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.Just as a brief interjection here as someone that thinks the team should (if they don't sign Montgomery or Snell) sell and sell hard and sell early...
I'm incredibly bullish on the Breslow front office, actually. It just has nothing to do with 2024.
Getting the best pitching prospect in your system (my opinion, Sox Prospects has him 3rd) for one year of Verdugo was outstanding. Getting Vaughn Grissom for 15 starts of Chris Sale is borderline sorcery (though, to be fair, those 15 starts could / should be a hell of a lot more impactful for Atlanta since that could be the difference between home field and a bye vs Philly this year whereas in Boston it was more the idea of 78 wins vs 76 wins or some such). I'm also of the belief that he's going to continue to sell one year assets.
He's from the Theo tree, and that is something I really want the Sox to go back to (but I was - and am - also a big Cherington fan, so...). I also liked what he said in the interview about when to hold the team accountable if they were still not looking to trade "future wins for current wins" and I believe he said 2 years. I personally think of it as closer to 3, but it's a) certainly a lot more rationale than what they've been doing the past several seasons and b) honest - without going so far as to say "the 2024 and 2025 teams are going to suck", but it's nicely kind of saying it.
Huge fan of what Breslow has done this far. I'll be an even bigger fan if (in my opinion when) he trades Jansen before the season starts, and then (hopefully) gets rid of anyone on a one year deal that isn't going to be given a QO in June or July.
They need to keep adding starters though.