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I think it was 20 teams SENT presentations, but a fraction of that got to meet him in person.

Not much more to know about him.

I mean if we want to get right down to it, the Sox signed Carlton Fisk and The Bull after a 90 loss season. The Sox would have to improve 31 whole games to improve to the point where they were as bad as when the Sox signed Fisk and Bull. In that year they moved up to a team that was 2 games over .500 when the strike happened, but make that an entire season, and they are 82-80, or 10 games better than they were the previous year. Are a lot of people running out to buy tickets for this as a 111 loss team instead of a 121 loss team?

Trying to convince people that a nine year deal based on a guy who had 3 decent years in a 9 year contract is a move all right, especially after he was both traded and then released for the last 3 full years, even with the trading team picking up parts of the contract.

SHOTS FIRED

If Keller is the guy who added Rodriguez, is is great to see immediate results from them.

Wait for it...

Finally we agree on something.

Cool, then run along and quit responding to everything.

Is accidentally being historically bad any better?

Look. I have no idea what is going on in your head right now, and am really avoiding responding you to because this is completely unproductive and ruining multiple threads with this. Again, run along.

Apparently you haven't heard of Sasaki?

I act like? You are the one acting like this is the very last opportunity in the history of baseball for outside talent acquisition, especially when the main guy in question is a posted foreign player, who wouldn't have made any list two years ago about upcoming free agents anyway, just like this list is now. But no, you keep on rolling along there. Chase those windmills.

Ah yes the old, it was better back in my day people. Literally the old trope of humanity.

Which is always a possibility for pitchers. It's why penciling in a list of pitchers years down the road is a fools errand.

It's almost as if player development is the most important thing going forward with this rebuild and learning how to draft and develop internal young talent is more important than the free agent market. Nah, all the Benintendi's!!!

This is exactly what I was thinking.

Any longer term Sox fans can tell you the Sox fan base is very fair weather. Put together a product worth seeing consistently and they will be back. They always do. But it isn't like an extra half a million tickets in 2025 hinge on this team signing an international SS that almost the entire fan base has no one knows who is. This year is going to be bad. Really bad. A Benintendi level deal or 3 doesn't change that.

I will say this deal gives the Dodgers a couple of more pieces that Sox could be interested in with the extra pick and a highly regarded OF prospect. A deal could form around an OF prospect (DePaula/Sirota), one of their young Latin SSs (Vargas/Morales) the pick, and maybe even a 40 man guy they want to free up or a guy almost out of options.

Kenny actually operated a legit farm system in his early days.

And it is quite literally how we got here

29 votes for the expansion dollars versus one vote for the market. Tell me how that works out. You keep talking about greed for expansion dollars, but the ignore the valuation of a south side franchise. 29 teams have an incentive here that the Cubs don't

The idea that we are 3rd tier free agents away from being even mediocre or entertaining is just absurd. There is no one that is saving this disaster of a season. The sooner people wake up to reality, the better. No one wants this, but it IS happening. The only question is will the Sox do what they need to at the bottom to fix things, or will they continue to half ass it to win a couple of more games now, only to lose a lot more games in the long term. The wanting Getz to operate like Hahn stuff is astounding.

That's 40 wins we need to make up just to get to .500. a bunch of C list free agents isn't doing that. This team has more holes than a prairie dog infestation.

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