Sox sign Aroldis Chapman

[soxhop411]

The Red Sox have progressed in talks with Aroldis Chapman and are working toward signing him, source tells MassLive.
View: https://twitter.com/chriscotillo/status/1863968709263409460?s=46

 

[Van Everyman]

Eesh, really?

 

[RIrooter09]

Yuck

 

[Sille Skrub]

Please no. I can't root for this guy.

 

[E5 Yaz]

Has to be what Stewart tweeted about

 

[simplicio]

Yeah I'm unhappy. Goddamn it Craig.

 

[SouthernBoSox]

He’s still really really good and a very obvious roster fit.

But he fucking sucks. Hate him

 

[TimScribble]

Has to be what Stewart tweeted about

Was just about to say this. Definitely going to be some unhappy people.

 

[Tim Salmon]

Whenever you have the opportunity to sign a domestic abuser who also happens to be in decline, you kind of have to, right?

 

[AlNipper49]

It’s going to be hard to beat this signing.

 

[DeadlySplitter]

Nooooooooooo …….

 

[simplicio]

It’s going to be hard to beat this signing.

Please don't.

 

[brandonchristensen]

Fuck no

 

[Smiling Joe Hesketh]

Gross. Really gross.

 

[Cumberland Blues]

It’s going to be hard to beat this signing.

I'm sure they'll give it a shot.

 

[Scarlet Fire]

If true, he easily becomes the most difficult Red Sox player for me to root for. He's a POS

 

[Rasputin]

I'm underwhelmed. He doesn't look like he has much left in him.

 

[PedroisGod]

He sucks as a person, but from a strictly baseball perspective this is a good signing. He was good for Pittsburgh last year and a high lev lefty that is likely going to be on a one year deal seems exactly like what we need.

 

[LogansDad]

UGH

 

[Remagellan]

Please no. I can't root for this guy.

This.

 

[MFYankees]

No, a thousand times No.

 

[PedroisGod]

I'm underwhelmed. He doesn't look like he has much left in him.

Based on what? He had 98 strikeouts in 61.2 IP last year. He was in the 98th percentile of FB velocity at 98.9 MPH. Opponents hit .165 against him. Based on that, there's plenty left in the tank.

 

[InsideTheParker]

Please no. I can't root for this guy.

Me, neither. This is awful "news."

 

[Remagellan]

If true, he easily becomes the most difficult Red Sox player for me to root for. He's a POS

And this.

 

[DeadlySplitter]

I’d rather pay through the nose for Scott or suffer through Bernie & Murphy again than this asshole

In theory on the field he could get some holds our current lefties cannot… or you know, he’ll walk the house more and more as he declines

 

[Ale Xander]

Gross please no

I will root for him to get injured every pitch I won’t care about the laundry

How is the front office so tone deaf?

If they get this done before the 7th the open house is going to see pushback

Just gross

 

[GB5]

61 IP, 98 strikeouts. Stuff seems to still be there. Too many walks though, but the Sox need a power lefty out of the pen. I think we would be disappointed if we followed around 50% of MLB players in their off time.

 

[SouthernBoSox]

1 year 10.75mm per everyone

 

[Sille Skrub]

Done deal per Passan. This front office couldn't be more tone deaf.

 

[DeadlySplitter]

11 million for this guy. I’m pretty sick

 

[LogansDad]

This is like the one thing they could have done that would make me turn off the team.

Fuck.

I was so fucking excited for this offseason, too.

 

[jon abbey]

View: https://twitter.com/JeffPassan/status/1863972109803741244

 

[Remagellan]

The only take on this may be that it fits the current state of our world in which decency is no longer prized and indecency is no longer discountenanced.

 

[jon abbey]

This is like the one thing they could have done that would make me turn off the team.

Well, Trevor Bauer is still out there also.

 

[Ale Xander]

11 million for this guy. I’m pretty sick

Anger management psychiatrists at BI and elsewhere just massively upper-cutted
their rates

 

[E5 Yaz]

"Pending physical" ... find something, docs

 

[curly2]

Please no. I can't root for this guy.

Same. Dombrowski was in trade talks with the Reds about him, but when the choking/gun incident with the girlfriend came out, he stopped them immediately and moved on to Kimbrel. Then Cashman swooped in and got Chapman for nothing.

 

[AlNipper49]

These jerseys are going to sell like crazy. Just in time for Christmas!

(I almost said they’d sell like hot cakes. Why are hot cakes such a volume purchase?)

 

[LogansDad]

Well, Trevor Bauer is still out there also.

Okay, one of two things.

Fuck.

Sorry, I don't have anything else to add to this. I am apoplectic.

 

[Bozo Texino]

A.J. Pierzynski is forgiven.

What a shitty, shitty signing. Ugh.

 

[NickEsasky]

Well credit to Jimmy Stewart I guess. He said a move was coming we'd all hate and he was right. No interest in rooting for this asshole. Hopefully, Bailey and Breslow tinker with his mechanics and he blows out his arm so we don't have to watch him.

 

[Tim Salmon]

61 IP, 98 strikeouts. Stuff seems to still be there. Too many walks though, but the Sox need a power lefty out of the pen. I think we would be disappointed if we followed around 50% of MLB players in their off time.

Sure, but there's a wide chasm between players doing things that disappoint us and players who fire guns in anger and choke their girlfriends.

 

[TapeAndPosts]

Uggggggggggh

I don't know how to root for this guy. May be a good baseball move but some things are more important than skill on a baseball field.

 

[RedOctober3829]

Off the field issues aside, is this what the FO views as the answer as the closer or is he a setup guy?

 

[Ale Xander]

Izzy and UUU look like choir boys in comparison.

 

[P'tucket rhymes with...]

I wonder where Schilling is ranked on Breslow's potential FA signings.

 

[Petagine in a Bottle]

Off the field issues aside, is this what the FO views as the answer as the closer or is he a setup guy?

Imagine between he, Hendriks, and Slaten; the closer role is covered. Can’t imagine they’d spend more assets on the bullpen at this point; only so many roster spots.

 

[Average Reds]

Has to be what Stewart tweeted about

So, I was clearly wrong in thinking it was just hype. If anything, the tweet was understated.

 

[PedroisGod]

Izzy and UUU look like choir boys in comparison.

I'm no fan of Chapman, but really? Urbina was in prison for trying to murder people with a machete and attempting to set them on fire.

 

[moondog80]

Off the field issues aside, is this what the FO views as the answer as the closer or is he a setup guy?

I'd guess at best a job share with Hendricks.