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Haniger is a better outfielder when healthy, plus we don’t know the cost…

Joey Gallo has played 280 games in the past two years!!

Your way was a non-answer…

You could say the same thing about Harper, but Washington won the year after he left…

Why? You think he’d actually answer?

No specifics. It’s a question of priorities for you as a fan. Do you prefer a winning team or a team of favorite players? It’s great when you have both. And keeping known names is certainly easier than rolling the dice to build a winner. But what would fans prefer? If you like the Betts example, would he have made 2020 justifiably better? Or 2022?

That wasn’t the question. It was a simple hypothetical question…

But if fans had to choose between keeping their favorite players and winning, what do you think the choice would be? Because sometimes it does come down to that…

Health is the big issue with Haniger. He can do everything on a baseball field except stay there…

Reynolds isn’t a right-handed hitter. He’s a switch hitter with very different looks from each side of the plate, but results still come out remarkably equal. He’s a rarity (like Victor Martinez) in being a switch hitter who really should be a switch hitter…

So you think Henry takes no advice from his underlings on these matters? If that’s the case, Bloom, Cherington and Dombrowski are all irrelevant…

Hey that was the rumored policy at the time. Obviously if it was an actual policy, it didn’t last. But the bottom line is everything was different with Lester and all the names below Henry have changed since then…

Hey you said Bogaerts was too insulted to counteroffer. Me? I doubt he was involved at all. Players don’t hire agents so everyone can talk money, and I’d be very surprised if any players sat in on negotiations. I’d actually suspect Boras prefer players not do so since he might figure all they can do is screw up his negotiation strategy. The Lester case is irrelevant. Everyone in the Sox organization between owner and organist is different now. And certainly the “No 30 year old free agent pitcher” policy they had back then is long gone, as Price was 31 when they signed him for seven years…

But you’re biased. It s does make no sense for the Sox to refute the offer, as they would still have to continue negotiating. Publicly calling Scott Boras a liar does really throw a snag into that. It’s also very obvious which side leaked the story, and that type of thing is only done for political gain. It’s not done to keep people accurately informed. And as Boras is a very experienced agent, I’m sure he has methods of dealing with lowball offers that is more involved than simply walking away. Of course, he does have a very well-known strategy (per an SI article many years ago) of simply saying “no!” to any and all offers and forcing suitors to bid against themselves. No idea if he still does this. But keeping Boston engaged to drive up the league wide price certainly only benefits him and his client. So that feels unlikely. I’ve kept an open mind that they’re are more possibilities. You, as usual, assume you know everything. I do acknowledge the possibility that the Sox simply don’t think Bogaerts will last at shortstop very well. Heck, I agree there. But unlike me, they would actually be aware of whether or not Bogaerts is willing to change positions. Maybe he just isn’t. Maybe not today anyway. Or maybe they just like Correa better…

They added 1 year and $90mill to their last offer…

Gammons on Bogaerts

Really? I’ve named more names as options than most people…

That’s very possible . They did sign a QO free agent in Story. And they gain QO comp picks for Eovaldi and Bogaerts. But the plan to rebuild the farm certainly certainly can’t revolve around giving up picks every year, either…

Oh what the heck. Why not Nimmo?

Only if you pretend to know everything about these negotiations. We’ve all heard the lowball offer story, but really none of us knows if that really was the offer. So far, the source everyone likes to cite is the New York Post. Why just them? We never heard anything else about Bogaerts’ demands. We’ve heard numerous stories that Bogaerts was the Sox “top priority,” but not one story about upping the lowball offer? It’s reached the point where every aspect of this story is suspect…

What exactly is on JH?

Not to mention, Bogaerts may have his own thoughts on the subject. And ultimately it’s Bogaerts who makes the final decision…

Maybe. Of course right now all we’re doing is theorizing on their motives. Until these motives become reality, explaining is really not required…

My best guess is someone other than Kike…

At the very least, e don’t know if their interest in Bogaerts is greater or less than anyone else’s, as measured in US dollars…