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Great answer. Thank you for your contribution. Honestly, I have never heard of such a thing before. Maybe you have. I haven't and having nobody there makes ZERO sense. Sorry, if you don't get it and don't care. Actually there should always be somebody from the FO with the team TO SEE THE TEAM PLAY. Ya' see, it's a game played on the field by real players. its not a computer game.

So here is something I touched on yesterday that gnaws at me the more I think about it. There was not one single representative of the Sox Front Office in Houston with the team at THE TRADE DEADLINE. There was a representative of Sox PR there...no shocker that....after all It's the Red Sox. But there are four people listed in that Sox Front office under Bloom and O'Halloran. Not one of the six could be in Houston with the team at the trade deadline? These would be direct reports to O'Halloran who reports to Bloom. So we are not even talking about the rest of Sox administration. Lets see, why could that be?: - hot in Texas this time of year. My Starbucks Frappaccino would melt before I could finish it - too busy looking at spread sheets - welcoming the next no account, can't play prospect to the organization - they scheduled the FO unity party this week - my laptop broke What?????? Why????????

The other three major sports are not trying to support 162 game seasons. You have 82, 82 and 17 going to 18 I think in the other three. NBA is safe if they don't expand. I don't see another period like needing Larry and Magic to pull their asses out of the fire. NHL is safe if they don't expand. NFL.....they can do no wrong....modern day gladiators....what is not to like. Like it or not, MLB is a fairly fragile thing...almost gone belly up twice. So its not out of the question.

I notice how much the Sox broadcast team plays up this "we are only 3.5 games out" thing. Yea....meaning there are 6 better teams than you in the AL. Almost half of my life watching MLB you either won the pennant or you were NOTHING. Nobody gave a crap who finished second in the league much less won some division and we would never have thought about wild cards and now multiple wild cards. I am OK with the division play but way NOT OK with the wild card system. MLB features a 162 game season. The more MLB goes to these multiple post season team systems the less relevant those 162 games. The only reason the post season means so much financially to MLB teams is because they have decent attendance for the 162. I lived through the period when the stands were just flat empty for the 162 in MLB. Mainly it was because there were too many players in the league that just could not play. Call it the Horace Clark era if you want. There has got to be a reason to go to those 162 games or the whole thing collapses. Its not like going to a regular season game is a low cost night on the town anymore.

To make more money. I doubt he will get an offer less than $13 in FA and will likely get more and he likely knows it. Heck JBJ makes $12M.

Geezus the Astros love to first pitch swing

Rafi knows he can't hit that pitch. That is why he is mad at himself. Funny....Ortiz could not hit it either. Just have to learn to lay off of it.

Thats not encouraging....well its encouraging me over to the liquor cabinet.

What MLB players are worth is a moving target. I would guess he could make at least $17 in free agency. There are 15 players making about $17M this year. There are other players making more than $17 and lots making less. Players will move for as little as a few $100k more per year than they are being offered. Likely Hosmer reneged on the Nationals and decided to approve going to the Sox because of our big market reputation. You might have been a little late on that call Eric.

We are going to get sustainable mediocrity IMO. Bloom will not be able to go Full Bloom because the business side of the Sox will resist that in defense of the Sox fan base. So Bloom will never end up with a stock of high draft picks working their way through the system. Kennedy won't let him. Sox fans are not unilaterally patient. In fact the most patient part of the fan base is dying off....old f***ers like me. We will end up with these poor man's small market prospects all over the place and the end result will be the Sox, a genuine big market team working their way to the middle year after year after year. As is the case with most of MLB we will be thrilled year after year that any team that is actually just breathing by year end gets into the post season. However I would suggest there is s trap there also. MLB features a 162 game regular season. MLB has to make those 162 games meaningful and if everybody breathing gets in to the post season, that is a hard magic act to maintain.

I calls them like I sees them

He was paid $20M per up until this option year. So if he options in, he options in at $7M per less than he was being paid.

Because 2021 is in the past and the longer Bloom has with this team the worse this is going to get. We have gone from a big market team, perennial contender to happy that MLB has changed the post season format so that virtually any team that is breathing gets in to the post season.

I don't think he is rudderless at all. I think he is trying to turn the Sox into what he is used to....a small market team. You have to give Bloom's master plan time to work itself out. If he has his way he will sift through this trash he is bringing in under the heading of "prospects" sprinkled with JAGS and broken down vets until 5 years later he has sifted through enough of them to ......make a run at the first round of the post season. The problem with that is two fold: 1) Boston is not a small market team and does not need to be shackled like a small market team 2) The Kennedy side of the Sox, the business side will fight that effort in defense of the Sox core market The result will be at best a middling result and that is where we will be....stuck in the middle. Bloom won't ever get bad enough to get some really high draft picks in here and the team won't play good enough to do anything in the post season.

Not if Hosmer opts out of his contract which is highly likely

Oh but wait......you have to give the Bloom masterplan time. Give him about 5 years to flesh through all this crap he is bringing to the organization and he will have found enough gems to make ........a run at the first round of the post season. Yeah.......hurrah........ Somehow I don't think we were interested in seeing what its like to be a small market team.

Sounds like more Jeter Downs to me. Runs fast....can't play. Better run fast to the bank to cash the checks kiddies.

You really are "GETTING OFF" on this aspect of the McGuire deal. The only comment I have for McGuire is "you could have picked a Nordstrom's or even a Dillards.....a Dollar Store????????"

So the tally is in. The Sox deadline moves clearly say WE ARE OUT for 2022 no matter what Bloom says now. ITS OBVIOUS. Bloom ends up with a few dregs prospects and a few players that can at least take the field this year. But his two moves are a Surrender Flag trade of Vaz and a reach for a lifeline deal that SD had to make when Hosmer refused to go to the Nationals in the Soto deal. SD went looking for the most glaring 1st baseman need in baseball, that of the BOSTON RED SOX. The Hosmer deal really does not include more than a rental for the Sox as there is little to no chance that Hosmer won't opt out. So what's up with JD? Why is he still here? Nobody wanted a bat even one that is suspect for the final run? I guess he is part of the Bloom "we are still in it" cloaking device.

X comment on Vaz trade. "I would not say we got better because we lost Vazquez" Oh Danny Boy Shaughnassy calls it "Tampa Bay by the Charles"

I guessing smiling emojis are not yours.

Yes its Blooms fault. Vaz should not have been anywhere near the field while Bloom was negotiating his trade with Houston. How many times have we seen players not come out onto the field for BP or for the start of the game when the GM is negotiating a trade for them. And having let Vaz out onto the field some representative of the Sox FO should have been right there lurking ready to grab Vaz as soon as Bloom called to say the deal was done. Where was that guy? Nose stuck in a spread sheet? Should have been a Sox FO guy right there to help Vaz off the field and get his s*** out of the Sox clubhouse.

Anything would be an upgrade! That said I actually like the player. But there is nothing to say we will see Hosmer in a Sox uni past this season. Hosmer will very likely opt out and that will wipe out SD's commitment to paying most of his salary for the next three years. That goes away as soon as Hosmer opts out.

But does not know anything about this staff! Simply commenting that the Sox are out on this season no matter what else they do from here. Whatever smoke and mirrors Bloom puts out there for us to swallow, they are out on this season. In addition I expect Bloom to send more guys packing and at a time when we actually need players for next year, never mind this year, Bloom will bring back....... mainly prospects with a sprinkling of JAGS and broken down vets to fill out the 2023 roster. I for one am seriously considering whether Bloom has now entered the land of Cherries as a FO exec.

If Hosmer opts out, highly likely....how much are you willing to pay to resign him. You may have a 1st basemen for the remainder of this season only......a big SO WHAT. Earth to Bloom...the season started months ago and that is when we needed a first baseman.