moonslav59
-
Posts
103,904 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
128
Content Type
Profiles
Boston Red Sox Videos
2026 Boston Red Sox Top Prospects Ranking
Boston Red Sox Free Agent & Trade Rumors, Notes, & Tidbits
Guides & Resources
2025 Boston Red Sox Draft Pick Tracker
News
2026 Boston Red Sox Draft Pick Tracker
Forums
Blogs
Events
Store
Downloads
Gallery
Everything posted by moonslav59
-
Who Will the Red Sox Sign, This Winter?
moonslav59 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
I don't see Chavis as the 2B first slot, right now. Arroyo is. With Munoz, Chavis and maybe Chatham is reserve with Down farther away, maybe they skip trying to add here. 1. Solid 2nd tier SP 2. Closer 3. Solid RP'er 4. Solid RP'er 5. CF (I would not bring JBJ back at more than $4M a year.) -
You read my mind. I was thinking of compiling a list of these type players, soon. Remember least year, some of us wanted to get Wil Myers as the "offset" to Price or Eovaldi, and look what Myers did this short season! .959 OPS 15 HRs & 31 XBHs in under 200 ABs
-
I agree 100%. Could we use all of the $60+M on 2-3 solid starters? Probably, but we won't. We might try to get two very good tier 2 starters and a RP'er or two, but we also need a CF'er. We could go cheap on all positions not starting pitchers.
-
Here's the highlights to the whole game:
-
Huge. I loved Dave Henderson's HR trots- one flap down. The hop & twirl after this HR was classic...
-
This year was. I never said I expected the cliff to last years, in fact I argued it should only be 1-2 years. I also said I did not think we'd ever be the worst team, as long as we stayed near the tax limit. I never thought we'd finish 4th worst, so in that sense, it got worse than I expected, but injuries to Sale and ERod were factors.
-
He was about to be the goat of that game after a fly ball that was not going to be a HR popped out of his glove and went over the fence for a HR that gave the Angels the lead. What an amazing story that game was.
-
Be in the run for a playoff slot in September is "competing," to me. I expect we might compete for a ring by 2022-2023, which means making the playoffs is the minimum expectation. (I don't expect us to come close to winning a ring in 2021.)
-
Agreed, and maybe even JD, Beni and Vaz.
-
Yes, along with JD's rebound or not. If we become sellers, next July, it might not be such a bad thing for the longer term outlook, but sucking for 3 straight years will be worse than the 3 bad years under Ben, since those weren't consecutive, and they were interrupted by a ring year.
-
They can't afford to. Bloom will likely be given a $60-80M spending budget for this winter and next summer. If we can't improve enough to compete for a playoff slot with that sort of spending budget, then my thought on Bloom were wrong.
-
ERod is not going to be traded, unless he comes back, and we suck next summer. Then, he might go- along with Barnes and maybe JD, Eovaldi and Vaz.
-
If the plan was a complete overhaul, we'd have done it already. It makes no sense to gut everything over a 2-3 year period. They'd have pulled the band aid already. We are going to try to compete for a playoff slot next year, while strengthening the longer term outlook, at the same time. If that involves trading a key player or two, so be it, but I doubt we see any deals like Bogey for prospects. Even the Betts deal brought back an immediate impact player in Verdugo.
-
Plus, it will very difficult to "lop off" dead or not-quite-dead-yet branches like Eovaldi, JD and Sale. He's not going to offer Bogey like he did Betts with Price. He may end up trading a few pieces,some next summer, if we are sputtering, but I don't see a gut. It's more likely he deals Beni, Vaz and or Barnes, but even they are questionable trade offers. He's got enough spending room to make several serious additions. My guess is he makes one major trade and keeps the rest until summer.
-
I think I like the Boyd idea better.
-
Beeks for Eovaldi. Santiago Espinal for Pearce and cash
-
The players should push hard for this and raising the min wage by a lot.
-
Work something out. Maybe have smaller fines for yearly sub limits and higher ones for 3-5 year sub limits.
-
No. A combination of several factors. I'd think they'd want to more somewhere where they could make more money. (I'm not for forcing teams to move.)
-
Exactly. No Manny: no rings. No Lackey/Vic/Napoli: no ring. No JD/Price: no ring.
-
Why are TV ratings the only criteria you use?
-
Not adopted. Big mistakes.
-
LOL. Rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated.
-
I remember the Pirates did not even sell our their World Series home games back in the day. The nice stadium is not enough. It's a football town. Great place to live. s***** baseball team and management/ownership. If they could win, they might be able to sustain profits. TB should just move.
-
I've always felt it would be easier to get towards parity, if you penalized the low spending teams for not spending rather than the high spending ones for spending too much.
