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Miami leads Ohio State 17-7 at the end of the 3rd. Come on....one more solid quarter to hold them off Canes. Ohio St is driving deep in Miami territory and generally have looked much better this half so I have my doubts if we can hold them off here. Either way I am proud of the team. Hit. Stick. Bust Dick! Come on Canes!

Good luck, buddy. Alexander Canario Signs With NPB's Seibu Lions - MLB Trade Rumors

Well, Happy New Year's guys, and go easy on the sake when they announce Imai.

Miami leads Ohio State 14-0 at the half. Our DL is eating Ohio State's OL alive. Great job, Canes. Keep fighting for another half you can do it.

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I think the Sox 2026 opening day payroll is currently estimated at around $88 million. I don’t think Imai would add that much to the 2026 payroll outside of additional acquisitions. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Je_oWzOM63KRY5EJ35o8CE8JHM8fzQofUEHO_QjsowA/htmlview

Saw someone say earlier that even with Imai, their payroll would only be like $120 million. For a normal franchise, that isn’t unreasonable at all.

For me, it screams keep Robert and go for it.

We really need some news. Where is she when you need her?!?

I feel the same way about Murakami. Everybody has their work cut out for them, there. You declared that some of us can't understand how embarrassing Smith being the Sox's All-Star representative was, because he was "their 41st best guy". Vinny Capra and Oliver Dunn were on the Brewers' 40-man at the time Smith was selected. That says to me that you're prepared to argue nth degree nonsense to dig in and proclaim the Sox will be as bad as anyone can imagine in any given year, and we should all feel embarrassed, because reasons. The Brewers made an understandable decision on who to protect, and the Sox capitalized. Go ahead and feel shame. That's all lost on me. For two months after the TDL in 2025, the Sox played at a 70-win pace over 162. I know you want to include the record of a team that was up to 12 different guys on opening day than what finished the season on the team. The Sox's Pythagorean was 71-91, so assuming the guys that finished on the major league squad could win 70 games isn't unreasonable. (go ahead, pretend to be laughing) I don't think it's a stretch to believe that replacing Vaughn/Elko/Noda with Murakami, replacing Benintendi's defense with anybody more capable, getting a full season of Montgomery over Amaya/Capra (regardless of how good you think Capra is), and replacing Bryce Wilson/Jonathan Cannon with Key and Newcomb, along with any wish-casted growth from Baldwin/Vargas/Meidroth/Teel/Quero/Robert (returning any bit to form) - could result in adding about 5+ wins to that 70-71 win base that I feel is completely supported. That's 5 situations on this team where there's really no argument they could pick up a win from each. If they also add Imai and any kind of closer (screw it, Kopech), that shores up the rotation and bullpen by pushing everybody back a slot, that could result in wins. At that point, you're pushing towards the upper 70's/80 in wins. You can either show your math how you *know* that won't happen, or pretend to be laughing, whatever. If the team clicks, Monty/Teel/Vargas/others begin to play towards their ceilings, that could push this team over .500. If everybody went nuts and the division stagnated, you have a "competitive" team.

Signing Imai screams Robert salary dump coming.

I honestly thought it would be better than it was with all the hype around it. I thought it was pretty good but not great. If anyone is looking for some good ‘ol stupid action movie fun with very little dialog, I would highly suggest Sisu (2022) and its sequel Sisu: Road to Revenge (2025). The Finns have created their own version of Rambo. Crazy and unrealistic action but highly enjoyable. Also has some Quentin Tarantino-inspired vibes.

Tigers, Guardians, Royals, Sox, Twins in that order as of now in my opinion.

I mean, honestly, who is winning the division next year? I guess Detroit is the favorite? But they completely collapsed in the 2nd half, like historical. Cleveland always seems to be in the running no matter what. It's definitely not Minnesota or KC.

Well, I can't find win totals yet, but FanDuel has the Sox at +50,000, tied with Washington and Colorado for worst

Only a year older than Imai but his low strikeout numbers are concerning.

Signing Mune was a good signing given this team ans where they are. I said as much. It's also very possible he can't make enough contact in the MLB to be viable. It's unlikely that he carries a bad team to the playoffs either way, and unlikely is me being polite. Not sure what you're rambling about with Capra. Shane Smith was the Brewers 41st guy whether that hurts your feelings or not.

Yah, that guy. He's probably on the level of Kay, maybe a cut above, and key attribute, cheap.

With all your "Vinny Capra and Oliver Dunn are better than Shane Smith" gibberish, I really wasn't on the edge of my seat wondering which Sox signings would impress you. Maybe that's why you think signing Murakami is funny, because Vinny Capra is your idea of an All-Star.

Takahashi?

Yes, when I was watching the Sox last year lose 100 games again I thought to myself, all this team needs is Anthony Kay, Sean Necomb and Murakami to make up the additional 20 wins+ they need.

Wow, internet guy pretends to laugh at me. My dreams are dust. Perhaps you should read a little closer. Yes, they've made additions. They added Oliver Dunn, who, BTW, was also on the Brewers' 40-man roster when they didn't protect Shane Smith for the Rule 5 draft, so I guess I should be embarrassed over that, too. You argued that everybody the Brewers protected at the end of 2024 was "better" than Shane Smith, so I guess we just picked up another All-Star, huh?

Ray Ray’s a couple posts away from listing his movie reviews.

I’ll be taking the over if it’s at 70 wins. That’s as close to free money as Vegas will give you. Also, I find most of Steamer’s projections to be very conservative for us outside of Meidroth and maybe Kay.

Did i miss something? The Sox still have a payroll under Oakland, Colorado and Pittsburgh. If they signed this guy they'd be around KC and Cincy. Guys here are acting like the Sox signed Juan Soto this off season. They have 38 million committed to 2027 as of today.