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This is a good time to move TA. You can get a huge return most likely since there would be 2 years left on a cheap salary for a 3-4 WAR SS.

It will take more than just him and I don't like adding in any of the names mentioned. If it's Hendriks straight up, I'd do it immediately.

Savagery is on the way!

Agreed. This is far superior to the others. Nimmo at 7/145 is ridiculous. Sign Conforto to 1 year put him in LF. Profit.

It's only a PC but I was also encouraged as well.

More left handed savages will help even more.

RH already said "we're not throwing money at the problem" (i.e. Tony already signed too many garbage relievers to long term immovable deals so all we can do under current budget is make small changes here and there even though any RHP worth his salt will shred the lineup. Again.". Ofcourse Philly "threw money at the problem" and signed multiple savages and now they are in the World Series.

I like the emphasis on power. Hopefully he will find a good hitting coach who will focus on power and OBP rather than this groundball high avg bullshit.

This is very promising

Lmao...Merkin already putting on the knee pads. He reminds me of Mike Klis from the Denver Post.

Lol.

This is exactly what RH will say when asked how does this jive with your goal of hiring from a championship club.

This is a fair point. While in the abstract, getting a C+ on a midterm is nothing to write home about, it can be if you're a D student.

There's no window, bro.

I agree with everything except the last part. I'm not sure Grifol was Hahns preferred choice. I bet it was Quatraro. I suspect "budget" issues also factored in and Grifol was perhaps the most acceptable choice who wouldn't balk at being lowballed. That doesn't make him the guy RH wanted, though.

Yep. Long wasn't gonna work for a loser organization AND be low balled at the same time, especially when his stock was high.

Weak

Nice!

Losing out on Quatraro hurts. They really have to land Long or things will get even more toxic.

Great hire for them. Meanwhile we are still a clown show unprofessional organization.

Yep. This is really bad.

Perhaps FO cancelled SoxFest because they knew JR would overrule them again on the manager hire and just didn't want to deal with any additional fan anger.

That's the issue though. I fear we would be blowing our wad at one spot and then they'll go super cheap to address SP, 2B etc. I'd rather have Conforto on 1 yr deal in LF and add a more premium 2B or SP rather than 100m+ for Nimmo.

If we have 15-30 to work with...they can add Conforto on a 1 yr prove it deal for LF (Nimmo will be too expensive) like 1/10 and you can definitely add a 5th starter for 8-10. Problem is there is still a huge hole at 2B and no way to really address it unless you are gonna move Eloy for Chisholm and then have Grandal DH since he can't catch anymore.

Long is prolly the best we can hope for since I don't see JR signing off Espada or Quatraro.