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Joey Gallo.

He got an award for the ACe program and said something like “this is more important than winning, which we don’t do much of anyway.”

Not sure I agree with the “good sign for the health of baseball” comment.

This.

Me

It is Colas. Like Cola Colas. Hope that helps.

Thats a lot of $. Mets are a cheat code right now.

If they trade TA, there is no window. It’s ovah. And honestly, it probably already is, as painful as that is to admit.

This. Now doing that with Correa ---- I could get get behind that.

Kepler is definitely a better fit Gallo. Problem is that he isn’t a FA and the Twins aren’t gonna hand him to their division rival without an overpay.

Montgomery isn’t even close to ready. He’s mid 2024 at best. You’d have to sign Elvis or some other stop gap, unless of course you received an mlb ready SS back in the deal.

Hardest pass of all time on that deal.

What kind of fan backlash would signing Correa result in?

Appreciate the clarification! That would certainly mix things up. Hope they're able to get a haul.

Agreed. Wouldn't have stopped the melt down here and on WST.

Whew. Imagine the melt down here.

He stated "its a 100% possibility" which I don't think is exactly what he meant, but could definitely be read that there is a 100% chance he's getting traded. But yeah, I was nit picking.

Wow. Its 100% a possibility, or its 100% happening?

I mean, he's gotta be salivating at these deals. And I can't blame him one bit.

Not saying its what I would prefer the Sox do, but if Sosa/Romy both fumble their opportunities (and lets not pretend there isn't a legit chance of that)....we're looking at playing Leury 2B most days anyway. If you're essentially planning to let Sosa earn that job, it would be nice to have some vet contingency plan in place. And if we're shopping at the local flea market for that fit, Frazier is as good of a fit as there is for a short term cheap contract.

The internal options would still be there, so if Sosa or Romy outperforms Frazier, great - he's now a bench piece. Its gotta be cheap though.

Trading for Murphy makes next to no sense IMO. The return would be way too expensive, and we still have to figure out what to do with Grandal/Seby. Trading AV to acquire a third catcher, leaving is with Gavin Sheets at the top of depth chart for 1B and still having no additional $ to spend seems like just an entirely awful strategy.

That seems terribly pessimistic and ignores a bunch of other factors, but to each their own.

Adding young, controllable players isn't free though. That is what you conveniently ignore in your analysis. Outman for example would be great to just add to this mix. But now you lost your closer, or perhaps your SS (in a larger deal). FAs like Gallo don't cost anything but $. Sox can't really try to compete, while also trading off some of their best players. The Sox are sort of boxed into at least giving this thing the ol' college try in 23. If it fails, they can pivot midseason and/or next offseason. Also, for as much as you talk up guys like Outman or even Stone Garrett while bashing what someone like Gallo bring to the table, there is next to no chance those guys accumulate over 15 fWAR that Gallo did during their initial contracts.

It'd be pretty tough for this team to be worse than they were last year IMHO. Getting Tony out of the way is going to be immensely helpful. But yeah, key players are going to need to perform better than they did in 22 and stay on the field.