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Well played. I wanted to do a joke like that, but my few quick thought felt too cumbersome...

4 years $145mill for Sale looks like 1990s pricing right now...

If it helps your decision making, I never looked at your avatar anyway

That’s an awful lot of money for a guy with fewer Cy Young Awards than Rick Porcello...

You’re thinking of Buster Olney. Rosenthal is actually very good. As much as I want something to happen, I don’t mind Bloom not leaping at first offers. In fact, it would have been stupid to deal Price before Cole signed...

... 9 years $324million. Cole can opt out after 5 years. He won’t, but he can. Unless the market switches to paying $36 mill annually to 34yo pitchers. Short term, this does not help Boston, as Captain Obvious here points out. Long term, this contract will very likely turn into an albatross wearing his own albatross...

Wouldn’t Bumgarner be a better fallback?

It does work for both sides and has been discussed in a few threads on this board. Or maybe the Sox could deal Price to Seattle for Dee Gordon...

... is apparently drawing trade interest from multiple teams. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2019/12/david-price-drawing-trade-interest.html

Coincidentally, “north of 270” and “close to 300” are both ways to describe the number of days until Bloom makes a move ...

Giants acquire Zack Cozart. I wanted nothing to do with Cozart as an addition, but I do wonder what the Giants are thinking here after already having Cueto, Longoria, Posey, Crawford, Belt, and Samardzija making 8 figure salaries and not producing. And then probably wondering why they can’t afford Bumgarner...

And I think Centeno was not re-signed...

I would argue it’s not “there” until we know what it costs to fill those holes...

Or “we will get payroll to a point where we can easily get under the limit if the season gets out of hand before July 31.”

So the Padres actually wanted Eovaldi one year ago? Interesting...

Maybe but he only threw 111 IP in 2019...

Who else was in on Eovaldi last year? I wonder if they would still be interested. If his injury last year is a deterrent, they are clearly not familiar with his history. The guy has only thrown 303 IP since 2015...

I think a Bradley/Andriese trade is about the best the Sox could hope for if they don't eat to eat any salary. And even then, it's not a guarantee the Dbacks won't insist on some cash...

Well, according to the blurb on MLBTR, they are willing to include prospects and possibly eat up to half of what Myers is owed. "Giving up prospects" doesn't mean "scraping the bottom of the minor league system for warm bodies to include' The goal is to give up something enticing. Teams do include good prospects/players sometimes just to unload a contract. The Pirates included Reese McGuire, who was a twice-ranked prospect by Baseball America, just so they could unload the final 1.5 years of the contract of Francisco Liriano. As a Yankee fan, you might like to play the "give up money rather than prospects" game. But not every team has the luxury of giving up as much money as the Yankees. And as many prospects don't turn out as good as hoped anyway, sometimes using them as currency becomes as good as getting something for free. And the insanely deep farm system that Preller has built is now being used against him by ownership, who has insisted that the parent club perform better and that the farm be used to make sure this happens. I do think the Sox will have to eat the Myers contract, and also are unlikely to get Margot, who is still useful to the Padres. However, if the Padres were willing to keep their cash and include the redundant Josh Naylor, count me in.

But Cole at that cost might force the Yankees to make an unpleasant decision or two down the road. Can they afford Cole and also keep both Judge and Torres? And still field a worthwhile team around those 3 players? The Yankees might have a lot of money coming off the books, but that also means they have a lot of replacements to make. And their farm system isn't what it was a couple years ago...

San Diego already has a glut of outfielders. Their current depth chart has Grisham, Cordero and Pham starting with Margot and Myers on the bench. They might prefer Margot as a 4th outfielder, but if they do, his projected salary ($2.1mill) is much more palatable than Bradley's ($11mill). Also, as Margot bats right-handed, he presents an opportunity to platoon with Corder or Grisham should the need arise. I do think they would lso be amenable to swapping Josh Naylor in that deal. They seem satisfied with Hosmer at 1B for reasons even science cannot explain, and Naylor is a lousy outfielder. He is a good hitter, but if the Sox took him and Myers, that pushes Myers to RF and Betts to CF, and might make the Sox the worst defensive team in MLB. Maybe Naylor can be dealt for a CF? Or the Sox can go with the questionable defensive lineup of C: Vazquez 1B: Myers 2B: Chavis 3B: Devers SS: Bogaerts LF: Naylor CF: Benintendi RF: Betts I don't like Benintendi in CF either. But Myers is just horrific in the outfield...

So you would be disappointed if the Sox traded for the just-traded Hunter Renfroe or Luis Urias?

It would have to be someone "like Sandy" because Sandy is not a free agent The problem with adding Price + $25mill is it almost negates the benefit of dealing Price, at least towards getting under the limit. Price is th worst contract of the bunch, but he is not a horrible pitcher, or even a horrible human being. He isn't the finest example, either. But one thing he is, is much more likely to show up for work than Eovaldi...

How about this: Padres get: Nathan Eovaldi Red Sox get: Wil Myers, Manny Margot, Cal Quantrill and $5mill. This is one of those deals that works out on the simulator, but I really doubt San Diego would go for. But if I was Bloom, I’d try. It fills two holes (1b and CF) and saves about $6-7mill in AAV for the Sox, and provides a replacement for Eovaldi...

If the Sox dealt Price for Myers, the Padres get a veteran SP for 3 years at a net cost of about $9mill per. If the Sox dealt Eovaldi for Price, the Padres get a veteran SP for 3 years and save roughly $5mill per year in the process. I could see them going for either option...