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  1. Bellhorn04
    Well I wanted it, so yeah, I like it.
  2. Bellhorn04
    After falling short on Soto and Fried, Henry might have decided to flip the Punt switch again. Sure looks that way.
  3. Bellhorn04
    Hey, McGuire is still out there.
  4. Bellhorn04
    So going into Christmas, our biggest contract given to a healthy player is Chapman at 10.75 million. Our biggest contract period was given to a rehabber.
  5. Bellhorn04
    We seem more like passive aggressive.
  6. Bellhorn04
    Wong stinks, we traded his successor, we haven't signed anyone. We did trade for the Yankee minor leaguer who looks somewhat promising. But it's one more area of head-scratching.
  7. Bellhorn04
    I think they can use up the rest of the offseason now debating about whether to make a big offer to Bregman and ultimately deciding against it.
  8. Bellhorn04
    And Passan doesn't even list us a Front Runner for Burnes. "Burnes' suitors include the Giants, Blue Jays and Orioles," https://www.espn.com/mlb/insider/story/_/id/43042910/mlb-offseason-2024-25-free-agency-trade-rumors-update-passan-arenado-bregman-burnes-alonso
  9. Bellhorn04
    No, Brez is still with us.
  10. Bellhorn04
    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.
  11. Bellhorn04
    Unfortunately this post feels like deja vu all over again.
  12. Bellhorn04
    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.
  13. Bellhorn04
    "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...
  14. Bellhorn04
    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.
  15. Bellhorn04
    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.
  16. Bellhorn04
    They're both very good pitchers. I'd take either. We'll get neither.
  17. Bellhorn04
    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...
  18. Bellhorn04
    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.
  19. Bellhorn04
    Same. But I'm getting very used to being disappointed by this front office.
  20. Bellhorn04
    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.
  21. Bellhorn04
    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".
  22. Bellhorn04
    We're making fun of teams outspending us by $150 million+ (including tax) for exercising fiscal restraint?
  23. Bellhorn04
    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.
  24. Bellhorn04
    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.
  25. Bellhorn04
    And yet they make offers to both of them, which adds to the weirdness...
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