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  1. Bellhorn04
    Hugh, a large number of the criticisms about the Red Sox inability to retain Mookie and their subsequent lack of spending refer directly to them being among the wealthiest teams. This is not a controversial position.
  2. Bellhorn04
    Hiring Bloom and then trading Mookie was quite a 1-2 punch.
  3. Bellhorn04
    Majorly disagree. What a lot of Sox fans have been complaining about is the team not spending as much as they could, and their ability to spend is closely related to their wealth, and wealth comes from revenue.
  4. Bellhorn04
    But if you do the calcs in comparison to revenue...
  5. Bellhorn04
    Yeah, the Tampa Bay North thing was a media creation, probably led by Mr. Shaughnessy. Mind you, by hiring Chaim Bloom, trading Mookie Betts, and basically being cheap for a 5 year stretch, the Sox have not done much to dispel the image,
  6. Bellhorn04
    Garrett Whitlock is not a minimum wage guy. 5.5 mill actual salary and 4.7 million AAV.
  7. Bellhorn04
    Personally I'm trying not to get too emotionally invested in this, because the odds are too much in favor of disappointment.
  8. Bellhorn04
    I think the consensus right now is that the 2 NY teams are the front-runners, with the Red Sox, Dodgers and Jays having a shot.
  9. Bellhorn04
    What sets Cohen apart is that he has demonstrated he's willing to dig into his own pocket, as in incur significant operating losses, to pay for talent. Plus he's reportedly worth about $21 billion. It's a case where being not just rich, but rich and crazy, gives you an advantage.
  10. Bellhorn04
    No one can outbid Cohen if he's fully committed. You have to hope it's like Yamamoto where the player decides the bidding has gone high enough and they make their decision based on where they want to play.
  11. Bellhorn04
    I think it's always been like this in pro sports, with teams made up of stars and plebes, haves and have-nots, it's just that the dollar amounts are so much larger now. The MLB system is sort of fair - if you keep producing you will get your payday.
  12. Bellhorn04
    I think it's great if the Sox really are all in on Soto. But man, beating the Yanks, Mets and Dodgers for the prize is one tough ask. Obviously it's imperative that Juan really does have some attraction to the Sox legacy. As for the money part, you have to wonder what happens if Steve Cohen decides to go absolutely nutso and offer $750 mill or something like that.
  13. Bellhorn04
    No Soto and no rotation upgrade. No offense, Andrew, but this looks like just like the last few offseasons - fiscal restraint and a semi-punt, kickin' it down the road to the rosy future. Not really feeling Clay Holmes as a way to stick it to the Yanks. That would be Soto.
  14. Bellhorn04
    I assume the Sox are doing this largely to recover half of Story's contract.
  15. Bellhorn04
    Us Knights of the Keyboard are tough critics.
  16. Bellhorn04
    I'd make the cutoff $200 mill. Scherzer and Greinke were both very good. Also I think it's fair to grade contracts that are least 5 years in and still look good, like Harper's and Mookie's. IMHO.
  17. Bellhorn04
    The story of the last 3 seasons was Half Measures.
  18. Bellhorn04
    Yeah, there's no such thing as a slam-dunk great signing. The risk is ridiculous when you're guaranteeing a baseball player $600 mill or so before he even puts your uniform on.
  19. Bellhorn04
    He'll probably get a few save chances though.
  20. Bellhorn04
    And I think all that was surely part of the sales pitch to Soto.
  21. Bellhorn04
    No Tanner Scott?
  22. Bellhorn04
    I just think we have to take a serious look at why Lawson got fired. Plenty of managers and coaches get fired and then succeed elsewhere, I realize. But I can't help being curious what it is about Lawson's approach the Yankees decided wasn't working, and what it is the Red Sox think will work for us.
  23. Bellhorn04
    Hate to say it, but the Yankees' offensive approach seemed to get better this year while the Red Sox seemed to get worse.
  24. Bellhorn04
    Yeah, I'm gonna have to say Randy took it to the next level of complaint here. If the Sox do somehow sign Soto it means they're goin' for it, which is what we want. I trust that if they're committed enough to make this happen, they're committed enough to improve the pitching too.
  25. Bellhorn04
    I do now suspect it will be similar to the Yamamoto case, where the player ultimately gets to pick which one of the high roller teams he wants to play for, with the astronomical amount of the contract obviously a given.
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