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A bouquet of Tylers?

I think we've mostly accepted that fact that the pursuit of higher end FA's is over, given the current Sox payroll.

Another interesting candidate is Asdrubal Cabrera. A switch hitter who hits equally well from both sides. Provides more power as LH. Can play all 4 IF positions. ~$2m?

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Cost/reward could be through the roof. A hitter like that could have another good one in him.

If they don't go after La Stella, how much do you think Daniel Murphy would cost? <$5m?

Except at catcher, I'd prefer righty C, believe its best to give Grandal off days against LHP since his bat is vital against RHP. That being said, would love Avila for his still great D.

Along with Flowers, also Avila, Romine, & Wieters lead a long list. If Collins had showed something, maybe, but his entire game was really bad. He's better than that. He needs to work it out and won't sitting on the bench for most of the season.

With a shoutout to CaliSoxFan, Taijaun Walker looks pretty good; $9-10m?

I just can't see the Sox coming this far in 5 years for this moment and not fill such a critical role with an established LH bat. Even if they go low cost, there's still a lot to choose from.

Thx a lot! I was looking at Spotrac which appears to be terribly inaccurate. Also just looked at Baseball-Reference. Even they have it at $115m which includes Eaton and Lynn but not Hendriks.

I'm looking at a site that says current Sox payroll is sitting at $121m. Is that roughly the right number? I don't fully understand MLB's true cap number calc.

They can easily do both with the gap up to $140m,

I could see La Stella getting >=75% of his AB's as DH. Sit him against LHP with Eloy DH and Engel LF.

If predictions are true, La Stella at 2/14 is pretty cheap for what he can do. In essence, 2 players for the price of 1. He's such a perfect Sox fit, can't believe its not done already.

IDK, his numbers digressed the next 2 years. Big K rate, too. Wonder if he had a weakness exposed. Low risk for sure, though.

Yes, according to Bob Nightengale.

Incentive based; low start, highly rewarded.

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Tommy La Stella DH, 1B, 2B, 3B

Definitely agree about SP is 1st priority. But I think LH DH is pretty close. Our 2020 sub .500 (-4) record against RH starters and our limited # of LH bats is a little concerning. I would rank priority; SP - 1a LH DH - 1b Backup C - 3

Then he wouldn't have used phrases; "would have been" & "would be"; if you replace them with "is" then I agree. As a fan, I hope Vaughn crushes it and creates a great problem for the Sox. But, with my GM hat, I searched roughly 20 of today's best MLB players and can't find any who didn't spend at least one full and/or multiple partial seasons in the minors crushing it before getting their chance; aside from Abreu who built his phenomenal multi-year resume in the highly respected Cuban league. Anything's possible but history emphatically says he plays the entire 2021 in the minors. Right or wrong, GM's are unwilling to jump start that service time clock without a substantial resume. His college stats credit ran out on draft day and he's next level-ground zero (plus a few AB's). And its possible that he could smash .350/.900 and still not get called up, its happened before. They are also grooming him to be the next great Sox 1Bman. Sitting him on the bench as DH doesn't get that done. Not taking anything away from his incredible talent & future; just being realistic about how orgs operate.

Yep, not uncommon among all teams.