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    Baseball Road Trips Catch All Thread

    PNC Park is great, the Mattress Factory is great, and if you are at all into birds, the National Aviary is a must-do.
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    Lucas Giolito has an elbow issue.

    And Turner. And Paxton. And Duvall.
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    Lucas Giolito has an elbow issue.

    I mean, that's the argument I would make, but it's pretty obvious ownership doesn't see it that way...
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    Lucas Giolito has an elbow issue.

    Or, at the very least, "See! This team has no shot to compete in 2024!"
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    Lucas Giolito has an elbow issue.

    https://x.com/JeffPassan/status/1765036563900039586?s=20 Jeff Passan @JeffPassan · 1m Brutal news: Initial imaging showed Boston Red Sox starter Lucas Giolito likely has a partially torn UCL and flexor strain and could miss the 2024 season, league sources tell ESPN. Giolito, who signed a...
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    Offseason rumors

    The path to the next Red Sox championship goes like this: -- Devers still in his prime and Casas entering his. -- Someone from the Duran/Rafaela/Abreu group becoming an impact starter in the outfield. -- Story at 2B and Yoshida at DH still making meaningful contributions. -- Minimum salary...
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    Offseason rumors

    I don't get why people get so upset at reporting -- or, really, microreporting via Twitter -- like this. Beat writers are constantly talking to agents and other executives who are constantly talking to the Red Sox front office, and I, for one, am interested to know what they're hearing.
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    Let's Lay Off That Throttle

    Yes. Because a team that wins 88 with a $200 million payroll could have won more by spending up to the tax. They don’t owe us a number of wins. They owe us the most competitive team possible and are explicitly reneging on that obligation.
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    Let's Lay Off That Throttle

    Everyone who said the ownership was punting on competing for a championship post-2018 was right. Everyone who said they had a plan was wrong. I think that's pretty much where we're at now.
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    Offseason rumors

    I think I agree with this. If they're not prepared to spend up to, let alone over, the luxury tax, they're clearly not prioritizing competing for a championship in 2024. They're not going to be one pitcher away from winning it all. I don't agree with that strategy, but if that's the path they're...
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    Offseason rumors

    The problem is, if it's obvious to give him $350 million, someone's going to give him $400 million.
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    Offseason rumors

    I'd match that contract, too, but this is likely to go the way Ohtani's negotiations went: He'll pick a team and then the team will give him whatever contract he wants (within some semblance of reason). It's not going to be a pure bidding process where everybody gets a chance to raise.
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    Offseason rumors

    Maybe -- but Reyes can play 3B in a pinch and you always have Dalbec at AAA. Or maybe Dalbec makes the team over Refsnyder.
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    Offseason rumors

    I could easily see them signing Imanaga (18 AAV), Giolito (15 AAV), Teoscar Hernandez (15 AAV), and one of the big relievers like Jordan Hicks or Robert Stephenson (10 AAV) and then trading a couple of prospects in the 10-20 range for Brandon Drury. Duran CF, Casas 1B, Story SS, Devers 3B...
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    Offseason rumors

    Didn't we just see, and haven't we all been nervously laughing about, what happens when a team decides one guy is The Guy They Must Have At All Costs? That kind of thinking leads to giving Xander Bogaerts an 11-year, $280 million contract. I would for sure like them to be the high bidder on...
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