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How does Maldonado get $4.25 million?

I was thinking the same at that point.

Trubisky is still better.

Yep, Boras doesn’t give hometown discounts, like Buehrle and Danks were willing to do. John Danks and his younger brother Jordan ditched Boras before John signed his extension with the Sox. It’s likely the reason the extension got done. Danks wanted to extend with the Sox and Boras more than likely wanted to take him to free agency. https://www.chicagotribune.com/2008/06/10/boras-out-of-picture-for-danks-brothers/

Chavez was probably one of the best relievers Getz brought in if you looking at his numbers over that last few years, granted he doesn’t fall off the cliff at age 40, which is entirely possible. He hasn’t yet though.

Location, location, location. GRF doesn’t have it. It looks like the new ballpark will. I love the argument that Sox fans prefer to drive to games, park, and tailgate rather than commute to games and go to bars. The public transportation commute and bar scene at GRF is weak, which is why fans prefer to do the former. This is not difficult to understand.

Oh, I don’t really mean with a terrible team like this one. Mostly with all the Hahn teams when he would spread out millions on a bunch of overpriced relievers and old veteran position players rather than invest in one or two good position players and sign some veteran relievers and backup players to cheap minor league deals. I hope Getz remembers this going forward.

Not sure if you are just being sarcastic and think it won’t happen or will be delayed but it doesn’t take that long to build a stadium these days. Globe Life Field was built in less than 30 months and has a retractable roof. https://www.mlb.com/rangers/ballpark/facts-figures#:~:text=The official groundbreaking for Globe,in less than 30 months.

What Would @tray Say (WWtS)?

Instead, we’ll watch Maldonado hit in the .100’s while paying him over $4 million.

I don’t think it’s the greatest comparison. Altuve is old. He’s turning 34 in May. What team was going to jump to give him huge dollars if he became a free agent at 34.5 years of age? Instead, he was just extended for 5-years and $125 million dollars until his age 39 season, and now he doesn’t have to worry about the risk of injury or decline until he became a free agent in a year. He also gets to stay with the team he loves and possibly win another World Series.

Getting Stassi for free made giving Maldonado $4.25 million a strange decision. May as well see what Korey Lee can do. He is going to likely hit just as bad as Maldonado but at least he’s still somewhat young and could maybe turn something. AAA at bats aren’t going to prove he is much of anything.

Cheap minor league invites like these show why you don’t even waste a few million on some of the bums that Getz did. Save it up for one impact player.

Agreed. I was surprised there wasn’t more to it.

The Astros just signed Altuve to a 5-year, $125 million dollar extension. Hot off the Twitter feed.

Sure, because he was a top prospect and he’s still young. However, people would still be deathly afraid of his bat never developing like it hasn’t so far.

The lineup needs more Eckstein.

They should probably get a C and an incomplete. They replaced Stroman and I think they improved their bullpen a bit. They also added a 1B/DH. But I wouldn’t be surprised if they add Cody Bellinger and/or Matt Chapman eventually. Shota Imanaga Hector Neris Richard Lovelady Duane Underwood Jr. Michael Busch

63 to 65 wins sounds about right.

What’s worse — the fact that you just mentioned or that the biggest contract the Sox have given out was to Benintendi?

He also wanted the Sox to sign Puig. Dude needs to look into a different career because he fails at baseball.

That sounds about right, but the combined average .600 OPS isn’t going to be pretty.

Am I crazy to say a guy like Witt doesn’t deserve this much money? He’s no Trout. His walk to strikeout rate is pretty bad and his resulting OBP is poor as a result.

Exactly.