Well, imagine extending the young guys and then going all in for some Free Agent stars. If they loosen the purse strings in Baltimore that team could be the top team in the AL East for several years.
They are also involved in this deal with the PGA.
Most interesting things here imo are that A) he seems to be hearing a 5/$125M range for Montgomery and B) Rangers' owner Ray Davis is pretty averse to paying CBT tax in their current situation.
Tear down what? Bloom already tore everything down. There is nothing to sell anymore worth anything. I don't think Devers with his contract has massive value. Outside of Devers everything the Red Sox have right now is either: On a one year contract (Jansen, Martin, Pivetta, Giolito, O'Neill), couldn't be given away (Story, Yoshida, Whitlock), or a cost controlled piece (Prospects, Grissom, Bello, Casas, Duran, etc). You hope that the one year contracts do well enough to extract maximum value at the deadline but that is pretty much it for asset collection phase. The Red Sox need to be aggressive in the rebuild phase which this offseason is going to be D+ (outside of Grissom it would be a solid F-). They really didn't get enough value out of the assets they sold and they are not in a position right now to do anything other than languish for another five years with a possible run to the playoff mixed in with futile baseball.
I don't think he can, without dissing the players he regrets signing for too long or too much money. I think he's in the "once bitten" stage, except it's at least thrice bitten at this point.
Maybe he's willing to take that deal with the Rangers, but would want a lot more from anyone else. The Rangers don't currently have the cash and nobody else thinks he's worth anything more than that.
I don't think we know much about Grissom's D yet but we've heard positive remarks from both Ron Washington and Story, so my gut feeling is I'm happy to have him out there for a full season over what we got from Valdez/Urias (it's hard to go anywhere but up from the worst 2B defense in baseball). We've replaced Kiké's yips with Story, who came back to SS looking like a top 3 defensive player at any position and I think will have a stabilizing effect across the infield. I thought Casas showed improvement throughout the year, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if Yoshida showed a better grasp of playing the monster in year two.
Maybe I should have said “keep it torn down”. My point is, they’re not going to spend money at this point to add a few wins here or there when the upside is maybe being competitive in September. They seem content to languish for the next few years with bad teams and build it up that way, instead of spending Redbird’s dividends on a couple of guys that might push them to fourth place in 2024. It sucks for fans, but that’s what they seem to be doing.
As someone who generally likes Simmons (or at least I really did on the BSG and Page2 days, I don't have a Ringer subscription), I disagree with the assertion that this off-season is worse than last off-season (and I don't think Simmons even said that, or at least not in the tweet).
It's going to be a blast in here when Money signs elsewhere for 3/78 and the Sox weren't in on it.
I mean, if that happens, that's the confirmation I'm looking for as far as lack of financial commitment goes. A lot of people are already there, but to me the passes they've taken so far all make sense. Letting Montgomery sign elsewhere without blowing away the number above and even adding a year would be malpractice as far as I'm concerned.
5/125 may just be Grant's guesstimate of what he ends up getting. He's probably not signed yet because Boras is still holding out for more.
Oh yea that makes sense.
That's my take. The Rangers offer is capped out at 5/125 and Boras is still shopping him around. I hope and think the Sox will still beat that out.
IMO, a pillow deal does nothing for the team. It's pretty much a one year lottery ticket with the prize being a WC birth. That's not nothing, but I can't see the team spending $25M+ for one year to unless they were in GFIN mode.
You think Dallas is worse than Houston? I've always thought Dallas was better
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I think in any other year, something like 4/$110-125 for Montgomery would strike people as more than fair, or high, even.
And of course the guy that they chose not to bet on / extend themselves for went on to be very valuable for 5 of those seasons, up through age 35.
Generally speaking I agree. In this particular instance, I don't. I don't see much advantage to the team in this particular season. I think a four year deal max with what might be a slight over pay would be better. If you're only bringing him in for a year you're likely doing it just to try to appease the fan base.
I enjoyed the season JT had and would have been happy to have him back at the right price, but the bit by Cotillo about him being one of the best one-year Sox is a bit hyperbolic. That makes him sound more like Beltre in 2010 or Nick Esasky in 1989, when he was really more like Cody Ross in 2012 (even with nearly identical bWAR and OPS+). (*I think there was a thread last year or so on best all-time one-year Red Sox to look for more examples for context, but I couldn't find it in a quick search.)
Nah. Lot of folks will rationalize that we must have not wanted him for some really valid reason, just like when Imanaga signed for peanuts. Tl;dr; "we didn't want him anyway". Basically as a group we're turned into Bruins fans.
Recency bias, and obvious extreme circumstances, but Steve Pearce springs to mind as well.
Yes, Story should be healthy going into the season and the rookie the team is most likely to rely on has gold glove potential. But what I was reacting to was your statement that they
Well, he lost $400,000 (the option was for 13.4 and he signed for $13 million) but at least he’s on a team with a better chance of winning..
He got a $6.7 million buyout from the Sox by declining the option so he cleared about $20 million this offseason.
After Turner signed with Toronto, Cotillo tweeted “Breslow all but ruled out a Turner return in November when he said he wanted to rotate the DH spot”. So if that’s true I wouldn’t expect they’d be signing anyone for the DH role - and the last thing they need is another bad defensive player..
The last two seasons, two of the most forgettable seasons in the 21st century for the Sox, where their roster was so riddled with injuries it looked like the aftermath of a 1930s movie featuring indiscriminate use of tommy guns... the Sox had playoff relevance until about the all-star break. It won't be too hard to reach base-level relevance.
