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Silver Lake is also very close to the Ellisons. Essentially, Skydance/Paramount is going to control TikTok.

Along with Ben Cowles, Derek Hill, and Everson Pereira. Sox are where DFAs go to languish. Roster is at 39 now, so it does not appear they are on the cusp of a FA frenzy. Although I'm pretty sure some of those guys could make it through waivers.

My thing is I don’t want to watch them go 5-21 again next April. What I really want is for them to sign one more mlb outfielder.

I am just saying, he’ll outplay these guys in the Spring. Cuz they bad.

If this is as good as they can do, Braden Montgomery will be the Opening Day starter.

This is a young staff, but the youngest in the league is going to Washington. I think everyone is under 40. Pretty insane.

Great hire. I wondered where he was going to land. Never dreamed it would be with the Sox. Getz has a near-magical ability to get people to buy into his vision. Let’s hope they’re right.

Have you seen him play? Lotta warts in Zavala’s game. Defense in center ain’t one of them.

Seems like the Twins are trying to compete, which is more than you can say for the Sox. I'm not even an advocate of them doing much, but how little they're doing to bolster the 2026 team is shocking even to me. Don't care about Josh Bell specifically, but when you can't spend $6 mil on a lefty bat, it's just sad.

Underspending? In the draft? I don’t think that penalty exists for the draft. If you’re talking about revenue sharing receivers, if they underspend, the penalty is that they lose their share of revenue sharing. There are no draft picks involved.

Polanco signed to the exact same years and dollars as Robert. Obviously, he had a much better offensive year, but Robert's defensive value is lightyears ahead of Polanco. Maybe he's not as overpaid as we thought.

Steamer leans heavily into how it translates MiLB numbers and it isn’t all that accurate when it does that. Obviously, I hope the projection is way off for Colson. Otherwise, next season will be a disaster.

The Sox actually have a pretty good selection of righty relievers to look at when you consider Taylor, Leasure, Vasil, Alberto, Wikelman, eventually Berroa and possibly a guy like Franklin. Where they suck is from the left side.

Tyler Alexander is off the board!

The guys on the Baseball America podcast were raving about the Sox second pick Alexander Alberto. Said he had the best stuff of anyone chosen. Not much experience, but he throws a 100 mph cutter. So he will at least be interesting in Spting Training.

I guess I’m the only one on this board who believes in accountability.

I think they bring them all to Camelback Ranch and let God sort 'em out. Of those 6 lefties, exactly zero are anything like a sure thing for a high-leverage role.

When I saw that he got released I thought the Sox might put in a claim. They were so bad in the pen from the left side last year that their approach is gonna be volume volume volume.

I guess, but with Reinsdorf refusing to kick in cash, they'll probably get years of control of marginal big leaguers. Not sure if I care about getting a bulk of Tanner Murrays. I just don't want they're payroll to slip below $70 million.

I think I'm in the minority here, but I would prefer to watch Luis Robert steal some bases, play good defense and strike out a ton than to watch a lesser player like Pereira just strike out a ton and Jerry get $20 million. You know that if Luis is traded, the team is just gonna pocket the cash.

My dual questions with Bleday are "Is he really better than Tauchman?" and "Is he really better for any length of time than Braden?" His age and years of control are irrelevant if he's used for 2 months and then Braden sends him to the bench. He's not really a cf, and he's not a consistent mlb hitter, so I can see them signing him, but imho he's not really the answer to anything other than "How do we get through the first 2 months of the season?"

The fact that the Sox have had to get so many guys from the Rule 5 draft may point to problems while Getz was farm director, but it also underlines how low the org was when he took over. He inherited almost zero talent in the majors or minors. This rebuild was always gonna be super painful no matter who they put in charge.

Well, first of all, recent signings are not eligible, so it's how the league views older players. But, yeah, the Sox have a really strong Top 9. After that, it's anyone's guess as to anyone being good. I'm smoking the Hopium for guys like Larson, Hodge, and Christian Gonzalez to make leaps, but 10-50 in the system is pretty thin.

Real Estate in Manhattan is super expensive for a reason. I am fortunate enough to live there now. Pretty great honestly.

Alexander Alberto and Alexander Albertus?! Are they acquiring players alphabetically.