I don’t know if this constitutes a ”rumor” but McAdam had a really sobering piece on MassLive this morning. If McAdam isn’t main board worthy, forgive me. I’ve always found him reasonable and well sourced.
He - paraphrased - that Montgomery (or one has to assume Snell) don’t fit into the budgetary plans of the Red Sox.
When you couple that with the “serious interest” in Paxton, it really seems like even someone like Stroman, Imanaga or Giolito is a pipe dream.
Compound that with Breslow saying the team was hoping to trade for a pitcher and the only real pieces of value with which to acquire said pitchers are Bello, Casas, Anthony, Teel and Mayer, it’s looking pretty bleak pretty quickly.
I desperately wanted to believe things were going to be different with a new CoBO, but it seems like we’re destined for rotations of Bello, Crawford, Houck, and future versions of Pivetta and current (and future) one year deals to pieces like 35 year old Sale and 35 year old Paxton for at minimum the next 4 to 5 years since the minor league pitching system is so barren that Breslow effectively needs to build that from scratch.
Which - I’m not saying can’t work for the occasional regular season and playoff round - but means the era of winning titles is over until that mindset - for whatever reason, changes dramatically. On to hoping Breslow can build a pitching pipeline and the Sox can start contending for the World Series again some time in the 2028-2032 time frame.
Thanks McAdam, I thought the coal in the stocking was supposed to be tomorrow morning.
https://www.masslive.com/redsox/2023/12/some-things-i-think-i-think-on-facing-facts-about-the-red-sox-and-more.html
He - paraphrased - that Montgomery (or one has to assume Snell) don’t fit into the budgetary plans of the Red Sox.
When you couple that with the “serious interest” in Paxton, it really seems like even someone like Stroman, Imanaga or Giolito is a pipe dream.
Compound that with Breslow saying the team was hoping to trade for a pitcher and the only real pieces of value with which to acquire said pitchers are Bello, Casas, Anthony, Teel and Mayer, it’s looking pretty bleak pretty quickly.
I desperately wanted to believe things were going to be different with a new CoBO, but it seems like we’re destined for rotations of Bello, Crawford, Houck, and future versions of Pivetta and current (and future) one year deals to pieces like 35 year old Sale and 35 year old Paxton for at minimum the next 4 to 5 years since the minor league pitching system is so barren that Breslow effectively needs to build that from scratch.
Which - I’m not saying can’t work for the occasional regular season and playoff round - but means the era of winning titles is over until that mindset - for whatever reason, changes dramatically. On to hoping Breslow can build a pitching pipeline and the Sox can start contending for the World Series again some time in the 2028-2032 time frame.
Thanks McAdam, I thought the coal in the stocking was supposed to be tomorrow morning.
https://www.masslive.com/redsox/2023/12/some-things-i-think-i-think-on-facing-facts-about-the-red-sox-and-more.html