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I’d go two years and $28M with an option for a third.

Maybe because of my chosen field, I love Los Angeles. Things are constantly happening, the weather is great too but I can see how people can hate it. There’s homeless people everywhere, the incredibly expensive and transportation is a nightmare.

That’s true but let’s say that the sox hit on his pick, then he’ll be joining a team with Moncada, Robert and Eloy all with ample big leauge experience. He’ll be extending the Sox’s window as well.

That’s one but the teams that make the playoffs consistently have multiple. Just look at the Cubs, Astros, Dodgers, Red Sox and Yankees for example. Yeah, they can sign one through free agency but that’s an awfully expensive way to do it. Outside of Chris Sale, who’s the last star the Sox drafted in the first round? Frank Thomas? Ideally, this is the last time that the Sox are drafting this high in the near future, they need to hit big with this pick.

This draft is huge, the Sox need a star.

I really wanted Machado and Grandal at the start of the process.

I really want the Sox to end up with Brad Boxberger. Last year he had when he spent 81 games in Chase Field, he had 32 SVs, 71 Ks in 51.1 IP which comes out to 12 K/9.

He already is good.

I forgot about him, he had a K/9 of 10.4. Ottavino: 13.0 Allen: 10.7 Britton: 7.5 (GB% of 73%) Herrera: 7.7

I’m not expecting anything from him due to his health issues, whatever he gives the Sox is a bonus in my eyes.

A Sox pen with Colome, Fry, Bummer, Hamilton, Vieira, the eventual arrival of Burdi and one of Allen/Ottavino/Herrera/Britton would be pretty sick. They have a young staff, so they should be looking to shorten the games for them.

The Sox lost 470lbs and got a whole lot better today.

Tyler Flowers has been pretty good

There’s no long term fit, he has no position and has no real value outside of hitting homers and he had a down power year last year. Good decision.

Really like this move for the Sox. They have a legit closer and the winter meetings haven’t even started and they were right to sell high on Navarez because he’s unlikely to repeat that performance from last year. I would still like to see the Sox sign another reliever like Allen, Britton or Ottavino at the meetings.

CJ Cron or Nelson Cruz?

I don’t think he gets that kind of money (and solid years) considering his injury history. He’ll definitely get more than Smyly and Eovaldi because he’s proven to be the better player when healthy but the injury history is veryreal.

If he’s not healthy after year one of the contact, you declined the option. Problem solved.

In terms of base salary that’s $18M and an AAV of $6M, assuming that you pick up both options. If you think that’s ridiculous, then please look at his career numbers. In his first two years as a starter Richards had an ERA+ of 116, 3.30 FIP, 8 K/9 and 3 BB/9. Over the past three years Richards has started just 28 games. In those 28 starts Richards has an ERA+ of 136, 3.59 FIP, 9.6 K/9 and 3.6 BB/9. Sign me up.

I really want the Sox to sign Garrett Richards. While he won’t pitch this year, you can get him healthy in your program and have him waiting for 2020, which is ideally the first season of their window of contention being open. Sign him to a one year deal with team options for a second and a third. Pay him $1M in year one, $7M + incentives in year two and $10M + incentives in year three.

I understand that people and organizations are innocent I’ll proven guilty but we need to believe alleged victims when they come forward. Is that a tough balancing act? Absolutely but we need to be fair.

LAD

I might be crazy but I think that if he stayed healthy, we’re looking at a top fifteen prospect

The 30 teamer is poppin’ right now. We’ve gone trade crazy.

That's totally fair and another criticism is that the previous drafts before the rebuild have not yielded enough fruit to truly get the pipeline off the ground running. Like how the Cubs had draft Javy Baez the year before Theo came to town