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Agree. Low K, high walk, manages an under four year. That he did it in front of an atrocious infield was kind of impressive though.

Yes. Thats a lot of money in avg production.

As much as I want Wheeler I do think the Sox (in addition) could greatly benefit from a sage vet since this will be a super young staff

They probably messed it up because they ripped up his contract in april, his 2019 salary dropped to like 16 mill then had a 20 mill signing bonus applied that made it like 18.6 this year, they may have put the signing bonus on his original base salary in 2019 which is incorrect.

https://d39ba378-ae47-4003-86d3-147e4fa6e51b.filesusr.com/ugd/b0a4c2_95883690627349e0a5203f61b93715b5.pdf (3) Signing Bonuses Any Signing Bonus in a Uniform Player’s Contract (and any other payment this Article deems to be a Signing Bonus) shall be attributed, pro rata, over the Guaranteed Years of the Contract. If a Contract contains no Guaranteed Years, the Signing Bonus shall be attributed in full to the first year of the Contract.

If you are getting outbid in a hot market, and outbid in a cold market, perhaps you need to re-evaluate your fa strategy.

for luxury tax it's prorated throughout the course of the contract.

Aaron Sanchez non-tendered. I can't believe how far that guy fell. Really thought him and daniel norris were going to be pretty good.

if you keep waiting for the perfect players and contracts for the next 10 years you'll end up with a window for this core of 2 years or less. And for the next three years, Ryu + Castellanos is much more like 32mm plus. Wheeler would be 22 mill even at the high number thrown around. And I would bet that Wheeler is much more productive than Ryu due to starts alone. If wheeler is their guy sox need to land him, and if he starts to touch stras's floor, then you'd hope they step up to stras, not down to a huge risk in Ryu.

So depending on how you categorize Abreus signing bonus as either a 2020 expenditure or a 2019 expenditure, the sox are at 78.6mm or 83.6mm. Or if you do the actual accounting of it...that's what like 80.5

but if that total is driven by the extra years...who cares. You will not have Castellanos and Ryu at the 2020 budget of Wheeler (nor 2021) I just don't get this obssession of 2025 as dramatically more important than 2020. You can trade these dudes if you just need money. If you need to recoup good prospects? Then it's an issue.

https://twitter.com/scottmerkin/status/1201624368528478209?s=20

If the sox can't sign the third best pitcher on the FA market after shedding nearly all salary on a 3 year rebuild, then I'm not optimistic. At this point I'm less interested in payroll efficiency than stacking wins. If you want efficiency, don't play FA and you better have a damn good intl operation and PD staff. Sox have neither, so I don't want them saying "oh we would have signed wheeler at 5/100 but 6/120 is too much."

I had not read through this since it didn't seem that impactful but pretty surprised how pointed that Getz statement is compared to what they usually trot out. He must have really not been taking instructions well from PD staff.

Regardless, and I did think fred was a lightweight, he deserved to be able to coach the team with healthy players last year. The crap they threw at him to make it work was ridiculous, and boylen came in and was allowed to sit parker and they removed the redundancies with portis and gave him a wing. He deserved a chance to show his system with that roster.

Well they need to convert galvis into an actual starter, you have to try and remove any sub .300 obp guys from a potential playoff lineup.

They won't need to score that much at least. Looking at what's available, I'm not sure the best use of funds wouldn't be wheeler + re-upping jose iglesias.

Yeah, but after signing a starter over him I can see especially not wanting to go to arb and then have to trash talk him.

Reds should get Didi but feels like votto's going to do all the walking for that lineup.

Yes all of this is correct. The shots around the rim is wild just because watching you wouldn't guess they are getting that many shots. A lot are falling away from the rim or pretty wild shots. Now, who is decent at finishing around the rim? Thad young, who is receiving the fewest minutes since his rookie year. And if those minutes are going to development, it's hard to see that development in this system.

this was my prediction before the offseason, but I also just think this is what happens when about 1/2 of the teams are looking to add, compared to last year which felt like was less than 1/3.

Slightly more than expected (4.9mm)

@Sleepy Harold da god, folks

He's underpaid.

Yeah. I really think Sox should try to use Bummer to see if they can get conforto. Bummer+ Could fit with adding to team, and removing enough salary to make a run at CF with FA or trade.