SoxBlanco

Whatever role you guys envisioned Lopez having this year, now we have two guys competing for that role. At only $3M, I don’t mind it. Certainly not exciting, but we need depth. And I still don’t think we’re done adding in the SP department.

Don’t you remember when he “closed” out that Cleveland game near the end of last season?

It’s 4 years. 2024 is a club option year, unless he has two top-3 Cy Young finishes, which would cause it to flip to a mutual option.

Try everything in your power to land Bauer. When that doesn’t work, sign a depth piece to eat sone innings while you see what you have in Cease and Kopech. Then if need be, you make a deal at the deadline for somebody like Marquez. Unless, of course, you can get him now without giving up the big 3.

That’s because the Sox are very good about keeping things hush hush.

Looks like I nailed it with this post.

I also love how people complain about choosing Eaton over Joc as if it was a draft and we could just select whichever player we want. That's not how free agency works. Like somebody mentioned, Joc might have wanted to play every day. Or maybe Joc was asking for more money a month ago and we didn't want to be left with nobody.

Did Beef have this before anyone else?

I stand corrected. Thanks for clearing that up.

I’m assuming he’d get a major league deal somewhere, but I could be wrong. I thought @Harold's Leg Lift was saying he could be a major league deal and then we could also sign some guys to MiLB deals on top of that.

How do you think Bauer would respond to a creative, extended spread contract? Hypothetically, of course.

So if the Angels are out, then is it down to the Mets and White Sox? (Insert three laugh emojis, two love emojis, and one fire emoji)

I think even the people complaining the most think this is a playoff team. They are just annoyed that we aren't taking the next step and spending more to become a legit World Series contender. But remember that we still have the trade deadline. At that point, we will know more about what we have in Cease and Kopech. If we need to make a move at that point to give us another top of the rotation arm, we can do it at the deadline.

It’s either accurate, or there is a motive behind it.

This is a pretty brilliant move to get Stone to tweet these things and lower the expectations of the fans. Now when we sign somebody like Wainwright, people will be a little excited that we added some depth to the rotation. A month ago, people would have been disappointed with a depth arm like that. I don’t believe for a second that the Sox won’t make any more moves.

What is the downside of eliminating the laugh reaction, keeping the variety of the rest, and making it known who reacts to your posts?

I completely agree with this. Like I said earlier, I think the best option is to get rid of the "laugh" and then make it known who reacts to your posts. P.S. I am going to throw you a "fire" reaction.

But that was only because of the expanded playoffs. We knew we were in no matter what, and the seeding didn't matter very much, so winning the division was not that important. I fully believe that if the division winners got a bye last year, we would have won the division. We wouldn't have cruised to the finish line if we still had something to gain. We wouldn't have rested Anderson a day after clinching a playoff spot if the division still mattered. And Ricky wouldn't have made some of the bullpen decisions he made if the division still mattered (he was prioritizing resting the pen and seeing what certain guys could give him over trying to win the division, and I don't necessarily blame him).

I think this line of thinking makes sense only if there were negative reactions. Nobody will get their feelings hurt with positive reactions, though. And if the "laugh" reaction is being used negatively to make fun of posts instead of actually thinking something is funny, then just remove the laugh option and allow people to see who reacted to their posts. That's what I would prefer.

Barely made it into the postseason? What??? We could have lost 7 more games than we did, and we still would have made the postseason.

What are you even trying to say here? Orlando is not the food guys.

I believe @macsandz was the first one to confirm that we’ve been talking to Cruz since December.