Bellhorn04
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No, Brez is still with us. -
Much like the team on the field the last few years, the Boston Front Office Front Runners tend to run out of steam and basically fall apart down the stretch.
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Unfortunately this post feels like deja vu all over again.
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See, in one of the Red Sox Operations committee meetings someone said something about balancing the L-R thing. He was talking about offense, but it kind of got lost in translation. Easy to understand how these things happen. They'll learn from their mistakes as they go along.
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"We tried our asses off this offseason. I think everyone saw how many guys we were connected to. We just didn't line up the way we wanted to line up. But don't think for a minute this doesn't mean we're not going to keep trying to bring the kind of team that Red Sox fans expect." Take it from there...
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Red Sox Showing Interest in Walker Buehler
Bellhorn04 replied to Matthew Lenz's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
What's safe about Sandoval, other than that it's a safe bet we won't see him until after the ASB, if then? As for the "long run", we only have him for one full healthy year at most. -
Max Fried might be a pretty nice get for them. Bellinger might be a good move too. The thing is they just don't stop making significant moves.
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Red Sox Showing Interest in Walker Buehler
Bellhorn04 replied to Matthew Lenz's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
They're both very good pitchers. I'd take either. We'll get neither. -
I hate to say it but my growing belief is that this current iteration of our front office has nothing in the way of a coherent plan. So far our offseason has basically consisted of acquiring 4 left-handed pitchers. Maybe that was the secret mission - stock up on lefty pitchers and forget about everything else...
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Agree with the first sentence, but needless to say that was a totally different kind of transaction from signing a free agent like David Price, with the track record he had.
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Red Sox Showing Interest in Walker Buehler
Bellhorn04 replied to Matthew Lenz's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Same. But I'm getting very used to being disappointed by this front office. -
All you can really do is eat the loss and move on. David Price was instrumental in the 2018 title. The whole objective of playing is to win the title. So I never regret that signing for an instant. Nor do I regret the Sale extension. These things happen when you're trying to win. In spite of the so-called disasters of Price and Sale, the 2021 Sox made it to the ALCS. Because they still had some really good players left from 2018-2019, and because Chaim Bloom had a very good year as CBO.
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You're mostly right. However, you could say Giolito was a reclamation project because he was so horrible for the last 2 months of 2023. It wasn't what you'd call a really committed signing. Plus it had an opt-out after 1 year if Giolito did well. So all in all it's probably fair to lump these signings together as "shopping in the markdown section".
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We're making fun of teams outspending us by $150 million+ (including tax) for exercising fiscal restraint?
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Seems a bit hyperbolic to me. It would have to be a very poor or badly-run team to be set back more than a decade by one bad signing.
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And I still disagree on that, of course. The last two champions relied heavily on free agents (Freeman,Ohtani, Yamamoto, Seager, Semien, Eovaldi). With Fried and Burnes of course you're paying heavily for their track records. Houck and Bello don't really have track records yet.
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And yet they make offers to both of them, which adds to the weirdness...
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If we trade Crawford, from last year we'll have subtracted his 183.2 IP and Pivetta's 145.2 IP and added Crochet's 146.0 and Giolito's NIL. I don't think it's a good idea, because Crawford has value as an innings eater, and by now we should now just how valuable that is. I certainly support the idea of getting a better catcher and reliever...
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It's been a weirdly hodgepodge approach since Bloom was hired, and it seems to be more of the same this offseason. Crochet is the one encouraging move. But they haven't touched the bullpen or the bad defense. Something just isn't right behind those doors.
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I think both points can be true. Being a nice guy won't save you if you suck. But with Chapman you're undeniably bringing in extra baggage. My gut feeling is that it's not going to be a signing we look back on fondly.
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They can be extra harsh with some.
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The bullpen as it stands looks worse than last year, am I right? There will be different bodies, and some hopes for improvement, but basically they've done jacksquat about it so far. I also think Chapman was a pretty poor signing. He's got 2 strikes against him in the image department, one off the field and one on it (multiple big playoff homers given up). He walks a lot of guys and is often an adventure. If he struggles the fans will be harsh.
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No, basically I'm just venting. The Red Sox keep proving that if you have a quarter in one hand and interest in the other, it's worth a gumball...
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But that's just our old friend the "i" word.
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The more I think about what they've accomplished with the pitching so far, the more I don't like it. Hopeful about the Crochet trade, but the rest of it looks like just more negligence and more playing on the margins. Giolito's 38.5 million is the biggest contract handed to a starting pitcher since Eovaldi's extension in December, 2018. That's incredible. As for Burnes and the offer we reportedly "prepared" for him, Jeff Passan doesn't even list the Red Sox among the candidates to sign him. We're still not serious players.
