At this point, he's not going to give them $160 million worth of value. So yeah... it was a bad deal.
He's now another year older trying to come back/recover from injury issues. I understand what you are saying but I can't fault people for thinking he's never going to be healthy again for a full season.
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I think that's a little bit of a reach. He's not playing 80+ games in Colorado anymore...
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My contention is that's not all the Red Sox should be doing as a way to not spend on free agents. Milwaukee HAS to do what you are describing as their best option for team building.
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Absolutely correct. Milwaukee has to, but its still sound baseball decision making, no matter how big of a market you are. 8yrs for $82mil was what Milwaukee gave Chourio. That's a steal, and Roman Anthony is a guy you take a similar kind of risk on..
Well, weren't the Red Sox gonna take Duran to arbitration over 500k? They did lock up Raffaela and Bello but that wasn't huge money really. If Roman Anthony turns out to be the guy everyone thinks he'd be crazy to take the typical Red Sox low ball offer.
I'm not a Sox fan, and I have no idea what their front office was thinking, however low ball arbitration offers are NOT specific to them. MLB teams do it all the time, and the players hate it.
Maybe, I just think it's an especially bad look for big market teams who charge top dollar for tickets and throw out a bad product year after year now. The Red Sox sit 14th in payroll for 2025. To me that is borderline criminal when you can't even say "well we don't have to spend more because we have a damn good team".
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I get your point, but I look at it from a different angle, because I'm a fan of a small market team.Maybe, I just think it's an especially bad look for big market teams who charge top dollar for tickets and throw out a bad product year after year now. The Red Sox sit 14th in payroll for 2025. To me that is borderline criminal when you can't even say "well we don't have to spend more because we have a damn good team".
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Even if you eliminate the Dodgers as the true outlier these numbers are embarrassing to me. Over $100m gap between Red Sox and Mets/Yankees/Phillies. The argument always seems to be "they'll spend when their young players are ready and the team is good". The unfortunate piece of this is the team is never good so it's an endless cycle of false hope.
Maybe, I just think it's an especially bad look for big market teams who charge top dollar for tickets and throw out a bad product year after year now. The Red Sox sit 14th in payroll for 2025. To me that is borderline criminal when you can't even say "well we don't have to spend more because we have a damn good team".
2025 MLB Team Salary Payroll Tracker
A real-time look at the 2025 salary payroll totals for each MLB team..
Even if you eliminate the Dodgers as the true outlier these numbers are embarrassing to me. Over $100m gap between Red Sox and Mets/Yankees/Phillies. The argument always seems to be "they'll spend when their young players are ready and the team is good". The unfortunate piece of this is the team is never good so it's an endless cycle of false hope.
He had an elbow issue that cost him the 2nd half of 2022 and the first four months of 2023. That's been successfully repaired.
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I'm not sure why it matters that the injuries aren't related. Is he on a no dive program this season? And guys who have elbow surgery have needed surgery on same elbow again. It happens. But whatever, he is their plan so we'll see how this goes.
AL up for grabs and you spend 100 mil less thank the Yankees. PatheticMaybe, I just think it's an especially bad look for big market teams who charge top dollar for tickets and throw out a bad product year after year now. The Red Sox sit 14th in payroll for 2025. To me that is borderline criminal when you can't even say "well we don't have to spend more because we have a damn good team".
2025 MLB Team Salary Payroll Tracker
A real-time look at the 2025 salary payroll totals for each MLB team..
Even if you eliminate the Dodgers as the true outlier these numbers are embarrassing to me. Over $100m gap between Red Sox and Mets/Yankees/Phillies. The argument always seems to be "they'll spend when their young players are ready and the team is good". The unfortunate piece of this is the team is never good so it's an endless cycle of false hope.
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