If this is the price for a reliever, what's Dombrowski going to give up for a starter?
Cash. They'll get one of the big FA names.
If this is the price for a reliever, what's Dombrowski going to give up for a starter?
I'd like to think so but who knows how high they're willing to go.
They could have saved a lot of money and top prospects if they had just paid Lester and Miller last offseason.
Cash. They'll get one of the big FA names.
Pretty sure the Sox are already creeping up on the tax as is. They just added $11M in Kimbrel. After arb, they'll be right around ~$165M.
If they're going for one of the big arms (hell, any starting arms, for that matter, they're over), they're going waaaaaay over the tax.
They could work something around Big Game James for Panda.
I thought they were interested in chapman?
swihart for chapman.
who needs young, cheap players?
last place team gets a closer. all their problems are solved.
and this is a team still with uehara who was a perfectly fine closer until he got hit by a line drive.
They could have saved a lot of money and top prospects if they had just paid Lester and Miller last offseason.
Well sure - because we all just knew that Miller was going to go from a very good middle reliever / set up guy with Boston to a stud closer with the Yankees.
Well sure - because we all just knew that Miller was going to go from a very good middle reliever / set up guy with Boston to a stud closer with the Yankees.
Well sure - because we all just knew that Miller was going to go from a very good middle reliever / set up guy with Boston to a stud closer with the Yankees.
For Boston, even if you think it's fair value because you believe that the ninth inning is some super-woo time that only the few and the proud can handle, the Red Sox just traded two of their most valuable minor league assets for a 60-inning reliever … which means they can't trade them for something else they need, like a high-end starter. It's not a great start for the new regime's first offseason.