They need a lottery system that prevents this kind of thing, because you really can't expect all the teams to be playing to win games that mean nothing like this one.
This "Casas refused an extension so he might be gone" theory puzzles me a bit. It would be a pretty heavy-handed way to deal with a young player (and of course we don't know much they offered). And Casas's comments about it seemed fine, acknowledging that he had to get better to deserve a better offer.
They did already offer him up in trade, of course.
The fact is we have Devers, Story, Mayer, Campbell, Grissom and Casas for 4 infield spots, not even counting Hamilton or Romy.
Forking out for Bregman is extemely unlikely, IMHO.
Alex is clearly not such a hot commodity. He might be this year's Bellinger/Chapman, another Boras client coming in expecting too much and ending up hung out to dry.
Makes some sense baseball-wise, but is it enough to justify a $25 million AAV addition to the payroll for the next 6 years? Especially when the player's fit and value are both just a bit iffy.
Sure, you want me to waste my time looking up pre-season win projections for the last 3 years. I don't have to. I'm fully confident that the consensus projections for the Sox the last 3 years were somewhere in the 80-85 win range. I'm here all the time and I know we talked about the projections.
Furthermore, at the end of each of the last 3 seasons hardly anyone said the Sox underachieved significantly and hardly anyone called for Cora's head. He got an extension in fact.
If you insist on a look-up, I'll do it if I get time.