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6 mil for 0.6 fWAR. Harrison is 5.5 for 1.5.

The Giants FO is reading this board and trying to f with us.

They should've been able to keep those guys. Baseball is just better when a gang like that can stick around. The CBT needs to be a lot higher, and really the last thing baseball needs is another expansion. If I had supreme executive power that wasn't merely given through some farcical aquatic ceremony, I'd probably go back to 26 teams. Baltimore would be one of them under the microscope. But hey, if they want to sign Correa for no good reason and weaken the Astros, I'll thank them for that.

Who cares about WAR-calculated salary. Being worth 39 in one year presupposes one is not an injury prone fruitcake. We would've won it all with peak Rodon in October, but he was out of gas.

Because of all this, I do want them to keep an eye on the future. I'd rather they didn't do too many KW trades and greatly increase the odds of a crash in 2 years. As it stands this is gonna be a great team to watch for 2 years here. I'm not starved to see a WS. I've been through that.

Sounds like good reason to to keep his replacement pieces around. If I were GM I'd be leaning let him go regardless of what he thinks. I'm not worried about RH power hitting in the long haul, and the Sox haven't been in need of 1B power since the 80s.

Greinke is only part human. I wouldn't be surprised if he comes up with a knuckleball and pitches into his mid 40s.

I think Conforto gets less than Schwarber. Schwarber has more cachet and has been more productive. I've always wanted him because he can carry you in October, but it is an awkward fit on this Sox team.

I demand to be entertained.

Lol if the Giants land our two FA targets and they're both awesome

Conforto turned 29 this month. He'd be good to have for a year or two if an option is on the table (who knows). If he gets 4 years he'll probably be overpaid on the back end. He might have one monster year in him for his career. His 2017 All-Star year (.384/.555) extrapolated for 155 games instead of 109 would be a huge boost to this lineup.

If AV is outgoing I want Harold Reynolds.

Two cheap young power hitters, especially if one is a lefty, sets this team up well going forward. Manaea placates the offseason mood, but doesn't make this team any better vis-a-vis October.

I wouldn't want to part with either Sheets or Vaughn if it's Manaea they're going after.

They could have signed Soto, signed Harper and drafted Trout

Exactly how I feel. And yet another small thing — why is Mercedes still with this organization? Is TLR gonna give him a bunch of contrition AB's in place of Sheets?

As of this moment, I would lean towards the Sox finishing 2nd next year. Too many iffy moves and not enough internal development to expect more than two first-place finishes in a row. After this season plays out, however, and we see more clearly what we're working with as far as the young stars go, that could change. All gripes noted and considered, there are some potential superstars on this roster. It's very Soxy to hope for a horseshoe year in order to win a championship, but that's where we are. I'm just not one to get too heated over the offseason. Winning the offseason has no bearing on anything.

Because JR is still cheap. People are saying 'no way is he cheap,' but I think you can have a top 5 payroll and be cheap in certain ways. There's a lingering secondplaceness here. Perhaps in a semantic sense it's better considered as a kind of complacency or lack of urgency, but whatever.

I never wanted him on the RH-heavy Sox, even assuming errantly that the FO was in that market. (Assuming 85 mil) I think in the end the contract is a slight overpay to spot on, but never a discount. His ZiPS numbers seem to fit the player I see. Ohtani is by far the most aesthetically MLB hitter to come out of Japan. Suzuki I think would need to kill it defensively and be particularly healthy, and then he'd be a great asset. Padres Reddit sounds like a bad milieu in general

All of that is irrefutable. But we may win a pennant anyway. The main problem is Reinsdorf and always has been. Not only is he cheap and 2nd-place oriented, he's loyal to a fault. JR is how come La Russa, how come Leury, how come 20 years of KW, and so on.

Weird that I've thought the same thing. That's why I like him. He's peculiar here. He doesn't seem like a guy the Sox pick and develop. Vaughn is. I never liked the Vaughn pick for this reason. A good heuristic for Hahn is see who Oakland likes. If they like Sheets, he's probably decent and precisely the kind of guy a similarly 'second-class' franchise would want.

He definitely meant that. He actively tries to field a 2nd place team especially since the AL Central was created. First it was the Indians, then the Twins, then the Tigers. My whole life they've been roughly a 2nd place team. They've only been bad due to the last rebuild, and I didn't watch when they were bad. So there you go. Toronto won the 92 World Series and then signed Molitor and Stewart. The 92 Sox went 86-76 and JR added Ellis Burks to fill a black hole in RF. Then a couple of young and promising starters showed up in 93, and Oakland/Minnesota regressed, so that was enough to win the division. But they tried to win a World Series with Joey Cora, Dan Pasqua, and Bo Jackson, so they ended up watching Toronto celebrate. It all sounds eerily familiar.

Knowing him, he's just talking about hitting the cutoff man and that sort of thing, which, if a problem, is a managerial problem. Being critical of player acumen is well and good, but it's hollow if that is somehow never management's fault at any level.

I have to think the org sees Vaughn as the one who can adequately handle himself out there. I don't see why Gavin factors into RF speculation. IIt's not like he has nowhere else to go. If he hits he has either DH or 1B available pretty much every day. If last year wasn't a matchups-based illusion, he should get 550 PAs.

I literally can't stop shaking. Ken Rosenthal's nephew is gonna get anon famous on twitter and sell merch or something