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He’d be the owner and the GM. If he just insisted on signing checks I’d love it…..but that won’t happen.

Who is the richest Sox fan alive? Does he have more money than Cohen? We should start a petition to get him to buy the Sox. At the very least maybe Henry will grow his balls back.

Well….are we getting 2022 Verdugo or 2021 Verdugo out there? I’ll gladly take 2021 Verdugo out there. Seems like a weird gamble by the Sox though

First stop is overthrow the Red Sox regime….then we burn down the library in Alexandria.

I also highly doubt all those guys are on the opening day roster. Duran is starting in AAA, and it’s more probable than not that both he and Dalbec start down there. Hosmer may be released or traded by mid season. If Yoshida is the real deal, his bat is 100- thousand times better than those guys. He’s probably fine in LF. If Manny can learn how to play left im sure this guy will be fine if he’s a gamer.

Mark my words, and I dare someone to tag this. The Sox WILL resign Rafael Devers. It Is Going To Happen.

Yes, but who could have projected the Bogey signing? I feel I was the highest guy in here projected $217/8 and I wasn't even close. I was close on the AAV, which would be close to even money if it was a 10-year deal. I never would have thought Bogey would get 10 years. Xander also got the longest contract for a player ever aged 30 years.

As unpopular as this may be, I would love to see him on a deal with an opt-out, make it player friendly and increase his odds of resigning here NOW. Now, we may lose him in a few years the same way we lost Bogaerts....BUT at the very least we get him for a few more years in his prime. I'm all for locking him up long-term, but if the Sox are starting to get uncomfortable with the numbers I would explore an opt-out clause before trading him.

Actually, I don't agree with this at all. You need a complete roster top to bottom. The Angels arguably had the best pitcher and hitter in baseball and they sucked. If this year's free agency spending spree has taught us anything, it's that teams are no longer going to be able to build thru free agency but rather only supplement. Teams that can develop talent and create their own MLB players will be rewarded. Yes you could trade for an ACE tomorrow, but probably have to give up Mayer/Bello/Bleis in the process. That hurts the future, and if your team isn't good enough to win with an addition now why make your present lukewarm to have a s***** future? I'm all for trading prospects, but here's a time and place for everything. There's no way a last place team with a losing record should be trading from their prospect depth.

Yeah that 3 team trade is just hurting my brain right now.

I'm sure there was a larger deal out there for him. That deal was all about the opt-out, thinking there would be more money for him this year. That was always the Boras plan, Scott Boras knows what he is doing....and look at the market this year? they obviously guessed right. I'd be willing to be Correa gets $300 million this offseason. As a baseline, he's getting 300 milliion.

I highly doubt this. How often does the top or one of the top free agents in the market hold out? this is be zero means unnatural for a guy of his caliber to hang around this long....there's still over two months until pitchers and catchers report.

I wonder if Devers would take a 340/12 deal right now. The Sox already miscalculated the market this year, and if salaries continue to go up next year and teams are willing to get 10 years plus for guys in their 30s? then what is a player like Devers going to get on the free market next year? especially if he has a monster season.

A similiar package from the Sox may have been Mata/Rafaella/Anthony/Dalbec Is that relatively small? IDK maybe, but I'd rather grab a right-fielder or a SP for giving up that kind of talent.....not a catcher. Not that I don't value the position, but I think Wong/McGuire are fine, and it's not that I don't value the catching position, it's just that I'm comfortable enough with those two there to prioritize upgrades at RF/SS/SP above the position.

Why give up all that future value for a guy who can't put you over the top? you add to a winning team NOT a losing team so I think trading prospects right now is a dumb idea....next year? maybe not. I just think it would be a slap in the face to fans to put together the last few years they have, rebuilding the farm, and then blowing their load prematurely as an overreaction. Despite all their failures, the one good thing they've got right recently is rebuilding the farm, and I don't mind trading prospects away for MLB pieces, that's 1/2 the reason your farm is there! but not for a last-place team. This team needs to show me they can win first before I feel they should go that route.

Keep in mind we have been seeing the trend of teams blowing up the cap for 2-3 years and then resetting. A few years ago you could have said the same thing about the Dodgers, they looked willing to go above the cap in perpetuity but here we are in 2022 looking at them possibly resetting for the second time in 4 years. It's just too hard for me to assume a team in "Buy now" mode will stay there when they could just be following the same recipe as LA and others have. You only have to go back 4 years to when the Sox blew up the cap by 40 million and outspent everyone including LA, then they shed payroll and reset. Maybe the Mets are the first to defy gravity here but we haven't seen ONE team go above the cap, and live there in perpetuity. Maybe they're the ones to do it, but no one has done it yet.

Or 2013. Even better. That teams sported a lot of familiar names from 2012 that had either better or bounce-back seasons. They took that horrible 2012 team and added middling free agents on mid-short-term deals to that team (Koji/Drew/Napoli/Vic) those guys added 15 WAR to the team, but what also happened was the Sox added 17 Wins just from the guys already on their roster. Guys like Ellsbury, Lackey, Nava, Buch, Lester, Salty, Ortiz, Pedey, Doubront all had better seasons and combined for an increase of WAR of 17. Is it unrealistic to expect better results from guys like Story, Devers, Sale, Kike, Verdugo, Barnes etc. Add in Rookie infusions from Bello, Casas and some key FA additions (a closer, a set up man, and an OF bat)???? I don't think so. I still think they need a SP, and a SS, and maybe another corner RHH OF. But I think the Red Sox are much better than people give them credit for. If healthy, they still have a lot of talent and I'm interested to see what the roster looks like in April. Here's a fact. If the Sox have a winning record in June the seats will be packed and no one will be complaining. Well....most of us won't be.

It will be interesting to see the numbers when the dust settles, but it feels that the rate that the team pay per WAR has increased this year exponentially compared to other years. Player pay inflation is not new, but this jump at the moment appears unparalleled. Maybe that's a false perception on my point. But two years ago Bogaerts and Story were arguable of equal value, and Bogaerts just got double his money two years later. He's getting paid to put up apx 45 WAR (if you factor in 2022 # + 10%) during the next 11 years. That would give him 78 Careers by the time her retires. That would currently make him the 70th-best baseball player to ever play the game. Placing him right in between Verlander and Joe Dimaggio. I wonder if this trend is sustainable? or if the rug will be pulled out underneath someone. If the Sox jump in now would this be like buying towards the top of the TULIP BULB craze? I suppose we shouldn't expect much insight from the rabid fans (which I think I'm starting to gravitate to) in light of the front office and their inability to keep star talent. Locking guys up early holds more value now as free agent inflation rises. If there's truth to this, then it may be the wisest decision TO not buy, to wait it out, to try to build value on your roster. I understand that's probably the absolute last thing fans want to hear right now and an insanely unpopular opinion BUT teams like the Yankees and Mets are facing several years of the harshest penalties that will take away many of their picks and international bonus pool money. and thus....their ability to build up a farm system. As unpopular as that might sound, they wouldn't be in this mess of needing to plug so many holes if they have done a better job of locking guys up early over the past 5-7 years. So the front office can't go without blame, and while I hope they reassess and change course, I also hope they don't get desperate and do something just to appease a fan base. And with that......I still wouldn't hate a Carlos Correa signing.

For better or worse….the roster is clearly not set. Sox are going to add a middle IF, another starter and MAYBE another outfielder.

That doesn’t matter, none of this matters. What matters is someone else is spending a ton of money. It could be on a bat boy and it wouldn’t matter.

It will be interesting to see what Ron-Don gets. It just feels one team is going to overpay him to stay healthy snd they’re going to get a Chris Sale deal. I’d hate to see 55 million plus on the DL in starting pitching. Who’s knows maybe this is Sales year?

Bassitt is a guy who benefited from Oakland, put him at Fenway and he’s about as good as Pivetta. He’s fine to anchor a rotation but very little upside.

There’s no pitcher worth losing a pick over here. Sox do need a starter, walker is still on the market I believe. I wouldn’t hate Noah or Kulber at this moment, or even a Nathan reunion. Rodon is just a horrible ideal, but I’d be rooting his injuries are behind him if the Sox went that route, which I highly doubt. Assuming Rodon is out and the Sox don’t have the balls to go after a guy like Correa I think they can win the off-season with a Kluber/Conforto/Segura signing. Losing Bogaerts stings, but the sum of all the parts could be just as good for the potential to be better offense in 2023. The rotation should be better with the potential to be A LOT better if Sale could actually stay healthy. And the bullpen is light years improved. Cap reset, no loss of draft picks (2 gained) or loss of international bonus pool money. Work on a Devers extension.

If anyone is dissatisfied with the Sox not signing Bassitt…..I revoke your fan card.

Correa makes too much sense for Boston. Rodon does not. Carlos plays SS, is a RHH, and will not cost a draft pick. I don’t trust this management/ownership to go hard after him.