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No. Teams are extending younger players and this is the impact…

Why would the Sox sign a 31yo left-handed Curtis Mead coming off the best season of his career? Lowe isn’t the difference maker the Sox need; he’s redundant here, and 3 years from now folks will be trying to package him and his last two years off like they are Yoshida and Story. The only free agent bat that is intriguing me is Teruaki Sato, who is basically Murekami but with some OF skill. .392 OBP and .660 SLG in Japan. After the successesghggg that Murakami and (to some degree) Okamoto had this year, I hope the Sox can be more involved.

Old Red’s viewpoint is flat out incorrect. He might have had unrealistic expectations or (more likely) solely judges everything by some singular stat like RBIs. But to say Anthony isn’t living up to the hype is more of a statement about how little done understand hype…

Our dignity?

No it isn’t. Anthony has 545 career plate appearances with an OPS of .803 and an OPS+ of 126. At AGE TWENTY-TWO! Thats not hype. That’s not hindsight. That’s hitting…

Doesn’t matter what he was signed for. He’s been a DH for several years…

1. Henry did pay for Papi for a long time. 2. They paid and are still paying Yoshida. 3. They started last year with 4 starting outfielders, clearly planning to use one as DH. And once A thing went down, they went to the Emergency Backup DH in Yoshida. The Sox have never used the DH to “rest starters,” but that is something fans always seem to want. Probably because they prefer star players not get too many days off…

A missing season costs both sides much more. We have this “will there be another season” thing at the end of every CBA, but labor disputes haven’t interfered with a single regular season game since 1995…

How major of an upgrade do people want at backup catcher? If they just bring back Jake Rogers, I’m fine with it…

I’ve heard about those two…

It’s not like we even pioneered it here. https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/4-red-sox-players-most-033500299.html

That’s exactly what I’ve been saying for 3 years. If the Ignore feature in this site actually worked, I would take Fred off it after this post…

You had me at Suzuki….

You were not alone. Sonny was clearly aggravated about being pulled early, although most teams in the same positions would have done the same thing (although probably not with someone as cold as Erik Miller has been). Don’t know if Sonny is one who always gets aggravated when removed or this one really got to him. If it’s the latter, it might influence his decision on his option…

I think we saw a lot of odd-looking decisions regarding pitchers being on postseason rosters. Crochet was out on for the same reason a few others were - best option left standing. Don’t you think they would have preferred Guerrero or Slaten? Was there anyone else? Prefer Jedixson Paez? San Diego didn’t include Musgrove because they figured he was well-rested. Atlanta didn’t choose to start 31yo career minor leaguer Ray Kerr in a winner-take-all game because they were dazzled by his 18 innings this year and they didn’t miss Strider or Schwellenbach. These were the last names standing after a long season…