Moan4Yoan

Doh, forgot about Moncada moving to 3B and Madrigal. RF could be a nice FA area.

Rendon is now the next best guy available and he just turned down the Nationals extension offer. Sox still have a hole at 3B and I don’t expect anything but DH potential for Burger.

With the additional hindsight of the Arenado and Trout extensions, I definitely wish they would have given Machado the $300 million. It’s obvious they won’t get another shot at a top 26 year old FA for as low as $300 million again. The price is only going up for the top talent.

Does this mean he’s on the roster for opening day?

Now this is a great deal. 6-years, $43 million guaranteed. With both team options exercised it becomes 8-years, $77 million. Sure wish Machado was on the left side of the field with him.

You reap what you sew. The Sox have no one to blame but themselves.

Why are my expectations unrealistic? Why do you assume people are pissed off because they want changes to the Sox ownership and management?

Go read the post again. He also asked why the Sox don’t continually succeed like other franchises.

So far, he has questioned why anyone wanted the same Sox management that failed at drafting to run the rebuild. He has also blamed injuries. Finally, he has apparently decided to throw out “I told you so’s” to the Sox fans who thought the Sox front office would wisely spend money during the rebuild process to improve the team. Ultimately, his arguments all point to the Sox ownership and management being terrible so I don’t know why he doesn’t just say that.

Injuries prevented the Sox from spending money on top free agents to improve their team as opposed to signing trash free agents and pocketing the rest of the unspent payroll? I didn’t realize this.

That is more of an indictment of Sox ownership and management than a chance for “I told you so’s” to other Sox fans. It is almost incomprehensible for the Sox not to have one of Machado or Harper right now other than having one of the worst owners and front offices in all of baseball.

Jerry either sells or dies, whichever comes first, and the new ownership team cleans house of our current front office clown show.

Everyone was convinced that the Sox front office would spend the money on good players to assist the rebuild when the time came. Well, the time came but now it is obvious that part of the rebuild strategy was simply being cheap and saving profits. Going after Machado and Harper “at their own price point” was one big sham to save face with the fans and I’m glad it has backfired on them. Hahn and Kenny have been proven to be both liars and terrible executives.

I want it spent on good players, not the used up turds that Hahn signs with the money.

And Kenny and Hahn would have said it was a better deal than what the Angels gave Trout because he had the potential to earn more money. They would be shocked once again that Trout didn’t accept the offer and the potential to make $20 million more when he is 37 years old.

Yes, over the next 10 years on scrub veteran retreads. Kenny and Hahn will be excited to go dumpster diving year after year to spend that $250 million. So no Machado, no Harper, no Arenado, no Trout... what stars are there left to sign that will hit free agency? The Sox front office played everything about as poorly as anyone possibly could. It’s laughable.

And I will continue to ask — why? If you miss out on Machado and Harper, this team has no chance at competing this season and Jay was signed for one year. Why waste $4 million on Jay instead of simply playing admittedly awful Adam Engel? To improve from 74 wins to 75?

Agreed, and that would have cost $9.3 million in total base salaries. Remember when Hahn’s strength was supposed to be in signing players to good contracts? He basically burned money in the fireplace this offseason.

I can’t believe he has the balls to take interviews at this point. His offseason was terrible. He overpaid Jon Jay. CarGo only got half the guaranteed money. He took on Alonso’s bloated salary and helped the Indians cut payroll. Nova is an obvious overpay at $8 million if Gio only got $3 million. He signed a bunch of mediocre unnecessary players for $50 million and missed out on his primary target because of $50 million guaranteed. The irony is hilarious.

Hahn paid $8 million and a prospect for Nova and $4.3 million for Santana Gio is signing with the Yankees for $3 million and incentives. https://mobile.twitter.com/Ken_Rosenthal/status/1107797969913475075 All Hahn had to do was sign Machado and Gio and people would be happy. What a terrible offseason.

The Yankees are looking to add Gio due to the health issues of Severino and Sabathia. https://mobile.twitter.com/JonHeyman/status/1107312348820393984

He’s the guy Hahn should have signed, along with Machado. Watch how cheap Gio signs for now. Instead, Hahn wasted $50 million on scrubs, the same amount of money they missed out on Machado by. The Sox would have been better by just adding Machado and Gio than the table scraps Hahn elected to sign.

Why the heck did Hahn give Jon Jay $4 million guaranteed? Awful. I’d rather have CarGo right now for less than Jay.

The rumored years and money made absolutely no sense so I’m glad it isn’t happening.

Funny thing is, if Eloy files a grievance like Kris Bryant, I wonder if they could argue his awful tiny sample size at the plate this spring if he then tears it up at AAA for a couple weeks, lol. Either way, I’m happy the front office isn’t stupid enough to put him on the opening day roster. They are stupid enough for many other reasons.