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  1. Nick
    While his MLB performance hasn’t been eye-popping, his arm is impressive and there’s plenty of room for growth. He’s not arbitration-eligible until 2023 and won’t hit free agency until 2026. It’s not impossible Graterol becomes a starter one day, either. In fact, he has been brought up through the Twins farm system largely as a starter. per NESN
  2. Nick
    One site had him possibly turning into a starter......he's big boy, weighs 265 lbs..
  3. Nick
    I'm sure we're add some payroll but say we're at $140M after 2020 before arbitration raises, SP Sale SP Eovaldi SP E Rod SP Perez (add $6.5M for picking up his option) SP Graterol (pick up from Twins) C Vaz 1B Dalbec/Moreland (add $2.5M for picking up his option) 2B Chavis 3B Devers SS Xander LF Beni CF RF Verdugo DH Bullpen, go with Kimmi's theroy of bunch of nobodies... We have plenty of cash to shore up this bunch....this was the adult thing to do, keeping Betts and giving him $400M is what your teenage kids would have done. Financial restraint.
  4. Nick
    Looking ahead 2020 JBJ and his $11M comes off, unless he's traded before ST Perez and his $6.5M comes off, unless Sox picks up team option for 2021 at $6.5M JD will most definitely opt out unless he's hurt or he has horrendous year, $22M comes off if he opts and is not resigned. Brandon Workman will be FA, $3.5M Mitch Moreland, $2.5M unless Sox picks up his option for 2021 That's total of $45M coming off the books after 2020 Then after 2021 Dustin Pedroia $13.75M E Rod will be a FA, say he's up to $12M for 2021 That's another $25M We're in good shape to go after some impact FA. One of our focus should be on extending Devers after 2020 if he has another outstanding year.
  5. Nick
    His wife is happier.
  6. Nick
    According to Cot's, we're now at $201M (under $208) BEFORE salary relief from Price trade. Take away another $15M and now we're at $186M. It's a great deal. We get possible future closer and an outfielder with 5 years of team control.
  7. Nick
    And not to mention getting $28M relief less the cost of 4 war guy. Not light.
  8. Nick
    I'll take $56M and go through his pain.....it's freaking baseball....we have young men getting their limbs blown up in wars.
  9. Nick
    Alex, I'll take $56M for sitting on my ass.....the answer is "Who is....". Is that brutal?
  10. Nick
    Well, you're little smarter. than whinny ass fans here. We asked for anti-DD field general and complain when we get one. One with a pretty damn good track record getting considerable mileage out of bunch of no names.
  11. Nick
    True.....I was speaking strictly from 'rebuild'. You would also trade JBJ and Betts in addition to Beni and E Rod. Betts is easy. Option 1) keep him, pay him $28M and get a 4th round pick Option 2) Trade him, get relieved of $28M, get something better than a 4th round pick
  12. Nick
    If YOU think we have some dead weights on our roster, what makes you think other teams' GM's won't see the same thing? If you want to truly rebuild, then you trade someone like E Rod who is under team control for two more years but that won't fit into our rebuild plans. Now the teams can OVERPAY for someone like E Rod. Two years of team control is long time for a team that wants to win now. Beni would be another candidate. Guys already in arbitration process are the ones bringing back some talent. Not the old farts with heavy contracts.
  13. Nick
    Moon, you're becoming a drag.....we have good offense, there's no reason to believe starters will outperform last year's stats, bullpen is better. Maybe you should cheer for the Rays this year.
  14. Nick
    Alex Cora (Bench Coach). Cora was involved in developing both the banging scheme and utilizing the replay review room to decode and transmit signs. Cora participated in both schemes, and through his active participation, implicitly condoned the players’ conduct. I will withhold determining the appropriate level of discipline for Cora until after the DOI completes its investigation of the allegations that the Red Sox engaged in impermissible electronic sign stealing in 2018 while Cora was the manager. He needs to go. He's dirty.
  15. Nick
    "This focus on [the] CBT resides with the media far more than it does within the Sox," said Henry. "I think every team probably wants to reset at least once every three years -- that's sort of been the history -- but just this week ... I reminded baseball ops that we are focused on competitiveness over the next five years over and above resetting to which they said, 'That's exactly how we've been approaching it.'" We can f***ing stop wasting another 25 pages on different trade scenario to reduce payroll that Henry now says is not needed. Move on boys.
  16. Nick
    I'm good with our GM. You make good trades. That requires patience. I can't get upset with our new GM over that fact that apparently no one wants to take on our bloated salaried players.
  17. Nick
    I won't be able to get THAT image out of my head today....DD and Henry having great sex.
  18. Nick
    I'm not convinced we'll get sub-par seasons from Price, Sale and Eovaldi again. Pessimism abound as new year begins. I'll go to mat with what we got. We can't continue to buy our way out of trouble. I'm okay losing with Dalbec's of the world as opposed to say Sam Travis. Former has potential, latter has no upside any longer. Let's get some young talent out there. But that doesn't mean we clean house.
  19. Nick
    Are you saying Betts is valued at $77M per annum? Valuation that has no relevance to market value becomes totally meaningless, no?
  20. Nick
    Player W L ERA G GS SV IP SO WHIP Chris Sales 6 11 4.40 25 25 0 147.1 218 1.09 David Price 7 5 4.28 22 22 0 107.1 128 1.31 Nathan Eovaldi 2 1 5.99 23 12 0 67.2 70 1.58 No one here thinks we can improve on this?
  21. Nick
    Reminder.... Luxury tax is determined at year end. That's ten months from now. Why the panic? We can get rid of Mookie and about $8M at trade deadline, no? Surely we can get a comparable 4th round draft pick in a trade for Mookie.
  22. Nick
    What the hell Moon? So you would have not made the Chris Freakin' Sale trade? What are you saying?
  23. Nick
    Yep.....that's why Henry brought in a fixer to right the ship. 3 Division titles, 1 World Series Championship followed by an injury plagued season to the projected top of the line starting pitchers resulting in a third place finish. Trashing of DD is bit over the top. Our farm system is not dead last. It's 21st or so and improving. So big f***ing deal that we have to rebuild. Welcome to real world wusses. There are thirty teams trying to bash you in. If we can't rebuild with $208M budget then something is wrong. Merry Christmas everyone.
  24. Nick
    Yankees now have positioned themselves to dominate next three or four years. If it wasn't for Ellsbury, they could've have signed another starter. Scary thought. We're fighting for a wildcard spot.
  25. Nick
    My subject was on bad contracts that exists on Sox books as of today. You made your point. There's no way I'd pay one individual $40M. We simply have to agree to disagree. Don't get upset Moon. We all want the same thing, another world series title.
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