Bob Sacamano

When he was recently drafted with the Padres. When he went to the Nationals in a 3-way deal. Edit: it was because you had to wait a certain amount of time to trade draft picks. So he was a PTBNL in a deal even though everyone knew he was going to move when he could.

Yeah that Turner one was a loophole since he couldn’t technically be traded when he was.

Same. But he may end up there depending on how he does as a starter

I would be ok with Iriarte and Hudson or Hill

Yeah that part too

Yeah but a poster was confused and thought we saved money based on that tweet.

Wait, where

Iriarte and Romo. Not who I would have picked.

No, Red Sox only get one

I think he meant the Red Sox save $16M. He didn’t specify but the math works right. Typical Boob to not specify in a deal involving 2 Sox teams

Good

Yeah I really thought Romo would stick around since he has options. I would have gone with Hudson and Hill probably

Or it wasn’t bad enough for them to not do the deal

Also true. This stuff sorts itself out

Benintendi DHing plenty would be in the way of each Teel and Quero getting more at bats.

Their time didn’t overlap so don’t think this is true. Pretty sure BB was gone when they signed Hicks

True. Too bad we couldn’t announce this then but the Red Sox are probably about to add a free agent so they want the open space now I’m sure

Yeah need to pitch him out of the pen only

I was just about to type that it is a bit embarrassing to act like they couldn’t make these moves because another $20M was on the roster.

Worth noting we added two 40-man guys so including Hays, we need to clear 3 spots.

I would think that would be different with the first overall pick.

At quick view this Sandlin doesn’t seem too special so it makes sense. I think people (myself included) thought it would be a better piece). Again I know nothing about Sandlin so anyone feel free to make sense of why it makes sense that we need to pay Hicks $8M a year for 2 years to get him. Almost would have made sense to just sign a reliever. Unless they think they can fix Hicks and also flip him later but still, feel like you can do that in free agency.

Credit to both of you

I believe you said “good chunk of cash” implying to some that it was most of the remaining. edit: $8M is a solid chunk though I guess just seeing that now

Yeah I’m not really interested in going back to Soxfest with my kids until it goes back to how it was (I have hope it will post-JR era but that’s ok, my kids are now 19 months and almost 2 months old so we have time).