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May works for the roles they seem to favor: guys who straddle the line between a low innings starter/multi-innings reliever. They may see it as a market inefficiency. Maybe he’s a starter/bulk guy, maybe he’s an innings eating reliever like Vasil and Newcomb the last two years. They would throw him in a mix with Sandlin, Schultz, McDougal, and both Smiths and see how it all works out. I don’t love it, but I don’t hate it. I fear 5 years of Peralta would be another Castillo times 5. May would be a half measure, but potentially useful.

I feel the Sox dumpster diving again

Yeah I'd feel more confident if the rotation looked like this: Burke Better FA signing Martin Taylor Back-end FA signing Castillo and Kay to bullpen as depth Schultz and Sandlin (if not in the pen on the 2026 Taylor plan) in Charlotte as depth It kinda feels like they've already added the 5th starter for 2027 at the 2026 trade deadline though. Because if not, that's an expensive long-reliever. Bad fit. Bad bad overpaid fit.

Yep and the rumor is they want atleast 2 pitchers. Thought I saw a report one is on the high end 1-2 and a backend starter. So the names we're hearing now make sense.

And it’s in a higher price range than usual it seems

Yeah its easy to link them virtually to every SP available (top of rotation guys, back end guys, etc) considering that is our biggest need

So here's the thing. It's clear right now they have a wide nest cast on starting pitchers. Settle down. Maybe it's just me getting older. But I don't react and attempt to jump off the bridge like others I'm seeing on here especially to the May interest to every rumor. Christ in the past 3 days it seems like we've heard them interesting in 20 starting pitchers.

Kay and May and pray for rain! 🤣

Walks too many, but he's got some skill. But, we have somewhat of a backlog of pitchers like that.

Because we see this same act time and time again under Jerry and his budget. You spent numerous posts saying that the Sox needed to acquire two starters at the previous trade deadline. They did the bare minimum as usual and acquired an aging Castillo and we watched as they could barely field a rotation into the postseason. How is it being negative when history has proven it so?

I think May is better, but considering he is always an injury risk, I could see someone arguing that they would rather have Kay at a cheaper price.

I was going to say. He extrapolated alot from that one tweet.

Your need to jump to the most negative possible outcome in every single thread based on a couple of random Twitter rumors is truly something. Why not let things play out a bit before declaring we aren’t going to do s%*# this offseason?

Sox fans: We are going to be spend big in free agency! We have a low payroll AND playoff money! Getz:

I’m not convinced he is even that much better than Kay to be honest with you.

If anyone had delusions of grandeur about the Sox spending big on higher tier free agents this offseason because their payroll is so low and they have so much money to spend, just look at the three names that they have been rumored to be interested in thus far. Nothing has changed.

If this is the single “big” move to improve the rotation, it wouldn’t move the needle much. He would be an improvement over Kay at the backend of the rotation, but not much more than that.

You have spent the entire thread making up lies. Of course your lies weren't addressed to me, but I am sure going to challenge them. Everyone else can handle this, even the ones who don't think the Railyards are ideal. You are the entire problem here. Continue your lies, and you will be continually challenged on them. Stay mad.

Eh I guess he’s in the tier I more expect them to ship in but man if you brought him in and only him that would be disappointing. There would have to be a bigger add

Yeah he seems more like a depth, back end guy. We need stability and innings and he has historically provided neither.

The risk isn’t worth the mediocre reward for May. They need someone more likely to provide stability and innings to the rotation.

He was pretty good before TJ surgery, but not much after.

Yeah it’s pretty cool.