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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Nomar got traded after he turned down a Red Sox offer of $60 million for four years, circa 2004. According to Amortization.org (annual inflation of 2.58%) that's a value of about $100 million today. Btw, Garciaparra signed a one-year contract for $8.25M the next season. He was 31. If you think that's bad, Bregman -- who will be 31 in March -- turned down Houston's offer of $156 million; in '04, that's equivalent to around $260M -- quite an increase from the offer to Nomar, who had very close to the same value as Alex B. Nomar's bWAR in Boston: 41.2 Bregman's bWAR in Houston: 39.6 Post-script: after leaving Beantown, Garciaparra played 5 more years and earned 3 WAR. Total. Yikes...
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    If it's Tom again, my dogs will throttle him.
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    But our window!!! Still isn't even a peephole yet...
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The "Dodgers." What exactly are they Dodging these days, anyway? ... except, of course, LA's schools of lake trout, herds of goats with horns, and dudes wearing crowns and halos trimming their fingernails.
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Translator kicked out of the clink for insider secrets after laying off all the action on Roki LAsaki.
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    2019 Raffy blasted 90 extra-base hits. Ninety! Juiced ball, young eyes and supple muscle tissues aside, Devers also had the luxury of hitting in the middle of a powerhouse offense, with Silver Slugger All-Stars like Betts, Bogaerts and JD Martinez shredding pitchers. Raffy was one of eight teammates with 18 homers or more in '19. Last year, he was one of three -- and O'Neill is already gone and not replaced. It's hard to believe a quality hitter has peaked at age 28... but Boston desperately needs some company in the batting order to be dancing with Mr. D... What's that, you say, Sam? Oh, right, we have Rice, Lynn and Evans about to explode onto the big league scene and take the world by storm. Never mind spending on any additional talent.
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    As great as Yaz and Lonborg were in '67, it's notable that the Red Sox won their first pennant in the Integration Era when they finally started as many as six black players.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I'm not an ungrateful Red Sox fan. I can say without hesitation Pedro Martinez was certainly the greatest pitcher in Red Sox history, and that no one in baseball history has come close to his unique accomplishments... ... and not only because he dominated the biggest, baddest batters on steroids, won three Cy Youngs, and had the most extreme statistics. Pedro made pitches to bring three world championships to Boston. One was on the mound, the others were on the phone -- when he called the front office and talked them into signing DFAvid Ortiz.
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Dodger fans would laugh at our misery. The Dodgers approach to building annual rosters isn't comparable to the Red Sox or any other MLB teams anymore. LA shops at Filene's Basement, and Filene's Kitchen, and Filene's Penthouse, and every floor in between in every other major and minor department store in every city in every country. The Red Sox shop in the Dominican in little fishing villages like Las Galeras (translation The Galleys), where about 7,000 people live -- and if they're lucky -- one of them plays baseball as good as Brayan Bello. Boston does pretty good spelunking in the Dominican, and once the Sox accumulate enough affordable prospects, the front office vows to use its vast capital to surround them with big league talent. That's what their CBOs and President keeps promising... year after year after year.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    You're saying that. I'm saying LA was smart enough to make their own luck and sign a good player who now has multiple rings. And I was ragging on Muncy when he was worthless vs. the Yanks. But he's way better than any free agent position player signing of the Bloom/Brez Error -- and please don't throw one-and-done guys at me, guys they were too cheap to pay market value to and hang onto for any fan continuity whatsoever. I'd type more, but -- quick, the Red Sox music stopped again, and I have to go find a chair... and they're really tight.
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    No, the Dodgers are just so lucky in guys when they spend $300 million on signings.
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I know... Muncy the two-time Dodger All-Star and three-time Dodger recipient of NL MVP votes -- the guy who the Dodgers have paid at least $48 million, are committed to paying $14 million more, with over 23 bWAR and a higher postseason OPS than his career OPS, with 13 home runs in 13 playoff series. The Bloom/Brez Sox must have signed at least nobody like Max in free agency.
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The Dodgers don't know what they're doing. They sign another kid who's never thrown a big league pitch, instead of their veteran champion who just beat the Yankees in the World Series. Their loss is our gain. Boy, did the Red Sox' smart alecks fleece LA!
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    We all know why, and it has nothing to do with bad luck. The Dodgers upgrade steam engines every year to power their ship. The Red Sox haunt flea markets and garage sales for used tea pots.
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Come on, we're not really comparing Dodgers to Red Sox. LA lost its top two pitchers in games started for the entire postseason -- Stone and Glasnow (not to mention several others pencilled into the rotation a year ago, including their Hall of Fame lefty) -- and team closer and saves leader Phillips for the entire World Series... ... and still won it all. It isn't luck that the Dodgers organization constantly, consistently provides a wealth of talent to legitimately contend for rings every single year.
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    He's got the pedigree. His Uncle Duke was a video game legend, and in his comic book went back in time to crush Nazis.
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Mazza was better than everybody that year at giving up 890-foot homers.
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Don't forget when Chris Mazza served a turkey meatball to Ronald Acuna, who hit the longest home run in the history of no living fans in the stands to spill their beers from vertigo while watching it fly over their heads.
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    Upon being informed the Sox had rotated stock, the few remaining cardboard fans who saw him in 2020 were nonminused.
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Most here may agree that John Henry has had enough of blowing money on longterm player contracts. The Soto ruse accomplished exactly what Red Sox PR sought at the time: interest. Since then, the longest contract they've given out was to a guy who may not even pitch this season: Sandoval. So what exactly makes anyone think Boston will fork over ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS MORE than they're paying Raffy Devers, to someone who is actually a worse corner infielder?
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I think of him more as someday having a career year in batting average -- something like a Cecil Cooperish .330, but with 27 HRs. His Netflix breakfast with Crawford, where Tris discusses the differences of "one more hit per week" portrays him as a thinking-man's hitter... but in a specialty where a guy can sometimes think too much.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I'll never believe a guy like Gio who was so good and then suddenly so bad was entirely healthy. I think Boston's front office blew it with their "thorough" research before signing him. Professional veteran pitchers don't forget how to pitch, but physical issues -- even the slightest -- prevent pitchers from sustaining previous years of effectiveness. The old saying is that any injury for a pitcher is a sore arm -- because any impediment can cause an altered delivery, which can cause arm injuries. Tweaked ankle from landing in a hole in front of the mound? You got a sore arm. Dizzy Dean stubbed his toe, he got a sore arm. Herb Score got hit in the head, he got a sore arm.
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Don't forget $38.5 MILLION/2 for Giolito (coming off a disastrous season) -- to pitch one year... maybe... Henry may not know much about baseball, but after replacing one smart CBO with another smart CBO -- and watching another debacle of a free agent signing -- he had to be sitting there in disbelief. No wonder he withdrew all the money from his Red Sox account, stuffed it under his mattress and changed the locks on his doors.
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I think the Red Sox agree with you. How about five years at $80M for an AAV of $16M -- below market value for an ace -- but remember, he already signed with Boston this year for $3.8M. '26: $7M (basically doubles '25) '27: $15M (doubles '26, and is more AAV than every 2024 AL All-Star starting pitcher will make this year, except Burnes.) '28: $18M -- at age 28,,, what Boston paid Giolito at age 29 '29: $19M... what Boston will pay Giolito to finally throw a pitch this season '30: $21M -- at age 30... what Boston will pay Buehler at 30 to beat the Yankees again this year
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    This isn't Wayne Garland, who Cleveland gave the first 10-year contract in the history of free agency. Details: 10 years for $2.3 million -- not bad, considering he turned down Baltimore's offer of $40 thousand... ... but then Garland blew out his rotator cuff -- before arthroscopic surgery existed. Wayne never made a big league All-Star team, but earned his fame at age 12, when he reportedly struck out the first 56 batters he faced in Nashville Little League.
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