moonslav59
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This is what hurts the most. I may be totally wrong in thinking we are two solid SP'ers away from being a decent top competitor, but certainly, we'd be strong playoff contenders adding 2. Losing Jansen would hurt, but moving two guys from the rotation- like Houck and Crawford would help the pen, enormously. If the team was 5-6 players away, it might make more sense, but I don't think we are.
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We have a winner!
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I would add more to this list: A catcher to make room for Teel, most likely McGuire, who loses team control after 2025. Refsnyder, especially if we add another OF'er, or Rafaela earns a slot on the 26. Also, Mata may be traded before opening day (or DFA'd,) as he is out of options. E Valdez, since we do not need a platoon DH. Slaten is Rule 5 and may be traded or "traded for," so we can demote im to AAA. Yoshida and or Story, depending on how their value changes and how well Mayer is doing. Walter and or Murphy. Criswell and or Kelly. Trade or DFA: Jacques Dalbec DHam Heineman R Gonzalez
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Maybe just "more" insane.
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The Wolf on Lansdowne Street
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NETFLIX will run a documentary on the Red Sox in 2025. https://www.insidehook.com/sports/boston-red-sox-netflix-series
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MLBTR reported teams can do it on their first day or ST, so some teams, today- others when they report.
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This has been a very uneventful winter. The biggest story was the CBO change and not any player addition or trade. Trading Sale might normally be a huge headline, but he lost his luster, years ago. Our most noteworthy winter deals? Giolito Grissom for Sale O'Neill Fitts, Weissert & Judice for Dugo I Campbell for Urias Slaten (Rule 5) and lost Drogan & others to Rule 5 (Criswell, Heineman, R Gonzalez) Sad.
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The Red Sox can move a 40 man roster player to the 60 day IL, and create an opening, but we don't seem to have anyone that fits that role.
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Singing to the limited choir.
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No argument, here. I don't count the Gio signing as major, although it has the 2nd or 3rd highest AAV of any signing since DD. (Story is more. Yoshi is close, and it depends if Gio gets the $1M buyout for '25.))
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I got enough wrong to far outweigh that one. It may turn into a very good trade. I liked the McGuire trade, and not just for the Diekman dump part, but McGuire has not been very impressive after 2022.
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Agreed, but his problem was not the lack of moves. He made so many bad one, it forced too many moves to replace . (More like churning the bottom 15-18.) He made a good chunk of mid-level moves, too, but not enough. Many were not bad or pretty good (Pivetta, the Diekman dump, signing Renfroe, Hill, Wacha, Strahm, Kike I, Martin & maybe a few I missed.) He only made a few big moves, and the budget may have been partially to blame, for that. Plus, he blew most of these.
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So, he's more valuable than Refsnyder, right now. However, we are weaker vs LHPs, so I just don't see him as a fit for us, right now. And, I'm probably higher on his bat than many here.
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He did a lot. The roster turned over and over. We saw dozens of players on the 26 over 4 years. The problem was he didn't do enough good things. Most moves were minor ones, and that was partially due to a low budget, especially for the first 2 years.
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They all lasted the same 4 years.
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Being a back-up platoon DH is not worth all that much, unless you can rake.
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"Clear?"
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Agreed, but we likely don't have a slot for him on the 26, unless there are 1-2 injuries, or reyes sucks.
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OK. That's all I saw on MiLB.com. Fair enough, but still all small sample size, including the CC one. I don't doubt he better at platoon, but we cant know for sure, yet.
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I agree on $375M for Betts, and he probably would have taken it. I was fine with $400M a year before he was traded. Wasn't $162M/6 a lower contract ahead of time? Do we know what was offered, discussed or floated? Sure, I wish we signed Bogey for less than SDP, but by a lot. If we never offered hima reasonable deal, I agree 100%, it was a mistake.
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My line was arbitrary, for sure. One could word it like this. His major two contracts have started out poorly and don't look good, at all, so far. His $8-32M deals look more bad than good, in terms of how many sucked vs how many were good or okay. (I forgot Jansen, Martin and Barnes on my last list.) Jansen, Martin, Barnes, Richards, Kluber, Kike I, Kike II, Ottavino and if you want to count Martin Perez 1 & II combines, it would add one more to the suck column. His $3-7M deal worked out more good than bad. Is that better?
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I said he sucked on over half his big deals. Even if you count them as good deals, he still sucked on more than half. I'm counting them as incomplete that have sucked, so far. I don't see a contradiction.
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How are you so certain about his inability to hit LHPs? 2022 .868 combined levels 2023 .703 (43 ABs at AAA)
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I'm not sure COL has a big 40 man roster crunch. EValdez is probably better than their 38-40 slot players.
