That's hype. They don't have any pitching. They are not even trying. Chaim was so pathetic. The Yanks just cut Jeter Downs.
Your team is trying to win, I'd be happy with that.
$220m in payroll is still trying to win. I'm not happy with this offseason so far. But it isn't over yet. Montgomery is the guy they need and Boras is being his usual ridiculous self. So nobody has come close on Snell or Montgomery. If they do nothing else to add pitching, that's a failure.
They have the worst team in the division and they're cutting payroll. That's not trying to win. Dead money doesn't count as trying to win. Getting the best deal for your clients isn't being ridiculous.
They may not be the worst team. Trying to win, like the World Series? This roster isn’t ready for that. 2025-26 is when they’ll try to do that. Baltimore spent $80m last year and were a winning team. This team should be over .500. Aside from starting pitching it’s a Good team.
The Sox just let their best hitter go for nothing. They suck. Their business model now is selling the "iconic" Fenway Park experience to visitors. FSG out!
What are you talking about? Turner had a player option and opted out. Sox had nothing to do with it. He then signed for less than his player option was.
"According to hardball guru Peter Gammons, Turner’s representatives reached out to the Sox about returning, but Boston’s brass was not interested." You or Peter Gammons?
Well yes, that's true. But he chose to refuse the option. They didn't "let him go for nothing". He opted out. Why didn't they sign him? Because he wouldn't have any regular place to play. The defense was the biggest problem the team had, so Yoshida is moving to DH. O'Neil is a + defender now in LF, Abreu is solid in RF with a great arm. Since Casas needs 400 at bats at 1B and Devers isn't going to sit much at 3B, where is Turner supposed to play?
You went from denying the Sox didn't want him to justifying their ditching him in about 3 seconds flat. He was one of their best players and they let him go when they could have kept him. Ever since they fired Dombrowski, the Sox let superior ballplayers leave and replace them with inferior ballpayers. And guys like you are good with it. I don't get it.
I merely denied your statement that they "let him go for nothing". Read what I said. Had he opted in, he'd be on the team. He opted out. It was his choice. Not sure what he was expecting or why he opted out. He was a "nice to have" player who wasn't going to be in the lineup very often even if he stayed.
Spending yes. Spending big in free agency? Not really. The signed Manny. They signed JD. Martinez. Beckett was a trade. Pedro was a trade. Schilling was a trade. Ortiz was a cast off from the Twins. Lowell, Mueller, Millar, all those guys were cheap signings. The core was always home grown. Varitek, Nomar, Pedroia, Ellsbury, Greenwell, Nixon, Papelbon etc. The teams that won a World Series had maybe one star position player and one star pitcher. They had a lot of what I’d call mid-priced guys. Above average across the board with a couple stars.
Tino was a trade. Over the stretch where the Yanks won four titles in five years, the "big ticket" free agent on that roster was David Wells (bottom end of then big ticket free agents) and a middle level signing was Mike Stanton (not the one who changed his name to Giancarlo).
That’s my point. You need some free agents or trades to fill the gaps in what comes up in the system. But throwing money at big names on a regular basis doesn‘t seem to work. Trades like Boston made for Grissom seem to pay off more regularly.
