This offseason has been pretty f'king weird in general. Crickets/Ohtani/Crickets/Yamamoto/Crickets.
I smell a Scott Boras outburst somewhere in the near future.
While with Giolito, we're in the position of hoping it was his divorce that resulted in him being used for batting practice the last 2 months of 2023 and that he's all over that now.
Supposedly we're about $40 M under the first tax threshold as it is. Payroll room should not be an impediment to signing Monty or Snell. "The price is too high" certainly could be, of course.
I'm guessing Werner deeply regrets that choice of words now. What he said was "full throttle in every area" but of course those two words sounded like "we're spending, baby" to just about everyone.
Yeah, still not trusting our owners and front office very much. This quasi-competing-while-we-rebuild theme gives them an excellent excuse to keep the payroll down and the profit up for one more year at least.
They're still trying to get the hang of the messaging part.
Just to be clear, for me this is not about siding with the players. I'm not shedding any tears for Lester, Betts and Bogaerts. They got paid handsomely.
It's about siding with the fans.