BackDoorBreach

He's played 1b 4x his entire career.

To be fair Rendon just doesn't fit. I don't understand the Cole is not a possibility thing tbh. There is zero reason the FO should not be trying to pay him.

I just don't understand the Moustakas thing. We have a 3B and 2B. He's played 4 games his entire career at first. There is no reason to pay 10+ million to a sub when we have Leury and probably Mendick to fill holes on rest days. If you want him for DH I'd much rather get JDM and trade for a LH RF and do the whole Grandal mish mash with Abreu/JDM/McCann/Collins/Grandal moving all over.

God willing

Well when we have a giant black hole at DH and the one guy that seems to hit at every level doesn't get a chance over actual garbage people will question it.

As an outsider looking in this franchise is a mess. Pace probably has to go after this season. Book is out on Nagy with whatever that offense is supposed to be. Mitch is probably out of the league in 2 years. Feels good. Nagy is also a moron. I see some people defending the kneel but that is just inexcusable. He had 40+ seconds left, a TO, and a fresh set of downs. HOW you don't run the ball a couple times and then quadruple down to the media is AMAZING. Not sure what the percentages are but even 2 or 3 % on a couple yard gain would have probably been the difference. Healthy Aaron Rodgers thanks Matt, Mitch, and Pace for the collapse.

Yes, which is why he won't win and shouldn't have even been nominated. He was never good before this year he isn't coming back from anything.

I don't think he should even be in this. What is he coming back from? He had a breakout year which would be "most improved" but not a comeback.

Good. Still a lot more garbage to cut.

Literally how much better could you get defensively than Yolmer? He's probably going to win a Gold Glove.

So we're trading McCann or Collins?

Getting Grandal kind of neutralizes JDM and I'd rather have him for 3 or 4 years. You really can't get both because of Abreu.

Grandal is a luxury.

I'd put Grandal pretty far below RF/DH/SP tbh.

This is what I want as well. The FA's are so meh.

They have one of the best farms in baseball.

The Yankees have about 4 or 5 players they have to trade this off season. I feel confident in guessing with zero knowledge this is the avenue they go to get pitching.

That roster you proposed is likely under 90 million dollars.

I wasn't off by 15 million. I didn't include Abreu who is a FA. 50 million + 15 million is 65 million which is what you believe our payroll would be after he signs. I think we are at 49 and change after arb iirc. The problem with your scenario is Moustakas and to a lesser extent Grandal aren't going to get those ABs since all those IF positions are covered. You can get Grandal and rotate him and Collins between 1B/DH and C depending on where McCann is at in the lineup. Moustakas only makes sense if you plan to just use him as a primary DH and a sub a handful of games a year...since all the positions he plays are covered. Since Moose would have to be a DH he would not provide you 3+ WAR like JDM would since he is not anywhere near the hitter JDM is. Your scenario about JDM hurting in interleague games is also moot since Moustakas would literally not be playing unless Yo, Madrigal, Abreu, Grandal had the day off. Wait a year for what? To sign Betts to a 300+ million contract or Springer to a 150+ million dollar contract? They can't waste another year with this core as they head into arbitration. Pederson would be relatively cheap trade wise and if you can make the right deal you do it. If you don't think the Sox have a shot at Cole I really hope you aren't counting on Betts to be an option since he will cost ~100 million dollars more.

Dahl and Blackmon are bad outside of Coors.

They have a payroll of 50 million after arbitration. They aren't going to be playing with a 90 million dollar payroll like they did last year in a non competitive year. There are not any left handed power bats available in FA. I think they are going to swing a trade for that in RF. I am hoping Pederson since he will be relatively cheap with 1 year left before FA. JDM is 2x better than any LH bat on the market. What versatile player is out there that is going to give you 30+ HR, OPS 900+, and give you a 37%+ OBP? Especially for a DH. He is a special hitter with a deal that would be finished in 3 or 4 years. They need at least 1 LH hitting starter this off season, but outside of Grandal who is out there? We need a DH and RF positionally. The rest of the money should be spent on pitching, but nobody here thinks Cole is an option, thats only going to be around 30/year if they get a Wheeler and 5 man. Where is all the money leftover going to?

Abreu shouldn't be getting more than a 2 year deal and we aren't seeing Vaughn next year. Worst case scenario you have JDM, Vaughn, and Abreu trying to get ABs at the same time for a couple months in 2021. The rest of this is all hypothetical what if stuff. The Sox have a giant black hole at DH, JDM plugs that for 3-4 years.

What? He has like a 985 OPS the last 2 years. He would be a DH who gets on base 37% of the time and hits for big power, which we had none of in the DH spot last year.

We would also be in our first year "out of rebuild". All of those teams are very well established. I understand you are doing the 2 fWar thing to compare other teams to the Sox but it's pretty arbitrary. The Braves had 7 2+ fWar players, the Cardinals had 8 and both finished above the Cubs who had 11. The Sox are a couple pieces and improvement from young guys away from competing. Twins are losing one of their best pitchers more than likely and hit on almost all of their aquisitions. Cleveland has one of the better rotations in the league but have big holes in their lineup. They also went like 15-1 against Detroit which won't happen again. My point is if Jerry opens his pocket book and not his change purse we will be a very competitive team next year.

We have 7 2 fWar players not including Nova and round Eloy and Abreu from 1.9 to 2. Robert's floor is probably 2. So theres 8. And if they are spending 150-175 million in FA that's another 3 players above 2 fWar, which is 11. I don't know what Madrigal,Cease, or Kopech are going to do next year but there's a good chance 1 or 2 of those guys are above 2 fWar.