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Pedroia won the Golden Spikes Award playing on that side of the infield. College diamond is the same size...

Kevin Morton did give them an outstanding MLB debut, throwing complete game with 3 H / 1 ER against a pretty tacked Tigers's lineup. The rest of his career - not so exciting. The real flop of the ealy 1990's was the Sox had gret expectations from a trio of young pitchers in the minors named Brian Rose, Jeff Suppan and Carl Pavano. Pavano had a decent career and no Sox fan misses him for one obvious reason. Suppan was taken in the expansion draft, but did have a mediocre career that included at least two later stints with the Sox. Brian Rose flopped like a salmon in a fishing boat...

Darwin also was at pretty much the league minimum for IP to qualify for the ERA title, having pitched 162.1 IP when the eligibility requirement was 162.0. He really was not even a SP that year, starting only 17 of his 48 appearances...

They're bluffing. They also once said they would move Pedroia to SS...

Or not... https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2021/01/latest-on-tomoyuki-sugano.html

Free agent data to date Not counting the wo players who accepted the QO. 39 MLB signings. Over 1/4 (10 of 39) of them for less than $1mill Only 2 contracts (Kim with SD and James McCann with the Mets) are longer than 2 years. Highest AAV is Charlie Morton ($15mill). Second highest AAV is Drew Smyly ($11mill). In the last 4 seasons, Smyly has pitched 140 IP total with an ERA+ of 82. That's a worse ERA+ than Phillips Valdez, Ryan Weber, Chris Mazza, and Colten Brewer had for the Sox last year. Highest total value is McCann ($40.6mill), followed by Kim ($28mill), Mike Minor ($18mill), Carlos Santana ($17.5mill), and Trevor May ($15.5mill). The Sox have signed 2 free agents to MLB deals out of the 39 total. The Yankees have signed 0. The Dodgers have signed one, a pitcher not expected to pitch in 2021. The most active team to date - the Kansas City Royals, with 4 MLB signings (Santana, Minor, Greg Holland, Michael Taylor). The Mets and Giants each have 3. So, despite a complete dearth of activity, Bloom is actually more active on the FA market than most GMs, and it is a pretty safe to guess when all is said and done, the Royals will not be among MLB's most active teams...

Clearly not me. I would have had them signing Jose Urena or Rick Porcello...

Or maybe Heyman still thinks Twitter is limiting his characters at 140 so he left them out? Both are equally likely...

Yeah but we have a guy for RF. Puello is actually a decent defender. I would trust him in CF before I put Benintendi out there. If nothing else, Puello has a very strong arm. I am not even sure Benintendi has an arm. I think he just has flesh-colored glove fastened to the end of his sleeve...

He was the smallest part of a triumvirate of failed signings in a short 15 day span in which the Sox committed roughly $27 million to 3 s***** players...

Not true. 11 days after the Sox signed Matt Young to a 3 year $6,35mill contract, they signed Jack Clark to a 3 year $8.7mill contract Four days after that, the Red Sox signed reigning NL ERA champion Danny Darwin to a 4 year $11.8mill contract. These contracts were actually are pretty big deals for the time. And none of them worked out. So maybe just spending is not everything....

I'm sticking with my gut here. I think 1) the Mets can f*** this up, and 2) a lot of these Japanese players surprise us all by eschewing the East Coast markets for the more proximal West Coast teams. It was not that long ago that Shohei Otani was earmarked for the Yankees...

To be fair, the economic scale of salaries was a lot different in 1991 and even in 1999. In 1991, the highest paid player in MLB was Darryl Strawberry ($3.8mill). In 1999, it was Albert Belle ($11.9mill). For Strawberry's salary today, you cannot even get a decent middle reliever. Jose Urena, who pitched 107 IP in the past 2 seasons and was non-tendered by the Marlins this year, received $3.25 mill from Detroit. https://sabr.org/research/article/mlbs-annual-salary-leaders-since-1874/

Oh there is a decent chance I would invent new personages. Talking about myself in fourth and fifth person are both a given. It's just a question of how many new ones I can invent...

Probably true. In fact, there is a good chance I would create multiple accounts just to talk about it more often...

Sugano expected to sign tomorrow. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2021/01/latest-on-tomoyuki-sugano.html Most fans expect him to sign with the Mets per MLBTR polling. Notin expects him to sign with San Francisco...

So... I have a chance and my hiring will be quiet?

Or Puello! C'mon! Get on board! The bandwagon is leaving soon!!

It was really a tad unfair of me to leave ERod for their open #5 slot when as of today, he lines up against Cole. But the bottom line is that the Red Sox are one decent SP and a couple bullpen arms - all of which the Sox can afford - from having a staff as good as the Yankees.

The fact that Steamer is projecting 171 IP for Eovaldi shows how questionable that system is...

You do realize that after Gerrit Cole, the Yankee rotation is not much better than Boston's. Montgomery at #2 "was a solid piece once." So "used to be good" is a justification here? First of all, he was an OK pitcher, and that was over 3 years (and 75 IP) ago. He is essentially a cheaper version of Nathan Eovaldi, but somehow less durable. And worse. German is OK as a pitcher, but let's not go overboard. He's never thrown more than 143 IP in a season or been worth more than 2.0 fWAR. In both of these respects, he is less than Nick Pivetta, but, German is older. Deivi Garcia had a nice 4 starts. So did Tanner Houck. Even if you like Garcia's pedigree more, and you probably should over the never-ranked Houck, the future is still equally unknown for both. Oh, and that leaves ERod vs Clarke Schmidt or whoever. Advantage: Boston. Do not even try to counter that one. Ditto the same when each team gets back their mid-season pitchers. (Severino vs. Sale.) Now, the Sox are unlikely to add a pitcher as good as Cole this season (unless you count Sale), but Gerrit is the only thing that separates the Yankee rotation from the rotation of a team you recently said "as presently constituted [was] a last place team."

I am going to put some faith in the Sox for knowing what they’re doing. Because, you know, unlike us they have actually met her and used her person as criteria rather than sweeping generalizations. And you don’t have to play a sport to coach it. It probably helps, but history has clearly shown it’s not necessary. Some of the most successful coaches in NFL history (Vince Lombardi, Paul Brown, Bill Walsh) never played in the NFL. (And college football isn’t really the same.) The most successful coach in women’s gymnastics history - Bela Karolyi - did not compete in gymnastics above high school. I get the lack of activity, but this is a non-issue...

So you think the Yankees are ready for the season despite having #2 starter whose thrown 75 IP in the last 3 seasons combined?

Fire sale!!!

Per MLBTR, the Red Sox are 1 of 5 teams showing interest in Alex Colome. Eh. Hand and Bradley, please....