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Huh? ”Honestly disagree. His potential stability even if for 110 games and protection is likely worth more to the younger players in this line-up than whatever you get in a trade at this point.”

Well, Boras is never good for your homegrown players, regardless of Jerry. He rarely considers contract extensions and almost always takes his clients to free agency.

I don’t even like Bleday that much but for only $1.5 million… well, that’s peanuts. I’d rather see the Sox get back a decent CF prospect for Robert but the talk is that they are targeting pitching.

You can give Billy Hamilton or the like a ST invite if you want a backup defensive CF.

Well, if he becomes a star, he could always change to Boras. It’s what Robert did after his breakout 2023 season.

Definitely. The Sox gave Derek Hill $900K. Bleday will be only $600K more plus possible incentives.

Obviously it works both ways but the poster stated that Robert provided lineup protection, not that he needed it himself.

But he can’t. He’s as injury-prone as Eloy and Moncada were.

It would depend on if he broke out this year. Like coming back really strong or winning comeback player of the year. That might earn him his next $20 million dollar option. Otherwise, he’ll get a $2 million buyout.

Lineup protection? The dude has OPS’ed around .660 in each of the past two seasons.

At worst, you get nothing out of him because he gets hurt again because he is so injury-prone.

They are obviously hoping he’s the guy he was in 2024, not 2025. But I doubt they are signing him to sit on the bench. He wouldn’t have signed with them to do that. I’m sure this takes them out of the Robert sweepstakes regardless.

Yep, that sucks. Down to the Mets. Acuna is 🤮.

That would only matter for the Sox hope of resigning him after he becomes a free agent.

C’mon Ray Ray. I love your posts and I am usually the negative Nancy, but for once the Sox got the #1 pick with 27% odds in a draft with what looks like a consensus superstar. We should all be creaming our pants. It also makes it so the Sox can’t really f*** up their pick.

Ryan Pace was the fuckup. He didn’t even interview Mahomes or Watson.

Agreed. No way I believe this.

Imani is estimated to be looking at a deal worth $150+ million so I doubt that will be the case. The Cubs may balk at that price as well.

Except one is worth 7.7 bWAR and the other is worth -0.6. Cannon is not deserving of being in the majors.

Beat me to it. Literally was going to make this exact post before I even saw yours. 🤣

But we did get those 31 innings and a 5.52 ERA out of Cam Booser in a 102 loss season... 🤦🏻‍♂️

Jeez. He was #25 with the Red Sox. Either shows how good the Red Sox farm system is or how bad the Cardinals’ is, or both.

And the A’s beat the Sox largest contract by $11 million at the minimum.

Yep. It was a slip of the tongue but it’s obvious that Getz thinks he’s a potential superstar. But like you said, if he suffered a catastrophic injury between now and the draft, they would obviously consider other players.

Sad.