Fans can believe or disbelieve, be optimistic or pessimistic. It doesn't matter. We can't do anything. Thinking that any of our opinions or outlooks matter is what I don't get.
I don't see what 'leverage' they would have lost.
When you fire DD, hire Chaim Bloom, make David Price/Mookie Betts available, and you're in the third year of tax penalties, could it be much more obvious what the plan is?
They didn't spend much last offseason but they did sign Eovaldi for 68 mill, plus WS MVP Pearce. The lack of bullpen was a mystery, but I think most Sox fans were feeling pretty good entering the season.
OK, but I'm not seeing what Henry should have done differently. If he said there were no plans to cut payroll he would have been lying, and it would have been evident soon enough.
I get what you're saying, but the front office has to look at more stuff than we do. They know the fanbase isn't exactly enchanted right now. Ticket sales are down, unsurprisingly.
Trading Mookie for less than blue chip prospects could easily make matters much worse in that area.
And the possibility of trading him in July is still there.