This has been the narrative all offseason, and the only thing really supporting it is that we didn't immediately pay a Boras client his exorbitant salary demand.
If we want to say the Sox are being cheap, fine, that's subjective. But even looking through the lens of "full market value," isn't the problem at least as much that Boras is (reportedly) asking for Montgomery twice the price of what comparable pitchers made over the last decade? Is the incremental benefit of Jordan Montgomery over Tanner Houck worth $175 million?
For me Jansen is an interesting case. Conventional thinking is that he's worth more to teams in need as the trade deadline approaches. On the flip side if you can identify a team that does not appear to be a shoe in for the playoffs with a questionable back of the bullpen, you might get a good return from a team that views him as a season long difference maker. In a case like that I would hope that Breslow identifies and approaches such teams looking for a reasonable return that addresses our needs. Sometimes things happen in spring training that causes teams to reassess where they're at before the season begins. If Jansen were to be moved in that sort of scenario I'd like to see what Houck might be able to do in the closer's role.
