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That wasn't my point.

I'll just leave this here Just replace Wheeler with any viable, competent MLB starting pitcher. LITERALLY ANYONE is better than the garbage that occupied the bottom half of the rotation last year.

Machado would have played on the moon if the moon offered more guaranteed money.

I meant to look around the internet, because honestly I wasn't paying much attention to the peripheral reporting on the signing, but did the Sox PR/marketing machine present this in a "See, look what we did?" sort of way to fans when the deal was publicized?

This thread title is really misleading. /sarcasm?

This is a part of the problem. The financials of a contract that for most teams in the league would be business as usual, and the price you pay to "do business" (ie: field a competitive team) - is made out to be a monumental day in Sox franchise history that fans should relish. And its bullshit.

If this was twitter I would retweet this. So quoting you is all I can do here.

All this reminds me of Jermaine Dye signing in the 2004 offseason. JD could be penciled in for 2 or 3 war season and he was coming off of some "meh" seasons in Oakland still coming back from his leg injury. The big question mark from Sox fans back then was "how's his defense gonna play in RF". We all know how that ended for the Sox. Unless the Sox overpay dramatically for Ozuna, I don't see how this isn't a massive upgrade over Ryan Cordell, regardless of what Ozuna's projected WAR and batted ball exit velocity ratings are.

Understood. Sorry if I sounded stuffy.

Right. Because casual fans get the chance to go out and watch thousands of MiLB players and "scout tools" Sometimes stats are all you have to go by.

Ozuna probably doesn't want to sign here because he knows in a season or two, he'll be hitting 9th.

It would be nice to pencil a guy in at RF, and know exactly what to expect. 3 WAR a year is fine by me. Overpay, I don't care. I'm done with the AAAA revolving door. Get it done.

Didn't he have clubbed feet or six toes or some shit?

I have engaged the Cishek

D) Kenta Maeda

I should have done this to start off with... but I like being able to reference the "I won't believe it until I see it from Joff Passen" post on Soxtalk.

#UnderTheRadar

I tweeted at him in a thinly veiled attempt to expose the obvious parody. if Passan is gonna get pissy he needs to trademark his name and likeness.

If twitter bans my fake Joff Passen account I’m gonna pick some random obscure relief pitcher from 25 years ago and go with that.

"retooling" and trying to offload some bigger contracts.

Kenta Maeda requested to be traded if the Dodgers were going to keep him in the bullpen. Dodgers told him to deal with it. he’d be expensive to trade for, considering he’s really good, was posted, and is under contract through 2022. but worth a phone call to LA I’d think.

#ChangeTheTitle #FreeSteve

I replied. lol. I hope he’s not trying to get my clearly spoof twitter banned.

Maybe it was the Joff Passen Twitter feed

If so we might as well bring back Ozzie to manage this Sort of shit show.