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    Do You Want John Henry To Sell The Red Sox?

    I view John Henry that way Henry has viewed some of his most successful GMs: Tremendously appreciative for all he’s accomplished, but it’s time to move on. There would be risks, certainly, but the cost of acquiring the team would likely eliminate the worst case scenarios. No one who can afford...
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    Let's Predict the 2024 Red Sox Season

    75 wins. -Team leader in Wins? Bello -Team leader in Losses? Pivetta -Team leader in Saves? Martin -Team leader in ERA (qualifying)? Bello -Team leader for Batting Average (qualifying)? Yoshida -Team leader for OPB (qualifying)? Devers -Team leader in OPS? Devers -Team leader in HR? Devers...
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    Lucas Giolito has an elbow issue.

    https://twitter.com/JeffPassan Brutal news: Initial imaging showed Boston Red Sox starter Lucas Giolito likely has a partially torn UCL and flexor strain and could miss the 2024 season, league sources tell ESPN. Giolito, who signed a two-year deal with Boston, may need surgery to repair the...
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    The Average Fan’s Perspective

    "Stopped spending relative to their peers" is a precise claim, concerning how the team is spending compared to their big market peers. You are correct that other teams are now spending more than they used to. That's why I wrote that the stopped spending relative to their peers. Whether those...
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    The Average Fan’s Perspective

    He has provided evidence. He’s made straightforward claims about the fact that the Sox payroll was once regularly at or near the top and no longer is. Rather than engaging with this irrefutable point, people have treated him hostilely and now demanding that he provide vague data about “free...
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    The Average Fan’s Perspective

    Sure. So if you dispute his original point—that the Sox are no longer spending at levels they used to, relative to their peers—please provide evidence.
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    The Average Fan’s Perspective

    Why is he he on the hook to provide evidence for a secondary point to his original claim, which centered around overall spending? The facts on that are beyond dispute. The burden of proof is on those who are claiming the Sox have not stopped spending relative to their peers. That claim is the...
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    The Average Fan’s Perspective

    This argument revolves around whether Red Sox spending has kept pace with the league, or not. Whether they signed free agents is secondary to what Semper originally wrote, which concerned overall spending. Insisting he now back up his arguments with data about free agents is a clever way to...
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    Offseason rumors

    The Orioles news makes me somewhat less skeptical about the idea they're on the verge of selling the team. If the O's and Camden can get 1.7, imagine what the Sox + Fenway + goosed up real estate can fetch. On the other hand, if a sale is in the offing, then it's not clear why they'd need to be...
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    Offseason rumors

    It’s a notes column. You have to keep scrolling to find the “extra bases” section that Stats excerpted.
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    Offseason rumors

    Do you have any evidence--any at al!--that the Red Sox offered more money to any of the free agents in question? Or are you just here to mindlessly defend any and all decisions made by the front office?
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    How much does winning and losing affect your fandom?

    On its own, I couldn't care less about how much they spend. I want them to play competitive baseball, and I want to believe those in charge of the team have made defensible decisions in pursuit of that goal. If they stop playing competitive baseball in August (or earlier!), then my attention...
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    Let's Lay Off That Throttle

    The article does not "clearly list the Red Sox as one of the four likely remaining suitors." Instead, it discusses the Red Sox's chances along with other teams; the pertinent sentence reads: "The Red Sox have also been connected to Montgomery in recent weeks, though the club’s payroll...
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    Let's Lay Off That Throttle

    Chawson says: "we're reportedly one of the final teams in the running for Montgomery." The linked article does not say anything of the sort. It's a claim made up out of thin air and should be understood as such. Making up claims to support one's point is not exactly in the service of...
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    Let's Lay Off That Throttle

    Again: not snark. It’s true that people can “think and feel whatever they want.” It’s also true that some of the posts in the last 24 hours are so untethered from reality that assuming good faith is the uncharitable approach. Here's an example. There is no reporting in the linked article that...
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    Let's Lay Off That Throttle

    The past 24 hours have convinced me that several people use this board to bolster their job applications for the Red Sox. I’m not being snarky—it’s the only charitable explanation for a lot of the reasoning on display.
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    Let's Lay Off That Throttle

    “It probably will be lower than it was in 2023” is a direct quote from Kennedy. How that could mean anything other than “the Boston Red Sox expect to spend less in 2024 than the previous year” is beyond me.
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    Let's Lay Off That Throttle

    They literally told us they are not spending. Nothing is stopping them from going out tomorrow, signing Montgomery, taking a bad contract off another team’s hands in order to get prospects, and increasing the payroll. Nothing, that is, except the leader of the organization saying the payroll...
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    Offseason rumors

    Breslow's comments on YY were word salad and not really evidence of anything, except that he's skilled at responding to hostile media. So far as I've observed, no one has reported that the Sox outbid everyone else on a particular target and were rebuffed. That would be welcome news! And it...
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    No Town Hall this year at Red Sox Winter Weekend

    This kind of elitism would pack more of a punch if it were backed up by exceptional prognostication abilities. But it’s almost certainly the case that if you’d surveyed a random set of people whose accents you make fun of, and compared their mean predicted win total for 2023 to this board’s (not...
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