Red Sox/MLB 2025 Off-Season Hot Stove II

[EverettMike]

CC Sabathia: 1st ballot HOFer
Johan Santana: Didn't even make it to a 2nd ballot

Make it make sense

I was there for their entire careers and would have taken Santana 100 times out of 100.

I guess I'll have to dive into the numbers, and I'm not saying I'm right the voters are wrong, just that it never crossed my mind Sabathia was gonna make the Hall.

Statistically, Shilling should be in but his post career shenanigans cost him. Numbers can be there but if you piss off the voters, you aren't getting in.

CC shouldn't be first ballot and I'm not sure he should even be in and especially not before Louis Tiant (RIP).


Yes, I believe so and as much as he deserves to get ragged on, I don't think it was him who left Ichiro off the ballot.

Schilling is actually a fringe case and that was the absolute consensus when he retired. Even then, he would have been voted in if he didn't throw a hissy fit at the last second.

 

[whitetape]

I worry that Bregman would be another Elias Lindholm, an aging player with his best years behind him, but tying up a lot of money on a longterm deal, and blocking young talent. His walk rate is declining, he doesn't hit the ball all that hard, he's getting slower as a runner. The Sox should resist anything more than a one- or two-year deal, which Bregman would of course reject. Let Grissom and Campbell fight it out for second base, or move Rafaela there and introduce Anthony to left field. Rafaela would greatly improve the infield defense once he got used to the position, Duran would be fine at center. Doesn't solve the problem of having too many left-handed hitters--but does Bregman really add that much?

 

[sarge88]

Carlos Estevez
David Robertson
Kyle Finnegan
Jakob Junis
Tommy Khanle
Paul Sewald
Danny Coulombe

Am I wrong in thinking that Slaten could be a closer eventually?