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DKH said:
Jordan Montgomery looks like dog shit - wouldn’t be surprised if one or both he or Snell blow out their arms by October

Greed is not good - sorry Gordon Gekko

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Blake Snell, Jordan Montgomery drop spring training truth bombs after disastrous starts

Snell and Montgomery have realized the importance of spring training
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Snell just made trip #2 to the IL

I don’t think I’m ever spending assets or big money on pitchers other than rentals at the deadline in a year where they’re bonafide contenders. I think this is my new concrete philosophy. Develop pitching and flip the ones about to hit the free agency market into more pitching prospects. And keep churning. Theres just so little year to year consistency with health and results that it makes no sense to invest big in pitching.

We’ve seen how much missing ST matters with current and former Sox players- just off the top of my head Stephen Drew, Craig Kimbrel, Trevor Story last year, Vaughn Grissom this year. Sets you back big time
 
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EverettMike said:
.....Wut?
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Imanaga is the only guy I look at with hindsight and wish we shelled out for. But if we look at what we wanted all offseason- SP and OF with pop like Teoscar- and we might have been better off playing what we’ve had all along. The starting pitching is this teams strength all of a sudden and they have a pretty loaded OF since Rafaela needs to play every day.


The only needle movers from where I sit were the two Japanese pitchers and Ohtani. And it doesn’t seem like Yamamoto or Ohtani was ever a possibility

My prayer is they figure out a way to ditch Yoshida this offseason and add Soto but I bet the Yankees or Mets land him.


If we’re being honest with ourselves this team ain’t far off from being legitimately good again. They’d probably be in a wild card spot if they had just one of Casas or Story right now.
 
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CDJ said:
Imanaga is the only guy I look at with hindsight and wish we shelled out for. But if we look at what we wanted all offseason- SP and OF with pop like Teoscar- and we might have been better off playing what we’ve had all along. The starting pitching is this teams strength all of a sudden and they have a pretty loaded OF since Rafaela needs to play every day.


The only needle movers from where I sit were the two Japanese pitchers and Ohtani. And it doesn’t seem like Yamamoto or Ohtani was ever a possibility

My prayer is they figure out a way to ditch Yoshida this offseason and add Soto but I bet the Yankees or Mets land him.


If we’re being honest with ourselves this team ain’t far off from being legitimately good again. They’d probably be in a wild card spot if they had just one of Casas or Story right now.
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They could have even signed decent bats if they didn't want big ticket guys. They also could have made trades. We all went into this season knowing the lineup was weak and that they had zero depth. They simply didn't try to improve the team. Full throttle into a brick wall.
 
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EverettMike said:
They could have even signed decent bats if they didn't want big ticket guys. They also could have made trades. We all went into this season knowing the lineup was weak and that they had zero depth. They simply didn't try to improve the team. Full throttle into a brick wall.
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I think the only place to put somebody was 2B, every other spot was accounted for by a key veteran or young player needing ABs. And even then the idea was to see if Grissom could play every day there so I get why they didnt. They probably should have had a better contingency plan at SS, that’s my only gripe outside of Imanaga. Looking at last offseasons free agency list the best name on it for that role is IKF. Perhaps they should have dumped Yoshida and replaced him with a bigger name, maybe a guy like Chapman while moving Raffy to DH? Maybe one more quality reliever on a short term deal. It was a pretty weak market for what the Sox needed in hindsight. But Wong has been phenomenal, Casas was locked in at 1B, 2B was Grissom, SS was Story, 3B was Devers. The OF has no room for another bat now that Abreu and Duran are 2 of the teams 3 best position players and Rafaela needs AB (and TON still exists and has been done well as a whole when in there). They actually have the high end talent to be good, they just need to get better than sub-replacement level play out of 2B/SS and Casas to get healthy. Hamilton is making strides so he should help the former.


Ideal trade probably would’ve been Kim from the Padres but idk if he was even really available- def would’ve been my dream pickup
 
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Fenway said:
After 60 games the Red Sox are 30-30 and 3.5 games out of a wild card slot.

The Red Sox business plan is obvious - an average of 31-32,000 a game in April and May and when the tourists arrive in the summer the sellouts will happen.

As of this morning, they are averaging 31,394 after 29 home games,

In European soccer, there are HUGE financial bonuses for ownership if a team performs well. That is not the case with MLB.

I was certain attendance would be dismal in April and May - I was very wrong.

FSG is very happy with the status quo.
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In Europe, there is no net. If you are bad enough, you go down, as Tom Brady and J.J. Watt found out this season. Relegation formats in the Euro hockey leagues vary.
 
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Jeff Passan ( ESPN ) takes an early look at what teams might do at the July 30th trade deadline.

Maybe the Red Sox were just waiting for the trade deadline to go "full throttle"? The infamous words of Boston chairman Tom Werner continue to hang over a season in which the Red Sox have pitched themselves into a middle-of-the-road team. Boston remains nearly $20 million shy of the luxury tax threshold -- something the franchise has exceeded just once in the past five years, to the tune of a $1.2 million penalty -- and shows no desire to add. The question is whether new president of baseball operations Craig Breslow will take a decent suite of assets and flip it into something that helps the cause of the 2025-and-beyond Red Sox. Outfielder Tyler O'Neill would draw plenty of interest, provided he's healthy. Right-hander Nick Pivetta is due to hit free agency and can start or relieve. Closer Kenley Jansen and setup man Chris Martin are the sorts of relievers who can help win championships. And if the Red Sox want to get really creative, they can at least entertain moving one of their controllable relievers, whether it's Justin Slaten, Brennan Bernardino, Cam Booser or Greg Weissert. All of them have been good, and capitalizing on that kind of performance is the sort of thing of which future championships are made.


Full story: Passan's early MLB trade deadline preview: The latest intel on all 30 teams
 
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Abreu to the IL with an ankle sprain, going to see a specialist

It’s funny at this point
 
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