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If Yoshida wins ROY don’t we get a first round draft pick?

This is why I think no one gets traded, at least not in April. I don’t want to give up on Dalbec yet but I could see him starting in AAA working on positional versatility and seeing if he can improve his contact rate. You can move Hosmer at any time, it’s not hard. It might be easier to wait for a team to have a need at first base to make a trade anyways. Wait for someone to get injured.

I know you are but what am I!!!!! hahaha

Yes, but sometimes brevity is the soul of a nitwit.

Well if there's one thing I've been saying we can use......it's another left fielder.

This sounds an awful lot like "I know you are but what am I"

That's what happens when people don't want to have an intellectual debate but just hate. You know kind of like....who would you non kike 2022 outfield be? we could sit around and talk about that.......or you could disappear for a week and then come back and complain about Hunter Renfroe being traded for the 10 millionth time.

Well to be fair, the outcome of the Red Sox is a complex comprehensive issue that is affected by all those things. It's refreshing to talk with people who recognize that as opposed to be who have tunnel vision and complain about the same thing over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.

As always...so much insight.

I agree people are angry in here. And it’s the extreme Bloom haters.

It's not that you criticize Bloom, it's the fact that every little single thing the guy does is the end of the world to you. It's obsessive, it's unhealthy, and to be honest....it's kind of hilarious. This thread right here is a perfect example. After an entire offseason of not doing anything, he gets criticized for signing a player who projects to be a perennial lead-off hitter (something we desperately need). And your justification is "well he paid more than everyone else" ahh chhhuyeah...that's how free agency works. Duh...but now you need to see everyone's scouting report on it. Maybe we should get medicals too, Maybe a BIRTH CERTIFICATE, make sure he's not lying about his age. It's not that you criticize Bloom, it's that your criticism is SO SO SO heavy it blinds you, and becomes obsessive and seemingly prevents you from any intelligible baseball debate. I can proof this point. There other posters in here who disagree with Blooms decisions ALL the time, and I converse just fine with them.

I don't think that's true, I think one is likely gone by August 1st. But there's zero reasons to trade that depth away right now. I wouldn't be surprised if one is gone......But I don't think it's likely at all.

This is my point exactly, there's so much we DON'T know. To be fair, filling in the holes with those unknowns is the difference between the Sox screwing this thing up and REALLY SCREWING this thing up.

fair, everyone has a leakage problem. So when something hits the news I always wonder who it makes look bad, then I think who must of leaked it, and then I think to myself WHY would that person leak such a thing? Boras is really really good at what he does.

God....I really wish we could insert GIFs in here.

But this is just my point. How do we even know about the offer? Because Boras leaked it. Sox don't leak anything. I also read Bogaerts said if the Sox offered the Story contract he would have accepted. At the very least, they misjudged his market. That I don't blame them for, who the heck would have guessed he got 280/11. I said he'd get $217 and was practically crucified for suggesting that (maybe a slight exaggeration). Still, why they wouldn't give their best offer with what they were comfortable with and re-evaluate matching in FA later is beyond me. I hope some good comes out of this. I hope the Sox take a deep deep look at their evaluation and negotiation process because of this and come out better on the other side.

Trae Turner at 300 million doesn't looks so bad right now.

There's two types of people. A.) Bloom haters B.) People who dislike a lot of Blooms moves, like some of them, are generally unhappy with the team but because they're not clamoring for Bloom to burn at the stake they're like....in love with him or something.

What we do know is he is widely viewed as having an elite hit tool. He's going to put the bat on the ball and not strike out a lot. You can do some research and read what everyone has written about him. That seems to be the one constant across the board for Yoshida.

I don't think the media is lying, but they only tell one side of the story. You can't really blame them, somebody leaks something and what is the media supposed to do? not their job? I blame people for sucking things up without taking it with a grain of salt. Imagine you're Scott Boras and you are offered 5/100 for said player, but you say NO we want 10/300. You know darn well that's not the other team's final offer but you leak their weak ass starting point offer to the press and they report it and everyone criticizes the team for lowballing said player. Now Boras has leverage. "See, everyone knows your offer is garbage, you better up the anti" You get the other team upping their offer without doing or saying much you're winning the negotiations. Also, the pressure gets put on the team with that level of negative press to get something done. It's a smart move by Boras, he certainly knows how to play Boston fans like a fiddle. In a way, people who swallow these stories up help inflate player salaries. I have zero doubt in my mind to some extent the Bogaerts situation was messed up, and they deserve a LOT of strife for it, maybe even some firings should be in order. but everything we know is what has come out from Boras's side. Using the Sox opening offer they brought on day one to the negotiating table to put them down is just stupid. I would like to apologize to everyone for not being a Boras stooge who likes to regurgitate what he leaks to the press.

Why does one of Hosmer/Dalbec have to be traded? I think one does at some point, but my guess is Dalbec could start the season in AAA.

SOX DON'T SIGN ANYONE AHHHHH sox sign someone YEAH BUT...LIKE....WHY DID THEY SPEND MONEY MORE THAN EVERYONE ELSE. Ummmm...because that's exactly how free agency works?

I mean to be fair, it's still too early to judge now. Betts is probably the guy who breaks that streak, but if he starts to seriously decline.......then not so.

The team who offers the most money is the team who gets the FA 95% of the time, isn't this what we want....the Sox to win a bid and get a guy who improves the team? If they signed any of the big free agents this year it would have been because they offered more than every other team. This is how it works.

I wanna see REDS scouting notes on Yoshida.