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With the Red Sox doing essentially nothing this offseason, why would Bradley want to return?

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Feels weird. The Yankees are dumping Ottavino's salary to make another move and stay under the luxury tax and the Red Sox are helping. After watching them pick up Tallion for...

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Not a terrible signing but I'm not sure that he was worth more than Lester ($5M), Quintana ($8M), etc to what the Red Sox are doing this offseason. Not a group that is going to...

^^ On that last point, the two biggest deals that are currently being discussed:

Trade Benintendi for a younger OF and lottery ticket pitcher
Outright or release Dustin Pedroia (I'd do the...

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Swell, we cleared a spot for the SP whom we cut back in November. But why? Wasn't there any value in a glove-first guy who could play all over the infield and didn't strike out much? I...

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Um... this might be where I step off the train. Kluber goes to the Yankees relatively cheap and the Red Sox answer is... Martin Perez? We declined his option to save a couple million bucks?...

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Hard to say how much of an upgrade Semien would be over what we've got. Was the monster 2019 season just a fluke? Most years he's been a league-average SS with both bat and...

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Jim Bowden on Twitter

I always take Bowden's "insider" stuff with a grain of salt. That said, I wonder if we could bring back someone like Edward Cabrera or Trevor Rogers. Sixto Sanchez is...

Yeah, I'm a little uncertain about what's going on. Obviously, COVID has left a lot of uncertainty in the FA market. I don't get a reluctance to go beyond a couple of years (above), though. If a...

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Depth, I hope.

Another below-the-radar type deal


Obviously not the deal for the Red Sox but I'm totally in favor of him getting that kind of deal from NYY just to limit future spending.

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The FO was careful about how it described Renfroe, leaving open the possibility of re-signing JBJ and leaving Verdugo's cannon of an arm in RF. That could mean a platoon for Renfroe or a...

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^^ Asked and answered, apparently.

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The right-handed bat makes sense and Refroe could be a decent buy-low guy if he bounces back to his 2018-19 form. I wonder about his role, though. Does he go to RF and bump Verdugo to...

In case you missed them, recent arb signings and the like


Matt Barnes, $4.5M/1yr
Kevin Pllaweski, $1.6M/1yr
Austin Brice, $870k/1yr
Ryan Brasier, $1.25M/1yr
Eduardo Rodrigues, $8.5M/1yr

John Henry's siip up was telling last year -- the practice of big market teams is to get under the CBT every three years or so in order to reset the penalties. They did that in 2020 and are now in a...

A few days old but...

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Yeah, basically agree. The team pushed the max tax level and the penalties were unsustainable. Not only was the 'luxury tax' money too high but it cost them in both draft and international...

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Signings like this seem to be Bloom's specialty. But why? It mostly lead to the disastrous rotation and BP that the Sox had this year. The only "hit" was Phillips Valdez, and...

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Maybe not coincidental that "the Mike Trout of Japanese baseball" took a one-year deal and set up to be posted or declared a FA when the Yankees need a 2B? Could be an interesting...

Now that we know who the manager will be, a few random ideas for the upcoming offseason...

I saw recently that Corey Kluber spends the offseason in New England, close to his wife's family I think....

Houck's line: 5.0IP, 2H, 3BB, 7K on 85 pitches. Pretty good debut.