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Who is out, besides Bello & Crawford?

But hey, we got Roland the Headless THOMPSON Gunner, TORO, TORO, TORO and EATON disorders.

Combined, the three are 19 for 65 (.292) with 8 HRs and 15 XBHs and 22 RBIs.

Sox have scored in all 8 innings, including crooked numbers in 5 of them.

The NRI's Toro, Thompson and Eaton are really putting on a show, so far this spring.

Story has gone so long without an extended "groove," I'm thinking this is helpful.

It looks like bello & Crawford will start the season on the IL, so the glove Fitts Richard.

Good point!

Good to see Story Time showing signs of changing his genre from Fantasy and Dystopian to Thrillers & Suspense.

They did only get 9 GS from their ace (Sale,) but yes, they mostly used just 5 SP'ers (all with 22+ GS) Houck got 13, Sale 9, Peacock, Seabold and Crawford 1 each. (Richards was demoted to the pen.)

Uehara has some very nice seasons right before BOS got him. They knew they got a good RP'er, but yes, nobody expected THAT GOOD!

Agreed. Money now can be invested and create way more money for later, but when you look at how many athletes that made a lot of money, but are now broke, maybe they wish they has deferred money in their contracts.

I usually say $95M/3. others say $31.7 x 3, or $31.7 AAV x 3. That being said, he will still get the deferred money. $20M a year is deferred until 2035 to 2046. I understand how and why they count the deferred money differently, but he still gets it.

Word is, the final Jays offer to Vladdy was under $600M, so that gives us some sort of idea what he might be asking for. (Note: he may not even get what the Jays offered. It may depend on how he does in '25. He'll also be a year older.)

On Abreu.... https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2025/03/wilyer-abreu-red-sox-opening-day-virus-illness.html

I guess I could have written another 5 paragraph post, but I felt that responding to a post about what Crochet and Anthony said, I was talking about them, ot Sox management. I do think Crochet must have injury concerns. I'm not sure Anthony is all that worried.

One of the "A's" stands for "ANUAL."

Yes. One could argue that was the major difference about 2021. What we did that deadline (and afterwards with the Iggy & Shaw additions.)

True. One could argue we just needed Sale and Erod to play a full 60 game season. We did not have much depth, though, as we found out. That was what I was focusing on with my point about this roster construction. (2024 was better than '22-'23, too.)

We could do well without everything going right, but I agree, we will need "a lot" going right. I have seen an uptick in the amount of players on the roster where we can legitimately have some hope of "things going right" than from 2020 to 2023, and that may include 2021 (on paper the winter beforehand.) If Crochet, Buehler or Houck struggle or get hurt, we have more choices of somewhat promising replacements in Gio, bello, Crawford and then Fitts, Priester, Criswell and maybe even Dobbins. The pen has a mess of question marks, but there may be 15-17 pitchers with some sort of decent promise or history. If Story gets hurt, I feel better about Rafaela, Mayer and Romy than I did with others, over the past 2-3 years. If an OF'er gets hurt or declines, we have several options that look better than past years. 2B has so many wishful thinking players, it's hard to keep track. This position has been god-awful for a couple years and not-so great for 3-4 years before that. I know we'd all rather have one known, great 2Bman, and having 5 mediocre players can be viewed as no better than having 1 fully healthy mediocre 2Bman. I get that, but my point is, if some of the guys we think we need to do great do not, we may find someone else who surprises us, of just repeats what they have done in years past. We do need Devers and Casas, IMO. We don't have anyone to take their place and role. Our catcher position is the exception to my depth point. There is not hope in anyone beyond Wongand Narvaez, and with those tow, my hopes are not very high.

One weird thing I noticed is that the off season before 2021 did not look any better than before 2022 and 2023.

So, what Cora says can't always be taken at face value.

Maybe. I don't know. Maybe this is how he felt all along, elbow barking or not. I don't get why what I said is causing such a commotion.

The post I replied to said "Crochet and Anthony sound like they won't extend" I felt it was implied I was talking about the players, and the main reason they might want to extend is worry about a major injury in 2025 lowering their value. True, maybe ownership may not want to extend out of fear of an injury, too, but I was replying to the player comment.

I think someone will. I wonder how many from Anthony, Campbell and Mayer graduate from the list. Players who could be in the EOY Top 100: Arias, Perales, Cespedes, Valera Maybe Romero, Bleis, Jh and Jo Garcia. Longer shots: Early, Tolle, Sandlin, Reyes or Gonzales