Bellhorn04
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At the moment, the literary model for this offseason seems to be Waiting for Godot...
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1) On Sept. 26, 2019 John Henry said: "This year we need to be under the CBT and that was something we've known for more than a year now. If you don't reset there are penalties so we've known for some time now we needed to reset as other clubs have done." 2) On Oct 25, 2019 Bloom was hired. 3) The Red Sox projected 2020 payroll for tax purposes is currently 20 million or more over the tax threshold. Does that explain it?
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Bloom is more of a James Joyce type.
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I'd take the first.
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There's not really a huge difference in those scenarios.
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We're all wired differently, there's that too...
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The past, present and future all matter, right? If it's a 75-80 win team but Bloom has positioned us well for 2021, don't you take that into account?
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At this point which significant FA SP'ers are left?
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I'm looking at the one year PLUS the facts that Cashman made those comments and traded him. His view counts a lot more than mine.
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The question is whether the Red Sox have the "luxury" (ha-ha) of waiting that long, assuming they are committed to getting below the $208.
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Maybe so. But there's no getting around what happened with Sonny Gray. Cashman didn't just trade him, he told the press virtually the moment the season was over that he was going to trade him because it 'won't work here'.
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He also delivered in 2018, including the postseason. He helped get that ring.
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That's what we focus on with all this forum jibber jabber, sure. But it doesn't mean what happened in the past is so quickly forgotten. If we just keep wiping the slate clean it makes it all kind of a futile endeavor.
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Obviously different guys react to pressure differently. But the guys you mentioned are a bunch of no-names who had low expectations, so it's a little different from Sonny Gray or Gerrit Cole.
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The problem is the trade simulator says we can only unload 37.5% of it. (36/96)
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And $60 million seems like too much to swallow.
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The pressure of playing for the Yankees comes from within. You saw what happened with Sonny Gray.
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You'll have to speak for yourself there.
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Put it this way, if Bloom liked the offers he was getting for Price he probably would have taken one by now, so he could move on to the next business.
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Well, I agree with Jax that the payday for Bum was surprisingly low.
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I tend to agree. The question is, if the offers for Price are unacceptable what do they do?
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You can say that about pretty much every pitcher.
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Yeah, I'm sure Bloom would rather be Ben Cherington right now.
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It's not really that bad of a mess from a strictly financial aspect. The worst contract on the books is Price's which we all know the negative value of. Bloom could clean things up in a jiffy if it was a less demanding fanbase he was dealing with.
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Please, I beg you, don't post Price's trade value again. This is about the dozenth time you've done it.
