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A piece of coal from Uncle Henry to all Red Sox fans for Christmas.
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One estimate I saw before this FA thing all started was 5yr/$105M, and they said he would only get a 5th year, because that’s what it would take, so probably what he ends up with Yes.
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From Tyler Milliken: if Jordan Montgomery is out of your budget you don’t deserve to own a sports team. Especially the damm Boston Red Sox.
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Crowded with Sam in the middle somewhere.
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Those contracts are looking better, and better now, and will probably look even better later on.
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Agree, but the Big O, and the Yam Mam got $100M-$200M more than the original estimated contracts, and I’m sure Snell, and Monty will get substantially more too. If the original plan was to go all in on the Yam Man with all the stiff competition for his services it doesn’t look like that was a very sound plan.
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Do you think the Red Sox were caught flat footed again, and didn’t read the room on how much the asking price for starting pitching has gone up so much from the estimates before all this FA madness started?
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I want trades for younger pitchers who still have control left, and yes I fully understand that trades are far from a guarantee, but I would rather give up a prospect then overpay for guys like Monty, and Snell. To me the Red Sox have waited way too long to try, and make the starting pitching better. I don’t subscribe to the theory like most that you have to be on the verge of winning right now to improve things. Look how much salaries up gone up just the last two years.
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Cora has been fed up for two years now, so I don’t think it is hard to know that he wouldn’t put up with another two especially after supposedly going full throttle this year after two losing last place finishes.
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I have no idea. Brez might have been way down on the list if not so many had said no to even an interview.
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I answered that before any of this FA period started when all the estimates were a lot lower. No, no, and no. Trade, trade, trade.
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Agree 100%. Overhyped, and overpriced. Complete dog, and pony show that the Red Sox shouldn’t even have shown up for considering the competition.
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Green- Red-Blue.
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Nobody said you did. The point being just, because you would be drooling wouldn’t mean by a long shot that Cora would too over the same prospect of prospects. Cora wants, and has wanted to win now.
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Nobody knows what Cora was offered for a role in the FO, but either way I don’t think Cora is, or will be anytime soon. Brez in place now may have changed that.
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Cora pulled the strings at the end of last season, and held the door open for Bloom when he left.
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At least the Mets were given a second interview. Something the Red Sox didn’t get.
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If the Mets, Yankees, Dodgers, and Red Sox all offered the very same contract 99.99% certainly that The Big O, and the Yam Man would have still ended up with the Dodgers.Wonder why that would have been.🤭
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I think the Yam Man wanted to go the Dodgers anyway especially after the BIG O signed there.
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Been out of the loop the past 4 days with a power outage, so haven’t been able to keep up on things. I take it I haven’t missed anything as far as the Red Sox are concerned. I see the Yam Man dog, and pony show is finally over, and glad to see the struggling Dodgers get their man. The Red Sox must have been in it right to the end.
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Who knows what Cora was offered before, and that was before Breslow was hired, so that offer might still not be there, or be what it was. What you would drool over, and what Cora would drool over are most likely two entirely different things. From the way Cora talked at the end of this past season when he said it doesn’t matter what you’re farm ranking is, but but what you do, or don’t do in October is what’s most important. In other words the here, and now is most important, and has been the last two years, so I don’t think Cora is drooling over what, or what might not happen down the road. You’d be drooling if things looked good in 2030.🤭🙈.
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The same reason that players went to Texas last year after the disastrous 2022 season even though Texas made some big signings before the 2022 season.
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Bogey ending up being massively overpaid by SD isn’t an issue. The issue is that Bogey should have been locked up long before he had a chance to opt-out. The CBO drama was seen throughout MLB, and beyond.
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It’s more than just two 78 win seasons. Letting Bogey go, and trading Mookie weren’t good looks for Boston. Not to mention that 10+ candidates wouldn’t even interview for what Sam thinks is the most prestigious job in baseball in being the HOBO of the Boston Red Sox.
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I don’t think the prospect of having so many suspects maybe a year , or two away with the possibility of living up to lots of hype is any lure of any FA coming to Boston. Now if the Red Sox still had Mookie, and Bogey to go with Raffy it would look a lot better.