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Dump everybody except fields and any young linemen. Maybe keep Mooney and Monty?

I’m so pumped to watch Dylan Cease take another step this year. I think he can break into the top 10 fWAR.

He’s a monster though

What happens with Micker now?

Absolutely. The narrative on here that Kimbrel’s contract is going to be hard to get rid of has always seemed crazy to me. This Segura-or-bust thing, what the hell?

Poor Kendall Graveman probably found Soxtalk, thinkin “hey cool let’s check out how pumped these fans are with this roster”. Opens the front door and hears the chorus “we haven’t done jack shit all offseason! Not a damn thing!”

Yea that’s really interesting. None of the good teams did much of anything. I wonder if we were actually one of the more active good teams, signing Leury and Graveman. Wouldn’t that be a big funny sausage slap in the face

I don’t understand the opinion that the Sox were unprepared or misread the market. We have young Allstar-caliber players at almost every position. I still expect them to supplement this team in a bigger-than-needed way, but in no way am I pissed they didn’t shell out 40M/Yr to Max or $325M to Seager. As currently constructed, I see this team winning close to 100 games, even in a tougher AL. We have that much talent.

Yes. They have the most talent even right now. This talent cannot shit all over itself in the playoffs. I still can’t believe it. I think the Sox would have massacred the Braves.

Wow Baez blows. This is surprisingly good news

There is basically an offseason, boilerplate script that all 30 GMs follow on their interviews. Did I miss something where front offices decided to actually start answering questions? Wouldn’t that be breaking rule #1: “Don’t be an idiot and give out any information.”

Maybe the plan is Story. He doesn’t get hurt like these other guys and won’t cost as much either. Plus he’s a really good defender right?

I love the “first” shoutouts. My absolute favorite part of the baseball offseason is the whole farce that there are scoops going on or actual investigative journalism. And then the people faking to be a part of the already fake thing. It’s priceless.

You mean Eaton?

Lol says the fan from somewhere else. I know you didn’t mean it this way but it reads funny like you actually believe you are a more knowledgeable baseball person than these other “meatballs”.😂🤣😂🤣

Tim is probably a better catcher than Schwarber.

What are you basing his ability to throw on? Just curious, because i know the first couple years he “played outfield” full time, especially the first one, teams were trying to take extra bases on him like crazy because they looked at him playing outfield as an insult to outfielders everywhere. So he had a bunch of assists and whatnot because teams were trying to take bases they normally wouldn’t. It was pure disrespect across the board, so yea, he had inflated assist numbers. credit to him for working hard and not being the worst defensive player in the history of the game, but I’m pretty sure he’s just about as bad as it can get out there.

I think so too. I think all the people writing off the Kimbrel option pickup are going to be super surprised with the quality of return he brings. This isnt a bad contract for bad contract situation.

What if you want to push hard for a championship though? Rodon is a HUGE risk from my armchair. Lot of money for non-guaranteed innings

Yes or just simply need more certainty in a championship window. They want a championship

I guess I don’t understand the angst with allocating a big chunk of money to the pen. Most of our really good players are around pre-arb or locked up on pretty good deals. If $190M is true, Tommy likey

Possible but there’s HUGE upward pressure in wages right now. Does that spill over into a tiny economy like MLB? I’d think so since they purchase the same stuff the rest of us do. Plus yachts

I want to believe too

The more I watch the game evolve the less I think OF defense matters, especially when you have someone like Robert in CF. Go for the big crooked numbers for 7 innings and put Engel in for the rookies to close it out. So I guess today I’m leaning towards spending the money on pitching and power at 2B

But it seems like they didn’t want him to say yes to the QO so they didn’t make it. What am I missing here?