poppysox

'Agreed! How you take baseball and turn it into this cleaver pile of nothing, eludes me.

Good Point!

There is only one week before this site is alive with chatter about all our new players.

Maybe...

Times and thoughts change. I think Jerry is selling in the not-to-distant future. Owning a team is an ego thing for some of his investors. This can't be good for their egos. I currently take a lot of ribbing from my circle of friends. Can you imagine what it's like for actual owners?

I think it will happen sooner. The WS can't run these 50 million payrolls for long before killing the golden goose. I'm already considering the cancellation of my MLB.TV subscription. I'm a glutton for punishment but this is not "entertaining" to watch.

I suspect JR is prepping the club for sale by not having burdensome contracts, etc. That would be fine and I hope he finds a whale. When JR hired Getz, his comments indicated he was fast-tracking our return to respectability by hiring from inside the organization. That doesn't square with no interest in free agents...just trades for prospects. JR doesn't have 10 more years to be patient, and neither do I.

Hays is somewhat different. He is a quality player with a good excuse for an off-year. Most formerly good players who are suddenly available suffer from old age or injury.

I was referring to Austin Hays at approximately 4 million. Benintendi was 15 mil for 5 years. If Hays bounces back either extend him or trade for future pieces. We have little to lose and he was slowed by a kidney infection, not old age.

I would take as many Austin Hays-type crap shoots as I could find. One of the plus things about being lousy is that there is plenty of room for taking chances.

As I have said many times...the minimum requirement is to be entertaining.

I'm saying money talks in building good baseball teams.

When you become a Dodger or Yankee fan... the Sox will be sold to Elon Musk and the Sox will never lose again. That's how life works.

Don't play him if he doesn't earn the spot. We are a team that can afford to take a chance on these released players.

Even if that's true there's nothing to lose.

There is no good reason not to pick him up.

I've had the same thought and I hope I'm right. Jerry doesn't have enough seasons left in him to start from scratch. For the most part...contracts are liabilities, not assets when selling.

Crochet and Robert are both relatively cheap. There is no reason to trade them unless blown away. Seems obvious to me.

Austin Hays would be worth a gamble.

Benintendi is fine if he plays like the end of last season. Keep Crochet and Robert and bring up Montgomery, Quero, and Schultz. Spend on a few medium-priced free agents to see if the WS can be respectable. There won't be a future fan base if today's kids don't have some "stars" to admire. I can't believe Jerry wants to leave with this current situation as his legacy.

JR must be an optimist to believe he can live to see a 10-year rebuild to a conclusion.

I credit the WS for keeping their word to hold a Soxfest-type event. After the year we had it would have been instinctual to hide from the fans. The rebranding and smaller venue is just the reality of not getting enough fans to keep it in the former space.

I like this hire—good organization to poach from.

He has to say something. I wouldn't worry about it.

Some here refuse to accept that only 30 of these jobs exist.