The real question is whether the Red Sox 2023-2024 offseason plan for the rotation made sense as a whole, the plan being to remove Chris Sale and add Lucas Giolito and do nothing else. If you were told before the offseason that was the entirety of the plan, what grade would you give it on a 1 to 10 scale, from terrible to awesome?
It's not too often I enjoy seeing the Red Sox get burnt on a trade, but I'm enjoying this one, because I think they're getting burned for being too cheap and too clever.
This team has been fun to watch a lot of the time. Cora is managing well and the players are busting their asses.
It's the front office that has f***ed up once again. They are the failures. Because of their failure, we have the prospect of it making sense for the future of the team to sell off. It sucks.
These things are all intertwined. Henry and his decisions have a lot to do with being a .500ish team 3 years in a row and being all in a tizzy about whether to buy or sell 3 years in a row.
They're both baseball talk. Which is better or worse is strictly a matter of personal opinion.
Some people are tired of speculating about deadline selloffs for the third year in a row.
And of course we always cherry pick the examples that suit our bias. There are other starting pitcher signings that are doing well.
But yes, every pitcher signing is risky.
Signing more starting pitching would be "going over for the sake of going over" with these guys, it seems. It's not like it was an actual need or anything. It's not like the one guy they signed was immediately out for the season.
They reset last year. Oddly enough, it had no impact on this year.
Much to everyone's surprise, Kennedy announced to the world in January, with plenty of offseason left, that the payroll would actually be lower this year.
I think most of the booing of Red Sox fans these days is directed at the guys who run the team-owners and front office.
The team itself has provided a lot of pleasant surprises and good moments.
But if the rotation falls apart it's gonna be another ugly finish.
If the starting pitching continues to unravel, it's yet another case of massive negligence by the Red Sox front office.
Not surprisingly there's some chat that other teams have adapted to the changes in pitching approach instituted by Bailey. That's the way this stuff works now. All analytics all the time.
To be fair, yes, Grissom was a victim of that tragic fire, but he was also involved in the second space mission, and was prominently featured in The Right Stuff, so he's famous for more than just his sad death.
You'e 100% full of s*** with this. Over and over I have conceded the injury risk with Sale, never once denied it. Go ahead and check my posting history.
But you have that straw man built and you're not letting it go. Pathetic.
They had a clear shot at signing Imanaga. All they had to beat was 4/53. And they were reportedly very interested. They decided to add to their growing legacy as Interest Kings.
If they had signed Giolito AND another legit starter, trading Sale would make more sense, because the numbers would have become unwieldy. I thought that's what they were going to do.
But they didn't sign one even after Giolito got injured.
That tells you it's all about the budget.