Sox Sign Erick Fedde - 2 years, $15 million

[Balta1701]

36 minutes ago, South Side Hit Men said:

Benintendi is the only one that was an unforced error. People complain about Eloy and Yoan, but they are on the tail end of team friendly deals. The problem is the Sox wasted those savings years on a bunch of old shitty overpriced guys.

Robert Jr. is a massive underpay at $12.5M compared to his market value.

The Sox should have focused on keeping nearly all of their cost controlled players and added around the margins, but they instead dumped several for end of line players like Steak Dinner and Kimbrel and failed miserably.

In hindsight they didn’t really give up a lot in terms of players for Kimbrel. What they didn’t do relevant to their spending was - be smart at all with their signings (more relievers) and - continue developing literally any talent to replace guys that traded away or aged out. Among other mistakes.

[South Side Hit Men]

5 hours ago, Balta1701 said:

In hindsight they didn’t really give up a lot in terms of players for Kimbrel. What they didn’t do relevant to their spending was - be smart at all with their signings (more relievers) and - continue developing literally any talent to replace guys that traded away or aged out. Among other mistakes.

Agree on that end, though Heuer’s misfortunate double whammy injuries has played a part in that. He pitched much better than Kimbrel after the trade to close out 2021.

That said, they needed to draft and develop a lot more players than they did. 

The Sox will not their have their first legitimate multi-championship window since 1993-1994 (though much longer without a cancellation) until they have a few solid homegrown starters, 3-4 homegrown relievers and 6 + developed position players which can be build around with external pieces (cheap, mid tier and a couple higher priced free agents). Have a complete roster with depth for $170M-$190M + budgets, realistic if the Sox have a strong run over a 3-5 year period.

[Timmy U]

Actually, I think 2005-2006 was a pretty legitimate championship window. They won one year and were dominant in the first half until fading badly.

[CWSpalehoseCWS]

2 hours ago, Timmy U said:

Actually, I think 2005-2006 was a pretty legitimate championship window. They won one year and were dominant in the first half until fading badly.

That 2006 team was better on paper too. I’m still mad how they finished that season.

[poppysox]

On 12/11/2023 at 5:12 PM, spiderman said:

Let's be honest. Outside of a Robert, Cease, maybe a few other guys that people are hoping improve (like Vaughn), this roster is a garbage heap. It's a 95+ loss team. 

Thank goodness the offseason has 2 months to go.

[Lip Man 1]

1 hour ago, poppysox said:

Thank goodness the offseason has 2 months to go.

Hard to imagine given JR's constraints that things are going to get much better on the talent front.