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  1. moonslav59
    It's weird how no NCAA basketball players sit out March Madness.
  2. moonslav59
    Here are the Sox largest current contracts. Which do you think are good, bad or ugly? $313M/10 Devers (to '33) $145M/5 Sale (to '24 w option for '25) $140M/6 Story (to '27 w option for '28) $90M/5 Yoshida (to '27) $32M/2 Jansen (to '24) $19M/4 Whitlock (to '26) $17.5M/2 Martin (to '24) Arb Est $8M Pivetta (last arb) $5.9 O'Neill (last arb) We have a lot coming off the books after 2024. CBT: $25.6 Sale $16.0 Jansen $8.00 Pivetta $7.50 Martin $5.85 O'Neill Total is about $53M There is no excuse to not sign a couple or 3 guys to longer term deals. Plus, after 2024, we should start seeing some real help from the farm, if things work out well. Lot's of low cost players, and the current younger group will be on early arb contracts.
  3. moonslav59
    Agreed. I was mistaken, earlier.
  4. moonslav59
    This certainly looks doable, if the will is there. BTW, cots has us under the first line by $56M, which included estimated arbs and player benefits. Add $19M to that, and the drop dead number might be $75M- less with more "wiggle room than $1M.) IMO, we have 3 major needs, and I hope the vast majority, if not all of these funds go to 3 free agents (or maybe a very good high-priced player some team wants to deal away.) It could look like this: $33M Yamo $27M Monty $15M for 2B or 2B+C or RF or $35M Yamo $20M Imanaga $10M 2B $10M C or RF I hope it's not $10M x 7 players.
  5. moonslav59
    I want to believe this, so badly.
  6. moonslav59
    There does not seem to be an easy solution.
  7. moonslav59
    soxprospectscom has us at 39 on the 40 man, but they did not add Criswell. We certainly have players we can trade or DFA to add 3-4 free agent signings, but if we add more than 4-5, we might have some spirited debates about who should stay and go. My guess is, we will try to make a 2 or 3 for 1 trade, maybe two, but maybe not all are 40 man roster players. As it stands, we lost: Paxton, Turner, Duvall, Joely, Kluber and Mondesi to free agency. We traded Dugo and Urias away. We lost some players to Rule 5, most notably Drohan & R Fernandez We added: OF Tyler O'Neill (FA) P- Isaiah Campbell (Urias trade) P- Slaten (Trade for Rule 5 player) P- Cooper Criswell (FA) P- Richard Fitts (Dugo trade) P- Greg Wiessert (Dugo trade) P- Nicholas Judice (Dugo trade) My ordered DFA/trade list: Weiss Llovera Jacques DHam (assuming we add a MI) Dalbec Mata (out of options) Kelly Criswell Slaten (Rule 5) Weissert Refsnyder (assuming we add an OF'er or Rafaela and Abreu shine)
  8. moonslav59
    Indeed. Then, they spent bigly in '23, too, and although they won it all, they sure swung and missed on deGrom. Heaney was meh. Nate did great, despite the injury.
  9. moonslav59
    I hope we don't have to rely on two trades to get 2 decent SP'ers. (I'd prefer none.) If we miss out on Yamo, and Monty, too, it won't be pretty, here.
  10. moonslav59
    I'm all for going $19.9M over the tax line in '24.... more if they have the balls.
  11. moonslav59
    You've been hanging out on The Big Corner, too much.
  12. moonslav59
    I know it could/would never happen, yet people seem to think it's as simple as saying JH should just open his pocket and fork over his own cash. I wonder how much, if any input Werner has in how much is spent on the player budget.
  13. moonslav59
    No doubt, and some teams have to win or give the impression they can win to keep viewership and ticket sales from falling and affecting the bottom line. Do you think, if the Pirates spent $100M more, this winter, they'd recoup that in increased revenue, assuming the spending worked and they made the playoffs in '24? I'm sure it is different for every city and fanbase.
  14. moonslav59
    I have said over and over, I agree with this. I want us to spend more. I think we should spend more, since we charge more and make more than a few teams spending more than us. I will not be happy, if JH turtles, again, this winter. That being said, I don't feel entitled to it. JH has spent a ton and is a businessman. I get that we are the ones paying. We are his customers and his revenue stream. That does not change how I feel. Maybe we all see the word "entitled" as having different meanings or connotations. At this point, I've said what I think. I'm done with this.
  15. moonslav59
    Well said. I certainly think losing teams are less entertaining, but I do still enjoy watching the Sox and look forward to seeing if our top "suspects" come through in the coming years.
  16. moonslav59
    You said this- not me. I'm not even close to feeling that way.
  17. moonslav59
    Like, if JH spends more, it's less money in his pocket, right?
  18. moonslav59
    I mean, if JH is reluctant to spend on say, Yamamoto, Werner could say, "I'll pay for him out of my own pocket."
  19. moonslav59
    So, every owner of every business should pay their emplOyees based on how much more or less their company makes than others? In some ways, that makes some sense, in a general way, but only a true Socialist would demand it and say the workers are entitled to it. I have no issues with any MLB team expecting more financial efforts from their owners, and agree that higher revenue teams should have higher expectations. I'm not on board with those who want to dump JH, after being a top 3-5 spender over 21 years, because he is spending the same or more than all but 2 of the last 21 years, now. I do not think we should feel entitled to this. Entitled is not the same as expecting it. Complain all we want. Maybe it will work.
  20. moonslav59
    How do you think these 3 ares of the Sox system compare to 2021? (I won't use 2020. That would be too easy.) The 26 man roster. The 27-40 slots of the roster. The farm, beyond the 40 man. Be honest and serious. Answer the questions with answers, not questions or twists to the questions. Try that, just once.
  21. moonslav59
    Reduce the profit, you mean.
  22. moonslav59
    I get that. Nobody is entitled to any rich guy's money. You can expect a better product than what you are paying for. No doubt. No disagreement from me. We aren't entitled to it, and more than 25 other teams, and if 25 teams' owners all did what their fans expected and spent $100M more, we'd gain on nobody,
  23. moonslav59
    Future team revenue, or possibly the next owner.
  24. moonslav59
    Again, my point is not about expecting or not expecting JH to spend more, because we make more and the team is valued more than many teams. My point is, every MLB team has fans that expect, could expect or should expect more spending fromt ehir owners. And, I see a distinction between expecting it and feeling entitled to it, or start demanding a new owner, despite being one of MLB's biggest spenders in the last 21 years. Despite just extending Devers.
  25. moonslav59
    True. If Brez follows Bloom's MO, we might see 5-6 mediocre to decent roster additions, instead of filling the 3 big needs with top quality players.
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