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Except if Giolito stills stinks, the Red Sox have to pay him another $19M in 2025... you know, the year some fans think the FO is really saving up for to actually go for it.
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A Realistic View at 2024: Part I
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Brez said if one of them helps him make a good trade, that exec can then go work for another team. But if it's a bad trade, the Asst. GM has to stay in the Red Sox front office for at least another offseason. -
Thanks for the advice, but you're either missing the whole point or are still on board with the guise of competing that the front office can no longer sell to most of the fanbase. You're thankful he might have a good year and leave, so we can get a draft pick? Great, maybe the pick becomes a prospect who can make the majors and contribute in 2030. In the meantime, if Giolito is good, why is it good in any way that we'll lose him? Isn't the goal to keep good players? Losing good players just perpetuates the loser mentality of a club that celebrates staying below the tax threshold.
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Whether they fix him or not, one year with an opt-out just means Giolito's another place-holder. Big news of the day is that the Sox promoted another employee to Assistant GM -- that makes FOUR more, backing Ace CBO Breslow. Yet, where are the core starting pitchers for the rotation of the next great Red Sox team? Richard Fitts... does anyone else?
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My eye tests reveal 24-25 vision: forget about who the Red Sox didn't sign -- the Giolito contract tells us all we need to know about how they view the next two years. If Giolito is good in '24, he's as good as gone, opting out... unless anyone in the industry thinks Boston will give him more money to stay (ha, what a joke). But the worst part is if Giolito sucks like the last two years, and knows he can't make more money in the market, then he has to stay for 2025. What? Why would any full-throttle all-in championship contender want to guarantee a bad player an additional year -- unless they're not really full-throttle/all-in/champ-contending... but just want to field a team so they can overcharge fans to attend their debacles?!?!?!?
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If the Red Sox do somehow sign or trade for two good starting pitchers, I won't really care if they fill other holes or upgrades this winter. Soler or Duvall or JD or Manny or Jimmy Foxx aren't going to make this roster a World Series team, but an actual big league starting rotation will go a long way in putting Boston back in the direction of heading there... maybe next year, maybe the one after that, but it has to start with starters.
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I'd like both, please. "Ok, Sir, let me read your order back to you: that's a #2 Stroman and a #3 Imanaga, to go along with what's already on your tray -- a #3 Bello, #4 Crawdad, and #5 Giolito. And my manager says if you don't like your #5, you can have another one next year... but if you do like, we're not serving it anymore."
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... which all have Pinocchio nose
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Didn't he trade Cherry Garciaparra before Don and Jerry won their first rings?
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Then it wasn't the hippies, who took all the organics with them when they were chased out of the city. Everything now is laced with high fructose corn syrup.
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Not the CODA (good for him).
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Damn hippies -- flowers in their hair; try cutting it.. at least wash it. Blame it on the Grateful Dead (said the once wharf rat).
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He didn't want to be called a Guy Ant.
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Be nice. He may be a Cri baby, but at least he's good at something.
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Heyman - ah leave me alone you know Heyman - oh Henry, get off the phone
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First, you have to buy the club from Henry... but don't bet on him even extending his hand to shake on it.
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A Realistic View at 2024: Part I
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Great line. They just announced more Fenway renovations -- installation of Iron Maidens in every box seat, so fans can get really locked in watching alleged big league Red Sox pitchers. And they can never leave... -
Ok, owners, if you're not interested in spending on old free agents, then the plan must be to rely on cheaper young guys developed in the system. So... where are the longterm contracts to lock up your future core -- before they become stars and want fair market rate (and need to be dumped) -- you Mookie-trading MOOKS! Even freaking Milwaukee -- that bastion of domestic beer breweries, but otherwise mid to small market sports city -- just gave an eight-year contract to a minor leaguer who hasn't even made the majors! Is the total lack of any extension talk for guys like Bello and Casas further evidence that these current owners will soon be former owners???
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A Realistic View at 2024: Part I
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Hugh, if you agree this current Red Sox roster is even worse than their last two seasons when they were the fifth-best team in the division, then there is nothing wrong with playing the youngsters and giving them the opportunity to develop into full-time big leaguers. This is what bad teams do in a rebuild. Ruining his confidence is overrated. If a player is good enough to excel at various minor league levels and make the majors, then he has earned his chance. Almost all the guys on the MLB-26 have one or two skills that put them above all others in the system. Overall, modern batters swing and miss more than ever before, and fans have grown used to seeing it. But fielders constantly bumbling around on the diamond, misjudging or clanking balls in play, and throwing others away, is must-miss TV. Rafaela's defense alone makes him worth watching. -
If you stacked all those guys in a booth at a Sunday flea market, there's a new exec in St. Louis that may buy them off you... but only a minute before closing time at clearance prices.
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Maybe one difference for the Rangers compared to In-the-Red Sox is that all seven pitchers you listed are MAJOR Leaguers.
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Yes, please -- in the transactional sense. Sell it to owners dedicated to re-establishing Boston as a major market franchise competing for the top talent in baseball that produces annual contenders... ... like Henry, Werner and Co. did 20 years ago.
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Probably not a ton of Red Sox fans today broken up that Teoscar chose LA over Boston. There's still a major void in the batting order for right-handed power in Fenway, but few on the forum will miss seeing another mediocre fielder with a 35% K-rate. What should be of concern are reports that THern took a one-year deal for almost as much as the Sox offered him for two years. The Dodgers are clearly the definition of "all-in" this winter; Tom and Sam take note. Playing in better weather for a winner may not matter to players as much as some posters would like, but those factors can't hurt, either.
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A Realistic View at 2024: Part I
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Fans can't answer that without directly connecting what they deem as the disgraceful treatment of management to homegrown star Xander Bogaerts. Forget that Story has been an utter flop. Did the Red Sox handle negotiations poorly with Bogie or did they outsmart themselves trying to save a buck... Here's where a more concrete answer might exist: did the Mets spend smart in signing two creaky Hall of Fame starters pushing 40 for $40M apiece? Never mind that Cohen could afford to cut his losses in half a season -- taken literally, is blowing the budget on two old pitchers in any way building a core of sustained contenders? But what if you win it all that year, and the brand soars in immediate fame and fortune? -
A Realistic View at 2024: Part I
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
This isn't about impatience or entitlement. Henry and Werner may be able to afford the best doctors, nutritionists, personal trainers and even private chefs, but they're still both old bucks. Father Time will come knocking wearing a black hoodie for all of us soon enough. These owners at their age can't possibly approve of new five-year plans every five years going forward. Nor can any Asst. VP in the front office feel job security if the strategy is to celebrate LABs (Losses Above Bargain players). Cora, himself, recently noted that the big league club's present should always be the priority over a franchise stockpiling prospects for the future. At least he acknowledges we're all on borrowed time.
