Reyes has over 1,000 innings at 3b in his career, counting MLB, MiLB, and foreign leagues. Granted, that’s only like 111 games, but it’s not inconsequential…
How this story got leaked does amaze me. Unless Pedroia was the original leak. But even then, the quotes from Kennedy fell along the lines of “Pedroia told us who the free agents were,” which is really odd considering I don’t think anyone truly believed that the Sox were unaware…
It looks like, unless they actually add that other RHH outfielder that has been dominating the top of the Priority List for two months now, that only one of Rafaela or Abreu starts the season in Boston. Barring injuries, of course…
Do we really need John Henry’s comments on anything?
Just reply to this post with any question you want Henry to give some voice to and I will answer how Henry would answer it…
I think we need to abandon threads with titles like “realistic” and just have two threads labeled “An Optimistic Look at 2024” and “A Pessimistic Look at 2024”…
If we think of 29yo Tyler O'Neill as a replacement for 36yo Adam Duvall, that means 27yo Jarren Duran des replace 39yo Justin Turner. Duran was fairly close to Turner at the plate most of the summer, and given their ages, might be the more likely to repeat.
For all this talk bout how the Sox didn't replace their best hitters (which they did), why not also look at how they replaced their worst ones?
I don’t even care if they want to run out like a small market team. What they’re doing instead appears to be just repeatedly running a lamp and hoping a genie appears. I can handle cheap activity over inactivity…