I dunno, I read on here for the last few years that Bloom had completely rebuilt the farm system- it was the envy of baseball and was on the cusp of cranking out prospects, and that this year was the year that the Sox were really going to open up the purse strings and flex our financial muscle. But now, there seems to be a pivot to- well, our system doesn’t actually have guys with trade value or that are ready to join the bigs, and other teams still have a lot more money or are more appealing destinations. Oh, and the Sox don’t want to trade for guys with just a year left- which are usually when guys get moved.
The YY situation was always the most likely outcome, of course the odds were always against landing any one specific highly sought after free agent, but where do we think the org goes from here- is next year one in which they plan to seriously contend, or is that delayed a bit?
After the last few years, this off-season, so far looks like more of the same (of course it’s not yet Christmas- but we did this last year too). They could give Montgomery, Imanaga, or Snell the bag and / or trade Mayer for Burnes- whether that’s good idea or not, I’m not so sure.
The YY situation was always the most likely outcome, of course the odds were always against landing any one specific highly sought after free agent, but where do we think the org goes from here- is next year one in which they plan to seriously contend, or is that delayed a bit?
After the last few years, this off-season, so far looks like more of the same (of course it’s not yet Christmas- but we did this last year too). They could give Montgomery, Imanaga, or Snell the bag and / or trade Mayer for Burnes- whether that’s good idea or not, I’m not so sure.