notin

Oh God please no. Granted, Renfroe is better than anyone he brought in for 2020, since at least Renfroe can be considered a starting OF. But so far his only pitching additions (Andriese and Gossett) fit right in with last year's cast of castoffs...

I don't mind the speculation, but I would like to know where the whole "Sox are not signing any outfielders" comes from. I wonder if they do a best RF list,will Verdugo also be on that?

Maybe he still has Verdugo as a RF?

Well, they are in no particular order. I guess my top 3 from that list are Hand, Rosenthal and, hmmm... Kela?

Who cares what MLB.com says? they have Springer at number 3, and no one even knows where he will be playing this year. If he signs with one of these teams (like the Mets, who have repeatedly been attached to him), they have Nimmo on this list already. Will they both play CF?

From where? I would think they have to, because right now we have only 3 outfielders and one of them is reportedly going to be dealt within the next 3 days.

Hopefully. There are still a fwe good relievers out there. Soxprospects.com thinks the Sox need 1 reliever. but I would greatly prefer getting two. Some of the better ones still available include: Keone Kela Brad Hand Brad Peacock Trevor Rosenthal Brad Workman Kirby Yates Hector Rondon Chris Devenski Yusmeiro Petit Alex Colome Most of them have not had any public rumors attached yet. But then until yesterday, neither did Bradley...

So Archie Bradley got 1 yr $6mill. His projected arb salary was $4.3 to $5.7 mill. The "discounted market" is looking less realistic with each passing day...

His 2013 season with Boston was only worth 2.5 fWAR. He was worth more for Boston in 2010, when he was worth 3.3. His 2008 season was only worth 1.4 fWAR, but his 2009 was worth 3.3. He really peaked in 2005 through 2007, when he was worth 15.6 fWAR...

You need to be more careful. A lot of people are allergic to Peanuts...

Well, I think we only call him an "Ace" because of his post-season performance, especially the game against Verlander. During the regular season, he was actually rather vanilla. Losing W-L record. 2.5 fWAR. Good ERA, but his 2 of his next 3 seasons were better...

Eovaldi is an ace in paycheck only. He cannot stay healthy enough to actually be one...

Especially since the Sox are not getting Archie Bradley, who just signed with Philadelphia...

Albert Almora is a terrific defensive outfielder as well. As is Pillar...

But that might be a bit unfair because sometimes we hand out the "ace" label after the ring season. No one would have called Lackey an ace after 2012, a season he missed for TJ, or after 2010-11, in which he pitched 61 games with a 5.26 ERA and combined for 4.2 fWAR. Was he any more of an ace then than ERod is now? (Hint: ERod had 5.9 fWAR in his last two seasons before missing 2020. So, no. Lackey was not.)

Robert Heinlein could have said that in 175,000 more words...

No Realmuto?

Until they rise up and enslave us all...

With a lot of snow outs...

What is the fascination with Jake Marisnick? He topped a .700 OPS one time in his career and needed to cheat to do it. The Sox would be better off with Albert Almora or Kevin Pillar...

No but we still could make it more fun...

The L-R-L strategy was always silly, and a negative contributor to game pacing. But it could actually be important now. It used to have the effect of having the LOOGY come in for one hitter and then leave the game. Or two hitters if they were both lefties. But now he is in for 3 batters minimum, so having a RHH in there makes sure that LOOGY has to face a right handed hitter in between the lefties...

The Sox won in 2018 without a healthy Sale for the entire second half...

They appear to be going for it in 2021 as they acquired short-timer Lance Lynn, but (yes, the unofficial) Roster Resource lists their starting LF as Adam Engel, whose only real attribute is CF defense, so he brings very little tothe table as a starting LF. Eloy Jimenez is listed as their starting DH, and while they could easily move him to LF and fill thatthe DH role with someone like Renato Nunez or Jose Martinez or Yoenis Cespedes or any of a few other options, they have not exactly done so, despite having an otherwise aggressive (by 2020-21 standards) off-season. Maybe that is their ultimate plan, but upgrading LF over the weak-hitting Engel is certainly another possibility. Other potential DHs on their current roster are actually very weak as their bench (again, per Roster Resource) apparently has Danny Mendick, Leury Garcia and someone named Micker Adolfo, whose minor league stats indicate he is not an MLB bench candidate due to his offensive prowess. Adding a LF (or DH) and replacing Adolfo on the bench with Engel seems like a better solution for a better overall team. No idea on their budget, but with Kyle Schwarber going for $10mill, Benintendi does look like a cheaper alternative. And they have solid SP depth with the very underrated Reynaldo Lopez slated for the bullpen. A swap centering around Benintendi and Lopez does work for both teams...

Reportedly the Astros and A's are still in. And I would think the White Sox and Cleveland Baseball Team also make a ton of sense....