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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Still need SS, SP, RF... stay tuned? ps. I think the Devers' deal eliminated any Wacha multi-year... maybe even Eovaldi... and Kluber was the alternative with Raffy in mind. ... and it shouldn't surprise if no other moves are made before ST
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Turner, Devers, trade for Wendle?
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    If they trade Paxton for himself, he might turn it down.
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    A month or so ago, Bloom conceded the Sox had to spend "beyond reason" to lock up Raffy. Considering the new market, does anyone really think his deal was unreasonable? What if all these one-year deals for has-beens and never-weres the past three winters -- and ignoring the top free agents commanding longer multi-year contracts -- were all done just to save up enough dough to pay Devers? Notice I didn't say "afford" Raffy...
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    "NOBODY is worth fill-in-the-blank to play a game of baseball!" (preceding quote passed on from the Garden of Eden or translated from recovered ancient alien artifacts, depending on one's beliefs)
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Underrated points -- Jose already fits in, and made about a third of Andrus' salary last year. But the shorter bases may help a guy like Elvis, the active MLB leader in Caught Stealing.
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I get the feeling both Andrus and Iglesias want multi-years; who wouldn't. I'm also hoping the Gurriel rumors won't mean Bloom is seriously considering trading Casas for a Marlin not named Alcantara...
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Red Sox need a shortstop. Some say Jose Iglesias isn't the shortstop he once was... the same has been said about Story. Can Iglesias fill the position until Ceddanne or Mayer (or Romero or Paulino or Ravelo) make it? We do know Iglesias was great at second, at the plate, and in Alex Cora's dugout a year-and-a-half ago. Will the price be too high, instead, to trade for Rojas and/or a pitcher from Miami?
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Pipe dreams.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Maybe... but what's in those pipes that causes such dreams is legal in a lot of states now.
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    All part of the recent history that fans hate about this management -- especially, letting the best players go from the best team in Red Sox history. Today is different... no matter how anyone tries to twist it into a repeat of patterns that led to Pablo Sandoval and Carl Crawford.
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I knew a couple Red Sox fans -- and not a Yankee visitor just browsing -- would understand my post entirely
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The narrative up until yesterday was that the Red Sox would not pay their homegrown fan favorites fair market prices to stay in Boston... ... because the only guy extended since Bogey was re-upped after the 2018 title was Matt Barnes. Things are different now. Times have changed for the better today.
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    ... and the go-to cautionary contracts for big-time batters whose contracts were too long. My point is that Devers' contract isn't -- he won't be Old Man Bogey limping around San Diego infields (or wherever) into his 40s... at least, not on our dimes.
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Try to be imperfectly curt, but never kickham when they're down... gagne with a spoon = always abad idea.
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Keep in mind Devers' prime years. The Red Sox are basically paying for hopefully the best seasons of a star player's career: ages 27-32 (give or take). Raffy may be kicking around as a first baseman or DH at the back end of his contract, but only through age 37. For fans worried about another "albatross" Pujols or Cabrera contract, here are 162-game averages of Albert and Miggy from ages 33-37: Pujols -- 31 HR, 109 RBI; Cabrera 25 HR, 89 RBI. Will you settle for something in between?
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    While I don't have a lot of confidence that the projected starting rotation will catapult Boston back into contention (or even stay together for six months), the one it's replacing finished in dead last place. I also wonder if Turner or Story or Casas can give Raffy enough protection so that anyone will throw him a fastball for a strike before 2024. However, the Devers signing makes the '23 Red Sox already so much better than the '22 squad. All the big-time question mark players are now gone: Bogey, JD, Vaz, Nate -- great Red Sox champions -- but no more clubhouse distractions, worries, wondering, reporter queries, deadline doom, etc., etc. Here I go, playing the star again. There I go, turn the page.
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Disagree on principle. Pro ballplayers -- no matter what uniform they're currently wearing -- may be looking at Boston as a desired destination again. The Red Sox want to be players again, and players will want to be Red Sox again. And even if all that is bs from a fan, at least humor the fan... we all want to at least feel our team cares about us as much as we care about it.
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The left one -- I'm celebrating with a stout from Left Hand Brewing Co... (Yankee fans dreaming of Raffy aiming for that short porch at the Stadium the next 11 years can now have nightmares of Raffy aiming for it)
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Pending physical: my skull; have to have my head examined after hitting the ceiling... Let's GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Or Yankees
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Red Sox rep, Winter 2023: "Raffy, we just signed Yoshida for $90 million. How would you like three times that much?" Devers' rep: "Tell you what -- when he gets his first extra-base hit in the majors, I'll already have 300 more. So I'll sign for 300 times his contract."
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Red Sox rep, Spring 2022: "Raffy, we see the Braves just signed Matt Olson for $168 million. How would you like $245 million?" Devers' rep: "I'd love it. The Red Sox always take care of their players. And their fans. Let's GO!"
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    If it was just business, would he hire a guy to pay Story and Yoshida combined what they probably could've locked up Devers for, a year ago? Let me rephrase that: in the past year, Bloom spent $270 million on a defensive whiz who in his first year as a Red Sox struck out at a higher rate than JBJ in 9 Boston years, and a foreigner who has yet to play an MLB game. Do you think Raffy would've signed for that a year ago?
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    What, you didn't think Bloom would get a perfect exchange, like with all his other trades?
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