The Red Sox have signed right-hander Jake Faria to a minor league deal, according to MassLive.com’s Chris Cotillo (Twitter links). The contract includes an invitation to Boston’s big league Spring Training camp, and a guaranteed $735K salary if Faria makes the active roster.
Since the start of the 2019 season, Faria has pitched only 51 1/3 MLB innings — 32 2/3 frames with the Diamondbacks in 2021, and 18 2/3 innings split between the Rays and Brewers in 2019. In between those stints in the majors, Faria also pitched at the Triple-A level with the Angels in 2021 and with the Twins last season, with a cumulative 6.64 ERA over 80 innings over the last two years.
It has been a tough ride for Faria in recent years, after he came up through Tampa Bay’s farm system with a lot of promise, and had a quick start to his MLB career with a solid 3.43 ERA over 86 2/3 innings in his 2017 rookie season. Red Sox chief baseball officer Chaim Bloom was working in the Rays’ front office during Faria’s tenure in Tampa, so the minor league deal will give Bloom a chance to see first-hand if Faria can recapture any of that old form.
Not counting those 2017 numbers, Faria otherwise has a 5.65 ERA and underwhelming strikeout and walk rates over 116 1/3 innings as a Major League pitcher. Home runs have been an issue, as Faria has allowed 19 homers in that limited 116 1/3 inning sample size. While Faria has still regularly worked as a starter at Triple-A, he has mostly been utilized as a reliever in the majors since 2018, so the Red Sox likely view him as a multi-inning reliever at best if he can win a job in their bullpen.
Pitching depth
They’ll need it.
I remember the days when we were a big market team, sigh..
They sign players to minor league contracts every year, you know that right?
Can’t believe they signed tapia to a minor league deal as well
Exactly my point, that is AL:L they do!
Do you wake up stupid or acquire it over the day?
How many other big market teams sign this many castoffs count them for the Yankees Mets Dodgers I’ll wait
RemoveManager: I guess its just a coincidence that you picked the 3 strongest teams (roster wise) in the league (Mets, Dodgers and Yankees).
Red Sox have signed 2 more minor leaguers than the Yankees. And they have more question marks on their big league level than the Yankees. So it makes complete sense.
Is 8 signing against 6 mean that much to you? Bloom haters are idiots.
We don’t know.
Neither do you.
RemoveManagerWinsFromTheRecordBooks
How many other big market teams sign this many castoffs count them for the Yankees Mets Dodgers I’ll wait
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1-Why would you wait? This is a 10-minute job. If you had any confidence in what you said, you’d have already done the work.
2-I checked it a few days back, and in 2022, the NYY made far more moves.
Is 8 signing against 6 mean that much to you? Bloom haters are idiots.
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My research shows the NYY signing more minor league depth. That said, anyone worrying about the number of minor leaguers that teams add, are idiots.
I did a little more research of MiL signings too. Chicago Cubs (A bigger market than Boston), but, in a much more similar situation, contending wise, had 15 MiL signings this winter.
It has far more to do with depth, and necessary insurance. For example, the Red Sox starting rotation compared to the “Yankees Dodgers and Mets” should have more MiL signings than those teams. They have several work horses they can count on. Red Sox will be forced to use the ‘shuttle’ much more often.
Also, JoeB: When I said ‘this year’, I meant this offseason. Those numbers are based on Nov 1, 2022 to today.
Yankees just signed another MiL player, since my last post. Where’s the faux outrage for them?
Knuckles – I remember the days when the Red Sox had managers that were respected.
nbcsports.com/boston/red-sox/alex-cora-bragged-abo…
“We stole that (expletive) World Series,” Cora allegedly said.
While many teams were accused of illegally stealing signs during those years, Cora’s acts were seen as particularly egregious.
“We knew the Astros did [steal signs],” another member of the Red Sox told Drellich, “because Alex Cora told us. He said that when they played the Dodgers, ‘We already knew what everybody was throwing before we even got on base. We didn’t have to get on base.’ And everybody was like, ‘What the hell does that mean?’ “
Yeah, because Bobby Valentine was so much better and respected as a manager.
pedey – You thought I was referring to Valentine? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
Maybe you’re too young to remember, but Cora’s cheating scheme helped beat the Red Sox in the playoffs that year.
If YOU were a member of the 2017-2018 Red Sox, especially a pitcher, how would YOU feel hearing your new manager brag about how he cheated to beat you?
In 2017 Chris Sale was runnerup for Cy Young and Top Ten in MVP voting, and he led the league in Strikeouts and FIP.
Cora’s cheating Astros scored 9 runs in 9 innings against Sale during his two appearances in that playoff series, and Sale was the target of a lot of ridicule and hate for his performance. How would YOU feel if you were Chris Sale and heard your new manager bragging about that?
I guess it all comes down to, are you a Red Sox fan or are you just an Alex Cora fan? Seems like you’re just a Cora fan, because you’re still defending him for what he did in 2017 against the Red Sox.
There’s a lot of “dust” on Dusty Baker I could dig out too, since I know you’re a big fan of him.
How about with his statement in the World Series about race? He didn’t mean harm but it wasn’t exactly the smartest thing to say.
I get that you’re against Cora and his cheating but looking at his character isn’t really the best angle for your argument. And, he’s not the only guy with dirt on him
How many pitching careers did Baker destroy before finally kicking into a WS win?
pedey – Saying dumb things, having an addiction to painkillers, having an affair with a member of the media, disrespecting the anthem and the flag, all that stuff is bad but it’s NOTHING compared to stealing a possible WS championship from three different teams in the same season and then bragging about it.
You seem to care more about defending those who commit evil acts than you do about the victims of those evil acts.
@Fever No, I just know how to put things in the past. I never mentioned the evil comments until you brought them up. I looked at Cora strictly as a manager in his job. So again, another attack at me without profound leverage.
Cora was wrong, he admitted to it. You left that piece out, when he said he would live with it forever . Am I happy about that? No. But I like his managing style. I didn’t pick it up as bragging but more or less just saying the obvious. It may not help his case but it doesn’t affect how he manages.
You seen to think I’m very young but I’m not that young, despite your fantasy.
The Bobby Valentine comment was a complete joke but I tend to look at what we have as a manager in the present and with experience and I like Cora, his differences aside.
And getting on him for what he did and said about the past World Series isn’t going to change his present-day decision making, so it’s a moot point on your end, which is what I’ve been basically saying from the start.
@Fever
By the way, the attacks on me and calling me not a Red Sox fan are completely out of line and simply theatrical on your part, you just want an argument because it’s honestly foolish to think I’m not a Sox fan.
Good job, you’re muted. I’ve never done that to anyone but I truly find your response to me as offensive. Thank you for being highly critical and nasty to Sox fans because it’s not just me. If you think Cora is bad, maybe try looking at your own comments and see what you’re saying and what you are jumping to conclusions about.
I’ve been here for the Sox from the start, Cora or no Cora. You don’t even care, you just comment and attack other people without listening or taking into account their own views.
It’s okay if you don’t like Cora. I’m not calling you our as a Sox fan because of it.
Good day, sir, hope you have something other than baseball to enjoy because you are highly bitter on here.
How dare he make mistakes in his younger days
Enough with the overdramatic whiny thin-skinned cry-victim posts if you don’t like someone don’t respond to their posts you remind me of my 12 year old daughter boo hoo
RMWFTRB – For the record, months ago she was constantly criticizing me because her views didn’t align with mine. So I stopped replying to her, because I didn’t want to upset her. She then insisted that I continue replying to her. I should have known better, but I listened to her and did continue … and now here we are. Lesson learned, I will not be replying to her anymore.
I will mute her, which unfortunately means any people who reply to her posts I will not be able to see because all replies to her will also be hidden. Oh well …
We didn’t just sign Devers to a big contract?
Bloom isn’t consistent in his approach but I wouldn’t call him small market.
In any case, you’re probably mad about Story too, being injured and all, but that wasn’t a small market contract either. I’m not the biggest fan of Bloom, but you guys don’t give him a single fair chance.
‘Big market’ doesn’t mean signing one guy to a big contract once in a while in apparent response to massive media and fan base revolt over your body of work for a series of prior transactions and years.
Big market means leveraging your cash to proven assets, and not repetitively dumpster diving and blatant prospect buying at the expense of major league club rosters and competitiveness, especially when you had a youthful competitive core in place.
If it was a path to success, sustained success or otherwise, look at what bloom has done. Have the dodgers been doing it? How about the Yankees? Maybe the braves? No? There’s a reason why other teams aren’t doing the bloom churn and burn shuffle.
Teams consistently in the playoffs year in and out under a ‘sustained model of success’ do NOT behave like that, and, do NOT go into boom/bust 5 year tanking models, 3 years competitive, 5 years tanking.
How many years has Houston picked low in the draft order? Or NY? Or LAD? How many years have they been doing it for? Yet they still field competitive teams year in and out.
Your post is a bit misleading. You seem to think big market = postseason, and that’s not the same for all teams.
Did I say Bloom was a good big market manager? No, but he certainly is involved in a big market. He paid Story, Devers, and the Japanese outfielder, which could be a huge overpay. I’m sure we will hear it if those deals don’t pan out well because money was spent. He overpaid Matt Barnes too.
As I indicated, it’s about consistency. Bloom is just never consistent in what he does and there’s little rhyme or reason. But that doesn’t mean that he makes all big deals or small deals, or one way over the other. He’s just inconsistent.
And big markets with “proven assets” don’t always pan out either. Carl Crawford? Pablo Sandoval? David Price? There’s a downside here as well and the one thing I will say about Bloom is that he might set us up for failure for a given year but he’s avoided too many big contracts to hurt us down the line.
A good team knows how to manage assets period, in all markets, not just big and small, but by logic.
Just because bloom is involved in a big market, Boston, doesn’t mean he is acting like a big market team or managing like a big market PBO, using the big market resources like a big market organization. Hes been acting for the most part like a massive small market team, taking small market ideas and just applying them on a bigger scale.
If this were an AG farm bloom was running, he would be plowing 2000 acres with 2 mule teams and planting seed by hand. That would be running a big farm (big market BOS, one of only 4 teams, 2 in the AL, to regularly be over $500m in yearly revenue.) as if you were a small time operation (rays) or, to be more fair, maybe I should say he goes to salvage equipment auctions and buys homeowner lawn tractors with electric sleeve hitches instead of industrial tractors with traditional pto driven implements. Uses some modern technologies, but not the RIGHT ones. Just because the market is big doesn’t mean he’s acting like it.
That’s where I was going, and realistically, with the number of postseason slots, and, the number of true big market teams with big market assets/revenues… there is ZERO excuse for a big market team to not be in the postseason at least 80% of the time. So, yeah, I’m looking at BOS, NYY, LAA. Absent some gross mismanagement, those three teams should take 12 playoff spots in any given 5 year period, leaving another 18 slots for the next tier of teams to fight over
you can decide wher DET, TOR, CHC, and HOU belong and how often, but, when you combine owners willing to use their cash flow and GM/PBO who know how to use them… you might recall a pattern historically. LAA has had an arte interference problem. Ok. NY? Did its job. BOS took care of business under Theo and DD. Cherington/Bloom? Not so much.
I’m not saying win your division, or, get to an alcs. I’m saying when 6 out of 15 teams get in even as a wild card, and, when in any given season at LEAST 3 of those 15 aren’t actively competitive/trying, there is no excuse for a big market to sit on the sidelines more than once every 4-5 seasons because of excessive injury bugs… rarity would be twice.
But having frequent last place finishes means you’re clearly doing something very, very wrong when your revenue is above $500m/year.
Bloom has some consistency in that he is consistently BAD at what he does most of the time. Aside from that, I’d say he’s more directionless than inconsistent. I’ve said it many times, but, comprehensive plan is lacking under this F.O. – and mismanaging assets under bloom we CAN agree upon.
I get wanting to be under the CBT. But, there is NO, I repeat, NO excuse for a big market club to be outmatched in international scouting anymore. The value of that talent stream was well known to every club watching at least a good 15-20 years ago at this point. Yes it takes time to build relationships that contribute to signings as well in the Caribbean markets. No, it doesn’t take 50 years. 15 or 20 years is plenty of time. They’ve had it.
Same with amateur scouting. And with medical and rehab infrastructure. Conditioning and training facilities. ALL of these areas to my knowledge don’t factor into CBT, just like the analytics staff, so on so forth. You can spend to the moon and not pay tax as it’s player contract and benefit based.
Now, if you want to argue that reflects an imbalance that’s bad for baseball competitiveness, I may agree with you. But if you failed to spend the money you had to be the best you could in those areas because you treat cbt as a soft cap, and, after payroll you still have hundreds of millions in revenue? Then I argue you’re mismanaging. (And don’t get into ‘sweetheart’ deals when local broadcasting rights go to a captive controlled by the same majority owner as a way to divert funds out of the club… that just creates a false excuse not to spend.)
Big market means leveraging your cash to proven assets,
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Absolute nonsense. “Big market” means you have a lot of money to spend. It has nothing to do with how you spend it.
That difference of opinion is one major reason why you like, or at least frequently defend, bloom Joe, and why I don’t.
How you spend money is absolutely a difference between the small market and the big market.
For me, if you have a competitive advantage, and it’s legal, you use it. If you don’t use it, and the on-field product suffers as a direct result, you’re failing your fans.
Small-market teams operate a certain way because they have to. Big market teams should absolutely NOT be signing aaaa players, failed prospects, or underwater expiring deals to buy prospects and run those guys out at the mlb level. Do it in AAA? Fine. And when the guy proves themselves, run them out in mop-up duty or as depth during injury and see if it sticks. But never, NEVER, should a big market club be signing those guys to be a projected starter for any length of time.
That is inexcusable for a ‘big market.’
GASox – Want to hear something shocking?
Go to the Red Sox website right now and you’ll see THOUSANDS of unsold tickets for the Fenway Home Opener.
Not in my lifetime can I recall a Fenway Home Opener that wasn’t an instant sellout.
Red Sox Nation is truly not buying what Bloom, Henry, and the suckups here are selling.
I’ve been watching that as well Fever. And get all their emails to boot to remind me to watch.
Nobody wants to see a team that has the talent level of a AAA team at Fenway prices. That’s all on Bloom.
The sad part about all this is that the organization has self destructed in Bloom’s 3 year tenure BUT the profits have not been impacted much. Even if fans stay away, the $330MM of profits might fall 10% but they still will make more than almost all other franchises. I call it CUB SYNDROME.
The Cub’s profits didn’t tank when they tanked in the 2010s, the 90s, the 70s or any time since they got WGN. The Red Sox have a similar situation where their floor profits are well beyond most teams so Bloom is damaging the fanbase more than the financial base.
GASoxFan
That difference of opinion is one major reason why you like, or at least frequently defend, bloom Joe, and why I don’t.
How you spend money is absolutely a difference between the small market and the big market.
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ROTFLMAO!
Just for fun, go to a KC or Miami or Oakland site, and explain to them that the RS are s small market team.
Could be better, Sox don’t look too bad for a rebuilding team, at least they have devers!
People like you are the worst
No, you!
That sound you hear is me banging my head on the wall trying to figure Bloom out.
Quantum would probably be easier.
You have plenty of company.
So a meaningless minor league depth signing is causing you enough to confusion to bang your head against the wall?
Stop taking everything literally and get a sense of humor
If you think what he wrote was funny then the sarcasm in my post would obviously be lost on you…
I want Bloom fired as much as the next guy, but it’s crazy to me how so many fans are so ignorant that they get upset about minor league depth that will most likely never see the major league roster
It’s a true sign of a casual.
It’s the defining characteristic of some RS fans to criticize trades when they admit knowing nothing about the player, and to melt down over every AAA signing.
JoeBrady – I’m not going to stand for you disparaging Red Sox fans. You are now officially on double secret probation!!!
RS fans choose to criticize the deals they don’t like not all deals. It only seems that way since Bloom is so incredibly bad at his job.
You look up players so you can say you aren’t one of those fans who knows nothing about the player but in fact you interpreting stats suggests you know nothing about the player just like those who didn’t look up the stats! You use stat cast data incorrectly all the time and even Baseball Reference data all the time.
Is there really a difference between a RS fan that knows nothing about a player they are complaining about and you looking them up and misinterpreting the data? I don’t think so.
Now step back from your keyboard and take a breath. All baseball fans tend to dislike prospect deals. They usually fall into one of two categories. Prospects have no value now OR prospects are far more valuable than they really are just like futures in the commodity market. Most fans fall into one of the two groups. Neither group is right always.
The fact that you straddle the fence between groups simply means you read twice as many complaints as most people read.that disagree with your opinion.
How about stopping with the negative comments about Red Sox fans in general and show some positives towards the varied opinions on this site.
No two people should think the same way on all topics. No two people will necessarily interpret data about a player the same way. Everyone has a right to vent when their team went from 1st to 5th in the division in 3 short years due to one imbecile GM..
I say let them vent. Small compensation for the damage done by ownership and Bloom.
Pulled – Joe hates all real Red Sox fans, that’s why he’s constantly pointing to a small number of so-called Sox “fans” and claiming it’s only Red Sox fans who do what they do and that they are the worst and blah blah blah. Nobody buys it, he’s admitted he’s a Yankee fan, he enjoys trolling, for the most part I just laugh.
RS fans choose to criticize the deals they don’t like not all deals.
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People that go postal over minor league signings are idiots. They typically know nothing about the player we just signed.
I know nothing about Faria, and neither do you or the rest of the haters.
This signing is another I, one of the most vocal against bloom, also have no problem with.
Is minor league, no strings, no prospect, no corresponding DFA. It’s also unlikely to go anywhere, and, has no guaranteed long-term ramifications (but, if it does, that means he was surprisingly good which is a good problem to have.)
Now, that said, doesn’t mean we can’t continue old conversations and continue to discuss what’s wrong as a while with the franchise direction.
Winter Offseason is basically over except these types of moves. Next rounds of pick-ups, swaps, and drops mostly come about with ST results and injuries at this point.
Not much to see here I think, he’s most likely batting practice pitcher and AAA fodder who will never see the mound at Fenway. I guess it’s low risk, but also probably no reward.
flip – I totally agree, but with Bloom seemingly leading MLB in these kinds of signings you have to wonder why more AAA spots are not occupied by actual prospects.
FPG: a comment like this really indicates a lack of knowledge both for how minor league signings and systems work if not baseball in general. The Red Sox have probably signed about as many guys to minor league contracts as any other team. Also signing these players doesn’t indicate a lack of prospects to occupy those spots either.
acel – I’m glad you talking down to me makes you feel superior, even after all the times I’ve blown you out of the water with your false accusations.
So sure, I’d be glad to do it again.
Players acquired since the WS ended, does NOT include unsigned ST invites:
Yankees:
Nov – 1
Dec – 28
Jan – 14
Feb – 1
TOTAL = 44
Red Sox
Nov – 4
Dec – 8
Jan – 38
Feb – 1
TOTAL = 51
Source for each team is their official website.
And BTW when Joe Brady said Bloom hasn’t acquired any more players than any other team, I asked him to provide a similar list. As usual, he didn’t.
FPG: you’re one of the most condescending and hypocritical posters on these boards and you have yet to blow me out of the water on anything including this. Again you’re the same person who referred to Nate Eovaldi as a work horse because he had one healthy with the red sox out of four.
If you bothered to read what I wrote I said the sox have signed about the same amount of players as most teams. Despite your ridiculously small sample size the one other team there was only a whopping 7 player difference which is in line with what I said. I even checked the other teams transaction pages in the AL and used your source and found that Baltimore had 44 Tampa had 42 and the jays had about 30 which looks like the outlier so when I said they sox signed about the same amount as anyone else that was accurate.
Jan – 38
So you’re saying that the RS have added 38 guys in January? Care to list the names? According to Baseball reference, the RS Jan transactions were:
January 4, 2023
Signed Sterling Sharp as a free agent.
January 6, 2023
Signed Justin Turner as a free agent.
January 11, 2023
Darwinzon Hernandez player rights sold to the Baltimore Orioles.
January 12, 2023
Signed Corey Kluber as a free agent.
January 13, 2023
Signed Greg Allen as a free agent.
January 17, 2023
Traded Connor Seabold to the Colorado Rockies. Received player to be named later (minors).
January 21, 2023
Signed Ryan Sherriff as a free agent.
January 24, 2023
Signed Adam Duvall as a free agent.
Traded Josh Taylor to the Kansas City Royals. Received player to be named later (minors) and Adalberto Mondesí.
January 30, 2023
Traded Matt Barnes and cash to the Miami Marlins. Received Richard Bleier.
January 31, 2023
Signed Matt Dermody as a free agent.
That’s four minor league (non-40) additions.
Maybe he’s a penny saved is a penny earned guy and counts contract renewals/tenders/arb agreements?
Joe – Seriously? I gave you the source, you can’t go to the Sox official website and see it for yourself? Why do I always need to spoon-feed you?
And this list doesn’t even include PTBNL.
i just noticed the Sox website erroneously has Greg Allen listed twice, so it’s actually 37 players signed as free agents or acquired via trade.
mlb.com/redsox/roster/transactions/2023/01
01/31/23 Boston Red Sox signed free agent LHP Matt Dermody to a minor league contract.
01/30/23 Miami Marlins traded LHP Richard Bleier to Boston Red Sox for RHP Matt Barnes and cash.
01/27/23 Boston Red Sox signed free agent LHP Nicolas De La Cruz to a minor league contract.
01/24/23 Boston Red Sox signed free agent LF Adam Duvall.
01/24/23 Kansas City Royals traded SS Adalberto Mondesi and Player To Be Named Later to Boston Red Sox for LHP Josh Taylor.
01/23/23 Boston Red Sox signed free agent LHP Skylar Arias to a minor league contract.
01/21/23 Boston Red Sox signed free agent LHP Ryan Sherriff to a minor league contract.
01/19/23 Boston Red Sox signed free agent 3B Edwin Díaz to a minor league contract.
01/15/23 Boston Red Sox signed free agent OF Alex Castillo to a minor league contract.
01/15/23 Boston Red Sox signed free agent C Andruw Musett to a minor league contract.
01/15/23 Boston Red Sox signed free agent RHP Obed Balderas to a minor league contract.
01/15/23 Boston Red Sox signed free agent SS Raimundo De Los Santos to a minor league contract.
01/15/23 Boston Red Sox signed free agent SS Yoiber Ruiz to a minor league contract.
01/15/23 Boston Red Sox signed free agent RHP Ricardo Rodriguez to a minor league contract.
01/15/23 Boston Red Sox signed free agent RHP Wuilliams Rodriguez to a minor league contract.
01/15/23 Boston Red Sox signed free agent C Liosward Marin to a minor league contract.
01/15/23 Boston Red Sox signed free agent C Gerardo Rodriguez to a minor league contract.
01/15/23 Boston Red Sox signed free agent RHP Geiser Figueroa to a minor league contract.
01/15/23 Boston Red Sox signed free agent OF Jhoan Solarte to a minor league contract.
01/15/23 Boston Red Sox signed free agent SS Chad Delancey to a minor league contract.
01/15/23 Boston Red Sox signed free agent C Kleyver Salazar to a minor league contract.
01/15/23 Boston Red Sox signed free agent SS Luis Arredondo to a minor league contract.
01/15/23 Boston Red Sox signed free agent RHP Marcos Almanzar to a minor league contract.
01/15/23 Boston Red Sox signed free agent SS Franklin Arias to a minor league contract.
01/15/23 Boston Red Sox signed free agent SS Moises Semerite to a minor league contract.
01/15/23 Boston Red Sox signed free agent SS Nixson Cueche to a minor league contract.
01/15/23 Boston Red Sox signed free agent SS Nathanael German to a minor league contract.
01/15/23 Boston Red Sox signed free agent RHP Jesus Garcia to a minor league contract.
01/15/23 Boston Red Sox signed free agent SS Yoeilin Cespedes to a minor league contract.
01/15/23 Boston Red Sox signed free agent RHP Argeny Sanchez to a minor league contract.
01/15/23 Boston Red Sox signed free agent OF Albert Chalas to a minor league contract.
01/15/23 Boston Red Sox signed free agent SS Starlyn Nunez to a minor league contract.
01/15/23 Boston Red Sox signed free agent RHP Stijn Van Der Schaaf to a minor league contract.
01/13/23 Boston Red Sox signed free agent CF Greg Allen to a minor league contract.
01/12/23 Boston Red Sox signed free agent RHP Corey Kluber.
01/06/23 Boston Red Sox signed free agent 3B Justin Turner.
01/04/23 Boston Red Sox signed free agent RHP Sterling Sharp to a minor league contract.
acel – You think I’ve forgotten all the times you accused me of being wrong when it was YOU who was clueless?
Like the Schilling/Theo Thanksgiving dinner that you insisted never happened.
Then you tried to backpedal by saying the dinner had nothing to do with Schilling agreeing to come to the Red Sox.
I proved to you and JoeBrady that I was 100% right and you were 100% wrong, but you didn’t even have the character or class to acknowledge and apologize. You just disappeared from the thread like you always do when you get shown up.
7 player difference and likely growing, which if you were familiar with math is a 16% difference which is huge. I won’t even bother checking your small market team numbers because it’s just a waste of time with a hater like you, as evidenced yet again by your first paragraph.
But don’t worry, I won’t go the pedey route by having a meltdown and muting you. I enjoy setting you straight, until ST begins when I will have less time for this nonsense.
FPG: this is getting sad. I’ve proven you wrong time and again and now in vain attempt to prove yourself right you make a up fake argument about Schilling and thanksgiving that we never had. I’ll do something you seem incapable of doing and be consistent and say that you lost a lot of credibility when you called Eovaldi a workhorse but making up fake arguments is a new low.
Again more hypocrisy by you. you complain about people lacking class and being haters when you are extremely condescending to anyone that disagrees with you and you never admit your wrong even in the face of all the facts to there contrary. All I’m doing is holding you accountable. If you had any class you’d admit your mistakes and move on.
Also in terms of the gap “growing” it’s actually gotten smaller as the Yankees just signed another player to minor league deal.
I don’t mute people either because I’m not a coward and have no problem having these discussions.
acel – If I did call Nate a workhorse, which I probably did, I’m sure I supported it with either the FACT he led the league in starts just two years ago or the FACT he not only pitched for the 3rd time in 4 days during the 2018 WS but he actually threw 97 pitches in extra innings during that 3rd game. It was a legendary performance that every real Red Sox fan remembers and therefore wouldn’t need to be pointed out to them. Which is why I had to point it out to you, because you didn’t know.
. It’s a FACT that a workhorse has the kind of performance that Eovaldi consistently for more than one season so it’s equally a FACT that one “legendary” performance in the post season and one season in 4 where he made a full complement of starts does not a workhorse make.
Here’s a link to site the source for what defines a workhorse is. You clearly didn’t know what the definition was because you admitted as much so that should help.
baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Workhorse
it’s also FACT that you made up that ridiculous Schilling/thanksgiving argument.
For the combined 2020, 2021, and 2022 seasons added together Eovaldi had both more starts, and more IP than anyone else out there for the Boston Red Sox as far as I’m aware.
So, no, he was no vintage Chris Sale, but, when it came to the Boston rotation Nate WAS their workhorse.
I’ll anticipate the question – why start with 2020? When the core rotation was blown up by free agency, trades, and injuries across the board and SOMEONE needed to step up, Big Nate answered the call to be near the top and the best overall at taking the ball and saving the pen
Nate wasn’t a workhorse for the sox or otherwise by any definition. See the above definition. You can cherry pick the seasons all you want or try to fudge the definition but that doesn’t change the fact that he made a full complement of starts once in his four years with the Red Sox.
As far as saving the pen goes, he really didn’t do that outside of 2021. He averaged 5.5 innings per start last year and 5.3 at your mythical cut of date of 2020. I also don’t have to ask why you used that cutoff date because it conveniently ignores his worst season with the red sox in 2019.
for some reason you and FPG seem to think that pointing out the extremely obvious flaws in Eovaldi diminishes his 2018 post season or his 2021 season.. He was great and healthy in both of those cases. Outside of that not so much and it really isn’t that much of a debate.
JoeBrady – While Baseball Reference is great for stats there is a lag recording information. The MLB transactions is the place to go. That’s why you list is shorter than Fever’s.
The cutoff wasn’t about avoiding an injury plagued 2019 by eovaldi. In 2019 the rotation was erod, sale, price, porcello, and eovaldi.
Of those 5 who returned in 2020-onwards? Only 1 of the 5, aside from a mere handful of innings scattered here or there years between for Sale.
So, go ahead. Add 2019. From 2019-2022 Eovaldi STILL was the SP who logged the most aggregate starts and innings for the Boston redsox of the combined SP.
But, it sounds like you don’t remember who the starting 5 even was in 2019, just that you don’t like nate.
A team’s best SP is still called their ace of the team even if they don’t have traditional ace caliber stuff.
And, scoff at a 5+ IP average, but, the AAAA or worse trash bloom has been largely rolling with to cover missed starts and SP injuries since 2020 often pitch less than that, and, force bullpen arm usage and depletion. So. I stand by the fact that taking your scheduled start and both preventing BP games and/or allowing the long relied guys not to need a spot start DOES save the pen.
acel – How convenient of you to omit one minor thing …. that definition is based on HEALTH. When he’s healthy, he goes deep into games. He led the league in shutouts last year despite missing a huge part of the season. He had two complete games last year, more than anyone else on the team. It’s ignorant to fault him for injuries that are beyond his control, it’s not like he’s Chris Sale falling off a bike or punching a TV.
Those trash pitchers weren’t getting paid 18 million a year and yes I will scoff at the 5 plus inning average because if he was an elite pitcher those numbers would be higher. There’s more to saving the pen then just taking your scheduled start. Going deep into games is important and more so if the trash cans around you aren’t pulling their weight.
It’s not that I don’t like Nate. I just don’t think he’s as good as you and FPG make him out to be and certainly did not live up to the contract he got.. you’re basically hanging your hat on one season and and a post season and have to justify why he’s good by saying he was better than the admittedly crappy and injury prone pitchers around him. That’s not really high praise. He’s decent number 3 starter when healthy but the when healthy part is few and far between end of story.
acel – You really shouldn’t lie so much. I don’t bookmark comments, but someday you’ll lie to someone else and they WILL have your ignorant comments bookmarked.
But of course you’ll then claim your account was hacked again, right?
GASox – Thank you, great response. It’s so typical of the Bloom suckups to trash every player acquired pre-Bloom after they have left.
If Bloom had re-signed Nate, we both know the Bloom suckups would be calling it a great signing.
Pulled – Thanks, and I might also point out there SHOULD have been a lag with Joe’s Yankee transactions too … but I have no clue where he really got his numbers from, he didn’t provide a link as usual. I did.
FPG: Health is important. It’s ignorant to ignore that when discussing players not the other way around.he’s constantly hurt and not pitching that hurts your team. You’ll make all these excuses to justify why Eovaldi was a good signing yet slam guys like Story for the same reasons. Over the course of 12 seasons he’s made a full compliment of starts twice. THat’s a problem.
Also pardon me for not getting overly excited about him leading the league shutouts with a grand total of 1.
GASox – Fantastic post! I will call it a night because you have things well under control here with the Bloom revisionists.
I haven’t lied once. You put words in people’s mouths, are incredibly condescending, have such a dearth of knowledge that you consistently embarrass yourself and can’t make any counter argument when presented with facts. It’s clear that you follow the George Constanza rule that lie is not a lie if you believe.
You somehow found a way to sink to KD17’s level of being pathetic.
You’ve lied constantly to the point where you made up a story about us arguing over Schilling. You need to stop embarrassing yourself by replying.
ROTFLMAO, again!
You included all our international signings as an example of “AAAA fodder”?
Seriously dude, don’t take this personally, but including the international signings as an example of the RS adding AAA depth might be the single stupidest thing I’ve ever heard in here.
The minor league depth that they signed is the same in BR as it is in your list.
That’s why you list is shorter than Fever’s.
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My list is shorter than Fever’s because he is including the international amateur draft. Listen, I know you guys hate Bloom, but I could probably give you 5-6 reasons to not like him, without resorting to such inane practices such as combining the international amateur draft with AAA depth signings.
I know neither of you will admit it, but I know both of you realize that that was really stupid. Not only that, both of you should’ve realized that the chances of any team signing 31 AAA depth players was absolutely -0-.
I tell people this all the time in the real world. Sometimes you have to ask whether the number you are looking at makes sense. There are no small amount of mistakes that can be avoided since some numbers are non-starters.
but I have no clue where he really got his numbers from
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I told you where the numbers came from: BR.
You provided a link including international amateur signings as an example of AAA depth signings. Stupidest thing ever.
shame on me for trusting his numbers and his sources. I didn’t realize he included the minor league foreign free agents. That’s what I get for trying to argue with him in the first place.
Sure, but everyone in here had to know the number 31 was crazy wrong. MLB-R sites every minor league signing. BR makes a living at this. Rsmith (sb in the HOF) and I might disagree whether it was 6 or 8. BR or MLB-R might overlook one signing. But there is no way either site, or me and RSmith, are going to miss 25 signings.
Or to the other, more obvious problem. 31 signings are more than we have in AAA. It should’ve dawned on KD & Fever that we weren’t replacing our entire AAA team.
But it is also a common human failing to believe something to be true, because we want it to be true.
I still should have known better and I should have thought of that too. Shame on me as I said. It seemed ridiculous but I ignored my better judgement…live and learn.
acel – Your embarrassing false accusations bear a striking resemblance to “JoeBrady” …. and it’s been noticed by many.
Nowhere in that definition you provided mentions ANYTHING about health.
Now read these articles and do your usual disappearing act.
finance.yahoo.com/news/nathan-eovaldi-among-last-d…?
Nathan Eovaldi among last of a dying breed of workhorses
Mac Cerullo, The Eagle-Tribune, North Andover, Mass.
May 8, 2022·12 min read
May 8—They don’t make them like Nathan Eovaldi anymore.
In an era of low pitch counts and matchups, few starters are still trusted to pitch their way out of jams and face opposing lineups a third time through the order. Even fewer have the stamina and pitch mix to pull it off, making workhorses like Eovaldi an increasingly rare breed.
bostonglobe.com/2022/04/30/sports/not-many-workhor…
Not many workhorse aces like Nate Eovaldi left
https://www.bostonglobe.com › 2022/04/30 › sports › not…
Apr 30, 2022 — Nate Eovaldi is an anomaly, a classic ace who can pitch deep into games, a workhorse who takes the ball every fifth day.
bosoxinjection.com/2022/12/27/red-sox-offseason-na…
The noble workhorse mentality further endeared him to fans. Pedro Martinez raved about the “gut and heart” Eovaldi displayed, and Porcello admitted that his teammate’s performance on the mound moved him to tears. How Eovaldi comported himself, what could very well have been a debilitating, tide-turning loss actually fueled the Sox to wake up and take the series. Two games later, they were champions.
acel – Take the loss and move on.
I’m now bookmarking your embarrassing assertions, such as you insisting Nate has never been called a workhorse, because of your over-the-top Alex Cora level of arrogance in denying your lies.
And you damn well better hope I don’t find the Schilling Thanksgiving comments you made that led to your running away with your tail between your legs, because I’m really good at reminding people of their past transgressions.
acel – I proved you wrong yet again with links to articles referring to Nate as one of the last remaining workhorses. Now show a shred of dignity by apologizing to GASox and I.
acel – I agree health is important, but it has nothing to do with Nate being a workhorse or not when he’s healthy. Just like if a real horse has a leg injury, it doesn’t mean he’s not a horse just because he’s injured.
acel – You adhering to the George Costanza “It’s not a lie if you believe it” doesn’t mean it’s not a lie … because it still is.
When you get drunk and view a 400 pound woman as slender, does that mean she’s slender? Of course not.
acel – I noticed your alt, who was also involved in the Schilling false claims, hasn’t said a word about it. Not surprising.
acel – Where in the heading to my list, which I have copied and pasted below, does it say “AAAA fodder”? You’re really scraping the bottom here trying to backpedal.
ONCE AGAIN … DIRECTLY FROM MY ABOVE LIST.
“Players acquired since the WS ended, does NOT include unsigned ST invites:”
JoeBrady – I agree, shame on you for having conversations with yourself.
I have no idea what you’re talking about. I think maybe you tired yourself out from the 7 responses you posted to acel.
Now, did you just admit that adding international amateur draft signing to AAA depth signings was a stupid mistake, or are you still in denial?
Part of the fun of a debate is forcing people to admit they made a mistake (which happens to everyone), or forcing them to hold onto their mistakes, and most people can admit their mistakes, especially the more obvious ones.
So which road are you on this morning? Still unable to admit an obvious mistake?
first of all it took 3 days to finally respond and to find a few articles that had the words Eovaldi and workhorse? jeez that’s pathetic.
that’s pretty sad and unlike you I didn’t disappear for 3 days then in some rage induced stupor and post several articles ( one from May 8th before he got hurt again) which you clearly didn’t read where the author even admitted that Eovaldi wouldn’t be called a workhorse because he was hurt so much earlier in his career. He might have been trending toward it (as the author said) it but after getting hurt again and missing time for the third out of four years and given the rest of his career the label doesn’t fit.
To the last article that you quoted just because he has a “workhorse” mentality doesn’t make him a workhorse.
You keep making stupid mistakes and putting your foot in your mouth. The latest one is saying that Joe Brady and I are the same person. It’s time for you to pull a KD 17 change your screen name and disappear for a six months because it’s getting more and more embarrassing for you.
Please by all means bookmark these fake assertions you’re making and while you’re at it you need to put the keyboard down again and work some more on your reading comprehension.
You’re doing what you usually do and that’s twist peoples words. I never said Eovaldi wasn’t called a workhorse, just that he didn’t fit the definition. I’m sure you’ll find some way to twist my words again.
“my usually disappearing act” hahahahaha said the guy who vanished for 3 days before making any response…
Even though that comment was directed toward Joe (and you’re deluded enough to think we’re the same person) you mentioned me so I’ll respond.
The OP said that Bloom signed Faria as triple A depth and you said that Bloom was leading the league in “those types of signings” and lamented how more of those spots weren’t being used for AAA prospects. When I questioned you on it you said that Bloom had made 51 minor league signings. Of those 51 players signed there were maybe 7/8 that were signed for MLB depth in AAA the rest were international free agents. The difference between this two types of signings is vast and belies a lack of knowledge of how these types of deals work.
I’ll admit I was wrong to not more closely look at where you were getting your number of minor league signings. That was silly on my part because I ignored my better judgement. But that doesn’t make what you said any less stupid.
I know you’ll do what you usually do, either pick one work to hang on that or make up something I or someone else said but if anyone needs to take the L at this point it’s you.
When I questioned you on it you said that Bloom had made 51 minor league signings.
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It’s what happens in the True Believer syndrome. They want something to be true so badly that they are unable to question obvious mistakes. Virtually every financial fiasco can be traced to this. It is particularly prevalent with scams. Some folks just walk away when scammed. Some people cannot admit to being wrong, especially when they were obviously wrong, and will double down on their mistake hoping for a better outcome.
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Even though that comment was directed toward Joe (and you’re deluded enough to think we’re the same person)
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Our posting styles are fairly dissimilar.
Where Fever gets confused is that, when two people use data to support their arguments, they will frequently use the same set of data. You know, since there is frequently only one data point that can be correct.
Since we both believe that 2+2=4, Fever will think we are the same poster, since both came to the same conclusion.
Fever – this one is sort of disagree. What makes *this* transaction different is its a minor league ST invite sort of guy.
You’re confusing the peraza and andriese types, who held 26 man slots, with this guy, even though neither was of much more practical value.
Sure, throughout the year he churns through a big number hoping to spot talented major leaguers in the mix. And yes, that hasn’t gone particularly well both via wasted spots on players who didn’t perform that well and yes, wasted a bunch of money on them in the aggregate.
But, as a practical matter, you only get 14 minor league 40-man spots. Even if most of these were in AAA and you don’t account for depth pieces and a couple promising guys who had TJ or major injuries and slowed development (thus may be AA or even high A), you need guys who aren’t good enough to rate a 40 man spot to fill out AA/AAA levels.
If everyone on your AA/AAA squads were legit prospects, half your AAA probably gets taken in rule 5 every year.
And, does no good to rush a guy up when he’s completely over matched in an area of play. Then you mess up development.
GASox – I never said I disagree with this particular signing, and in fact all I said was that I agree with flip.
I do find it interesting the Yankees did the bulk of their minor acquisitions in December, while Bloom waited until January to pick off what’s left.
On the 14 minor league 40-man spots, if the bulk of the 14 are at the AAA level that means they are good enough to be there which means less AAAA fodder. Keep in mind Bloom is constantly churning players in and out, it’s not like every AAAA player he acquires is going to remain in AAA all year..
And drafted players need not be protected on the 40 man for 4-5 years (depending on how old they were when they signed) so you can certainly have more than 14 quality minor leaguers protected at AAA or AA. As one example, Mayer is a top prospect who is NOT on the 40-man roster because he was signed in 2021. And Raefala is on the 40-man.
I guess we will have to agree to disagree, one of the very few times we don’t agree.
And I added Rafaela at the last second and spelled his name wrong. LOL
He signed in 2017, that’s why he needed to be added to the 40-man.
Fever – I’m good with agree to disagree, we’ve been there a handful of times. It’s always civil and you don’t quote a small handful of words that strip the full statement and context away to lead off posts too, unlike some others.
I feel on a properly run franchise it balances out. You get a few quicker developers, mixed with a handful of depth guys developmentally held back (TJ arms) or international signers that came over at 16 type guys, it evens out till rule 5 comes and forces a competent gm to trade guys rather than give them away. Just over a dozen legitimate guys still developing should be about right for AAA.
Could’ve and should’ve had more upper level true prospects, but lack of a planned approach to the offseason led to trade-under-pressure DFA and straight release waiver losses in addition to the rule 5 draft.
When you’ve got a team in BOS that’s one of few to regularly make 500m a year in revenue, ‘cash considerations’ for a prospect or even rule 5 money should be irrelevant compared to maintaining talent pool value.
GASox – Superb post! Bloom failed in so many ways this offseason, all the excellent players he lost out on because he underestimated the market as usual.
I will stand by his decision to spend big on Yoshida, and I give him credit for the BP improvement, but that’s about it.
Bloom is lost in the big market
Darnell – You are correct! The casual fans probably could not name two of the top four minor league affiliates or even five players on the AAA team! Most of them probably only go to the games for the beer…..
Do they have to say guarantee of 735k if he makes the big league roster? Of course he is that is the minimum wage..everybody is guaranteed at least that right.
Pauly, Faria is not on the 40 man roster so I do not believe he is entitled to the minimum salary. Opportunity only.
Just fans that COMPLAIN because their team does not spend $500,000,000, have an all star at every position, and DFA a guy they like (instead of keeping 50 players on a 40-man roster)…..those casual fans get the mute…
I love how people think there are qualifications to being a “true” or diehard fan. SMH
So, you think everyone is a diehard Red Sox fan?
That’s kind of delusional.
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Don’t be ridiculous. People are arbitrarily making rules for judging people’s devotion to a team. It’s an absurd thing to do.
Some people confuse that dedication comes in degrees with infatuation/obsession only being a small subset.
There’s guys who are SO invested in baseball, or at least with the Sox in particular, that you could name any rookie ball player and they can give a scouting report from the top of their head. Yet, they’ve only followed the team at all for 3 years.
Then there’s guys who followed the team for 60 years straight, caught what games were on live TV they could, and have a lifetime of memories of players, but, are clueless about almost any project that didn’t come up to mlb, ever.
Which is the dedicated fan? Some say both, some say neither. Diehard could mean length. Could be depth of knowledge. Could even be consistent, as in doesn’t jump elsewhere when the team stinks.
GASox – My personal definition of a diehard is someone who invests an inordinate amount of time and money (based on what they can afford) to follow the team no matter how bad a season the team is having. And I’m talking watching, listening or attending as many games as humanly possible. Following the team through FG or BR does not count.
It has nothing to do with how long someone has followed the team. If a 90-year-old who used to watch Ted Williams play doesn’t watch or listen to many games anymore, that’s not a diehard IMO if he’s physically and mentally able to do so.
And if someone who started following the team in 2018 watches or listens or attends nearly every game, plans their vacations and trips around attending games, pays a premium price for subscriptions to NESN or MLB.TV and does a lot of reading about the team (not including stats) then I would certainly call them a diehard.
You wrote “I love how people think there are qualifications to being a “true” or diehard fan.”
There are obviously qualifications to be a diehard Red Sox fan.
If you wrote “People are arbitrarily making rules for judging people’s devotion to a team. It’s an absurd thing to do.” in the first place I would have liked your comment and moved on. Your statement made no sense.
Finally!
Walks a lot of guys. Gives up a lot of hits. Can strike out some guys, but bottom line is that this move, like many, is the type you make in case the team bus gets struck by a train with the entire 40-man roster on it. This guy should never see the field for the big club, and if he does, the season went far worse than we could have imagined.
Great guy. Interviewed him a couple years ago. One of my favorite interviews.
The drama in here is suffocating….make your points and move on, nobody wants to read a pissing match.
Seems like every Red Sox headline these days has the word “minor” in it.
what the hell happened to this franchise?
Seems like every year the Yankees have the best team on paper, and never win it all.
at least we look good on paper, the Red Sox can’t even say that these days.
Yankees – Red Sox Nation agrees, which is why as of this very moment there’s still thousands of unsold tickets available for the Fenway Home Opener. When it comes to fan interest the franchise has hit rock bottom.
They hired Bloom to save miser Henry $$
They spend to the limit every year. How is that you are not aware of this?
Opening day tickets for fenway Park have been on sale for DAYS.
Literally for DAYS. And, still have thousands of unsold seats. I’m talking you can get what passes for cheap seats at fenway still, not some loge box somewhere. And in multiples, not scattered singles.
When was the last time that happened? To me, that says all there is to know about Red Sox Nation, Bloom, and this roster.
Pitching depth lol
You need to have pitching first if you wan to have pitching depth
Bloom strikes again. No risk signing and the guy will make less than 1 million if he makes the roster,Heck Henry probably has the guy paying for his own room and board during ST
Wow what a wild string of comments today. I love the enthusiasm.
Fever is right about the Red Sox.
This is the perfect time for ownership to fire both Bloom for incompetence and Cora for what he wrote in his book. Concocting the biggest cheating scheme in baseball history and getting a slap on the wrist was unfair to so many people.
What Cora did dishonored former players, current players, former and current managers and coaches, former and current fans of the game. A lifetime suspension was already set as the precedent that the commissioner ignored. In the end the three amigos cheated in Houston so grossly that up to 90 games were impacted. Whether you can proved it was 90 or just 45 is irrelevant since the CWS scandal involved 5 games and EVERYONE guilty of participating or knowledge of it got life suspensions for changing the outcome of games.
Baseball had integrity when they tried to sanctify the results of games. Now, if you add dozens of wins by cheating it draws a partial year suspension. That’s pathetic. Cora should have never been allowed on a MLB field again for the rest of his life along with Hinch and Beltran. Beltran better not make the HOF when guys who didn’t change any results are being held out because Selig forgot to mention that he swapped a juiced ball into the MLB in 1994.
Now that the book is public Cora has further tarnished the Red Sox reputation and should be fired immediately. Bloom has been so destructive the last 3 years that he should be fired on the same day so all of Red Sox Nation can throw a party and fans can start buying tickets to the 2023 season knowing the owners showed integrity in firing these two clowns!!!
REVERSE THE CORA AND BLOOM CURSE WITH A SINGLE DAY FIRING TODAY!!!!!
Pulled – Great post as usual, thank you!!!
The empty Fenway seats and NESN ratings crash will eventually persuade John Henry to do what he should have done last year. Maybe we will see a mid-season managerial change like the Phillies did last year.
Time to buy some woosox tickets with all the minor moves .For all the Chaim Defenders. We had he done ( Devers , and Story) . He stripped a championship team apart, of players that were in their prime.
Bogeys contract was ridiculous they would have been tied town with him and Devers. He may have missed on a few trades but ownerships got their hands so far up this jews ass he missed kwanza. Hes building from the ground up with these moves, They’ve got a competitive club this year HES made GREAT budget signings like JT and Duvall Matasaka Yoshida is going to be a STAR for this team check the projections ‘B-Dog’ or should I say Bernie???
Bullpen has also improved mightily aswell so maybe you should go catch your local woosoox game while the real fans are at YAWKEY WAY Go BoSox
First off true fan . It isn’t Yawkey way anymore . You have a lot of faith in JT who’s 38 years old . I am remember as a kid I got excited too when they signed Andrea Dawson . Basically a shell of what he once was. As for Yoshida , he hasn’t even taken an mlb at bat yet ( played in Japan) You’re acting like that Yaz in his prime. I remember not so long ago major hype on this Japanese pitcher . Can you spell Dice K . How’d that Japanese star pan out ? Let’s get to Bogey now . They let that get too far for too long . They should have made him a real offer last offseason. Don’t forget he took a discount on the last deal . Why didn’t your Boy trade him during the season. I am sure he could have gotten another Franchy and some sh%t a level player. Come on, go put your Bloom jersey on and start defending him .
I will agree with you on the ownership. They are more concerned about changing street names and hiring the first woman of color than putting $ into the team . So you and the rest of the pink hat fans go drink your IPA and dance to Neil Diamond at an over priced ticket . I ll drink my Budweiser go Woosox.
Money hasn’t been the issue. We spend. It has been the allocation of that spending. This obsessive notion on flexibility, and short-term contracts. It may seem archaic these days but remember the days of having a team where you would pencil in players to play every day at a position they are best at?
I will enjoy my Neil Diamond with my pink hat and my tight jeans and an IPA In hand while this teams in the PLAYOFFS. Henry’s got this dude working overtime with his hands tied behind his back. Henry doesn’t wanna pay up now and everyone goes let’s blame the jew. He’s a scapegoat for this pathetic excuse of ownership. How the hell ya gonna dig a whole when all ya got is a spoon. I’ll see ya in october when the faithful is rocking and we’re singing Neil Diamond till the cows come home. oh and btw matasaka yoshida although he ain’t yaz. WILL be an ALL STAR this year
Thanks Billy some people think money grows like Neil Diamonds beautiful hair.
We agree on something . Neil does have some sweet hair . LMAO
Bloom is still at that Buffet Table after it has been out for three days. It’s a minor league contract but that 6.64 ERA should provide no help to this team. He is still a cheap budget GM Operations Guy. There is nothing in this team except for Devers that portrays winning. Fifth place behind Baltimore this year. This team is a major mess with players thrown at various positions and is going nowhere. Hopefully this is the end of Bloom this year.
A couple people pointed out something I didn’t think of. The Red Sox might be playing their hearts out for fourth place this season, but we signed enough mediocre major leaguers to build a really competitive AAA, and possibly AA team. There is your glass half full.