caulfield12

Still waiting for any current GMs that are actually worse than Rick Hahn. I know it's quite the challenge...

Or one Ford Pinto?

He doesn’t have the authority to make those calls. But here’s a more germane question…which MLB GM’s do you currently believe that Rick Hahn is (clearly or arguably, if you prefer) better than, and why? AZ? Pitt? Baltimore? Hoyer? Cincy? Preller? Perry Minasian/Angels? Colorado? Philly/Dombrowski? Pretty hard to blame the Oakland GM for “Major Leaguing” that roster…they’ve been amazing since their biggest FA deal is $30 million and never higher than #22 payroll.

Somehow I don’t think that fact will convince any opposing GM’s to simply agree to take on his existing contract…

Well, there you go. One thing we can agree wholeheartedly upon. Not even going to bother going after TLR this year, he’s simply too easy to target or scapegoat.

The problem is that it hasn’t really seemed like anyone in the front office’s actual job has been in jeopardy, even now…for example, if the Sox somehow missed the post-season, nothing would change because “they wouldn’t want to change horses in the middle of the race.”

https://www.sfgate.com/athletics/article/Why-latest-Oakland-A-s-teardown-is-team-s-worst-17012659.php Well, yeah…there’s this. We could be A’s fans. Not sure how they will feel in the end when the team relocates to Vegas, but brutal brutal brutal to read this as a baseball fan.

Hahn should be embarrassed.

Vizcaino. Marte was already beginning to fade then, but was Thornton Vers.1 for the Sox.

O/U on K’s today is 6

We might top out at $300-500.

Do you have another $4-6 million to chip in?

https://www.startribune.com/carlos-correa-twins-press-conference-scott-boras-contract-opt-out/600158617/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=twins Despite contract terms, Correa says joining Twins isn't 'like a one-year thing' • Royce Lewis gained a mentor — and a watch — when Correa joined Twins • Scoggins: By making big moves, Minnesota suddenly becomes the 'Gopher-It State' • Watch Carlos Correa's press conference with the Twins here • Larnach's homer highlights Twins' 10-4 victory over Red Sox

https://thefederalist.com/2017/11/07/mlb-put-another-team-new-york/ http://www.bronxbomberball.com/2015/07/a-third-baseball-team-in-ny.html https://www.nysun.com/article/sports-is-a-third-ny-baseball-team-feasible https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/athletics/as-study-shows-las-vegas-would-be-mlb-hit-2498293/ Manfred has been pretty positive about Vegas as a market, perhaps due the gambling tie-ins/revenue streams now possible.

Just wondering why you went out on such a precarious limb with 109 instead of let’s say 102, which would still beat the old club record by three?

Hence the trade of Kimbrel and Adolfo for either Caratini or Alfaro (two homers already this spring.) That dramatically improves one position and should free up at least another $8-12 million the TDL.

We’re simply amazing at wasting money or misallocating it/spending inefficiently, definitely happy to acknowledge that much. Which team is 9th again? Where are the Twins, Tigers and Indians? 17th, 20th, 23rd and the amazing Indians upgraded to 29th from last. Average of 22.25, which is not even close to MLB average or median salary. What does beating up on them again prove? I don’t think ANY posters are asserting we are better today than we were in October, 2021.

See the thread from the early day/s of that trade. There were a significant number of dubious fans who already believed it was a massive overpay, let alone a good fit for Kimbrel to suddenly adjust to set-up.

I’m only embarrassed we have accepted this for so long. I could care less about a clickbait MLB.com preseason headline, and most of the ticket-buying Sox public is in agreement if they can’t even sell out the opener in nicer weather than normal. Were things going well on the marketing and sales front, we would be getting nearly daily updates about it from Boyer and the PR team.

So you’re saying Kopech or Cease will be THE clear best pitcher in baseball by the last two months of the season? Giolito=Freddy Garcia, Keuchel=Buehrle, and Garland/McCarthy/ed Duque=? Just don’t see any conceivable way the Sox 2005 staff can ever be equaled. Without Rodon at 100% last year, we were clearly outgunned. It would take the best pitching coach/coaching work in decades…and that still doesn’t even begin to touch upon defense and fundamentals that are clearly lacking and rarely addressed in-season.

As long as he gets to play 4-5 days per week....no less than 4.

Then you're sending Vaughn to the minors, or playing him in LF with Jimenez at DH and Gavin Sheets likely traded as part of a package for pitching?

The situation of the team talent-wise, sure. And competing in one of the weakest divisions in baseball with four small to mid-market teams as your competition, sure. But not ownership and front office administration. There, we'd at best be smack dab in the middle tier, at best. I would put it at 16-20, if forced at gunpoint. It's far easier to name 10 better franchises and 8-10 terrible/abysmal/hopeless ones. But no way that it's 25.

Do you want to make that Ron "self-ban bet"? First of all, the goal is not to win the AL Central, and they do have fewer games against a weaker Central this year, compared to the past. The goal was a window to compete for MULTIPLE championships. So I'll go with 93.5 games, you can keep your 109 prediction. 7.75 is the midpoint so that means you are betting on everything from 102+ victories and up, and I have everything below 101. I'll take it, and not think twice. You have 99 wins in 1983 and 2005. In roughly 120 franchise years, never a 100 win season.

Ron, you have money for your own private plane, right? I guess there's always Southwest out of Midway. Do we still have them as a sponsor, or strictly ANA?