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And I assume a trade return for Smith would be HIGHER than a return for Paredes. Not sure they'd do Abreu for Smith.

Walker/Altuve/Pena/Correa would be an old IF. If not old in age, old in spirit.

I can already see the press conference at ST where he talks about the roster being finalized and not being able to get a deal done for 2b, but that he's happy with the group he has. "Obviously, we were pursuing multiple impact players and we weren't able to line up for what ever reason with the other side. We got uncomfortable with the players were willing to put into deals. We were aggressive, but we're happy with the guys that we brought into camp. We felt like it was best to leave our group as it was and use what I think is a strong and deep system to compete for the playoffs this year."

Alonso looks like a rat. Probably sneakily a bad guy too. Pass.

I think Contreras will actually have higher fWAR than Alonso this year.

And teams can trade players before they actually have to start paying them the large extension $$$'s at the end of their contracts. The luxury tax is just a function of the CBA. Aside from calculating the additional tax (pennies TBH) and draft pick issues, most of the arguments on here have been "well shouldn't the owners be able to make money." Well, they are using cash paid, not lux tax basis, in determining operating income for the year and what to pay out as distributions.

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I thought they were a mid-market team now? That's what I've seen on here. Also, I need to worry about the team making money rather than signing players!

Probably would give him an extension at the press conference.

12 DRS in RF. Why move him back to 3B? Scouts already said that his home was going to be COF.

The truck leaves in 6 days. Pitchers and Catchers report in 2 weeks. At some point, it needs to be wrapped up as Breslow will run out of time. Were' 80% of the way to full squad workouts at this point.

He's similar to Rafaela in that he's athletic to hit every pitch. However, he's not showing Rafaela's power potential seen in MiLB. The hit tool has been fine. He either needs to take more bb's or add power.

It's January 27th...

How operating income did the Red Sox have just on baseball per Forbes (since the amounts don't include the real estate ventures)? Where did that rank? Big losers?

Abreu 5/8/25 - EOY 693 OPS For a guy you have to platoon, he runs too hot and cold for me worry about trading.

Take Paredes and add some prospect capital rather than 40 man filler.

Barring injury, it's a rotation that should get you to the playoffs.

Story hasn't been a plus offensive player since 2020. If he's batting in the top 5, it's not ideal. He's not "a hole," but he's not always providing great at bats.

Players don't want to stick around for 10 years though?

I'm not a subscriber either. Arias is an extremely advanced hitter already, playing all of 2025 at age 19, so much so that the Red Sox challenged him by moving him up from Low A after just 19 games there in April (and only 54 games there in total). He responded with one of the highest contact rates of any hitter in High A, regardless of age, striking out just 8.9 percent of the time, second among qualifiers behind a 24-year-old org player, while flashing some of his power potential and playing strong defense at short. He rarely swings and misses, with an overall whiff rate of just 12 percent on the year, and just 4 percent on pitches in the zone. He might benefit by swinging a little bit less often — at least until he gets stronger and can do more with the contact he is making, as right now he’s getting the bat to the ball but doesn’t square it up consistently enough, with a weird spike in his pop-up rate in High A last year. He’s barely begun to fill out physically, with room to add probably a full grade of power as he matures, but he’s such a smart hitter that he’s moved up the chain faster than most prospects his age. He’s a natural shortstop with excellent instincts and is at least a 55 defender there already, probably plus or better in the end. He’s less of a finished product than the other players around him in this range of the list, but if he were a college sophomore right now, we’d be talking about him as a potential 1-1 pick in 2027.

No, he said he'd be in the conversation for 1-1 in the 2027 draft, bucko... Law is also the highest guy on Arias. Nobody else has him evaluated like that.

I think I can safely say that the Sox won't be trading with HOU this offseason if it hasn't happened by now.

Erring on the side of caution by signing a DH to play OF. Kinda wild to me.

I would have re-signed Pedro and traded Schilling that offseason.

Wrong, when the Sox are #3 in baseball revenue IMO.