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If they're eating the $16M, id do that in second.

Conforto easy. Sox plenty good enough to win this division somewhat easily with current rotation. Grab a SP in July.

Half this board would be losing their mind if the Sox signed Boyd to that deal.

Hated it so much from the very beginning.

If you want to ignore the other 3-4 years at ~$20M AAV, sure. Still needed relievers and a 2B, so this statement doesn’t really work. Subtract Harrison and Valazquez if you will, but that is $7M. It’s nothing.

Im aware. Admittedly scanned over that little caveat to the statement.

Graveman definitely would be gone. Dudes pretty good.

We need to add a yawn emoji to our options.

What makes you think that cat knows anymore than any of us?

Perhaps. But I’ll still root for them and enjoy it.

Must be.

I thought it was like $22M of space, but perhaps I’m thinking of dated info.

Kind of wild for Rosenthal to be that forward there.

Nothing to do with keeping Cesar on this roster is defensible. He didn’t fit in. Wasnt the guy. Now that isn’t necessarily a defense of Harrison, but I’ll roll with the ball of energy and spark plug over the drone that is Cesar Hernandez.

Joc Pederson is a horrible RF. Continue to live under your dark cloud. I’ll wait to see how the rest of the offseason plays out. Even if the Sox stupidly role with Vaughn and Sheets in RF, they’re still easily a top 3 lineup in the AL. So yeah, jump off the ledge if you’d like. I won’t stop ya. I’ll sit back and watch 95+ wins and w 3rd straight playoff performance.

And defensively, he added to the dumpster fire. Bad fit.

What, exactly, right fielder, is cheap, and in their last year, before, free agency? Those things, generally, are not consistent, with, one another.

Joc Pederson sucks. How exactly are the Sox up any creek without a paddle? They have fucking all stars or recent top 25 prospects at 7/9 positions and 4 TOR SPs.

Woof. That's a contract I am happy the Sox didn't touch.

And $18M less to invest in the team. The offseason isn't over.

Its spilled milk at this point, but clearly the Sox didn't like Rodon's medicals and didn't see the risk of an $18M as a good one. This is the same guy that failed to go past 5 innings after a mid July start, and only mustered 9 starts in the season's second half. Me thinks the Sox know a little bit more about Rodon than the other 29 clubs. Me also thinks the Giants are going to regret that deal pretty much immediately.

Woof

Interesting.

Minor, 34, is headed into the second season of a two-year, $18MM contract originally signed with Kansas City. He’s due $10MM this season, plus a $1MM buyout on a mutual option for the 2023 season. MLB.com’s Mark Feinsand tweets that the Royals are covering that $1MM buyout. Bobby Nightengale of the Cincinnati Enquirer adds that Kansas City is also covering $500K of Minor’s salary. That leaves the Reds on the hook for about $7.3MM in additional salary commitments, when factoring in the projected $2.2MM (via MLBTR contributor Matt Swartz) that would’ve gone to the arbitration-eligible Garrett.

Yeah, don't get it. But they just took on like $8M in that deal.