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Maybe Scott has a thing for authenticity.

Sounds like someone is getting emotionally worked up again.

It isn't worth the virtual ink it is printed on.

These things will sort themselves out in Spring Training. I am sure the majority will continue to be bad.

See Jerry, you really can let historically awful players walk away, even if you owe them money.

And again, who has to explain to an owner in 2025 that Japan has a rabid baseball following, and that signing players from there can lead to revenue gains because of cross marketing opportunities.

Feels like a champagne celebration, but to each their own.

If you pass you still have Robert, for whatever that is worth. If the money was most important, they should not have exercised his option.

Yeah, you gotta figure out the dumpster fire of a pen, but this team looks a whole lot better with another front line starter and a middle of the other thumper.

Maybe that was it. I thought there was some point where we basically give them some rights in MLB. Ohtani didn't because he didn't have enough experience/age.

I thought there was something where the professional baseball leagues respected other leagues service time towards things like free agency? Maybe I am misremembering.

So is Imai a true free agent, or a six years of control guy? I think with his age, he could do any MLB contract, and then hit free agency again, right? It is interesting to see the Sox looking at short contracts for guys whose prices are plummeting as a way of enticing them to Chicago. It really makes me think that Ishbia really is being more involved here and taking some chances on deals that could well be bargains in the long run. I also wonder if we are already starting to see some of that old fashioned collusion we usually see right before, and right after, a labor problem.

Well this has been a nice winter so far.

And to tack on to that, after all of the massive Japanese players and the massive revenue streams that it has opened for teams, that also had to be explained to Jerry in 2025. Again the top anchor around the ankle of any Sox GM is Jerry and until that changes, this is who the Sox are.

Out of LF's with 400 PAs, he ranked 32nd of 34 with his 0.2 fWAR. Even if you ignore his league worst defensive rating (literally 34th of 34), he ranks 23rd of 34 in LF. Remember that 0.2 is his highest ratings of the three years he has been here, so yes this is who he is. https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders/major-league?stats=bat&lg=all&type=8&season=2025&month=0&season1=2025&ind=0&pos=lf&pageitems=50&qual=400

The Sox weren't in the discussions with the other guy either until his price fell to a fraction of expectations, aka the Jerry special.

That's what the Reds reporter either speculated on, or educatedly speculated on. in his first article on this topic. We have never really gotten a clear report of the Reds are offering the following...

Based on what the "insiders" are saying, it sounds like the offers are decently apart. We keep getting reports on what the Sox are asking for, but not as much what Cincy is offering at this point.

Just take guys in the trenches and rebuild from the inside out. The O line is really expensive and will need new blood once the cap problems get bad here in a few years.

I am surprised we have gotten the Merkin piece about how bad the Reds offer actually is to counter the Cincy narrative TBH.

That's my thought too. Unless he is hitting .350, pitch to him.

Let's be honest, the guys they got are filler for a good team

He also screams utility to super-utility guy to me.

Purdy is probably on the Mt Rushmore of smartest QBs in football Dude makes more out of a pretty mediocre bag of tools than just about any QB in the NFL. The top guys all have big arms, legs, or both. Purdy just sees the field in about 0.5 speed, while everyone else is running at 1.2. He makes it look easy. If Caleb gets a fraction of that football IQ, he is a half a billion dollar QB.

I mean specifically guys who were here both last year and this year. Thinking of the improvement in Williams and Odunze year of year as examples. Swift was borderline unplayable last year.