One out of three ain’t bad. I hate that we lost Mookie. I won’t like losing Boegarts or Devers. I also hated losing Fisk, Lynn, etc.
Gotta win titles to hang them. It would be nice to see someone that looked like a winning move.
Agreed, but I don’t recall any moves that happened and folks said: There is the piece that puts the Sox over the top. Winning moves are usually not recognized when they happen
I understand, and agree that John Henry should be memorialized throughout New England down the road. But that doesn’t mean he should be absolved of criticism in the present. He’s taking the cheap route, which is sad considering the resources he has available and the money he spends on other ventures.
He may be taking the cheap route. Devers and X are still on the team. Why the leap to complain about something that hasn’t happened yet? Because writers and sports talk says something is so?
7th according to Spotrac, and closer to 14th than 4th. But sorry to ruin your pile-on
Examples of players signing contracts with 5 years of control left? And Henry not being the GM. They signed Sale at the same time.
Maybe Devers didn't want to take a deal for half his value the way Riley for some reason did? That Riley deal was remarkably cheap for a player of his caliber.
If Devers would agree to $212M for 10 years Bloom or any other exec would have done that deal in a heartbeat.
Pretty sure Spotrac just removed the salaries of the players they traded away & didn't prorate them. Clearing salary to get under the tax threshold after they've already played badly (with $90m+ on IL & $18M+ tied up in players no longer on the roster) seems sensible to me for future competitive advantage reasons, so hopefully they're not done moving down those rankings.
Wander Franco, with the organization the Red Sox are allegedly trying to mirror. Next question?
I think trading Vaz makes a lot of sense and getting rid of the Diekman mistake is a plus since many wanted to just DFA him. Trading for garbage like Pham makes almost no sense because anyone can be a guy that plays outfield on a loser.
I'm thinking they just wanted to add someone without having to give up anything of significance whatsoever. They have zero depth at the position so it at least gives them a marginal upgrade.
And like i have said numerous times. Having an obscene payroll guarantees you nothing especially under the current CBA. There is the reason both the sox and yankees have not spent like drunken sailors since the CBA implemented harsh punishments for going over the CBT
Maybe because as part of a platoon there's no reason to consider him garbage. Even overall he isn't garbage, just kinda meh
He can be an OF body to throw out there once JBJ is traded (speculation is Philly).
Bloom should get GM of the year if he can move JBJ and get literally anything at all just to not have to pay the buyout on his option next year
Yes, Bloom escaping much of the 2023 money headed to Diekman and JBJ would be very welcome moves.
That would require other teams to be willing to make these deals a month ago too. Not sure if you've noticed, but a shit ton of other very good teams have also waited until today to make moves to improve their clubs.
I am anxious to see how Tuesday plays out. With a modest 3 or 4 game winning streak, we are right back in the payoff mix with two months to go.
Because most of the teams who are sellers today were not sellers a few months ago. Some of the teams who are buyers today were not buyers months ago, so even if you were a seller then why wouldn’t you wait until the market opened up?
Should we be happy that this team, as constructed, couldn't win a series against an AL East opponent through the trade deadline? It's hard not to look around the division and feel like this team is trending in the wrong direction.
How is it any sort of downgrade defensively? Mcguire is better, and people have been crying about Vaz defense and pitch calling for years on here.
They played a lot of games before the injuries mounted. Plus it's not like the Red Sox are the only team in the league impacted by runs of bad injury luck. For example, the Rays, Twins, and Dodgers are teams with more cumulative lost days than the Red Sox.
I mean yeah, if this is all Bloom does then it's a pretty dismal deadline for the 2022 team. But it may look completely different tomorrow.
I hope so - right now it's not much of one thing or the other.
Due to a weak schedule in June that still didn't see them win a single series against a team in the AL East. The teams that will likely make up the bulk of the playoff contenders in the AL.
The schedule isn’t balanced; at that point they had barely played the Yankees, Jays, Rays- and have been completely embarrassed when they had to play those teams.
Which is exactly why their record coming out of June was fools gold, in my opinion, relative to what came before and after.
They played 4 series vs teams within 1 game of the playoffs as of now and went 8-4. Also 6-1 vs 2 more teams in mid/late may.
