southsider2k5

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For the record, we are about 2/3 of the way through the season, so on Fedde's $7.5 million salary, a claiming team would be on the hook for about $2.5 mil.

The will need to fill innings, but I suppose they could be thinking of the payroll and if they might be getting an arm or two back in these deals to replace the guys going out.

This is EXACTLY why you sell high on Houser, Civale, Altavilla, Tauchman, and anyone else who gets a bite after a resurgance. I have no idea if there are still teams interested in them all, but SELL SELL SELL MORTIMER!

I assume that includes the 5%?

I wonder if this also means they count interntional service time after age 25. For example if you play 4 years of MLB and 2 years in Japan, that equals 6 seasons, and you now are past arb and a free agent.

Sportrac is what I went off of looking for future contract obligations. I have no idea who is the most accurate or dependable.

They technically control both of those seasons with options, if they so desire.

The funny thing is I had the opposite reaction. What is the coaching staff doing that a bench coach exists without your franchise player having any idea having any idea who he is. WTF did Charlie Montoyo spend his time doing if he wasn't trying to do everything he could to make Luis Robert a Hall of Famer? Even if Luis Robert didn't want his help, for some weird reason, dude still should have been present enough.

I think people really underestimate how important not having a local TV contract was to the Sox this year.

If they move both Benny and Robert, they are within a sneeze of being able to be to the literal minimum. Civale appears he might have an arb offer left. Wilson also hits arb. Perez has a mutual option. They show Tauchman as a FA, but also 4 years and change worth of service, so maybe there is a clause in his deal that they can't offer arb? Altavilla and Alexander have similar looks. Past that according to Sportrac, everyone else is pre-arb or a FA. But the Sox are apparently obligated to literally no one for 2026 past Benny.

So that makes about $1.2 mil they need to make up.

He gave him 3B.

That Colson HR was a thing of beauty. Kept waiting for it to hook foul, but the spin on it kept it dead straight.

Hell as often as he is hurt, giving him time off is a pretty damned good idea.

And a do think a lot of people mistake the Latin personality of not showing a ton of emotion, with not caring. You don't have to put on a show for the cameras to care.

My favorite part is when we start seeing who isn't in the minor league line ups of key teams.

You will have to ask the whisperers.

I mean it seems super obvious, but literally everyone shows up for this dance, so who knows. oH bUt We MiGhT rEsIgN hIm!!!?!?!

Honestly it is like 99/1 they are bluffing here, but this is what happens at the deadline with info misdirects.

Economist? I would think they would want a forensic accountant.

The one thing I will say is that the Sox finally have TV money flowing in and something like a $40 million payroll without Robert next year. Even if you add him back and say another $15 to $20 million in the usual garbage signings, that leaves us at like $75-80 million. I don't buy that they will do this, but it is POSSIBLE

That doesn't leave a lot of room for the rest of the signings does it?

This year they really did a great job with it, both with Smith and claiming Vasil.

Honestly? With as crappy as the Sox roster is, they can actually afford to take on potential rule 5 guys as it's not like we don't have roster spots we can make. If it is the best talent you get offered, take it. We don't have a real roster crunch if we are actually willing to jettison the flotsam.