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Polonco is a terrible SS. Move him to 3B. Didi to SS. Finally move Sano to 1B fulltime where he belongs. Arraez/Gonzalez share 2B and of OF duties. Cron will likely be non-tendered. It makes a ton of sense for them, and I know they're very interested in him. Odorizzi is going to take the QO. But yah, they have some work to do on that rotation.

This is probably best case scenario. Honestly, probably could go cheaper on the 2nd SP. Someone like Wood, Tehran, Rich Hill, Smyly. Other RF trade options could work as well. But this or a variation of this is pretty close to the best we can realistically expect.

Didi would be a pretty great fit for the Twins.

Huh? Didi is going to get A lot more than $7M AAV.

FG projected 2/$32 for Ryu. If the bidding is really that low, he would be a fantastic fit.

All the righties!!!

You want an everyday lineup with 1 left handed hitter? That is never going to happen.

Sox could trade him before non tender deadline. Or tender him a contract and trade him after. Problem is, at his projected arb price, he has no trade value.

I’d still be surprised if RF is not solved via trade.

Huh? If anyone offered him 3/$45M obviously he’s take it. This deal and the fact that he hasn’t already signed as extension makes it pretty clear Sox have no interest in 3/$45M, and that is a good thing.

And like Ozuna, If his market craters, it becomes way more attractive. You can make bad fits work for a year or two, but as the commitment gets longer it’s just really complicates things. Thankfully this Abreu news at least makes the roster more flexible moving in 21-22 and beyond.

Gahhhh...Castellanos is just such a poor fit. He's pretty underwhelming as a DH, and he's so poor in the field that he needs to be a DH. I guess if they go out and acquire a really nice left handed RF via trade and Abreu accepts the QO, we sign Wheeler, I could get behind Castellanos as the DH. But man, just seems like a lot of other stuff needs to go right for it to be even a decent fit for this roster.

Nick Castellanos and Eloy Jimenez would create the worst defensive OF in the game. By quite a bit. I really hope the Sox aren't that dumb.

Old friend Chris Devenski bought out as well.

He has ten days. No one is offering him 3/38M in the next ten days. I think the most likely scenario is Jose accepts the QO, but I kind of hope he rejects it, goes to the market, doesn't get anywhere near what he wants, and then pretty much has to come back to the Sox for a nice cheap deal because no one else will sign him.

Yep, definitely don't disagree with that. Makes not missing on Grandal pretty important.

I am completely fine with it. Didn't love the Martinez fit from day 1. While obviously I wouldn't have been mad if they signed him, I feel there are much better ways to build the team (with the assumption that Jose Abreu will be around).

BUT BUT BUT!!! HOW WOULD JD MARTINEZ KNOW NO TEAM WAS WILLING TO SPEND MORE! TAMPERING!!!

His salary drops $4.5M for 21-22. While $4.5M isn't a ton in baseball terms, that is almost a 20% decrease. As I said, he was never going to beat $23.75M in AAV in 2020.

I don't think they would, unless the Red Sox basically gave him away for salary relief.

See two posts up.

This also could theoretically allow the Sox to say, "OK, Jose. We love you man. But you're not worth $15M AAV over 3-4 years. Go ahead and test the market, but we'll be here if it doesn't work out." And then in a couple months get him to re-sign closer to the 2/$25M deal we were projecting before his hot end to the season. No one is going to sign Jose Abreu to a multi-year deal and lose a draft pick.

Not really. I don't think he was going to beat $23.75M in AAV in 2020. And his salary drops to $19.25M next year. Which means if he has another JD Martinez-like season, he can opt out a year from and easily beat 2/$38.5M. If he doesn't, he just doesn't opt out. Seems like the way safer route, unless he knew someone was going to give him a 4 year deal at ~$20M AAV, which quite obviously he didn't.

Doesn't necessarily shut the door, but I agree with this move from JD Martinez standpoint. He'd be much better off opting out next year.

Obviously. I think this pretty clearly means that what the Sox are offering and what Jose wants are not matching up. Which, IMO, is probably a good thing. Overpaying Jose Abreu for multiple seasons would be very stupid. Overpaying him for 1 season would be less stupid.