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Apparently his whole team didn't have it yet...

If this were a normal offseason, I have zero doubt we would be spending big. But this year? It is all a guessing game.

It isn't the Hawkisms that I will remember most, but the raw emotion he put into the game.

Indiana has set new records for covid cases in back to back days.

I think there will be a flood of non-tenders and cheap free agents out there to bet on. The last thing they are going to do is dump Vaughn for a position player. The ONLY way he gets moved is if the Sox get a literal ace, and Vaughn is a centerpiece in that deal. Other than that, you might as well start penciling Andrews bat into the middle of our line for the decade.

This. The ONLY thing the Sox might do here is target a defense first back up catcher. They are not about to put huge resources into this position when they already have a top level catcher behind the plate. It is gigantic waste of resources when upgrades in the rotation and RF would pay off SO much bigger.

Apparently you did not watch much playoff baseball. San Diego won a 3 game series in which they let their starters go a total of 6 innings. NY pulled a starter after 1 inning of work and 1 run allowed.

She was more than willing to pass a deal. The GOP didn't want a bill that helped everyone.

lol, wut? Are you really trying to pretend that COVID hasn't changed the monetary situation around baseball?

When 48 hours ago, he wasn't willing to do anything.

Every single team in baseball could have paid Grandal $18 million a season (or more) last season, and 29 teams chose not to. Now in 2020, teams have lost billions of dollars in revenues, and NOW they would be willing to do so? That doesn't even make sense.

With the economic season this winter, I can't see a single team willing to take on that Grandal contract without some extra incentive.

This White House lies so often, I would be more likely to believe Trump was healthy if they told me he was on deaths door.

And even if Engel hits .220 next year, we know he will catch the ball, which is what we really need for our pitching.

I am just going to say it. With the line up the Sox have it is WAY easier to hide a bad to mediocre RF, than it is to hide the fact our starting pitching was not deep enough. We need a top half SP WAY worse than we need a RF. We could go into next season with internal options in RF, and as long as we do something with the rotation, I will be good.

It isn't about pettiness but more about who you want around your young and learning players. Do you want them picking up bad habits?

Give the Nats the big L on that deal.

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With Colome he has a long history of outperforming his peripherals, so I don't have a problem with assuming that will be the case going forward. Even at his career norms, he is a solid closer.

Even if he regressed to his historic norm, which are still pretty good, he allows to you utlize guys like Bummer, Marshall, and Heuer in earlier innings. This allows you to still have great pens for games where our young starters blow up early.

No one. Colome is not going to be worth something like $18 million a year in a covid world.

Colome is a FA, I would be really happy to have him back. If not, I'd feel good about Heuer back there.

Need this one

It is tough to evaluate 2020, but he seems to have had a pretty convincing 3 season decline before that.

Personally? No, I don't think it is tied together. My impression is that neither Colas or Cespedes are ready to be MLB starters in 21.