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Seems like a really over the top reaction to me.

And deGrom looked pretty good in his small sample when he returned this year. Like Sale he's always been an elite level talent.

Injuries are just a frustrating and inevitable part of the game.

That song is actually 50 years old LOL. Great song, great album.

I consider Dombrowski a former Red Sox 😉 and I kind of like the Phillies so I'll go with them. They remind me of a Red Sox team from the good years. 😉

RIP Pete.

The thing about pitching is, it's the one position where every team has room to improve. If you acquire a 4 WAR starting pitcher and he bumps a 1.5 WAR pitcher from the rotation to the pen you pick up 2.5 wins and also improve your rotation depth and/or your bullpen.

The Sox would be doing very well to recover more than half of Yoshida's contract, regardless of Bloom liking him.

Reese McGuire was an interesting choice for the picture. 😃

Brez saying the right thing at least.

Even though he couldn't pitch Game 162, Sale is obviously one of the main reasons the Braves are in the playoffs and the Red Sox are not.

He's usually good for saying something that makes everyone go WTF, so he's sort of entertaining in a weird way.

No, it's much bigger and there are many more fingers in the pie. Like RedBird Capital and their 10%.

The Yankees ditched Dillon Lawson, and we signed him, and look what happened! More awesome thinking from the Red Sox brain trust.

I did not mean to imply Sam's statement was about 2025. But I am looking forward to Sam's next statements, that's for sure. 😜

2024 team K/BB ratios, worst to best: Colorado Rockies 3.57 Chicago White Sox 3.55 Miami Marlins 3.50 Boston Red Sox 3.18 Pittsburgh Pirates 3.11 Detroit Tigers 3.07 Oakland Athletics 3.05 Atlanta Braves 3.03 Tampa Bay Rays 3.01 San Francisco Giants 2.95 Cincinnati Reds 2.94 Los Angeles Angels 2.94 Seattle Mariners 2.85 Baltimore Orioles 2.78 Minnesota Twins 2.76 League Average 2.76 St. Louis Cardinals 2.76 Kansas City Royals 2.71 Washington Nationals 2.68 New York Mets 2.66 Philadelphia Phillies 2.66 Houston Astros 2.63 Texas Rangers 2.62 Cleveland Guardians 2.57 Chicago Cubs 2.49 Milwaukee Brewers 2.44 Toronto Blue Jays 2.42 San Diego Padres 2.35 Arizona Diamondbacks 2.22 Los Angeles Dodgers 2.22 New York Yankees 1.97

Who's making statements about done deal spending levels? I think you misread something.

Shouldn't be long before IBP has earned a place as an acronym.

Who said they said that?

Under Henry they've never been out of the top 10 in payroll until 2023-2024. And no, that's not a product of other teams losing their minds.

I assume you mean what Sam said in January. https://www.masslive.com/redsox/2024/01/red-soxs-sam-kennedy-2024-payroll-expected-to-be-lower-than-it-was-in-2023.html

The telling fact is that they stayed under the tax threshold 2 years in a row. They re-set and stayed re-set. And of course Sam did flat out tell the world in January the payroll was probably going to be lower in 2024 than it was in 2023, to cap off an amazing offseason of mixed messages.

I think the public announcements also included some stuff about competing and about making the playoffs still being top priority. And they would never say that reduced spending is a goal.

Through the magical powers of bulls**t luck, the White Sox did indeed end up at 41-121 as I speculated. Worst winning % of modern era: 1962 Mets .250 2024 White Sox .253

3 solid years of being: Stuck in a rut. Treading water. Hamsters on wheels. Maestros of Mediocrity.