I think this will be a lot clearer after Montgomery’s disposition, one way or the other.Can we please stop with this? Please. The payroll is 204 right now. 10% lower than last year:
This notion the Red Sox can’t sign guys because they won’t come here is ridiculous. Not with how soft this market is right now.
It’s unbelievable to me the length people are going to disallow the notion ownership simple doesn’t want to pay more.
If Breslow said at the beginning of the offseason that he wanted to add two SP and a middle infielder and get more right-handed in the lineup, and we end up with two new SP and a middle infielder, and swap Verdugo for O’Neill to get more right-handed, I admit that I will feel a bit dismissive about the sturm und drang we’ve gone through after every single FA signing anywhere.
If we *don’t* add a second SP, that would be different. But that outcome is yet to be seen.