I also really don’t love the FA class this season beyond Ohtani and Yamamoto. Yeah the big issue I have with the FO is this insistence that any sort of honesty with the fans about what they want to do would be unwise, showing their hand to their competitors, puts them at a disadvantage, or whatever other dumb thing Sam Kennedy likes to say to evade those questions. We’ll see how the rest of the offseason goes-I’m ready to boo if this is the final roster, but I’m willing to wait until they actually go into the season with this roster. Of course, the corollary to that is that they need to be aggressive to get those second-tier free agents on shorter deals, which they haven’t done a great job of so far. I applaud management for taking the beating and refusing to say uncle. That’s the Boras special, take advantage of a panicking front office that struck out on the guys they wanted most in hopes that they make a bad decision to temporarily placate fans. The appropriate response to that isn’t signing Blake Snell for 9 years or $30 million/year (let alone both) or giving 6/175 to Jordan Montgomery. If their hope for the offseason was to try to get Yamamoto to bite on 10/300, I’d call that a reasonably full throttle plan. In summary the “don’t go big now” truth is as much to do with who is available as it is where the Red Sox are, so let’s keep the faith with the confidence that while it may not be as fast as we want, the team is trending upward, and that is pretty exciting.ġ5:46:17 GMT -5 chaimtime said:It goes back to what ephus said above, doesn’t it? The right moves have to be there. If that happens then you go big with Soto and Fried in 2025 and have vets to mesh with the new wave of youth.

I think they need to add a right handed bat, and at least one more starter and maybe we have a team that can really fight for a wildcard spot. Now, maybe we look back in three more years at the Christian Vasquez and Chris Sale deals as the moments we truly started to build a winner. Snell or Montgomery to me are final pieces, like Schilling after the nightmare in the Bronx in 2003. And the closest thing to Manny is probably Soto - but we weren’t really in on that. After all that 1999 post season made us all believe that we might actually see the mountaintop (and Troy O’Leary was a golden god).īut then there is no Pedro out there. Probably closer yes with Manny, than with Pedro.

The Red Sox certainly were not one player away when they traded for Pedro in ‘98 or signed Manny in 2000? I’ve read a lot of “the Red Sox are a fringe contender so this isn’t the time to buy” thinking and I have been reflecting quite a bit on this.

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