Red Sox/MLB 2025 Hot Stove - Mets land Juan Soto on 15-year, $765M deal

[DKH]

Record 9 MLB teams docked $311M in luxury tax

The Dodgers, Mets and Yankees were the highest penalized among the record nine teams to be over the MLB's luxury tax threshold for 2024.

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[DKH]

Duran & Abreu two of best defensively in league and the guy between them (Rafaela) arguably the superior defender

#1 prospect in Roman Anthony on way

Sox OF could be special

 

[DKH]

Everything back to being quiet here?

I am here

 

[KOZ37]

They were 6th in AL in starter ERA based on primarily
Bello
Houck
Crawford
Criswell

Bello was rocky but 15 of 30 starts 2 runs or less and 20-10 in starts

Every, every, every former pitcher on mlb network from Leiter, Plesac, Peavy ….said Crochet has number one stuff

Giolito ready for camp. I like him if healthy and says is - he’s a legit 3

You got Fitts & Criswell for 6 -8 plus the starter they like they got from Pirates I swap of former first rounders. Love the Sandoval gamble / guy had around a 125 ERA + from 21-23. Beast mind set

If this was stratomatic of my APBA League fantasy stuff I offer a gazillion dollars for Burnes
- but my account gut says they will have 75 M signed up between Crochet, Houck, Bello. I’m all for Burnes but if I owned team I don’t do 8 years / 3 or 4 for 30 M area yes

The Mets & Dodgers are going rouge and will eventually lead to a hard cap and loopholes closed although likely all the present contracts grandfathered in. I don’t see Sox doing this - the Yankees are irked what Mets are doing as they are getting roasted for not being fiscally irresponsible

I go after Yates - love him. Get him 2 years so where Whitlock is

Tanner Scott would be homerun but don’t see it

Give me Bregman, 4th OF, backup C, and Yates or Scott

Wouldn't mind replacing Crawford there. Felt like he was getting pounded in the last 1/3 of the year at least. I could see regression there, but feel like he would have big value to a lot of teams. I would at least keep an open mind. Would love either Tanner Scott or Yates.

 

[EverettMike]

 

[DKH]

Wouldn't mind replacing Crawford there. Felt like he was getting pounded in the last 1/3 of the year at least. I could see regression there, but feel like he would have big value to a lot of teams. I would at least keep an open mind. Would love either Tanner Scott or Yates.

He was but he’s got good stuff.

Most he’s ever thrown

Needs to be cut back usage when arm dead - I’d skip him a start every 5 starts - when on he’s really good


Dick Fitts & Cooper Criswell need to contribute- both looked good in limited role

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Haha - fantastic

Very creative

My dream scenario is you going at it with Stephen A Smith ripping him a new one

 

[EverettMike]

He was but he’s got good stuff.

Most he’s ever thrown

Needs to be cut back usage when arm dead - I’d skip him a start every 5 starts - when on he’s really good


Dick Fitts & Cooper Criswell need to contribute- both looked good in limited role


Haha - fantastic

Very creative

My dream scenario is you going at it with Stephen A Smith ripping him a new one

What do you think the age cutoff is for people to get that reference without an explanation? No chance anyone under 30 does, right?

 

[DKH]

What do you think the age cutoff is for people to get that reference without an explanation? No chance anyone under 30 does, right?

Yes

I’m still laughing

So good…..

 

[Alicat]

RIP Ricky Henderson

 

[sarge88]

RIP Ricky Henderson

Sad.

One of the few players we could say were as good on the field as they were entertaining off it.

Rest in Peace to one of my all time favorites!

 

[Alicat]

Sad.

One of the few players we could say were as good on the field as they were entertaining off it.

Rest in Peace to one of my all time favorites!

I remember him when he was in Boston for a season and he was always happy and boy did he love the fans. I obviously remember him mostly when he played in Oakland. A sad day for baseball and the sports world.

 

[GatorMike]

 

[quietbruinfan]

Wow, I can't believe Rickey died. That, and my recent physical problems,make me feel really old.

 

[Bruinaura]

Rickey played during the years I was really into watching baseball. This is sad.

 

[Bruinaura]

Wow, I can't believe Rickey died. That, and my recent physical problems make me feel really old.

I feel like I age a decade every week lately.

 

[Fenway]

 

[McGarnagle]

My favorite Rickey story (which has been denied by everyone involved, but is still testament to his personality) is when he went to spring training with the Mariners and told John Olerud that he used to play with a guy who wore a helmet in the field when he was in Toronto and Olerud had to explain that that was him.

 

[DKH]

i would have thought more likely he was thinking of a comeback with the A’s this coming season

Of all the sports players who’ve died last 10 years this one really stuns me and feel old

 

[quietbruinfan]

My favorite Rickey story (which has been denied by everyone involved, but is still testament to his personality) is when he went to spring training with the Mariners and told John Olerud that he used to play with a guy who wore a helmet in the field when he was in Toronto and Olerud had to explain that that was him.

Rickey likes that story about Rickey. My story is third-hand but pretty good. My stepfather knew a fellow who pitched in triple AAA for the A's. He once picked Rickey off first in Spring training and Rickey said: "Nobody picks Rickey off first base."

 

[Blitzkrug]

My favorite Rickey story (which has been denied by everyone involved, but is still testament to his personality) is when he went to spring training with the Mariners and told John Olerud that he used to play with a guy who wore a helmet in the field when he was in Toronto and Olerud had to explain that that was him.

Rickey is a goldmine of goofy stories/ancedotes.

Some

• Rickey once asked a teammate how long it would take to drive to the Dominican Republic, which he thought was a clothing store.
• He once got frost bite after falling asleep with an ice pack strapped to his ankle and had to miss three games.
• One time, while he was on the Yankees, Rickey bragged about how awesome his new condo was because apparently it had a view of the "Entire State Building".
• In the last week of his lone season with the Red Sox, Chairman Tom Werner asked Henderson what he would like for his ‘going-away’ gift. Henderson said he wasn’t going anywhere, but he would like owner John Henry’s Mercedes. Werner said it would be tough to get the same make and model in less than a week and Henderson said, “No, I want his car.” Turns out the Sox got Henderson a Red Thunderbird and when he saw it on the field before the last game of the season, Rickey said, “Whose ugly car is on the field?”
• For his entire career, before every single game Rickey would stand butt-naked in front of his locker and chant, "Rickey is the best" over and over for several minutes. (this one has been confirmed by multiple teammates)
• to further the above, Rickey struck out and as the next batter was walking past him, he heard Henderson say, “Don’t worry, Rickey, you’re still the best.”
• Rickey once caused a bit of a kerfuffle in the A's front office when they had an accounting error of 1 million dollars that appeared to have been given out as a check. They couldn't figure out why the error was there. As it turns out, instead of cashing it (which i believe was for a bonus of some type), Rickey framed the f***ing thing and hung it on his wall lmao. He was very proud of it.
• In Henderson’s first season with San Diego, he boarded the team bus and was looking for a seat. Steve Finley said, “You have tenure, sit wherever you want.” Henderson looked at Finley and said, “Ten years? Ricky’s been playing at least 16, 17 years.”
• San Diego GM Kevin Towers was trying to contact Rickey at a nearby hotel. He knew Henderson always used fake names to avoid the press, fans, etc. He was trying to think like Rickey and after several attempts; he was able to get Henderson on the phone. Rickey had checked in under Richard Pryor.
• On being Nolan Ryan’s 5,000th career strikeout: “It gave me no chance. He (Ryan) just blew it by me. But it’s an honor. I’ll have another paragraph in all the baseball books. I’m already in the books three or four times.”

Baseball lost a character with him passing on for sure. Legit reads like something that belongs in a movie like Major League. Aloof apparently everywhere but on the basepaths.

 

[EverettMike]

i would have thought more likely he was thinking of a comeback with the A’s this coming season

Of all the sports players who’ve died last 10 years this one really stuns me and feel old

Forget an athlete, if you told me any human being was going to live to 200 Rickey would have been my number one choice because I would just assume he wouldn't know to die.

In the truest sense of the word, one-of-a-kind.

 

[CDJ]

Glad we got to have him in a Red Sox jersey for a bit

Greatest leadoff man ever

 

[DKH]

Forget an athlete, if you told me any human being was going to live to 200 Rickey would have been my number one choice because I would just assume he wouldn't know to die.

In the truest sense of the word, one-of-a-kind.

Exactly

He was my choice to never die

Somehow my brain stopped with him in his 40’s so how did he get to be 65…..I remember when he came up I was in college and Billy Martin was manager and the A’s were pretty good - they had 5 good starters and Henderson & Armas

when he got traded to the Yankees, they had I think Mattingly & Winfield but couldn’t win

Cable was new and it’s like I was Charlie in Wonka factory. TBS (Atlanta), PIX (Mets), and ROR? (Yankees) were on all the time - Cubs as well. Rickey became a star he was on all the time not once a week 5 minutes on TWIB

But what made it spectacular was the announcers

We are talking legends on all 4 broadcasts and the Yankees had Rizzuto & White. It was unbelievable and Rizutto was worth watching - and he was kinda crazy like Rickey and was always telling Henderson stuff.

It was so good the next day at work all the guys (we are all recently out of college) would talk about Rizzuto and White and Rickey

With Steinbrenner and that group it was entertaining times

Rickey was so good - and defensively he was outstanding