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Crazy, moncada can be awesome. The nice thing about a guy that talented is the margins matter. Does he have to become a 18% k rate guy to succeed? No. He hits the ball hard, if he gets the bat on the ball 2% more who knows what comes out of that. If he does that a few years and stabilizes at 25%, all those extra balls in play could mean knocking in more runs, being on base more, few more homers. Its frustrating watching players develop and not just be Acuna, but his talent is real.

I don’t know, didn’t work for the nets.

I think Sox are just arrogant and antiquated in their operations. One of the biggest things is how inefficient they are in money they do hand out while acting like they are the most efficient team just because they never spend market rate on talent worth spending on.

Lauri Markannen just finished February averaging 26 and 12 but sure you got it

Perhaps they should structure KWs contract as such. 45k a year, with the possibility of it going up to 5 million if he can win 90 games.

I’m sure Ricky will be made accountable. To be clear talking about Renteria

Man, yeah. This actually made my jaw drop. They are in such a bubble, and they think their fans are idiots.

It’s incredibly obnoxious. It’s condescending acting like fans don’t know all involved when #actually it’s simple: pay the man his money.

One of the reasons I love baseball so much is how fun the team building is.

yeah, hahn loved making fun of him for that at soxfest.

A competent front office with our budget could win the division every year.

I like Castellanos mostly as a 1b, hoping we don't need to add of bats.

There are players that I love in next years class but mostly think the best fit is castellanos and a pitcher.

you could also just not internalize all criticism as "negativity".

?this guys tired of pointing out that our budget surpasses that of the as and rays.

At least we don't have to read about whales on here for a while.

Robert is a tough call. If he doesn't work out it was a gigantic missed opportunity because the sox reallyd idn't have a gonzo class. That 2016 class was coming in at budget, so they didn't have any 30 people classes. If robert works out, great. If not, our 2017 was going to be brutal as we hadn't signed anyone so its not like we can say "we could have had wander franco"

so much this. The sox realistic payroll is 120 million. You can argue it should be higher, but lets say this is it. You mean to tell me if you hired a bunch of rays guys to take over they couldn't compete and win the division most years? As much as a 220 mill payroll would be fun, you don't need that to make the playoffs. Its helpful to win multiple world series, but the sox should at least be able to compete in this dreadful division year after year.

but colome has been inconsistent and he is paid well for it, and nova is moving to the AL and can't get lefty hitters out (they torched him). It will be an interesting and fun exercise.

Probably true.

I am going to do a dollar/WAR count up actually because I am intrigued by the answer so I will follow-up with it. At the very least the previous ones you mentioned had legitimate plus players in frazier and robertson.

Same! This outfield is unbelievably bad and also has no interesting players that maybe could be a starter with playing time.

do you really only exist for this reason? Stop following him around and sniping.

this offseasons acquisitions have been the most brutal of his entire tenure, including his first offseason that was basically keppinger.

There are some wonderful players. They are the types of "over the hump" acquisitions. Thats what made this year nice (sigh) these were franchise aligning ones. You need to get the most out of the immediate value of next years guys. I'm telling you the guy I think should be targeted first is Castellanos. The future offense does not look good enough. If they deliver castellanos and a pitcher its good for me. I'll say Ive not completely discounted the chance that our player dev could improve dramatically this year. Getz doesn't seem like an idiot, but the org doesn't prioritize anything really. I literally don't know what they prioritize.