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Again, you did not answer. Did Cora pull tge strings on the Brez hire?
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Monty was not my first choice, but if we can get him plus Imanaga or Stroman, I’ll have a sliver of hope for 2024.
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But not the Brez move?
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Did you Mean to post the last sentence in green?
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Why is the fire Cora thread being used to discuss this?
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The location or chances of winning seemed to trump the earlier opt out years.
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I never said Cora would be drooling.
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Once again, a totally wrong take on my position and feelings. Weren’t you the one that said Cora was the one pulling the strings?
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Craig Breslow hired as Head Of Baseball Operations
moonslav59 replied to Tedballgame's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
I think 2019 was higher than 2018, but I could be wrong. Didn’t the reset start in 2020? -
I never said that. My point all along was that Cohen was not as sure a bet as many seemed to think he was. I mentioned the fact that the Sox could afford to bid $5M more than Cohen and was told Cohen would outbid others by $50M. Obviously that was not the case. Maybe had he offered $375M/10, LAD would have matched that, too. Not allowing the Mets to counter offer was weird. It may have forced the Dodgers to counter, again. Look, I was wrong about our odds in winning the auction, but I was not wrong about Cohen.
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He was obviously upset. Maybe part of it was that upper brass was telling him we were going to try to improve. Maybe he's as fed up with the lies as we are, and may want to bolt. If he had the big hand some think he did (does) in selecting Breslow as the next CBO, then he may want to give a rebuild a chance.
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Craig Breslow hired as Head Of Baseball Operations
moonslav59 replied to Tedballgame's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Treading water only in that they kept those 4 guys from going to free agency. The loss of Kimbrell and Kelly without even allowing for a trade to replace them was the first sign the pendulum was swinging back the other way, IMO. I do think they rightfully believed we'd still be a factor in 2019. That does not take away from the fact that the swing had begun- on purpose. -
Best notable ERA- from 2021-2023: (150+ IP) 3. Bauer 63 (less than 150 IP) 5. Woodruff 65 6. Springs 65 (less than 150) 9. Burnes 70 (weighted heavily by 2021) 12. Senga 72 (coulda-shoulda...) 15. Urias 75 (Jail time?) 17. Glasnow 76 19. F valdez 76 27. Gray 79 32. Bieber 80 (injured?) 37. Sandoval 82 (not on the trade block) 40. Castillo 83 43. Stroman 84 44. Monty 85 45, Nate 85 48. Sale 87 51. Garrett 87 52. Javier & Wacha 88 59. M Perez 91 63. Montas 93 67. ERod, Rogers & Eflin 94 78. Nola 96 80, Luzardo 97 84. Urquidy, Clevinger, Lorenzen 98 88, Bello, Ryu 99 95. Houck 100 Pivetta 105 Flaherty 106 Manaea 112 Severino 115 Crawford 116
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He's going to move up in the Sox system. I doubt he gives that up. He also sees the near MLB ready top prospects in the wings. I'd be drooling over that idea.
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What happened to the nobody will outbid Cohen idea? I realize he was not even given a chance to up his bid, but if he really wanted him, why didn't he outbid everyone ny "50M," as some suggested he would?
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One leaked non move was the one about a sell-off (Sale) and not about "giving up." I thought doing what you were told to do, then being blamed for failing and fired is what a sacrificial lamb is all about.
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How have the Red Sox fared in past free agent bidding wars?
moonslav59 replied to Bellhorn04's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
A little more than the "Price signing?" Is that some sort of sick joke? It's not even a half-hearted attempt at placating the fanbase. That sort of leak just fans the flames of discontent and exposes the fact that these guys are 8 years behind the times. -
Craig Breslow hired as Head Of Baseball Operations
moonslav59 replied to Tedballgame's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Extended them. Extended Sale & Bogey. Added nobody new. Subtracted our two best RP'ers and did not even try to replace them- not even by trade. To me, this whole path we are on began right after those extensions, which were just treading water and not for improvement. -
I'm at the point, now, where every move we make should be with 2025 or 2025 and beyond in mind. Think... O'Neill, Pivetta, Jansen and Martin trades now or at the deadline. Think... Pay off Sale's contract and trade him, now, for the best possible return- preferably a young pitcher. Don't sign any FA for more than 1 year, unless we think they will be just as good in 2025 and 2016 as they are now. Punt.
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Cora is not going anywhere. We should see some major farm infusions in the next 2 seasons. That, alone, should improve the team. How much we spend and who we spend it on will be the deciding factor.
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I think the reason he left Houston was obvious. Trash cans.
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Had we traded him for better than Alan Craig and Kelly, maybe we'd have viewed the signing in a better light.
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To me, an overpay is the expectation for any big FA signing, so Lackey fall in the middle. It was an okay to decent signing- not real good, but not bad at all.
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He's another LF/DH type. I'm sorry, I don't see a fit, at all. Okay, if we trade Duran for a 2Bman or in a package for a decent SP and to keep Cora from playing him in CF, fine.
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Eflin, Nate, Turner and Duvall were good ideas, last winter. Thinking paying Yamo a little more than Price ($217M/7) was some sort of realistic plan exposes one of two major problems, if not both: Sox management has no idea what the FA market is. Sox management thinks the fans will believe they honestly felt they might get Yamo. We could have offered Eflin another year and got him. We could have paid Nate, when he came back, hat in hand. We could have paid Gray or ERod + Lugo. We could have offered Yamo $340M/12, and if he said no, at least we'd feel like our owners tried to win.
