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Breslow made it very easy for Bregman to sign with the cubs by being dense and annoying. Thats the last thing you want to do. You want to make Bregman feel like hes wanted/welcomed and almost betraying his teammates by moving on. The entire time Breslow was revolving his offseason plans around Bregman, while he was simultaneously implying Bregman was lying/exaggerating his market and daring him to take other offers if he had em. Thats jerkness getting in the way. Breslow gets a lot of credit and leash for getting Crochet, but hes not perfect and his communication skills need improvement. That doesnt mean hes a bad GM. But Ive been saying this even before the Bregman communication breakdown, and here we are. There are no disputing accounts what happened, no denials, no counter-narratives (this is the red sox, they love a counter narrative). All we have is 4 accounts, all agreeing that there was a communication breakdown.

“The Sox felt confident in their five-year, $165 million offer, but internally, wanted to avoid bidding against themselves rather than upping their bid at the start of the year in an effort to close out a deal.” The agreement with the Cubs was presented to the Sox as a fait accompli, without a chance to counter, per @alexspeier . Look, how do we really know that George Washington was the first president, neither of us were there. And how do we really know that theearth is round. I mean sure, its what weve been told but how do we reallllllllly know You can cast doubt on anything, and its a tactic, BUT alex speier tyler milliken , aj pierzynski, and carrabis are all painting a similar picture, and it fits a pattern we've seen from breslow and i think you are being incredulous when you doubt it. What happened was there was an initial offer (we dont know much about it) that was eventually upped to the 165m w heavy deferrals without a NTC. And by the team this revised offer crossed Bregman's desk , he was already quite frustrated with Breslow and this offer just frustrated him further and he cut off contact. It might be the max that you would pay, it might be more, but all along the people telling breslow that they had bregmans market wrong were proven right. Because the cubs offer was significantly better. And we've seen breslow struggle to communicate, and we've seen him be flat unlikeable , and what alex speier is adding is that breslow was never given a third chance after the 165m offer (second chance). Thats bad GM. Not because he refused to give Bregman a blank check, but because he took himself out of the running and his pompous attitude led to a communication breakdown. So we dont know if breslow is mister line in the sand, value-hawk. But what we do know is that he struggles at communicating and the negotiations ended with bregman and boras getting fed up with breslow and ending em, not necessarily because breslow knew that a penny more would be too much and wow we should applaud him for that.

The funny part is I dont even care. Im just here to tell you that people using - "hey, we just dont know" Is something that people have been using as tactic to obfuscate and i see through it. In this case, theres a lot of people lining up to tell us what happened, and its not what you wish happened Maybe if you keep wishing though.

Carrabis, Speier , Milliken, and AJ Pierz have all reported that Brez was super confident in his 165m offer on the table and could ride it out. Brez has not denied this, nor has the team.

Yours arent particularly inviting either. .820 career OPS. If we traded Wong for Paredes right now, Id jump for joy. As would others. Paredes has a career .766 OPS. Last year he had a .809 OPS which was good for like a 125 OPS+

career .820 is tough.

I think I grew out of my "wanna bet" stage at 7 years old.

Seems to be what AJ Pierzynski , Tyler Milliken and Carrabis are telling you.

TY was wondering. Could be some telephone, details could be a little off. But AJP said it, Carrabis said something similar. As did Milliken. And the team didnt deny it nor did Breslow. But its not what Joe wants to believe, so hes going to say "hey none of us really know" and insert his own speculation Are you sure we arent all biologically frogs? I mean we'll never ACTUALLY know. Im jsut asking questions - see how easy that is. Obscuring the established to manipulate is right out of the playbook

that you are a clown.

AJ Pierz / Carrabis and Milliken with no pushback from the team or Breslow VS Joe And btw - we'll never truly know is right out of the playbook

But AJP isnt talking about his gut , his opinion, or his speculation. Hes telling you what happened, and Im not hearing any pushback.

Christian Walker is washed up, but I think theres a younger 2b that they want to work in.

Yoshida is already sitting against lefties. Im talking about who gets displaced if they trade pitching for Paredes. Most likely it will be one of Duran/Abreu vs lefties and DHAM vs righties. Unless you think theyll move Cedanne to infield to DH yoshida, which im sure they will sometimes.

And? Mayer in AAA is better depth than Mayer in MLB. Im not saying I hate the thought with him in MLB. Im just saying we are deeper if he starts in AAA. You start Mayer and Dham to open the season in 2026 and we'll be starting Eaton and Sogard when playoffs come. We've seen this movie. Expect injuries. Im not saying Mayer cant play in MLB. Im saying that for the same reason people wanted to push Tolle and Early out of the rotation (becuase they are great depth options in minors) applies to Mayer as well (great depth option in the minors) I trust Mayer more than I trust Early but less than I trust Tolle.

No because Romy is going to play vs lefties regardless of whether or not we get paredes Its not paredes vs romy/DHAM platoon Because romy is going to play vs lefties, it will prob be abreu that sits So its paredes vs Dham /Abreu By not getting paredes, you are playing abreu vs lefties and DHam vs righties (Romy is playing against lefties regardless)

Yes, and the "aggressive" offer wasnt particularly aggressive either (love how you called it SO CALLED aggressive offer, btw) Per AJ P, it went like this Initial offer to Bregman Bregman/Boras - hey, we think our market will be higher and this offer isnt going to get it done Breslow - thats our offer, let us know if you get a better one Bregman/Boras - okay we now have a better offer Breslow - i dont believe you Bregman/Boras - fine, we're about to sign with the cubs Breslow - WAIT!!! I believe you now, what will get it done? Bregman/Boras - 175m, some deferred but not as much as you did. and a ntc Breslow - okay! Well Im about to make you a competitive offer! Bregman / Boras ..... Breslow - 165m, even more deferred Bregman/Boras - thats not what we .....and what about the ntc? Breslow - wont do it Bregman / Boras - Cubs it is Breslow - WAIT!!!! Bregman/Boras - click Breslow - why am i so bad at this?

just like at the trade deadline

We have one. Its AJ Pierzynski. And he told you exactly what happened. Breslow angered Bregman because Breslow isnt good with people, and Bregman wanted to come back, but he looked at Boras and hes like "this dude isnt listening to me, and its aggravating. Plus I have more money in hand from the cubs." ANd Boras stayed silent cuz hes not the bad guy here. Then Bregman told Breslow he was going to sign with the cubs, and thats when bregman upped his offer to 165m,...but he also increased the deferrals and wouldnt include the ntc, and bregman was like you gotta be kidding me ANd now people wanna pretend that we dont know what happened or that it was breslow being shrewd. Hard line in the sand, i respect that. None of it happened. I told you guys that Breslow doesnt human good and it would bite us and there you go Point Drewski

What evidence that he doesnt back down? He did up his offer to Bregman but it was too late. Breslow had already pissed Bregman off by being dense.

link?

I dont think I agree here. I think they would have went higher on Alonso had Bregman signed first. Maybe not enough to get him, but they had multiple meetings with him and there was interest and they couldnt have thought their offer was competitive. I think they max'd at a number that wouldnt take em out of the Bregman running.

Well DHAM is worse at the plate than Rafaela, for sure - and Romy is kind of irrelevant to this because hes going to hit somewhere against lefties. Other than that I agree. It doesnt fix the offense. But it doesnt break it more like some trades of Duran for a good defensive infielder with a noodle bat.

How do you know that AJ Pierzynski doesnt like Breslow and is making it all up to smear him? Thats pretty wild accusation, IMO Keep reaching for the stars