Old Red
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The Red Sox have burned out the BP the last few years, and need as many BP pitchers as they can get. Having 1 less I don’t see as working out to anything good. Especially with there being so many question marks as there are with the BP now.
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He’d better after giving up the suspects he gave up.
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I’m not even counting on Cro Man being with the Red Sox past 2026 at this point until I see a contract past 2026 gets done.
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Maybe because that’s a real possibility unless the Red Sox blow Cro Man away with a contract offer. Faith in the Red Sox doing that I do not have.
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I agree on the 6 man rotation. I know there has been talk about it, but first of all you have to have 6 good healthy arms to do it, and the Red Sox have has a hard time having 5 the past few years. I’m not counting on Gio to even start the season on the active roster. Last seen on the mound he was a HR Derby pitcher, so who knows what you’ll get out of him anyways.
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As I’ve said he’s not a proven commodity, but if he has a good year this year that will change to some degree. It will be interesting to see how this all plays out. With the Red Sox Anything’s Possible, and usually not on the good side. It’s a risk for both sides at this point.
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I started all this 3 year of control thing, because I just have a hard time believing the Red Sox will make it worth it to Crochet to sign anything long term without a short time opt-out. I hope I’m wrong.
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Crochet is far from a proven commodity at this point for anything close to a $200M contract.
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Called it.
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Called it.
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Great game with lots of ebbs, and flows. Great win for ND.
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No deal yet for Duran.
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Kut Man $2.75M today.
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I wasn’t sure where Bogey was on his arb years, but it’s still going to come down to the Red Sox making it worth it to Crochet to go long, and without an opt-out, or how far into his contract. That’s the BIG if, and, and but.
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Like I said Cro Man has the upper hand when it comes to if he wants an opt-out, or not, and when. The opt-out after 3 years would ONLY be if that’s all he would take. Bogey took a 6/120 with an opt-out after 3. It would be the same scenario if that all they could get in years.
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Exactly, and that’s why I said like the Bogey deal with the opt-out after the third year. When I speculate what I think what the Red Sox will do I tend to go to the low side, which would be 3 years, so anything more than that will be great, and a plus.
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Amazing, but I understood it fully. That was my contention when I said an opt out after 3 years, which was better than the 2 years it was now.
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So Skubal could get $20M+ next offseason, which will be his last arbitration year?
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Houck $3.95M Cro Man $3.8M Avoiding arbitration.
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The Red Sox might not have a choice.
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At the moment Cro Man has the upper hand in all of this. Like I keep saying the Red Sox are going to have to come up with an offer to good to refuse without an early opt-out.
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All is very true, but remember this is the Red Sox were talking about.
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Let’s remember that while Cro Man has good stuff he’s still an unproven commodity with only 1 year of 100+ innings. With the Red Sox rash of injuries lately anything can happen.
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I haven’t said anything about what I would do. All my post have been speculating what the Red Sox would do, and the lack of confidence I have in the Red Sox Baseball ops to make a long term offer with no opt-outs that will be acceptable to Cro Man for 4 years, or beyond. The trade was made with only two years of control, which some on here have complained about given the prospects the Red Sox gave up. If you have confidence in Brez fine, but I’m on a wait, and see.
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Do you have confidence the Red Sox are going to offer Cro Man an offer he can’t refuse with no opt-out that’s at least 4 years, or more?