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It’s funny because I want Hendriks, I think he specifically is worth it, but the relief market is the one I WOULD feel good bargain hunting. There is a lot of talent, and getting a guy like bradley and letting pen figure it out doesn’t seem so bad. I don’t know if I prefer Hendriks + Q at say, 24 mill vs Bradley (6.5?) + Paxton (14?) + McGee (4.5) or even an interesting Bradley + McGee + Sugano + la Stella ❤️ at 27 mill

I disagree, in general they are wrong.

They are going to be pretty bad. But this is a good year to do it. Get all your bad contracts off books, figure out who you want to extend, and go off to the races. Patrick Williams looked good. Coby was rough, but bulls are going to need time. WCJ was awful.

DAHL-as pretty good

I know. I'm just amazed that a front office source could have opinions like "long term deals never work out" when they work in baseball every day and have much better information than we do.

Then they should trade him at that point.

I hadn't heard that. When he changed them I thought consensus was it asks a lot of his legs and he would have fatigue issues.

He hit FA at the worst possible time of his career due to both market and his bad year. But considering 1 yr 10 mill seems like the cost of business for just "pitcher we think can pitch 150 ip even if its bad", I feel comfortable giving 18 mill or so to lance lynn where it's likely he'll be available and hit something like 3 WAR.

Lance Lynn, pitcher of 1500 innings with a career 3.57 ERA, has a short track record of success.

Giolito didn't start with money like Moncada and Robert so he is more likely to want to hit FA. Also, Giolito already has money so he can wait for FA. Just normal, rational stuff.

I remember when we said Moncada and Robert wouldn't sign extensions because they were signed for a lot out of LatAm.

Sign kershaw but tell him to keep it a secret, go to scherzer agent and say "heres the deal", then they both sign.

Maybe that was the problem.

Definitely going to remember that Chris Johnson is our AAA hitting coach.

Big Pitching FAs next year Young Dylan Bundy Stroman Gausman Syndegaard McCullers Eduardo Rodriguez Vets Kershaw Greinke Scherzer

Did anyone like my Travis Shaw suggestion

It's a weird class next year, I do hope we'd be able to play top of market. But whats worst case scenario? Cease/Kopech look awesome and we get to trade lynn with years? Or Keuchel? No brainer to try and lock him down.

I haven’t been in a deep conversation in so long

Unfortunately we don't have unlimited quantities so there are some basic trade-offs one whether we'd want a larger portion waiting until q3 to get any vaccine, or if now any vaccine under 95% is not good enough and isn't allowed.

Dombrowski in Boston Inherits: Mookie Betts Xander Bogaerts Jackie Bradley Jr. Andrew Benintendi Porcello Erod Wright Adds via Trade Craig Kimbrel (5.7 fWAR over 3 years) Carson Smith 0.3 WAR with Red Sox Roenis Elias (-0.2 WAR with red sox Aaron Hill Brad Ziegler 1.4 fWAR Drew Pomeranz 6.3 fWAR over 3.5 years Fernando Abad 0.6 fWAR Tyler Thornburg -0.1 fWAR Chris Sale 16.4 fWAR Eduardo Nunez -1.2 fWAR (he was really good the year they acquired him though and helped in playoffs) Addison Reed 0.9 fWAR Nathan Eovaldi 2.2 fWAR Josh Taylor 0.7 Colten Brewer -0.2 Steve Pearce 1 WAR Signed: JD Martinez 8.1 fWAR David Price 10.6 fWAR Mitch Moreland 2.3 fWAR Traded: Manuel Margot (<1 WAR on avg over 5 years) Javy Guerra (became pitcher -.1 WAR) Logan Allen 0 WAR to date Carlos Asuaje -.2 fWAR Wade Miley 1.8 fWAR before free agency Jonathan Aro 0 WAR Aaron Wilkerson -0.1 fWAR Wendell Rijo 0 war Anderson Espinoza (injured for four years) Jose Almonte 0 war Luis Alejandro Basabe 0 war Travis Shaw 7.1 fWAR Mauricio Dubon 0.7 fWAR Josh Pennington 0 war Yoan Moncada 10.5 fWAR Michael Kopech -0.1 fWAR Luis Alexander Basabe -.1 Victor Diaz 0 fWAR Clay bucholz (salary dump) Shaun Anderson 0war Gregory Santos 0war Gerson Bautista -0.5 fWAR Jamie Callahan 0 war Stephen Nogosek -0.1 fWAR JAlen Beeks 1 fWAR Deven Merrerro -0.8 Esteban Quiroz Elio Prado Noelberth Romero Santiago Espinal 0.2 fWAR (looks decent) 2016 red sox top prospects: 1. Moncada (traded for Chris Sale, awesome) 2. Rafael Devers (kept, awesome) 3. Andrew Benintendi (kept, used to be awesome) 4. Anderson Espinoza (traded, 0 WAR) 5. Michael Kopech (traded for Chris Sale) 6. Brian Johnson (kept) 7. Deven Merrerro (traded, Negative WAR) 8. Sam Travis (kept, awful) 9. Basabe (traded for Sale, negative WAR) 10. Michael Chavis (kept, maybe decent? awful last year) The most indefensible trade was the Tyler Thornburg trade. But Dombrowski was told what he was there to do, Cherington was being too cautious, they wanted to win. His biggest mistakes were in post-world series extensions when they should have started preparing for Betts. That was a mistake, but that's a tough transition. The dodgers at this point have laid the blueprint for constant competition, but the red sox aren't the only big market team that struggled to add talent when the INTL rules changed. My takeaway: the failure isn't trading prospects. They failed because Dombrowski couldn't add to them. He used to be good at that, so who knows. A lot of that crew left for AZ and seem decent, but it was a bad few years of figuring out a new way. The worst value out was for Sale, and I think you still do that trade 10x over to get the best team around BEtts/Bogaerts/Benintendi while in their first contracts. Moncada wasn't awesome until 2019, Devers was better earlier. Git some DD.

Unless they are over the luxury tax the money has not been spent.

Not the good ones. I'd take Dombrowski's free agency record over, for example, Theo Epsteins.

They are just playing a different game than everyone else. "hey we really like your 20 year old catcher that was hitting with a 200 wRC+ and was awesome at instructs, will you take our league average first baseman so we don't have to pay him arb, and can just get a 2 million dollar guy off the street"

caulfield?