Red Sox/MLB 2025 Off-Season Hot Stove II

[McGarnagle]

Mookie was never going to sign long term in Boston for cultural reasons, especially after 2020. I don't believe any of the interviews he's given since then where he's trying to portray himself as the good guy. Trading him when they did wasn't a bad decision in an asset management sense, it's just that the return ended up being less than ideal (largely because of Price).

Bloom's failure to build on the flexibility that the Betts deal afforded just amplifies how bad it looks in retrospect.

In an alternate universe where the Sox hold him through 2020 and he signs with the Dodgers as a UFA that winter, we don't draft Meyer since we probably finish with the 9th or 10th pick instead of bottom 5, who knows from there whether free agents view us more favorably.

 

[IveGotToBeMe]

Let’s all try to look at this objectively. Tanner Scott had the option to pitch for the current champions, who have continued to improve their roster in the offseason, or the Red Sox (and other teams). His last two teams have been in warmer climate locales (SD and Miami). Is he going to choose to play on an all star team with an owner who has deep pockets or a team, in a cold climate, that would be happy to get a wild card spot with an owner who is doing a poor job of trying to look like he has deep pockets? I’m sure he was willing, if at all true, to give up a few bucks for the higher certainty situation. No brainer.

 

[smithformeragent]

Before the Phillies took that song from us.

Stilettos on broken bottles
I'm spinning around in circles

 

[Mione134]

Stilettos on broken bottles
I'm spinning around in circles

AND I'M THE CORNING WATCHING YOU KISS HER OH OHHHHHHH

I'M RIGHT OVER HERE, WHY CAN'T YOU SEE ME?! OH OHHHH

I'M GIVING IT MY ALL BUT I'M NOT THE GIRL YOU'RE TAKING HOME OOH OH OOH

I KEEP DANCING ON MY OOOOON

 

[Mione134]

@smithformeragent

That was the last time the Sox were in the playoffs and my goodness does it feel so long ago.

I need to experience that joy again

 

[EverettMike]

At the time, they already had the highest payroll in the league.

And if they had signed more free agents and increased the payroll, they would have been subject to repeater penalties, which would have hurt their draft position, bonus pools, etc. They could have tried to spend their way out of trouble, but there's a decent chance they wouldn't have Marcelo Mayer, and they probably wouldn't have had enough in their bonus pool to give Roman Anthony a $2.5 million signing bonus as the 79th pick in 2022.

By the end of 2019, the whole franchise NEEDED a hard reset.

One year under and you reset it. But even if it seemed reasonable at the time, we saw what happened next! IT WAS ALL A f***ING LIE!

This is straight up propaganda!

It's not.

I said this without even seeing Bradford's tweet.

It's just simply not true because it's never true. They never offer more. Ever. Those days are over and have been for a long time.