Red Sox/MLB 2025 Off-Season Hot Stove II - Alex Bregman in agreement with the Boston Red Sox

[JRull86]

Neither should be a leading option here.

This I agree with.

I'd rather nothing than Arenado.

His numbers, specifically power, suggest a downward trend that isn't going to get better hitting at Fenway somehow.

Yes he's still a GG 3B defensively, but that's just not a player you take on.

 

[GatorMike]

 

[Morris Wanchuk]

If Chaim was a better manager of Major league talent he would still have a job, IMO. Guy couldnt make a decision, and when he did it was pretty meh. Credit is due for the player development.

 

[EverettMike]

And yet Breslow just fired a lot of the guys who built it.

#AdvantageChiarelli

 

[DKH]

And yet Breslow just fired a lot of the guys who built it.

#AdvantageChiarelli

Yeh very odd

 

[EverettMike]

Yeh very odd

It's really, really bad and very few people are even aware of it.

 

[DKH]

It's really, really bad and very few people are even aware of it.

From my couch makes no sense but there has to be something

They had traded Teel & Montgomery and still finished 1 and got rid of respected scouts

Odd

 

[Chevalier du Clavier]

 

[Mione134]

This organization is absolutely dumb.

 

[EverettMike]

That can't be f***ing real. There's simply no way.

 

[IveGotToBeMe]

Zannetello I understand, Jordan not so much. How about Zanetello and Yoshida for Arenado and some amount of retained salary by St. Louis? I'd do that.

 

[DKH]

Zannetello I understand, Jordan not so much. How about Zanetello and Yoshida for Arenado and some amount of retained salary by St. Louis? I'd do that.

I agree but I think a healthy Yoshida has a big season

 

[BigGoalBrad]

I'm cool with entering the year as is.

 

[CDJ]

I don’t think all that highly of either of those prospects at this point in time but I just don’t know where Arenado fits unless Yoshida is moving out

 

[Chevalier du Clavier]

 

[JRull86]

QO really f***ed him in the end, just like it's going to do with Pivetta.

 

[Donnie Shulzhoffer]

I'm cool with entering the year as is.

Then you are the fan John Henry is looking for.

 

[KOZ37]

Then you are the fan John Henry is looking for.

I don't mind a short term contract, but the kids will be ready either this season if not next. I would like to see them get a real chance to play. I agree the Sox could have had a better offseason, but at this point I'd rather they don't force an FA or trade.

 

[IveGotToBeMe]

Why does it seem as though an Arenado (salary retention offset) for Yoshida trade makes good sense for the Red Sox but I don't feel like there's much support for it? The trade would give the Sox a RH bat that they really need, options to use Arenado as a DH or 3B (to give Raffy a rest), maybe fill in occasionally at 1B (he's a good enough fielder to make the transition in spot use), and overall not really lose anything of importance with a Yoshida departure. I would get behind this trade 100%. I'd also be willing to offer a lower end prospect or two in the deal.

 

[Chevalier du Clavier]

Why does it seem as though an Arenado (salary retention offset) for Yoshida trade makes good sense for the Red Sox but I don't feel like there's much support for it? The trade would give the Sox a RH bat that they really need, options to use Arenado as a DH or 3B (to give Raffy a rest), maybe fill in occasionally at 1B (he's a good enough fielder to make the transition in spot use), and overall not really lose anything of importance with a Yoshida departure. I would get behind this trade 100%. I'd also be willing to offer a lower end prospect or two in the deal.

It doesn't appear that St. Louis is interested in Yoshida because of the contract that Bloom signed him to. Coincidentally and ironically, Bloom is in St. Louis' front office.

 

[FrankerC]

 

[EverettMike]

I'm sure he does! Good f***ing luck, Alex Bregman.

 

[Chevalier du Clavier]

If MLB can walk away from Oakland, what's stopping them from doing the same in Tampa? Nashville, Charlotte, San Antonio, and Montreal all want franchises.

 

[FrankerC]

If MLB can walk away from Oakland, what's stopping them from doing the same in Tampa? Nashville, Charlotte, San Antonio, and Montreal all want franchises.

Nashville or the Carolinas for me. Both would be great baseball locations.

 

[EverettMike]

Nashville or the Carolinas for me. Both would be great baseball locations.

Boston needs a team.