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It’s going to come back to haunt them when they don’t have the foot traffic because they’ve neglected the big league team. Which means, they might actually freak out when fans stop attending games.

Same. It’s a double whammy, because fat fingers and mobile devices make it a lot easier to make spelling and grammatical errors. Which is whatever, except I’d at least like my point (when I have a good one) to be expressed clearly.

Is anyone else having an issue with their comments being deleted when they go to edit a comment?

Imagine being a general fighting a war. You understand you can’t win every battle, and that’s not the objective. Now imagine losing a battle and saying “well screw it, let’s dump all our ammunition” That would be a very ill advised and strategically disastrous move. I get people want something to see, but to me that shouldn’t mean rushing a kids development. Conversely, if a guy shows he’s ready, I want to give him his shot. I’m rational. He shouldn’t be held back just because the big league club stinks either. These kids should move up when it’s time to move up. Their development should be about their ability to play MLB ball. The big league club performance should have little to no bearing on that timeline.

We also often see guys struggle, or maybe not struggle but take a year or two to get going when they’re rushed up to the bigs too quickly. In other words, you might rather have Roman Anthony’s age 27 season than his age 20

John Henry is still feeling heart broken from the David Price contract. Just when he thought he could love again Chris Sale broke his heart. Now, he may never dance again.

I think they will, but I will predict that are still going to draft an up the middle position player with their first pick.

Hader gets more money than the Sox are willing to spend on a starting pitcher this year and several years prior.

Also Hunter Renfroe - Hunter Renfroe

Yes, I agree. But I don't think a good manager would have gone very far with that team either. It was highly flawed and needed a reboot

Why does it have to be Slaten or Mata? I get what you did there, but what if they both look really really really good in camp. Shouldn't we be more optimistic? I mean, what is it that has happened in the past several years that could possibly have a Red Sox fan not feeling optimistic?

I know this is probably an unpopular take, but I don't really give a s*** about the manager. Manager doesn't matter until your roster is good enough to win playoff games. Unless he's literally managing it in such a way that he's damaging young players arms I could care less until the team is good.

Being state side this year, I expect to see a more robust scouting report at some point.

BA came out with their top 100. Sox on the list. 14. Mayer 21. Anthony 62. Teel 94. Rafaela Sox had 5 prospects who didn't make the final cut for the top 100 but did receive votes (meaning they're in some peoples top 100) Miguel Bleis Wikelman Gonzelez Dick Fitts Wilyer Abreu Yoeilin Cespeds.

I could have sworn I wrote FLorida, that's what I meant to type at least. DD has a track record in both Montreal and there.

And that wasn't his first time working with him, Henry had a history with DD in the past in Montreal as well. They obviously had a good working relationship there for him to bring him on board in Boston, and to fire him just like that? Maybe Henry is suffering from some sort of dementia.

I'm not saying you punt, but you certainly shouldn't go over the luxury tax for an 84 win team, it's about a tempered appraoch.

I wonder if DD would have stayed here if Henry just gave him a different Mandate, perhaps Dave in his older age and experience commands the ability to be in a position to work for organizations that are only in win now mode and wouldn't have interest in it. Maybe, when approached with such a mandate Dave said no, and that's why he was fired. Of course, with this F.O. reputation, I would have figured that some dirt would have leaked about Dave if that was the case, or perhaps Henry is smart enough to know that that s*** wouldn't fly with someone has highly regarded as him.

People also forget, there was a time young in his career where DD help build up some really good farm systems. He did that in Montreal, and the system he built in Florida went on to be a core of players that helped win the world series in 2003. Dave did the job he was hired to do.

It could take as little as ONE year if you hire the right people, it just might take several years to see the results at the MLB level.

Freeing up payroll makes sense if they don't believe in going over the luxury tax in a season in which they do not think they have a legit shot at competing. Honestly, I don't disagree with that, in the long term scope of things and franchise building I want them to have better drafts, and whats the point of losing money to spend in the draft trying to compete for 82 wins? What doesn't make sense to me, is there aren't any free agents out there that would have put them in danger of going over the threshold if they actually wanted to sign them. That story did seem a little eronious to me, as disgusted as I am with the front office, I do think they would spend if the moment was right for them. With that, it seems the thing to do amongst some is to think they just need to spend and sign every free agent to get out of this hole, where's I'm accepting of the fact that they have dug this hole and wouldn't want to frantically make decisions to hurt the franchise long term. - They need to draft and develop pitching. - They need to become a competitive team again. - They need to do a better job at locking up their own young talent long term. - They need to become willing to trade top prospects for the right players. - They need to be willing to take a gamble on some big name free agents I don't think anyone disagrees with that list, where I think I and others butt heads with others posters is the fact that I believe the first three points should preceed the last two. Otherwise you're just robbing peter to pay paul. I would rather look like LAD than the NYM.

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Think it’s worth noting that the top 3 in that list were from Cubs and their bonuses were not subjected to their IFA bonus pool.

In hindsight, the Charrington drafts were pretty awful. That really started to sting around 2019.

Unfortunately neither of us work in the front office. I’ll be patient with Breslow, because that’s the hand we are dealt and he’s obviously not being given the green light to sign pitchers. He does have a track record of improving pitching staffs and we haven’t even given him one draft yet.