BackDoorBreach

7 years, he's only been playing RF for 2 years and did get better this year. He was 3B before. Castellanos most likely is going to be a bad RF but his bat has upside and has been improving every year for the last 4 years. He is the best bat available and this team was awful offensively in the power department.

I want nothing to do with Ozuna or Puig for that matter.

I think he can be a .900 OPS guy for us. I really want his bat.

None of this is the point of why people like me think this was a shit move. We are locking Abreu into our future DH when we did not need to at all. If he declines at the plate he has 0 value and was just given a 3 year extension. That is a position that could have been upgraded in 2021. Now we have to hope he doesn't decline hard or he's taking up a valuable roster spot for the next 3 years.

I don't think anybody asked Jerry to give Abreu 50 million dollars except for Abreu, Steve.

Adding Wheeler (20yr) and Castellanos (16-17yr) for example still has us around 130. I just have no idea where they are projecting payroll to be. They still have to add at least 1 pen arm and another SP I'd think on top of that.

I think 93 million.

For an orginization that is so risk adverse they really proved all the haters like me wrong. This is the definition of stupid money.

It's completely unjustifiable because there was ZERO reason to extend him. We are stuck with him now in years of contention.

Absolutely.

Has Hahn commented on this yet? Aside from this being a really bad deal, I do not understand the urgency to make this. He was already locked up for 2020.

I really need Zack Wheeler in my mouth to get rid of this Jose Abreu taste.

Grandal is arguably the most complete catcher in baseball. Nothing about him is "Tier 2".

Seconded for Hahn being a Cuck.

Well he's been worth 3.1 over the last two, so not looking good.

Aside from being just stuck with him as our DH for 3 years, I see a scenario where we get a shitty RF because of this. If this doesn't hamper how much money they are going to spend fine. It's still a terrible deal.

Not really, they just don't bring back McCann next year. But that would mean Collins shows he can be a backup C.

Wow that's an awful deal. In what universe is he worth 16+ million a year, and 3 years? Jesus

So for all the people that want to stop gap RF. What is the long term solution there? The Sox FO apparently thinks the window is open right now. Next year Mookie, Springer, Pederson, and Brantley will be available who will all be much more expensive than Castellanos, aside from Brantley. I don't think you wait and just hope one of our minor league OFs figures it out.

He's going to be pretty expensive prospect wise.

This is probably one of the worst trades in MLB history, so probably Manfred.

Lmao, huh? Mazara is complete shit. If the Sox wanted him as a 4th OF fine, but there is no way he should be starting on this team. Haniger and Benintendi are both good and still have upside.

We wouldn't. He is trash. He's posted a few times wanting him for whatever reason.

Something doesn't belong here...not sure what ?????

???? Bruh, Luis Robert will be up by May 1st. Why the fuck would they sign Billy Hamilton.