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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.

Probably by Getz’s request.

I knew something was off. 🤣

Wow, what a slip. LOL. I guess we know who the Sox are drafting.

@caulfield12 lost the ban bet. The proof is in the pudding. Fairbanks did not receive over $20 million. He received $13 million. Also, the Sox signed Murakami for $34 million, which is an individual free agent contract above $17.5 million prior to opening day.

Closer money, for one year at least…

In that case, I don’t have a ton of hope that Bleday will hit but he probably makes the most sense because he could move to CF once Robert is traded and Montgomery is ready to take over RF.

No one that the Sox are probably interested in — Bellinger, Bader, Hays. Hays would probably be reasonable moneywise. But if the Sox are targeting Kepler, I’d rather not sign anyone and wait for Montgomery to be ready. Luckily, this is probably a bogus rumor from a nobody.

Kepler has done nothing recently to deserve a 2-year deal. He also turns 33 in February. Yuck.

Agreed. So glad Getz stayed far far away.