maloney.adam

I get your point but supposedly the Sox have all this money to spend in the offseason so why not spend it on a couple affordable quality starting pitchers so your not spending stupid money on just one player and have less money to spend on another important piece. I would rather they sign two affordable quality starting pitchers than throw all this money at one good starting pitcher that has a past history of injuries and that we don’t know if he will have the same production in the future and help the team win championships.

The Sox should pass on Wheeler. The guy is injury prone and isn’t not even worth the 5 years 100 mil as projected. This is another one of those Machado type of scenarios where the free agent wants all this money with more years; hence why we’re seeing all these tweets coming out and articles on the dollar amounts and years. His agent is trying to get teams to up there offers. If the Sox FO are smart, they should have already learned there lesson from last year. Look at how that turned out for Machado this past year. He got his big payday but he was nowhere near as productive as he was while in Baltimore so that turned out to be a blessing in disguise for the Sox. I would rather they sign Ryu, who had the best ERA in all of baseball last year. Even though he is a risk too and is injury prone also he has just as much potential or even more and if he can replicate what he did this past year that is a win-win scenario. You can get him for cheaper and than have extra money to go after a lot more pieces. Just doesn’t make sense to throw the amount of years at Wheeler. Let him pass to a team that is stupid enough to give him those number of years.

Because Machado wanted the $300 million guaranteed. It’s part of business and earning the most money or profit.