@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.
We said that last offseason. It's a strong FA class because those players are leaving other teams. Those other teams will need to fill those holes. That doesn't make it easy for the Sox to pick those guys up or really even suppress salaries. I understand why teams aren't jumping all over Bellinger, Snell and Montgomery. Those three players aren't exactly slam dunk FA signings.
The way to really improve the D would have been to slide Story over to 2b (since he's going to need to get out of the way for Mayer eventually) and acquire a glove first SS for the short term.
It seems to me that if they thought he was worth the money, they would have given it to him. They keep getting linked to him, but are probably hoping for a deep discount so that the contract matches what they feel he is worth (i.e. much less than what was projected prior to the offseason).
I said EARLIER that a weak side platoon for 1b wasn't much to worry about. It was a bigger deal to attain a platoon bat when Dalbec was the primary 1b IMO.