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Safe to assume Peraza is not going to be a factor. He's the foremost non-tender candidate, possibly more so than Lin and Brice...

Kevin Cash is also a former catcher. I'm telling you, current Rays' bench coach Matt Quatraro is definitely a candidate, if not the outright front-runner. Quatraro is a former catcher who also has minor league managerial experience and, and this is the most important part, is a Bloom guy. You will be hearing this name over the next two months. But you heard it here first...

I looked back. It was jad who made that awesome joke...

Cora was hired during the ALCS in 2017. In fact, we had a poster on this very forum in the "Fire Alex Cora" thread that started that day facetiously (and hilariously) deriding him for attending a Yankee game the night be got hired...

Record by month July 3-5 August 9-18 September 12-13 They were awful for one month, but their turnaround was still sub-.500. As for how good over 162 games, that's just conjecture. With this pitching over 162 games, it's just as easy to believe this team finishes 62-100 as it is to believe they finish 81-81....

They have seen that spending on multiple second tier names can have some success, like they did back in 2013...

But he was still attached in the media and suspended. If the Sox do avoid him, it could be for PR reasons.

Silly Bronx Bomber fan. No Red Sox season is truly over until the Yankees are eliminated and their fans blame the umpires for it, often with conspiracy theories...

Matt Quatraro. Book it...

To be fair, I’ve seen the “long run ending in dropped ball” scored a hit sometimes...

Brantley, Kolten Wong (if St. Louis declines his option), Trevor Rosenthal and James McCann Benintendi and Vazquez are moved for pitching...

Well, a player can get an error if a wild throw allows a runner to advance a base. But the “not assuming a double play” is more for determining if a run that scores is earned or not....

Soxprospects.com lists the Sox making the following additions: 1 SP (but they count Erod as being active for the 2021 team, which is not a guarantee) 2 RP 1 2B 1 CF (they highlight Bradley) 1 LHH for the bench (And former Bloom acquisition Brad Miller is a perfect fit) They include Arroyo an Munoz as bench players. Obviously, either or both could be economical solutions at 2B, and each with some risk. Per Fangraphs, the Sox are 4th in MLB in E-F, which is ERA - FIP. And they have a number of pitchers with significantly worse ERAs than FIPs, iunclduing Mazza, Covey and Stockj. (Brice, too, but his FIP still sucks, unlike the other 3). So will this be a factor? Ther e are 3 ways to interpret this. 1. The Sox pitching might not be as bad, but a lot of them were victims of weak defensive play. 2. FIP is useless. (Which might be true, but won't matter if Bloom has faith in it.) 3. The sample size was just too small for this to matter. If the Sox operate under the pretense of option 1, and they need to improve some defense, they might not be so quick to hand 2B over to Arroyo/Munoz, and they might be more likely to bring Bradley back, as his defensive metrics increased this year, possibly due to the Notin Theory from last year that they would with the departure of Betts. Or maybe for some other reason, although that his cumulative DRS went up in a significantly shorter season might be a good indicator...

Bauer is obviously a good fir for Boston, but I doubt Bloom goes all i on one big contract like that, especially since he spent this offseason tying to get put of those types of deals...

He also left no ability to replace any of them if they get hurt or reach free agency...

I’ll go 50/50 on Bauer to the Angels (assuming they actually hire Dombrowski). With the New Mets ownership also in line to make a big splash, Bauer does make for a good PR target for them...

I don’t think they’ll spend $240 million, but they will spend. They painted themselves into that corner with the Reset Button tweet..,

Sorry for not genuflecting at the Altar Dombrowski. Maybe you missed the 2020 season?

And your source for this is?

Nah. And all SF did was kick start his free agency by a few weeks...

He did. And I recently realized his immediate moves to upgrade the bullpen instead of the rotation were actually the right moves, so mea culpa there...

The thing is, with DD, you get some winning seasons but you also get a mess like the 2020 Red Sox and the Tigers the last few years. His MO is very simple - spends lots of money and trade away all tradable prospects to win today and then hope tomorrow never comes. There may be a flaw in that strategy, one you described as “unwatchable “...

I think the veteran presence needs to be an MLB veteran....

Actually unemployed cofffee boy Dombrowski built this Sox team. The Sox payroll (unlike the Pirates) is about $180 mill, and Dombrowski brought on board about $170 mill of that...