Turning 1 year a piece of Sale, Verdugo, Urias into major league players: 6 years of Grissom, 5 of Campbell, 5 of Weissert plus a real AAA prospect in Fitts and high upside arm in Judice was fantastic baseball business.
Yes, that's where we're at. To date the team has added/brought in one starter in Giolito. The total of projected starters is likely to be five, as of now one of the five projected is new.
But it may legitimately be the fastest path open to the Boston Red Sox circa 2024, who will be outspent by LAD, NYY, and NYM, and find themselves in the same <$LTT bracket as 5-6 other teams. Getting lucky with the development of Mayer, Anthony and Teel seems like a better bet (if not an odds-on bet) than trying to buy their way to a playoff roster in 2024.
The Celtics signed Al Horford to a $113M deal a few days after Jaylen Brown was drafted and a year before Jayson Tatum was drafted. They similarly signed Gordon Hayward for $128M a couple weeks after Tatum was drafted, well before they knew what they had in both Jay’s.
Yeah, I think this board clearly follows the Sox much closer than the average fan. Most fans probably don’t even know what the CBT is, let alone where we currently are with respect to it. If the media tries to make it a story, a definite possibility, maybe a few more will be aware/care but I think most will just be focused on the names brought in and how the team ultimately does.
And maybe part of that $40MM is spent on long-term buyouts of arb years for Casas and/or Bello.
Sure thing. But he needs to have the players to trade for them, and at this point (outside of KAT), I don't think he does - at least not those already at the MLB level.
Spending right up to the cap, or $LTT(.97) which is what I use really doesn't matter if the players aren't good enough to make up the difference. Case in point, adding Adam Duvall (call it $10m), HJ Ryu (call it $12m) and I don't know, David Robertson ($10m) gets them right up to around $235m. Those additions aren't going to matter much in the scheme of wins and losses. Plus, the Red Sox are so low in interest in Boston right now that I doubt that many people even know how close they are. But adding those guys will do incredibly little toward making the team a playoff contender for those and those that do follow will realize that and to those whom don't follow all that closely, aren't going to make anyone tune in for one more second of baseball than they otherwise would have.
I think it's perfectly legit to defend the team if you agree with this direction, what needs to stop is people pretending this isn't happening. There's no 4D chess move here to outfox Scott Boras, Snell's not walking through that door unless he really, really wants to come here more than he wants to get paid.
Fair enough. But it….. listen this sucks. The fact they aren’t even going to spend close to the cap with short term players sucks.
I hope Speier asked them why. That's the piece that's missing for me. These guys have spent the last 20 years pivoting every few years to something new, but until now, I haven't felt like they weren't interested in winning. I would love to understand what's driving the reduction in spending.
If this is the direction you choose then you either...
They were 13th in total payroll last year. There were 7 teams that outspent them by $55+ million. This is inexcusable.
A lot of people here owe him (and others) apologies. Seems many here got it wrong...
I am sure they can find someone cheaper and willing to accept a two year deal anyways.
I’m not as familiar with MLB franchise sales but this is how a lot of NBA team sales go down for sure.
So there was a dollar value they could’ve extended to in order to sign YY, or at least get to the final stages. Hmm.
Take this with a boulder of salt but a friend is high up in sales at FSG and says “they’ll have to pry the team from their cold, dead hands.” I wouldn’t count on them selling any time soon.
FSG doesn't need to cheap out on the Sox to make a play for LV, they can sell minority stakes in individual teams to raise cash faster and in more volume if they need it.
All this time I was paying for tiny seats, bad sight lines and access to overpriced food and drinks and not baseball. Who knew?
Apologies for what? Being wrong is part of debating. There are no prizes. That's not the object of the game here. Victory laps should be brief or not at all all.
I said similar to this last week and agree with it more than ever. That dude always wanted to win, even when he was at his oiliest.
Yep. Texting with my neighbor who just had to re-up (raised prices this year too) and he just called them crooks.
