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How can a guy who threw 90 innings for a first place team -- more than everyone on the pitching staff except for the regular starting rotation -- have ZERO VALUE?

I don't hate the Dodgers for spending, because after all, they have a 25-year agreement with SportsNet LA for $8.35 BILLION through 2039. Great point by Drewski on the other owners reaping the tax penalties from LA, so we might as well forget anyone -- players, agents, owners -- ever advocating for a salary cap. As a Red Sox fan (especially this decade) of course I'm jealous, but I say this for fans of every MLB team: forget about a cap, but there definitely should be a salary shoe -- I don't care if it's a freakin flipflop -- something on the floor where even the most miserably miserly owners are required to invest... or get the hell off of our baseball lawn.

They all could've batted clean-up for the '25 Sox, and I'm not on pot.

I don't know if you're overanalyzing something you think is overanalyzing, but I'm just going by what I observed: Bello's manager -- who really needed his only available veteran starter besides Crochet to go at least 5 innings in the playoffs, but then deemed for whatever reasons he was only good for 7 outs....

... which is what he had in Game Two in New York. So count me in, too.

You lost me at 2018. I was sure the end of your sentence was going here: "Almost as weak as the Sox lineup in the last..." WILD CARD ROUND A MONTH AGO!

Sox minor league position player depth seems alarmingly weak at catcher, first base and third base, with no legit prospects in the upper levels. Worcester and Portland might as well be on Planet Dearth. Hopefully, guys like Arias, Godbout and Gonzales continue to develop and move up fast. Mayer looks destined for 3B. If Bregman isn't resigned, I like Bichette as the best free agent option for a quality bat who can start somewhere in the infield. If Boston won't pay market prices for Alonso or Schwarber, then trade for Yandy Diaz at 1B -- which will add another solid contact man who won't strike out.

Home run! It was predictable that's what would take to win the "second" game last night, and LA had a huge edge once the Jays replaced Springer, Bichette, Barger and Kirk in their lineup. The postseason is all about HRs, because the pitching is so good it's less likely clubs can string together an inning with three singles to produce a run -- or two hits and a well-placed grounder or sac fly -- instead of one big swing.

I like it -- and above the scoreboard, cut out a chunk of the wall and insert a couple rows of seats in the shape of a grin; the ladder's already installed for fans to climb up and down, and Henry gets to increase attendance for more profits to buy cigars... and pay for all the home run balls it will cost him. Then next winter Sam Kennedy will announce they'll be painting two big eyeballs near the top of the Monster, with a contest to decide what awards batters will get if they hit either target (ex: automatic two-run homer, but they have to circle the bases twice).

The ambidextrous are the real problem -- they won't just rely on traditional measures or metrics, but insist on using all tools of evaluation. The ambidextrous consider every angle in circular motions that create holistic holes in the whole panorama that sink boats in the panorama canal before we can identify if they're manned by fishermen or scapegoat farmers. If only the ambidextrous would just put both hands in their pockets and use their eyes, they'd see what the rest of us are told we're seeing.

At school, I couldn't drum pencils on my desk without missing a beat, but there was an opening with a band that liked me. I know I wasn't tapped out, but then someone gave me a flutophone. I just started practicing when someone else handed me a triangle... but I dropped it. I know I can improve my grip with some pinetar. Just don't ask me to be designated singer. Who keeps flashing the laser pointer-- the bell rang; was that the first bell or the late bell?

Yet somebody from the org apparently told Kristian Campbell that a year ago -- or at least the last line in Florida. And somehow it doesn't make sense that voice was from Alex Cora, a legitimately good major league infielder for 14 seasons of positive dWAR, who watched every prospect throughout Spring Training -- when it was obvious Marcelo Mayer outplayed KC on D.

Plus, a lot of our depth starters being suggested in trades will be coming off injuries -- no team will swap assets for damaged goods this winter. Any deals involving guys like Crawford, Dobbins, Fitts and/or Perales -- if they happen -- will probably have to wait until Spring Training for the rehabbers to show they're recovered and ready. To reiterate: any package for a top of the rotation starter will undoubtedly have to include Tolle and/or Early... ... and that doesn't mean guys like Clarke or Witherspoon are worthless -- just worth less, for clubs seeking MLB-ready arms for '26.

We're just lucky other teams lost 89 games to Boston. And I keep including WC Game One in the postseason -- which we all know is more difficult than the regular -- so we can say the Sox won 90.

Appreciate the concepts, but don't think Breslow, building around pitching, would trade six arms with upside in one winter -- even for those three. The one deal that makes sense for Boston is the Alcantara swap, but would Miami go for two guys who haven't made comebacks yet? We do know previous Marlin regimes were interested in Casas...

Good to see Bichette preparing to be a Red Sox next year: played solid at second base, shot a base hit to right on his first swing in a month.

Even if Murakmai only wanted $50M, I'd still take Okamoto.

Hendriks for sure. Sale post-extension, but not post-trade. Giolito: 2024 regular season, 2025 postseason (but he bounced around other cities before Sox to Sox). Seaver didn't make it to the '86 postseason -- would've had Nipper's start vs. the Mets... Aparicio? Something like 0-for-40, then he fell down.

... the perfect place to shop for a mid-market club with the support of nearly the entire northeast region of a northeast region.

And for blunts to light the fireplace for winter pics

Deer in the tailights

Just don't call him a stiff.

Gold Glove first baseman with right-handed pull power and 11% K-rate -- now, is that really the kind of player that fits in with this Red Sox roster? This quote intrigues: "profile that mirrors the disciplined style Boston's hitting department has been preaching throughout the organization." (musing: writer either works for the Sox or isn't a Sox fan, since the org obviously needs less preaching and more teaching) link: https://heavy.com/sports/mlb/boston-red-sox/good-news-on-kazuma-okamoto/

They need at least two, but Bichette is the youngest and has led the AL in hits in his past four full seasons. Obviously, Bo would have to agree to play 2B or 3B, and we're not even sure he'd be ok at either. We know we're covered at SS.

This is the post I was waiting for -- and trying futilely to articulate in my own. Note to notin: I did cite career negative dWARs of both Hoskins and Bell to show how craptacular they'd improve our D (but only because I can't seem to find all the other metrics at MVP's fingertips)... bottom line -- what's the point of adding anyone if they're not going to be legitimate UPGRADES? And nothing against moonslav, whose lists we always appreciate all offseason, but the 2026 Red Sox need to add more than decent players -- especially if we lose Bregman, OUR LONE ALL-STAR REGULAR. When I say decent, that includes a power hitter who may sock 40 homers but strikeout 200 times -- we need less Ks more than we need more HRs... change. the. culture. Seattle just lost the pennant partially because in the 2nd inning of a tie game with two on and no outs, they sac bunted, so their #8 batter, Leo Rivas, could whiff and strand both. Rivas was 1-for-14 with 7 Ks in the ALCS -- if you're going to bunt them over for him, make him bunt, too -- at least then he might put the ball in play!!! Why talk about the M's? Because their production and flaws are similar to ours (except they're loaded with longball guys, while we lead the world in doubles).