SoxBlanco

Those were my EXACT same thoughts when I read this. This is a complete non-story in my eyes.

This was what I posted over a month ago, so I would definitely be fine with signing Elvis if we could get him for cheap at this point.

Eloy has no business playing RF at all next year, but the funny thing is that he would be better out there than Sheets and Vaughn. Can we please just stay healthy for once so that this never even becomes an option?

Wow. Wishing you and your family the best, Liam. I know you’ll close the door on this awful disease.

Pollock to Seattle for $7M.

Ha, thank man. I’ll make sure to enjoy these next 363 days.

Thanks for doing these, @Lip Man 1. I noticed you didn’t have anything for January 5. If you’re looking to add something, you can say that legendary SoxTalk member SoxBlanco was born on that date in 1984.

Are there three of them?

Why are you saying “should have been” brought in, instead of “should be” brought in? It’s January 4th.

When did Hahn say he had to make trades? I thought he just said trades were more likely than free agent signings.

And yet, almost every expert, fan, and projection system had the Sox as the better team going into last season. Why were they all so wrong?

This may seem like a dumb question, but why do you think Cleveland is a better team than the Sox?

Are we gonna get a last minute Adam Engel signing?

The Engel drop and the 6 run collapse against Cleveland are two of the worst losses of the last decade. F*ck 2022. Everything that could go wrong did go wrong, and I’m optimistic about our chances in 2023. Cheers, fellas.

This entire post is predicated on the fact that the Sox are NOT a perennial division winner during this stretch. I believe they are, and 2021 is the outlier. If the Sox win a World Series within the next few years, they will fit right in with several other teams on your list: “won the division every year from 2020 through 2024 (with one exception)”

Stop what? That’s exactly the nature of the MLB playoffs.

I’d rather have Clevinger.

Why the Christmas deadline? If Hahn is trying to get the best package, he might wait until late January or into February. If teams start to think they really are keeping him, they might offer something more.

Yep. This is why none of these rumors make sense. We’ve heard that the Mets want to shed salary after signing Correa, but we’ve also heard the Sox might want to trade Hendriks to shed some salary. It doesn’t make sense. That’s why I came up with the unrealistic three-team trade earlier.

Maybe if we throw in Cease, it’ll get finalized.

Bullpens arms are so up and down…so unpredictable. Nobody has any clue how Diekman will look this year. Same with Kelly. Same with Bummer. Same with…you got the point. Sure, you could say that about other baseball players too, but it’s especially true for relief pitchers.

That’s surprising to me. My memory (simply by watching him last year) is that he has one of the worst arms in the league. I thought we were getting an above average defender with a horrible arm.

You hearing something? Or just speculating?

That’s why I proposed that three team trade. It was the only way I could figure out a way to give salary relief to the Mets and the Sox.

Well the perk that you didn’t mention is that we are unloading Grandal. If that’s not valuable (honestly, I don’t know if it is), then the deal is horrendous for the Sox.