Garrett Crochet conversion to starter in 2022 Thread

[caulfield12]

11 minutes ago, Y2Jimmy0 said:

You just can't look at this way. They didn't have $54 million to allocate elsewhere. That's not how they operate under Reinsdorf. They basically had $30 million to spend. Hendriks is $11 million of that. They can't just take the full value of Hendrik's contract and allocate it for 2021. It doesn't work that way. 

And most Sox fans are not going to be too understanding of that self-imposed salary parameter when we were promised unprecedented financial flexibility.

You can’t possibly be arguing they wouldn’t have extended Giolito because that wouldn’t have fit into this year’s budget if they ripped up his current year deal...?  Now if you said they were never going to give a pitcher $125-150 million in the first place?

If they go with spending only after the revenues are coming in with 100% attendance, they might be too late to the party.

Just doesn’t make sense to be a Top 3-5 broadcasting rights deal team (see FG article) and essentially be financially hamstrung with a middle of the pack payroll.

 

 

 

Edited April 2, 2021 by caulfield12

[Y2Jimmy0]

20 minutes ago, caulfield12 said:

And most Sox fans are not going to be too understanding of that self-imposed salary parameter when we were promised unprecedented financial flexibility.

You can’t possibly be arguing they wouldn’t have extended Giolito because that wouldn’t have fit into this year’s budget if they ripped up his current year deal...?  Now if you said they were never going to give a pitcher $125-150 million in the first place?

If they go with spending only after the revenues are coming in with 100% attendance, they might be too late to the party.

Just doesn’t make sense to be a Top 3-5 broadcasting rights deal team (see FG article) and essentially be financially hamstrung with a middle of the pack payroll.

 

 

 

Nobody should be understanding. Jerry Reinsdorf sucks.