Groundhog day in here.
No one cares about Henry's money. What I do care about is spending $300 million on an aging pitcher for two good seasons, and then spending the next 6 seasons paying that pitcher to barely play somewhere else with our once in a lifetime superstar talent that we had to trade because of it.
Also, I would love for the Red Sox to be at the level of the Dodgers/Braves/Astros etc. where it would be worth it to be profligate spenders for Scherzer, Verlander, because it might put us over the top. The Sox are not there. The best they can do is hope sign their own talent first, and trust their own evaluations on the talent in the minors enough to come through.
Would I like to see them sign Correa for $300 Million? Yes I would. But better to sign X first for $100M less and have some organizational continuity and some surety about performance in the market and sign Devers to that $300M or so deal.
The problem with this team and organization has not been NOT spending. It's been spending on the wrong damn things.
No one cares about Henry's money. What I do care about is spending $300 million on an aging pitcher for two good seasons, and then spending the next 6 seasons paying that pitcher to barely play somewhere else with our once in a lifetime superstar talent that we had to trade because of it.
Also, I would love for the Red Sox to be at the level of the Dodgers/Braves/Astros etc. where it would be worth it to be profligate spenders for Scherzer, Verlander, because it might put us over the top. The Sox are not there. The best they can do is hope sign their own talent first, and trust their own evaluations on the talent in the minors enough to come through.
Would I like to see them sign Correa for $300 Million? Yes I would. But better to sign X first for $100M less and have some organizational continuity and some surety about performance in the market and sign Devers to that $300M or so deal.
The problem with this team and organization has not been NOT spending. It's been spending on the wrong damn things.