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Indians damn near won a World Series with like 2 good hitters and a sick pitching staff

Pretty much, you're gonna see a lot of Adam Engel in the 8th and 9th

He has a better arm than Vaughn and Sheets surely. Having a cannon in right is much more a "nice to have" than the "must have" people tend to make it seem.

Remember when this name got brought up every week as a guy the sox need to sign?

All I'm getting at is that the only information I know from "5 time gold glover in Japan" is that he was the best RF in Japan for a number of years. I have zero clue how good the second best RF in Japan is.

Dayan Viciedo had an OPS over 900 in Japan in 2018. We can throw out all the numbers we want, they don't mean anything.

I'm not sure any of us knows what "Gold Glove Defense" in Japan translates to in MLB terms. Kinda like how Gold Glove college second basemen translated to pretty bad second basement actually.

makes me sad it didn't work out, seems like a great dude

Suzuki will have to be 90% as good in MLB as he was in Japan to match Pollock's 2021. I don't like those odds. Suzuki is just sexy because we haven't seen him.

We have no idea what Sox scouts feel about Suzuki

And looks like a real juicy non-tender at the moment

Let's also not act like Conforto is without his warts

Isn't Bellinger getting paid more, and very possibly, much, much worse?

As could Engel, Garcia, and either of your first basement playing the outfield in a pinch

Pollocks health is certainly a concern, but the thing is, the Sox do have a lot of RF depth, they were just lacking a starter.

They've been doing it this way since like at least 2016

You didn't, this isn't new.

They have been playing 6:10 games in April for years at this point. It's cold in april man.

No I agree, it’s just the worst possible way for a manager to express a totally understandable position

I mean this is said with standard La Russa tact so it’s not good, but he’s not gonna say we don’t have the answer in-house two weeks before a season.

Paying 50 mil for a bullpen and haggling you’re best starter over a rounding error is certainly a choice

Friendly reminder that the arb numbers the submit are almost always closer to what the other party was asking for than what they we’re trying settle for. edit: it appears I was wrong on this one

"prospects" Also, Arenado was already 2 years deep on that wasn't he? This is a pretty disingenuous way to frame the math.

My question is why did they trade Arenado if they were just going to turn around and give it all to Bryant????

And my immediate reaction being wow that's an awful lot