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Seems like this is happening. Meh.

Not at all.

They aren’t that bad. Berrios/Odorizzi Is a good 1/2 and Pineda will be back after a pretty good year. They are also one year removed from getting pretty good production out of the fringe free agents like Perez. There are still players like they signed last year, I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt since unlike the Sox they proved they can turn marginal FAs into production.

Market craters? He doesn’t have much of one.

Obviously I shouldn’t think of these things but I am hoping Rangers trade for Arenado, and nobody acquires price. At that point the contenders for signing a Betts could be quite realistic for Sox to beat assuming they could stop worrying about the age 38 season and focus on the first half decade.

This is probably right. But to me the big question is actually whether we have made a relevant enough 3-4 year window. Are we better than the Yankees or Astros? Not yet. So we still need quite a bit of luck in development.

Yeah I think this is a bit too optimistic. I’m expecting around 4 ERA and that’s not terrible in AL. 3.25 would likely make him our best pitcher.

Nolen Arenado?

Well I guess you wouldnt really need 5 starters in April.

Grandal staying grandal would be a big hit. But for Keuchel/gio, it’s just not tanking. I did the exercise last year, but over and over again Sox signed “Reasonable” FA upgrades only for them to be the worst version of their careers. That can’t happen.

Man the relievers are trash outside Hudson, betances, Harris and cishek. Thames May be a good option for this last bet.

I think this is spot on. What has me still skeptical is Sox have failed so terribly with this tier so often, but if it finally plays out as it’s supposed to ...

This would be great.

And he’ll actually give us a full years starts which this rotation desperately needed reliability.

I really hope so

When some of the players went off the board I felt like availability should be prioritized with what was left. Love Ryu when he’s on but if ryu and another pitcher get injured there isn’t slack. Like having a Keuchel where it just feels so sure he’ll be available. Still really want to give Salazar a Santana deal. Not my favorite offseason additions but luckily all decisions allow upgrades on a year by year basis as we could easily get out of any deals save Grandal.

Rey and Kylos use of force in fighting in this one made for the best light Sabre battles in a while. one thing Abrams does have a real talent for is showing the interaction between the power of ships and machinery and the actual environment around them. When kylo is flying close to the ground and you hear and see the earth flying up around it and it chipping the ship it makes you realize how fantastic these planes are. Not just floating set pieces. But plot and dialogue... ehhhh

Reminds me of my fav scene ”I have this.” ”you can go anywhere with that!” ”yes. And I’ve been saving up for that for years. come with me” ”you know I can’t. I have to do this, but the only way to do it is with the thing you have just introduced.” ”ok. take this thing I have just introduced” ”ok”

Here’s a better Finn: Leaves the first order to try and find home. Helps rebels but keeps trying to prioritize his main goal of getting home. Eventually realizes he already has family and chooses to go back and fight full throated for rebels. Instead he was a whimpering puppy, first a coward, then just pathetically loyal.

Of most wins to Sox probably Bellinger and Cole. Best for control, I’d take Buehler/Soto. Most fun for me would probably be Chapman and Ohtani

I agree with caulfield original take. I think there was a good core in these trilogies of Rey and Kylo. But the editing is a mess. The trilogies were utterly tanked by a completely uninteresting supporting cast. Rather that an incoherent, ever expanding set of story lines, it was constantly in search of new characters to instantly give their back stories to try and make FIN and Oscar Isaac guy interesting but it just always felt like a waste of time. People love chewie. We don’t need to know his motivations or back story. He’s cranky and loyal. They established that with like 25 seconds of screen focus. They spent a bunch of time on Fins back story and how he was taken but I’m not even sure he particularly cared and was driven by wanting to find home. They could have done that in like 4 lines of dialogue instead of their choice with 500. Basically the harder they tried to give characters depth the harder it failed because it wasn’t relevant to the plot.

IM THE SPY!

I still feel like it’s more likely that he stays but CLE being fairly public about all of this makes me think the owners too-public stance on not planning to re-sign him made it toxic enough that they are going to take the larger return on the extra year of control on him. Wild all these competitive teams discussing trading impt contributors with two years left. But I guess we should hope they trade him and bungle the return.

Right, and I'd imagine the answer is he'd net more but if the rockies just wanted to shove off salary there are less painful ways to do it.

I struggle with these. Arenado is tremendous...he's also receiving close to market value. That makes him not sale. You are paying for his rights, but aren't getting much surplus. That's real. But haven't seen one of these in practice for a while. He'd get back prospects but not sure he gets the level we think.