southsider2k5

This. Exactly this. Even a chance at Fletcher being your 5th OF in 4 years or a situational lefty in AA is better than a chance at nothing in 1 year.

Individually they are probably not much. But the whole idea is future talent hording at this stage. Even a small chance at a future is better than no fucking way.

Who and for whom?

I fully expect Montgomery to be called up any day at the rate we are going. Look it is one thing to sign vets as place holders so as to NOT rush players, but the fact that other kids (no matter how marginal, they have a better chance at future value than Rafael Fucking Ortega does) are getting released to make room for this trash, that is a problem. When you KNOW you have no present value, you stop worrying about present value. You start worrying about your future value. Trading a low level guy for a lefty specialist, and then releasing him two months later to make room for a guy who has no future with your team is just stupid. Now you have blown through two potential future pieces (again, no matter how small those odds are) for a guy with no future at all. Why? So you can lose 105 games instead of 110? JFC how stupid can this franchise be?

What were these other offers?

Not freaking panic during the first four weeks of a rebuild?

He's panicking like he has a month late period.

Supply and demand for ego projects has been the single biggest driver of franchise values in the last few decades, versus back when sports was actually a normal business model. A pro franchise has become something closer to a megayahct to be shown off to the world versus something to profit from.

Cool. What amazing compelling knowledge. Glad your tax cheats have given you insight into professional sports ownership accounting at a level that can't be questioned without hurt feelings.

Jesus and now Bailey Horn is DFA'd too for this fucking mess.

If you want to provide something deeper I will listen, but just "trust me" isn't much of an argument.

With the kind of revenues the Sox are pulling down? Yes.

Also Ortega for Fletcher is absolutely a full pledged panic move.,

Ugh.

Sure, but no amount of magical tax knowledge is going to make up $100 million with these kind of revenues.

Look, I know the Sox get some revenues that don't come through on the baseball side, but if you track the Forbes +/- by year, the Sox are somewhere around $100 million in losses in that time. While I don't think it is that bad, I would be pretty surprised if they were hiding an extra hundred million dollars in that time period.

Team OPS, maybe.

Glad it was Pillar and not Fletcher.

Who was it that was calling him a bust after his first inning?

He has to park cars there for the chip on his shoulder he has about something so freaking simple. It's a train, it's not rocket science.