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Those are his boys. He would never. Raquel is the team mom. Can't let her go!

He wasn't suspended. Urias was suspended for 20 days the first time it came up with him.

Snell only pitching in the 7th inning 3 times last season. He's just really overrated IMO.

He's not a top of the rotation guy, but Clevinger pushes Houck to the bullpen for sure. He had 10 QS last year and a 3.40 ERA if you ignore his very last start. Aside from 3 bad starts, he had a strong 2023.

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The problem is that frustration is so high right now, building up around the park won’t matter if no one is coming to games anymore. I think Henry firmly believes spending around $225 million for payroll should be enough to field a competitive team. It sounds more and more like he didn’t think Bloom made the right moves with the money he was allotted to spend. Whether that’s fair or not is another discussion. Breslow seems to be entering a similar paradox of finding the best talent for a set payroll. There are successful teams with lower payrolls, but the best players require top money and the best players help win games more often than not. I’m sure Henry looks at the likes of the Mets and Padres of last year as spending exorbitantly and not winning, so that likely further validates his view trying to win within a set payroll window. This coupled with his love affair with Billy Beane's early 2000 A's is why the Sox are where they are right now. Without a strong voice like Larry pushing Henry to spend, he's just going to say "oh, we should be winning on less money. Look at how my hedge funds did. Look at how Billy Beane did with no name undervalued guys." The problem with his logic is that Beane never won a WS and the most recent WS champion just went full throttle the past two years. Henry is obsessed with the undervalued asset gimmick and that is very hard to pull off when half of the league is trying to do the exact same thing.

This team typically went over the CBT or used up as much as it could. Under Bloom, it left extra money on the table in '23 for no reason. In '22, it went over the CBT because Bloom dithered at the deadline and couldn't get back under causing their QO rewards to be diminished. This has been widely recognized. They mismanage the "cap" and they are further under it than in recent history and will be going forward according to reports.

@GlenielGarcia2 On a Spanish interview Jorge Soler smiled and confirmed that the Red Sox have been in contact and that Miami has not reached out to him.

Terrible post, moon! Get it together man!

Anyone good with money doesn't own a boat.

@kileymcd IF Michael Chavis has agreed to a minor league deal with the Mariners, per source.

Winning a WS on a shoestring budget is Henry's Rosebud.

Agreed. Dumping one salary isn't going to affect the value of the Sox measurably. Destroying attendance though?

The Mystery Team is apparently busy being in on Belichick ATM.

The 2023 Sox was the second lowest they've been under the luxury tax threshold since Cots started tracking the year end CBT in 2012. The lowest was the garbage 2020 roster, but only 2M less than '23.

We have Devers for the next few years anyway. I have read reports about the Sox shopping Story and Masa to reduce payroll. Would that allow them to use the savings on other players? Maybe. Maybe not. Even though the Masa and Story contracts are a lot of money, neither of them feel like big money contracts, right? Neither of them felt like a splurge in the days of 200-300M deals for legit stars.

Maybe Boras is gonna buy the Red Sox?

I have to level with you, moon. Sometimes you write so much, that it's hard to figure out what your specific intent is. So please forgive other posters if they misread or take one sentence out of context.

Also, the amounts that players get in arbitration doesn't necessarily reflect what they would get on the free market.

An ace every 3-4 years? That seems like a stretch. I think if they developed one a decade it would be fine. The problem is that they aren't developing anything more than backend starters and a #3 every once in a while. The last time they developed a near ace was Lester almost 20 years ago.

No.

@jonmorosi Reese McGuire and the Red Sox agree on a 1-year deal worth $1.5 million.

@ByRobertMurray Source: Tyler O’Neill, Red Sox settle at $5.85 million, avoiding arbitration.

Did you have enough parking lots?

And now he's just a B.