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Yes it was a joke. Didn’t you finish reading it?

As bad as the Sox and Bloom were at the deadline, Baltimore was the runner-up. When you have the consensus best farm system in MLB and only leave the deadline with two months of Jack Flaherty Still on the Way Down, you done made up…

Right idea. Unsure of the names. A lot will depend on: 1. Who is making those calls? 2. How much they have to spend? You can state all you want about Nola, but if the new guy doesn’t like signing players with qualifying offers, he may pivot to Yamamoto or Bauer over Nola or Snell, for example…

I don’t think they have done updates in a while.

Cabrera is a ton of potential that just never seems to amount to anything. I would have dealt Turner for him, but I would be hesitant to deal Duran..

The Yankee bullpen is better? Red Sox bullpen - 4.7 fWAR Yankee bullpen 4.2 fWAR. And that’s without Houck and Whitlock getting the full time reliever tiles they both deserve…

Or… See if Javier Baez Ops out and sign him. He checks all the boxes. Right-handed bat? Check. Hit for power? Check. Good middle infield defense? Check. Walked away from 4 yrs $90mill to obviously get more money? Che.. wait a second…

Is Yoshida really a valuable trade chip?

Batting average is such a useful tell-all stat. That’s why no one wants Kyle Schwarber back…

To me it depends on what gets offered for Duran. But I do think he has lots of offensive potential and is best left out of CF. I imagine Verdugo is a more likely trade bait. But he isn’t going to be with as much in a deal. Of course, standing on pitching is easier said than done. Especially if the new guy has no budget to work with…

So tell me again - if Dombrowski didn’t get fired, what does he do with Mookie?

Ok. Bloom gave one year to a guy coming off a 3.1 fWAR season. Dombrowski gave 4 years to a guy coming off a 2.5 fWAR season. Clearly both were operating with different financial parameters. Just ask Trea Turner’s agent if you doubt me. If you can’t reach Trea Turner’s agent, contact the guy who maintains his new boat. My problem with abloom isn’t that I can use hindsight to compare his moves to those of other GMs with different budgets. My problem with him is twice he quit on the team in July when they were in the playoff picture. The off-season moves youre still hung up on we’re actually part of a team that was working. Want some data? They are 3 games out at the 2022 trade deadline and 2 games out at the 2023 trade deadline. They added Hosmer and Urias to those teams that both needed pitching. That’s why Bloom is gone. At least I hope it is. As for Dombrowski, he left begging a mediocre team with the highest payroll in MLB and (I know you like to omit this part) $300mill tied up in 3 off-injured starting pitchers, and no minimum wage help on the horizon. Do you g honk that had no impact on Bloom’s role? Heck it might impact the next guy. Some of we’re not surprised by it. And said so on this board.

Actually none of the ones you listed that he kept were in the system at the time…

Well three. You’re counting 2023, which has not happened at the time. Why the Hangup on Walker? I’ve never said Kluber was the only option. There were a few others that Bloom could have signed instead. Senga was one guy who I liked. I’d have signed Taillon over Walker. I think the issue Gate is abloom didn’t want to go long term with some of these high mileage guys. Although the entire Eovaldi thing was mostly. He did focus on Eflin, who turned out to be a good target that unfortunately wanted to play elsewhere

And which one that I mentioned qualifies as a man off the street? Remember we are refuting the notion that anyone DD dealt away failed to become a star so therefore they were all expendable on a team that had no talent between A ball and MLB. The notion that players were useless because they aren’t on a fast track to Cooperstown is ridiculous…

He was TWENTY YEARS OLD!! Also given he played with the injury for a while, no one knows exactly when he got hurt…

Being paid minimum wage does make you a plus when you have guys like Betts, Bogaerts and Devers requiring extensions…

Walker over Kluber easily makes 2023 better. But I can see avoiding Walker since how he holds up 2024 thru 2026 are very questionable…

Huh? The point wasn’t talent level but the wages.

Name prospects Dombrowski dealt who are still in MLB? Seriously? Margot, Moncada, Beeks, Kopech. The argument that “they didn’t become stars” is short-sighted. If they became minimum wage Sox players they do a job by helping keep the more expensive stars around…

Mayer took a step back? He played in AA ball with an injury at age 20…

A lot of those suspects are still in MLB. The point isn’t that they didn’t become stars. The point is they became minimum wage MLB players who, in Boston, could have helped the team stay competitive while also allowing them to retain their actual star players…

That’s more reasonable. I don’t mind missing on Walker. There were a few pitchers I’d have preferred, but not going multi year on Walker was fine with me…

I’ve never called him a clueless guy when it comes to baseball. I just think he relies far too much on his checkbook and leaves huge contractual messes in his wake. Even Detroit just saw the end of the contract extension Dombrowski signed Miguel Cabrera to in 2014…

He did trade Drew Smyly, Jair Jurrjens, Willy Adames, Eugenio Suarez, Robbie Ray…