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

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Nobody is ever touching that stolen base record. Even with the changes to the game to make it friendlier to stealing, Rickey being good + being good at it for so long puts that number essentially into the Gretzky pantheon of "records that no one has a remote hope of touching"

To put it into perspective, Ronald Acuna has been probably the most recognizable for his exploits on the base paths in the last couple years, with him stealing 73 last year and having 196 in his career already.

Let's just say, for instance sake, Acuna reveals himself to be the best base stealer of his generation and makes stealing 73 a year look routine. With essentially 200 already in the bank, basic napkin math tells me it would take him approximately 17 seasons to pass Rickey's mark of 1406 at that type of clip with absolutely zero room for letting up and would have to play 24 seasons in total to get there. No chance when the concept of athletic decline exists.

Legit to me one of the inner circle greatest of all time type players.
 

Nobody spends like Dombrowski but he usually nails it

Ever spend like $75-90 at Supermarket and a week later look at itemized bill and think ‘shit I wasted a lot on crap’ ?

Well Dealin’ Dave aint that guy
 
I like Buehler on a 1 year deal better than most other options (other than Snell), alone for the fact that he's not been given a QO and they can offer him one next off-season. Seems like a no brainer to me and I gotta say easily one of the best moves of the winter.

Now the rotation seems set, but we still don't know how perceive the line-up. Still think something could get done for Sean Murphy (which I would like) or Bregman.
 
With Crochet, Buehler, and Giolito, you've got three guys with big potential, but huge injury concerns. Houck and Bello rounding it out is a solid group. If everything falls absolutely right, you've got a great rotation. If things go sideways, being a one year deal you could trade Buehler at the deadline and eat some of the money to get prospects back.

Odds are things land somewhere in the middle where one of the three is great, another one good, and one busts or gets injured (likely Crochet, Buehler, and Giolito in that order).
 

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