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  1. Bellhorn04
    Hard to say that when they didn't offer it to him. The highest number we've heard was 300 mill, and of course Betts said that didn't happen either. I think you were probably right when you suggested they talked about 300 mill but didn't make an official offer for that much.
  2. Bellhorn04
    Denny is a bold one.
  3. Bellhorn04
    Okay Mr. Struldbrug.
  4. Bellhorn04
    If they got the extension done with Mookie, they might have done that extension with Sale anyway and not done the one with Bogaerts. They were actually pretty transparent with the fans when they had their press conference after 2018. They said they didn't think they'd be able to keep all 3.
  5. Bellhorn04
    BTW Betts has a 3.2 bWAR on May 10.
  6. Bellhorn04
    The mistake obviously was not getting the extension done with Betts. Once that happened they turned to Bogey and Sale. John Henry just didn't think Betts was going to be worth 12 years and $360 mill. He drew the line too low. It's pretty simple, really. All that said, it's easier to judge what a mistake it was when we've seen Betts prove it with the Dodgers over an extended period.
  7. Bellhorn04
    Denny, Denny...a veteran Boston sports fan should know better than to count 'em too quick.
  8. Bellhorn04
    See my post above.
  9. Bellhorn04
    If they kept Betts they had to get through a rough couple of years payroll and tax wise, that was all. It wasn't a horrible situation. Not when you're as rich as the Sox.
  10. Bellhorn04
    For reasons unknown the scouts failed to take into account his bad defensive skills and total lack of speed. Once you realized he was a DH, you realized he was an inferior version of JD Martinez at very similar money. And the fact that Bloom signed another DH last year in Turner showed that he kind of didn't know what the f*** he was doing in constructing a major league baseball team.
  11. Bellhorn04
    Many teams do, of course. The Sox are still hellaciously rich and have cleared a lot of the truly dead money. As I like to say, it's really the fans' money, they're the ones who keep it flowing into the coffers. Henry and the other owners are the ones who profit from it. They have never been personally damaged by a bad contract.
  12. Bellhorn04
    Both numbers matter. But moon was talking about budgets, which are an annual thing. And we know the Red Sox budgets are heavily influenced by luxury tax issues, which are also annual. It goes without saying that to sign a player of Betts's caliber it's going to be a long commitment.
  13. Bellhorn04
    A trade that has equal values on BTV would be realistic unless there's something obviously wrong about it, like a team that's a World Series contender and has plenty of money trading their best starter.
  14. Bellhorn04
    Let's see, in 2023: Instead of Story (23 mill AAV), Yoshida (18) and Kluber (10), total 51 mill, Could have been Betts 30 mill + 21 mill to other needs.
  15. Bellhorn04
    True, but if the suggestion is totally unrealistic, the suggester must take the heat for it...
  16. Bellhorn04
    I think Gallo's K-TB ratio may be worse than Davis's, but I can't bring myself to do the work.
  17. Bellhorn04
    On the flip side is Joey Gallo, who's had more strikeouts than total bases 3 years in a row.
  18. Bellhorn04
    None of our suggestions ever actually happen, but some of them at least are in the realm of possibility.
  19. Bellhorn04
    Rodon is not within the realm of possibility. He's pitching pretty well of late, and the Yanks kind of already knew about the injury risk.
  20. Bellhorn04
    A very bad pitching contract.
  21. Bellhorn04
    Consistently taking mvp seriously is questionable indeed.
  22. Bellhorn04
    Because Yoshida is expensive and useless, and Duran is cheap and useful - 2.5 fWAR in 102 games last year, 1.2 fWAR in 37 games this year.
  23. Bellhorn04
    But better than having Devers's extension and the same budgets.
  24. Bellhorn04
    Yoshi is best removed from the picture completely. Take the hit for Bloom's stupidity and move on. The guy is essentially useless. He'd be a middling DH, but we need the DH position for others.
  25. Bellhorn04
    So just don't write it in ink. If Mayer steps up, where does Grissom play in 2025? And then there's Yorke. They could trade Grissom, of course.
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