Because no one wants to wait for Pablo Sandoval to waddle over to short RF every time a left-handed hitter comes up. Baseball has enough “pace of play” problems as it is…
$300 mill is pretty risky for PR purposes.
I have no reason to believe the offer wasn’t legitimate. I hold the FO accountable for maybe not negotiating further, but I find a $300 mill PR stunt ludicrous…
Sox sign Yolmer Sanchez.
Gold Glover. Decent player. Probably limited to being a role player in very limited time.
https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2022/02/red-sox-sign-yolmer-sanchez-to-minors-contract.html
At some point, the Sox are going to have to spend, and spend heavily on a player. Correa may or may not be the guy, but it’s not like Bogaerts is going to “settle” for a $20mill AAV again.
A Destitute Man’s replacement. Gordon had a 4 year stretch where he was worth 21.6 fWAR. In 5 full seasons, Benintendi has been worth less than half of that…
Even the Rays opened up for star talent once in a while. They signed Longoria to a 6 year $100mill contract back in 2016. Adjusting for inflation and converting Ray Bucks to USD, that deal would be equivalent to a 6 year $45,000,000,000,000 today…
It doesn’t appear to make sense, but that’s because we only use comparative methods of evaluating it.
Let’s say the Sox farm had 100 future fWAR in it. And that total was good for the 20th best future fWAR from any farm. Then after the draft and a couple trades (and some player development), the Sox are able to add 15 more fWAR. But then after the draft and the trade deadline last year, so are the 19 teams in front of Boston. So now it’s still 20th. But did the farm improve?
True, but other than Betts, the Sox haven’t done much selling off of veterans for prospects lately. At least not veterans anyone cared about. (Sorry, Mr. Hembree.)