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  1. notin
    100% behind this. Bogaerts appears to have been a financially motivated loss. Ort over Ward was just stupid (assuming Ward didn’t have done serious issues I know nothing about)…
  2. notin
    DD worked for him twice and didn’t leave Boston by his own choice. Nice try. But again you won’t answer a simple question. About as surprising as a daily sunrise…
  3. notin
    I had mixed thoughts. He was injured in 2019 and 2021. 2020 is deceiving as it was a short season. I’m not sure he was a full time player in 2017. There was a risk. I just wasn’t sure how big of one. It certainly didn’t impact his deal like it would have in other years…
  4. notin
    So they’re more Krampus than Santa?
  5. notin
    I do like that the Sox might have an actual leadoff hitter for the first time since 2019. It was why I wanted Nimmo way back when. Now Nimmo was certainly a more established commodity, so the Sox clearly settled here…
  6. notin
    No. You don’t. If Henry isn’t going to spend, Bloom is the guy we need in there. Or Click. Or any of those other “nerds” that keep little budget teams like Tampa in the postseason every year. What do you think Dombrowski would have down to turn this team around with only $80mill to spend?
  7. notin
    I have never pretended payroll wasn’t a factor. This is true. Calling out fans who “worry about payroll” doesn’t make you look smarter and doesn’t even direct the complaint in the right direction…
  8. notin
    Former MLB player and Sox fan detractor Adam Jones had a different take on Yoshida. https://nesn.com/2022/12/ex-mlb-player-calls-red-soxs-masataka-yoshida-japanese-juan-soto/
  9. notin
    All they need to do is extend Devers. And unlike Bogaerts, he isn’t 30, and really, isn’t even that close. He has plenty of prime years left. Even a 12 year deal may only have 3-4 albatross years at the end, which means 8 good years upfront. That’s more than the Padres will get from Bogaerts or the Phillies will get from Turner..
  10. notin
    Like how Bobby Bonilla is not part of the Mets AAV. But the whole point that they were intentionally losing the AAV is ridiculous. They still had to pay that lower yet still exorbitant amount for longer, meaning it has the chance to impact the luxury tax in more seasons. So now if any deal can impact the luxury tax, it would get mixed? If the Sox replace Bogaerts with a minimum wage shortstop, they are clearly trying to avoid the luxury tax. So will that get vetoed too?
  11. notin
    You’re still not getting it. This is not Bloom deciding to run the team as cheaply as possible. This is Henry and/or Werner giving Bloom marching orders to run the team as cheaply as possible. And it may have started back in 2019 when Dombrowski wasn’t allowed to extend Betts. If they fire/demote Bloom, do you think the next guy gets an open checkbook? Do you think Henry is eating these stores and wondering why this is happening?
  12. notin
    So you still think payroll isn’t a factor for this team? No one worries about it. But those who have repeatedly acknowledged it are clearly closest to being in the know…
  13. notin
    New England
  14. notin
    And the thing is, a lot of this negative PR goes away if they just extend Devers…
  15. notin
    If the Sox even said “we are not sure Bogaerts has a future here” or “we want better defense at shortstop”, it would have been understandable. Agree with them or not, at least it looks like it’s about baseball…
  16. notin
    If the Sox are going to stick to being under the limit, Correa won’t work. They need to be looking at players like Andrus, Kiermaier, Brian Anderson, Belt, Narvaez. They might need to move Verdugo for a pitcher. Or maybe sign Fulmer or Yarbrough and trade Houck…
  17. notin
    At any point will they be worried about his pitching?
  18. notin
    Correa might have crazy demands, but then that would make this the second year in a row teams have just ignored him on the market. And now that he’s seeing the offers Turner and Bogaerts got after seeing what Seager got last year. Think at any point he starts taking it personally?
  19. notin
    Numero uno is probably Dustin Pedroia with 8 years $110mill. Looks like dirt but I also recall people insisting he retire early and surrender his salary rather than sit out injured…
  20. notin
    And they were all pretty bad after signing. The best of that bunch might have been JD, and then probably Price. Sale has two years left, which is actually enough time to catch up ( and is more of a statement about Price). And Story is TBD…
  21. notin
    The Dodgers have 23yo Miguel Vargas at 3b, he of the .915 OPS and 32 HRs in the PCL last year. Think he just gets one season to prove himself?
  22. notin
    Also, Soto will be able to out-pizza the Hut!
  23. notin
    We got a leadoff hitter and a closer. We should be better at the beginning of games and the end as well. Time to pitch up the middle!
  24. notin
    I’m not sold on needing a big RHH bat. A big bat, yes. But with the overwhelming majority of pitchers being right-handed, the loss of the shift, and the elimination of the LOOGY, I’m fine with a big left-handed bat as well…
  25. notin
    The RHH options for DH are all players like Duvall, Mancini, Gary Sanchez, JD, Sano, Wil Myers. The LHH options are better - Brantley, Conforto (if he can be the pre-2021 Conforto), Dom Smith and the criminally underrated Brandon Belt.
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