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  1. Bellhorn04
    You really and truly think $4M could impact how much they offer Moto?
  2. Bellhorn04
    And if you're a Sox fan, what a year to need a FA starting pitcher.
  3. Bellhorn04
    Don't rule out the Jays on Moto either. They almost came up with enough money for Ohtani, after all.
  4. Bellhorn04
    Why would you be shocked if it's the Dodgers? Like you said they need pitching. And they are obviously going all in. Pretty attractive destination, and now Ohtani is there.
  5. Bellhorn04
    Hahahahaha....good one moon.
  6. Bellhorn04
    I have a feeling the Dodgers are in hard on Moto too. And now they have a nice new selling point named Ohtani... The excitement for Sox fans will be confined to watching the real high rollers duke it out.
  7. Bellhorn04
    The Dodgers also got Mookie to defer a bunch.
  8. Bellhorn04
    The Mets, Dodgers and apparently the Yankees as well have decided to "Don't worry, be happy" when it comes to the tax reset thing.
  9. Bellhorn04
    As a bean-counter I'm looking forward to seeing what the AAV turns out to be with the deferrals. Jeff Passan says: Ohtani's deal is expected to wind up somewhere in the range of $40 million to $50 million a year. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/39078719/shohei-ohtani-contract-los-angeles-dodgers-passan Dodgers are crafty, man.
  10. Bellhorn04
    It was a lousy stab at fan appeasement if that's what it was.
  11. Bellhorn04
    Keep in mind that we'll never know what's actually going on, any more than we know if it was Bloom's fault we invested no more than $10 mill in a starting pitcher...
  12. Bellhorn04
    You do raise a good ugly question there.
  13. Bellhorn04
    The Full Throttle Gang still has the wheels in the garage making a lot of tuneups and modifications. They're not sure now if it'll be ready to drive in 2024 or not.
  14. Bellhorn04
    Maybe because the Ohtani contract reinforces the idea that some organizations are all in and prepared to spend crazy if necessary, and the Red Sox aren't one of them. If we had some optimism about signing Moto it would be different. But I think the optimism in that area is gone. And the Dodgers signing Ohtani might actually give them a better chance of signing Moto. Just reading a piece in the Athletic by Chad Jennings and Jen McCaffrey. They're the ones who quoted someone in the Sox organization as saying the approach under Breslow is remarkably the same as it was under Bloom, and you can tell they're starting to get a little uneasy about it.
  15. Bellhorn04
    Not a whole lot. It was a head-scratcher at the time. Nobody could really make sense of it except as the Bogaerts replacement thing, which most people didn't like. I guess I'd prefer to think they're not stupid enough to be provoked by fan unrest into a bad $140 million signing.
  16. Bellhorn04
    FSG keeps expanding. I think they're getting into golf now too.
  17. Bellhorn04
    It's possible, but it was a pretty strange choice of moves to please the fans with.
  18. Bellhorn04
    It's been a step down so far. Story is a better fielder than Bogaerts, but he has missed a ton of games and his offensive numbers have been lousy.
  19. Bellhorn04
    FWIW there is speculation that so much of Ohtani's money is deferred that the AAV might get knocked down to $50 million or so, which would put it in the range that was expected going into the offseason.
  20. Bellhorn04
    JH will blame Brez.
  21. Bellhorn04
    Let's hope the Moto drama doesn't drag out too long.
  22. Bellhorn04
    If the Red Sox big plan for this offseason was to go all in on Moto, it might be a pretty dumb plan. Let's say there are 5 big spenders in on Moto. I can't see anything that would give us an edge over any of the other spenders. Even if we the same shot as the other 4 teams, that would give us a 20% chance of success. That's really "hope as a strategy".
  23. Bellhorn04
    There are some folks speculating that signing Ohtani doesn't put the Dodgers out of the Moto bidding, that it might actually improve their chances. And Ohtani is apparently deferring most of his money so that the Dodgers have more cash to play with right now for more upgrades.
  24. Bellhorn04
    And Steve Cohen is probably thinking right about now that he can use the $700M he didn't spend on Ohtani to sign Moto, Snell and more.
  25. Bellhorn04
    I saw a quote, can't find it again, but someone in the Red Sox organization commented that the transition from Bloom to Breslow has been so smooth that it's like nothing has changed at all. It seemed to be intended to sound like a good thing.
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