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exactly, and who knows how much that $26 million goes in the hands of people that helped get him out of cuba, who knows how much goes to family, taxes, he may very well be swayed by a guaranteed $100 mill.

I’m surprised more aren’t saying this. Ryu was quite a bit popular. I did think whomever gave him the fourth year would get him, that year really did scare me off him.

Man Eno with a pretty good week here

Wow they are going to be so popular for putting up a suggestive tweet at some time interval before something may or may not happen. Love the internet.

And he doesn’t even play a position that gets expensive in arb or should be prohibitive to re-sign. A power hitting CFer though...

People are hoping he gets traded though right?

Yes, though decent chance we can get a fast rising college pitcher this year. I do love we still have our second round pick.

That’s not that big of a deal. It’s like 2-3 bullpen games with the days off/cancellations in April. Nobody acts like Kopech isn’t on the Sox because he misses the first month.

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