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Is it confirmed that team are going back to 25 man rosters this year? Does Cordero have an option. I like Jimmy and hope he sticks around. I think he’s be much better without dipshit McGee using him 90 times.

Probably $1M more than I would have liked, but I wanted to bring Rodon back. I was hoping to bring him back as an insurance policy to a solid backend SP addition from FA. Not as the backend SP from FA. Hopefully the Sox still plan on adding another SP.

Yeah, his days as a SP are probably over. I wouldn't pay $4M for his services either, but $1.5M-$2M to have around as back end rotation depth and potentially a decent lefty reliever? I think thats worth it. If the Sox are done with SP additions, we're scary thin after the top 3 and will be relying on Reynaldo for at least 15 starts. No thanks. Any injuries to Gio/Lynn/Keuchel, and the rotiation is in serious trouble. Not that Rodon changes much - frankly I would have rather brought him in addition to a more reliable back end option. But those are drying up in a hurry.

To be fair, she was responding to people hating on him saying no sure how people expect him to be good out of the pen right away when its something he's never done in his life.

Definitely hope they bring back Rodon on this point.

For one, there is probably a decent chance that the minor league season doesn't even start before April 20 or whatever the exact date is to get the extra year (should be within a week of that). And if he does stay in the minors past April, I don't see him struggling so much that the Sox play the entire season season with Yermin or Collins DHing most the time.

There is 0% chance Vaughn gets a season in the minors assuming he is healthy.

I think Vaughn will be more like 20 days. Kopech I wouldn't expect to see until mid June. But yeah, its really is demoralizing if this is the extent of the moves this offseason.

Not significantly. But Leury is going to be on the roster anyway. And Marwin has more positional flexibility than Leury. I think the better question would be - how much better is Marwin than Danny Mendick. And I think the answer is ALOT.

I just really like Marwin because he can play everywhere. We have guys in LF, 3B and RF that struggle to stay healthy. Marwin is a pretty good defensive 3B. I think he's a great fit, and a guy that can fill in for 2-3 week stints without losing a ton when IL stints happen.

Which is a great reason to have interest. Make the Twins give Cruz a sizable multi-year deal, and hope father time FINALLY catches up to him. I'd be fine having Cruz on an EE deal, but I also am more than fine with Vaughn and Abreu splitting 1B/DH duties for 21. What the Sox really need is a guy who can play everywhere, and ideally bat left handed. Since LaStella is gone, another former Twin Marwin Gonzalez would be my guy.

Good move for the Twins. Both Polanco and Arraez are poor defenders. I doubt Simmons is as good as he once was defensively, but still well above average SS. The bat is nothing to write home about, but this makes them better. Their pitching staff still need quite a bit of work though, in my opinion.

Some folks I know that are fairly connected to the Twins think Cruz is pretty much a guarantee to return to MN, FWIW.

How many of those 20 years have the Sox had a legitimate pennant contender?

Right. Should be plenty of money to sign a bat and a SP. Embarrassing to not put the finishing touches on this roster.

I can't see how the minor leagues can survive another season without games. Woof. And just give me an162 game MLB season. No more of this shortened season BS.

Kopech for Burnes doesn't really even make sense for either side. Seems to me like two teams trading very similar assets with close to the same control. To me, Kopech has more upside. Burnes has never thrown more than 115 innings in a season (which he threw in 2018), but last two have been 70 and 60. Its not like he can be relied on to go out and throw 200 innings in 2021 either. I also don't see why the Brewers would really want to do that deal as Kopech only has 1 more year of control (could end up being 2, but lets assume 1 cause that's current situation). Just doesn't make a ton of sense for either team IMO.

I would rather have Richards (or a litany of other SP options) than trade any (or multiple) of the 4 I mentioned for Burnes.

Burnes is a really nice arm that I'd love to have. But c'mon. I don't want to trade away major pieces of the future. Something like Cease, Stiever, Micker and Sheets..OK. But that's not going to be enough. I'd guess I'd be OK with moving Kelly just because he's so far away. Zero interest in trading any of Kopech, Madrigal, Vaughn, Crochet or major building blocks from MLB club for Burnes. I'd rather just spend $ on FA SP.....

I’d be pretty bummed if we traded Madrigal. He’s such an a amazing fit for this team.

This. I could do without Flowers and just let the in house guys have at the BU catcher role, but Quintana + LaStella seems like a no brainer.

Don't really care to read the 12 pages - is there anything to this? Cruz rumbling still the thought that the first page seemed to think?

Awesome for the bullpen! Man that’s a big deal. If I’m reading this right, it’s basically a 4/$54M due to the buyout and option being the same price. Still a lot, but that makes it feel a little better!

I'd love to have Hendriks, but my guess is I won't lose any sleep over the Sox missing out on him if he's getting anything more than like 3/$36M, which he will.

The ship has likely sailed, but I would be in support of brining Rodon back for like 1/$2M. Can never have enough rotation options, and while he sucked out of the pen in a very SSS in 2020, I think he could be effective there with more work. Not a bad guy to have around. But I am sure he'd prefer a chance somewhere he's guaranteed a rotation spot, or at least a little easier to get one.