haven't given us anything else to talk about.

You'd think they'd want someone at the top of the rotation, but the Sox couldn't possibly afford to do that either via trade or FA!!!!

He's played it before.

It would be worse than Duvall and Turner as Soler is a DH only bat. He has no other utility.

@tylermilliken_ . @BNightengale still believes the Red Sox are signing Jorge Soler. "The Red Sox have been relatively quiet all winter (with the only noise being the fanbase screaming for action) but the unrest should at least be momentarily subdued with a Soler signing."

That's pushing either Abreu or Rafaela to AAA?

Gonzalez stinks. Absolutely terrible. He's well behind Reyes for anything.

@tylermilliken_ Another week of @JonHeyman saying he thinks the Red Sox are going to do something. Connects them to Jorge Soler, J.D. Martinez, Blake Snell, and Jordan Montgomery. Heyman did say it seems like ownership is busy with Liverpool.

Without knowing the actual 26 man roster, my guess is that it would be either Reyes or Refsnyder.

"She fell down the stairs your honor."