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That's sad. What a classy guy. Baseball needs more like him.

Wow. How the hell is Dick Allen not a Hall of Famer? Anyhoo, psyched for Minnie and Tony Olivia. Cuban connection

Seager got 10/$325 mil and you know Correa wants to top that. I don’t think Detroit stays in for that coming off the last several years of Cabrera. But teams seem like they are ready to spend.

Cralos could also be the third in a Star Trek rule of three: "The Great Emancipators in history, Moses, Abraham Lincoln, Cralos of Rigel 7."

No one deserves Alex Jones gifs. Not even Alex Jones.

Gotta say, going from Colorado to a great pitcher's park in Texas could make 4 years $56 mil look pretty good for the Rangers. They might be able to flip him in 2 years for a haul if they aren't competitive by then. It's a gamble, but may end up being a pretty good one.

I think the Buxton signing is bad for the Sox, but good for baseball. Nice to see a highly drafted player get paid by his original team even though it means we've got to see him 19 times a year for the foreseeable future.

I think the Sox didn’t like his medicals.

Wow. Escobar got exactly what I thought he’d get, Marte is on the heavy side of reasonable, and Canha is surprising. The Mets’ strategy seems to be 30 plus year old free agents, which, better them than us I guess.

Cralos actually sounds like a brand of Dollar Store Crayons.

Personally, I would rather give more at bats to either Robert or Moncada. Segura hits 9th on this team. It’s a lot of money to give to another right hand hitting ground ball type, but to each his/her own.

For sure they picked up his option. My point is, if Segura is the best you can do, that was a very bad decision.

I just don’t get why you take the risk to pick up the option if what you get back is another bad contract on a low upside guy who’s on the down slope of his career. Nonzero chance that Segura’s decline becomes steep in the next year. Just don’t pick up the option and use the money to sign a second baseman. I hope the Sox are smarter than this.

Is that true? I vaguely remember him hitting for average at Great Falls. But that was a good place to hit.

Doesn’t surprise me, but I will agree that Rodon is hard to value going forward. Personally, $18.4 million for 133 innings is better than $16 million for like 70, but what do I know?

I feel like in every trade Sox need to get back pitching depth. If they got some kind of Lambert/Pilkington type, I’d be satisfied.

Ouch. Rite of passage these days for hard throwing guys.

I would be way more likely to give Rodon a QO than to pick up Kimbrel's option. Get rid of Kimbrel and Hernandez, that more than pays for Rodon even if he accepts. Boras clients rarely accept the QO, so I would definitely factor that in. Of course, I did not like the Kimbrel trade on the day it was made. (Or the Hernandez trade for that matter.) But it never occurred to me that it would turn out as bad as it turned out to be. Kimbrel leaves a bad taste in the mouth. They should be done with him.

I agree that Eloy has to get it turned around for the Sox to reach their potential. I am not quite as optimistic on Vaughn. I believe he starts the year in AAA because Sheets hits lefthanded. Suddenly, he has a ton of competition in rightfield, first base, third base, and even second base from other right-handed hitters like Burger, Cespedes, Romy Gonzalez, Yolbert Sanchez, and by the second half of next year, possibly Jose Rodriguez. I think he has the highest upside of those guys, but I think he'll have to close some holes, especially against righthanders' sliders, at AAA. As far as Robert, he hit .340. I am fine with him sticking pretty close to this approach.

Only two Sox players in action tonight: Johan Dominguez is the starting pitcher and Yoelqui Cespedes is the leftfielder. He is 0-1 with an rbi.

I live in NYC. Many of my friends and coworkers are Mets fans. They haaaaaaaaaate Conforto. They claim he is their least clutch player. And he’s gonna be expensive.

Wow.

Please no Kimbrel. Please no Kimbrel. Please no Kimbrel.

Wow. Good for Aaron!

You are exactly right. Only 2 hours to go!