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Real revenue and profit problem the sport has! Absolute scrubs getting 4 years. I'd bet over those 4 years he produces less bWAR (3.2) than he did in what is almost surely a fluke 2025 with the Brewers.

Bob "day late dollar short" Nightengale. We can read the tweets like anybody else.

Evan Phillips getting 35 mil guaranteed is fucking insane. I really don't want to waste money on relievers. Just sign a B+ SP, another B+ SP and a decent starting caliber OF and call it a day.

Well deserved. I thought Will was the winner but Cash was a worthy winner as well.

Cheer up he was fucking dominant outside some few innings.

Steamer has him at a 3.67 ERA. He's as "proven" as 90% of relievers, who are up and down year to year. There's zero reason to spend on a closer when you can put that 20 million AAV into the rotation or OF.

who the hell are you even talking about? Hagen Smith is mostly likely the new closer, he's the furthest thing from an "unproven rookie" after last season. He's a proven out getter. Sure, he can regress, but wtf are you arguing?

No it does not. Closer is going to pitch about 80 innings at most. Grant, unless he gets hurt, will pitch about 140-160 as a SP, so basically 2x the amount of innings will be covered by his arm. If you have the arm and makeup to start, you are more valuable in the rotation. And, you already have a tailor made replacement in Hagen. It's not rocket science. Sox are actually doing smart, obvious things.

Seems fairly obvious that Hagen is 2026 Taylor and will move into that highest leverage spot / closer on a night by night basis. Getz also said bullpen is low priority, thank god, another big difference from Hahn, who would blow his limited budget on fungible, volatile relievers seemingly every offseason.

cool, Getz is much better at the end of 40 man churn that Hahn, who held worthless guys forever.

regardless of the details I like the event, it's certainly something JR wouldn't have bothered with and it's forward focused beyond just the immediate season.

Yea that's about the latest they can go without pushing the WS back, and they don't like doing that either.

Only reason I think it will be March 1st or so is because these greedy POS won't want the revenue loss of cancelled games. Doesn't matter how much it will screw over the players' schedules.

The lockout will end on like March 1st and you're going to see a crazy run in the first few days, similar to when NBA FA opens I'd imagine. Some guys will be left hanging (and teams) and the Sox will have to be prepared for a billion scenarios. Not going to be easy, luckily we don't have any real core players to re sign, unless you think Fedde or Grich or Newsome is a core guy, I don't. I think Grich is going to get overpaid and go back to just being like a 1 WAR player. Fedde I'd welcome back, same with Newsome, but they aren't core guys.

Yea cautious optimism. Hopefully it means we are expanding our overall scouting resources. IMO the draft was never really our problem, maybe it was for a period, but we've had other issues and in general our drafts are fine and certainly played a role in the positive 2026 season. Shirley had to go, but he seemed better than most at his job himself.

Personally I watched maybe 5-6 innings across a couple games, didn't watch last night had Bulls on. Baseball is just a very regional sport and my fandom certainly isn't high enough after 170 or so Sox games to tune in nightly in late October. That said, happy for the Brewers, they have a class org and it's nice to see Yelich get a ring.

GarPax and Hahn both had the same PR mumbo jumbo of "flexibility". As if "flexibility" has ever won a single championship, or for that matter, a lack of it preventing a roster shuffle. There's almost no contract that can't be traded with the right incentives, JR teams just rarely utilize those.

TOMMY PHAM BARKING BACK, HE'S NOT BACKING DOWN, HE DOESN'T LIKE THAT. WE AIN'T TAKING THAT, I DON'T CARE HOW MANY L'S WE GOT THIS YEAR WE AIN'T TAKIN THAT

Decent article but I think they were just exhausted as much as anything in that game 5. They weren't just "one of the most productive AL offenses" -- they were the most productive. They ran out of gas in a short series. It happens. Look at the fucking Guardians. 79 years and counting. The key is to once again make the playoffs next year, and keep making the playoffs and good things will happen. The player that wasn't mentioned that was as guilty of it as anybody down the stretch was Braden. I'm not sure you replace anybody in the IF, but if you want to upgrade a spot into more production, you perhaps look at RF. Yes you'd be giving up on Braden early, probably too early, but if we are in win now mode, I think you can do better than his projected 1.5 WAR.

They prioritize the T-Mobile gate (requires T-Mobile service) and all the other gates are a complete s%*# show. I was there for Ichiro bobblehead in the T-Mobile line last year and it took roughly an hour to enter. The non T-Mobile gate looked about two hours, the line was wrapped around 3-4 city blocks at that point. Part of this is just PNW culture. It's slow. People do not respect others' time like say in Chicago or LA or NYC. In many ways Seattle is still a sleepy logging town compared to a lot of other metros.

Cavernous. Literally. Seats were under playing field in CF. Big stadium, good location, was super easy to park and walk compared to old comiskey. There was some famous pedestrian bridge that you walked over to get into it. I haven't been to a ton of stadiums: Citi Field, NYS, YS, Camden, Rate, Old Comiskey, Rogers Centre, Twinkie Dome, Safeco/Tmobile, Comerica. Twinkie Dome was a fucking joke compared to the Skydome / Rogers Centre. Twinkie Dome felt like they were playing in like an arcade video game, the baseball would bounce absurdly high on any sort of hit into the concrete. Comerica looks good on TV with the backdrop but has awful sightlines. Both times I went there I had a stiff neck from trying to watching home plate, down both the LF and RF box seats, the Rate is better honestly. T-Mobile is pretty generic too other than the roof and setting by Puget Sound and the piped in music never ends. You know what stadium I really liked? Citi Field. Walking in and you get the Jackie Robinson area and then in the upper deck you are pretty close to the action and it's mostly open concourse with great views of the NYC skyline. 100% better than NYS imo.

Oh well.

I think he had a really good agent and his background (at the time at least) looked good on paper as a "new age" analytics background. Of course he didn't really push analytics, he just had a worthless MBA and a slick lawyer like effect to him. IIRC the rumors were that we kept him and promoted him when he had interest from other clubs, including the Red Sox. Probably all just hogwash planted by his agent in hindsight. The guy was clearly in way over his head. He was good at contracts, absolutely trash tier at everything else.

i honestly thought britt burns was a porn / onlyfans star.

So John decided to so some UFC s%*# instead of showing up for the last series of the year? Speaks to two things: 1) The Sox are cheap 2) John is the sort of "talent" they attract. Time to change things up.