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  1. Hugh2
    Good clarification, I'm with you there. I actually think the pitching depth in AAA is shaping up to look pretty good next year. What the Sox lack is high end MLB talent. They can use a handful of pitchers, in the rotation and in the bullpen.
  2. Hugh2
    That would be fine with me. That would make Kristian arguably one of the greatest players to ever play the game
  3. Hugh2
    Not the best comp admittedly, but rather it’s reminiscent of how quickly he took off and rose
  4. Hugh2
    I think Campbell is more MLB ready than Mayer. Mayer needs to cut down on the chase and learn to hit lefties. It may be splitting hairs but you do that with top prospects. Campbells ascension feels very Mookie-esq. he literally went from a fringe top 30 prospect in the Sox system to a top ten prospect in all of baseball. I think Mayer needs to stay healthy, and may be more of a mid 2025 guy. But Cambell can slide in and start in 2025
  5. Hugh2
    From what I can gather based on all the tweets and the credibility of tweeters and my own conjecture I think the offer happened; Soto signing may be premature. im wondering if Ortiz is the leak. He was talking with Soto yesterday and I’m wondering if Ortiz talked about that conversation with other people and perhaps David is convinced Soto is signing based on their conversations. When in reality Soto may be excited about Boston but he’s really considering NY as well. It ain’t over. We all know how the game of telephone goes and by the time that information slips to another person or two it turns into “omg Soto is signing here” I just wonder if NY comes in goes $700 million if Soto gives Boston’s the chance to up their offer or he just signs elsewhere and a lot of people in Boston look really dumb. if Soto cares about the total money and factors in the taxes then a $700 million dollar offer is equivalent to Boston ponying up $644. They could swoop in with $650 and secure the deal. but who knows, maybe the $625 gets them across the finish line.
  6. Hugh2
    With the tax differences between Boston and NY, if the Sox offer is between $600-$625 then any NY offer would have to be $650-$680 to match that. Sox are in on this.
  7. Hugh2
    If they miss out on Soto, I can see them having another lackluster offseason and deciding next year to ramp up the spending. Vladdy Jr will be a FA and there's a good top of the pitching market too
  8. Hugh2
    Fried is probably going to get something close to what Snell got, and Burnes is going to cost you more. I'm not really bothered by the Dodgers getting Snell, like always I don't freak out over every signing. If the dust settles in the spring time and the Sox have done nothing I'll be pissed.
  9. Hugh2
    I don’t believe that, and if I did I’d have an easier time buying it for a pitcher. Having a guy for 2 years in his prime longer is a pretty big deal. there’s a hundred different ways to skin a cat, and there’s certainly an offseason without Soto that leads to a deep 2025 playoff run. but it’s never a bad ideal going after a guy like Juan Soto.
  10. Hugh2
    Right, so there’s a few examples of elite players here and there, still makes it rare. And yet, even in those examples said player is 28 or older, not 26. Hence, one of the reasons Soto is so different. Guys typically hit FA in the middle to the end of their primes….not at the very beginning of it.
  11. Hugh2
    Exactly, my desire for Crochet has shifted back and forth, I think it all comes down to the return. I assumed it was too high but when I heard the WHite Sox would accept Abreu as the headliner the wheels in my mind started to spin. But if Abreu, turns into ABreu/Casas/Crawford then no thank you. Just pay Burnes/Snell/Fried at that point.
  12. Hugh2
    Even further back, last offseason I suggested him as a potential QO, I think people were more harsh back then. It's ok....I only cried a little.
  13. Hugh2
    And how well did that work for us when we had Chris Sale sitting on the shelf all those years? I'd rather have Woo and his 3 MORE years of control. It's also perfectly reasonable that Woo is still developing and improving. I like Crochet, and would love to have him here, but if the asking price gets high I'd pivot. He's risky, Crochets arm scares the s*** out of me.
  14. Hugh2
    I don't think he will eclipse that but you can easily be correct. I was crucified months ago for suggesting he might even get $50, but he could easily be looking at at least $60 million plus. I'd be very surprised if he got below $50
  15. Hugh2
    Younger, with 3 more years of team control. I would could just stop there. History of a starter, Crochet is a converted reliever who threw a record 140 innings and with a history of injury I'd be concerned his next is right around the corner. It's not even close. Woo is the type of guy you want, not someone who's entering arby years, has a higher risk of going down, and you gotta pay to extend anyway.
  16. Hugh2
    I was exaggerating. But I'll not be surprised if he's getting something in the 50-60 million range.
  17. Hugh2
    Even then, Manny's age 22-25 season he put up 13.5 Bwar 13.6 Fwar. Juan Soto put up 26 Bwar 24.6 Fwar I think we should just stop trying to comp Soto. #want
  18. Hugh2
    Fair, especially if getting one back from the guy we all knew would get a QO, reject and sign a massive contract Nick Pivetta.
  19. Hugh2
    This whole thing started because we were comparing elite players WHEN they hit free agency, that's what makes Soto so unique. Manny was 29 when his contract with the Sox started.
  20. Hugh2
    They make zero sense, I just don't understand why they extended Bello/Rafaela and gave them the money they did. I really really really like both those guys too, but you already controlled them for so long and I'm not sure how much upside is there to justify not taking advantage of their control years. But I think Devers was fine.
  21. Hugh2
    Sean Manaea? He had a good season. 3.47 ERA in 181 innings. 1.084 WHIP 6.6 H/9 and 9.1 SO/9. I would certainly not waste a pick on him and sign him long term however.
  22. Hugh2
    This would make a lot more sense for me than Casas for Crochet.
  23. Hugh2
    I really don't think anyone is going to think they're "back" until they actually sign someone. We know it, they know it, and then know we know it. And I know that they know that we know it. No one is buying the bull s***. I will say this. The team has repeated the mantra over the years that they would spend when they have a talented young core to build around. For the past 5 years they've gone from bloated aging payroll with zero farm, to s***** team with zero farm, to s***** team with a good farm, to .500 ball club loaded with budding young talent, more on the way and payroll space. Even when they signed Devers, they said "this is the type of guy we want to sign" after failing to retain Bogaerts. "type of guy" is young. They have a young team and the opportunity to go after Soto, I think it's real and the crazy thing is if they do go out and spend this year, technically they will of ended up doing exactly what they've said they would do all along. The only thing is, even if they're 100% for real and ready to spend and build this team into a winner again. That doesn't make them the favorite, at best that puts them on par with NY/NY/LA. So even then I'd say their odds to land Soto are 25% at best.
  24. Hugh2
    Yeah, I wasn't the one who made that comp, I think the comp was made in that being a good player reaching fa when he was young. Not my first choice, but even then if you did sign Arod starting at his age 26 season and used him as a comp. But I'll roll with the Arod comp just because someone threw it out there. ARod gave you 7 elite seasons, not just really good but elite. Followed by 4 above average and put up 68.7 FWar his next 11 seasons. Even his last full season he put up a 2.5 at age 39, when they finally just DH'd him more because before that injury was really starting to get to him. That's also starting at his age 26 season, which was actually 2 years before he got paid, you're getting 2 more years of Soto in his prime and by all accounts is 10X the human being Arod is.
  25. Hugh2
    This is exactly why I said Pivetta could get a QO and then why I said he’d decline. Pitching costs $$$ even mediocre pitchers are making bank.
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