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At very least they should see if they can get any decent players by taking on some salary to minimize the prospects they need to give up. There's gotta be some teams that want to shed salary.

2 minutes ago, ron883 said:

At very least they should see if they can get any decent players by taking on some salary to minimize the prospects they need to give up. There's gotta be some teams that want to shed salary.

It all depends on the most important thing, what will JR allow Getz to do?

Literally it all comes down to that decision.

The baseball media pushes buying as the thing for contenders to do - that they must do. . But buying is a losing proposition....well-heeled teams (budget and farm) can absorb those losses. Sox cannot.
You can't force things. Be open to good deals.

Got a good month + before you even should be thinking about it. And it's all without Murakami. They're not buying .

This team still has a lot of roster churn in it .They've had too many injuries and the young arms have not progressed as hoped.

Love the progress but no reason whatsoever to sell off your minor leaguers unless it's for other minor leaguers.

They might sell off Dominquez , Hays if they can or even Grichuk or Kay but not many starting pitchers to call up left.

Kay signed 2 years with a $10M 2028 option . He might be worth keeping.

16 minutes ago, CaliSoxFanViaSWside said:

Got a good month + before you even should be thinking about it. And it's all without Murakami. They're not buying .

This team still has a lot of roster churn in it .They've had too many injuries and the young arms have not progressed as hoped.

Love the progress but no reason whatsoever to sell off your minor leaguers unless it's for other minor leaguers.

They might sell off Dominquez , Hays if they can or even Grichuk or Kay but not many starting pitchers to call up left.

Kay signed 2 years with a $10M 2028 option . He might be worth keeping.

How many mutual options have been picked up by both parties when the player has a strong FA year though?

3-5%?

34 minutes ago, GreenSox said:

The baseball media pushes buying as the thing for contenders to do - that they must do. . But buying is a losing proposition....well-heeled teams (budget and farm) can absorb those losses. Sox cannot.
You can't force things. Be open to good deals.

And unless you're trading the farm for a dominant pitcher on a heater, it's a coin flip. The Sox don't need an infielder. They have a catcher coming back from the IL. They have a rookie RF who may earn a promotion. They have a slew of starting pitching options coming back from the IL. Maybe they'd trade for a closer. Will anyone out there be better than Grant Taylor?

Of course, with the upcoming lockout, we're told we may not see professional baseball again in the next 16-17 years. By the time they start playing baseball again, they might have to teach everyone the game again from scratch, because this is a reallllly scary lockout coming. So the Sox might have to push in all their chips to win the only World Series that will be played in any of these players' playable lifetimes.

1 minute ago, WestEddy said:

And unless you're trading the farm for a dominant pitcher on a heater, it's a coin flip. The Sox don't need an infielder. They have a catcher coming back from the IL. They have a rookie RF who may earn a promotion. They have a slew of starting pitching options coming back from the IL. Maybe they'd trade for a closer. Will anyone out there be better than Grant Taylor?

Of course, with the upcoming lockout, we're told we may not see professional baseball again in the next 16-17 years. By the time they start playing baseball again, they might have to teach everyone the game again from scratch, because this is a reallllly scary lockout coming. So the Sox might have to push in all their chips to win the only World Series that will be played in any of these players' playable lifetimes.

Regardless, big market teams will be buying all the way up until the last day of November unless they really have legit reasons to believe there will be a hard cap...with significant enough penalties to deter them.

4 minutes ago, caulfield12 said:

Regardless, big market teams will be buying all the way up until the last day of November unless they really have legit reasons to believe there will be a hard cap...with significant enough penalties to deter them.

1) there won't be a cap
2) if there's a cap, it will be grandfathered in over time
3) there won't be a cap

1 minute ago, WestEddy said:

1) there won't be a cap
2) if there's a cap, it will be grandfathered in over time
3) there won't be a cap

So why all the talk from the bottom 18 teams about not doing anything until they know exactly what the future financial conditions will look like?

That's a lot of excuse making.

Bit it's not like there are more than 8-10 players that everyone will be fighting for in FA.

It's not even a sure thing anymore that Skubal will get $300+ million at this point.

Edited 1 hour ago1 hr by caulfield12

The only buy candidates (outside of relievers) I can think of that make sense (without obliterating the team's young assets) are Sandy Alcantara to reinforce the rotation or, if he actually hits the market, Mike Trout to solidify center field and add vet leadership / more star power.

It's a shame that so many SP trade candidates are from the AL Central

5 minutes ago, Quin said:

The only buy candidates (outside of relievers) I can think of that make sense (without obliterating the team's young assets) are Sandy Alcantara to reinforce the rotation or, if he actually hits the market, Mike Trout to solidify center field and add vet leadership / more star power.

It's a shame that so many SP trade candidates are from the AL CentraI

Is Wacha Lugo or Flaherty even worth it???

Just depends on the asking price.

Don't have enough trade chips for Joe Ryan...

Robbie Ray would likely be out of the budget.

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