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I find it hard to hate this move. Someone could totally say it’s a ‘meh’ move, but it adds a SP with a very good track record to the back of the rotation. Could it turn into Santana 2.0? Absolutely, but the Sox don’t have any options to fill out the rotation, and Gio is way better than Covey. He can always be replaced by Rodon or Kopech when either of them are ready to come back. I really hope there is more additions like a Ryu/Keuchel, but this is a solid depth move that was way overdue.

Aren’t they one in the same?

I’m ok with this. They could have done much, much worse. Really hope this isn’t the only move for SP.

Agreed. I don’t see the Sox moving on from Anderson, or giving up the amount of talent it would take to get Lindor at a position that doesn’t need to be addressed at the moment.

He probably means Matthew Thompson, last years 2nd round pick. He’s a 19 yr. old starter.

This appears to be in reference to the Lindor to the Sox trade posted by StinkBob or whatever his handle is. I don’t think this guy knows a thing. Seems like he wants to believe him because the same guy tweeted something about Cole and the Yankees and the $$$ and it ended up true.

Sox have done this the past few seasons with other guys. Donn Roach was brought back twice, so was Chris Volstad prior. I think they just like bringing back guys that they know have good work ethics and know what to expect.

Signing Keuchel is something I’d be fine with. He’s not a sexy signing, but he solidifies the back end of the rotation. Sox need a vet that can help mentor their young starters, and Keuchel is one of the pitchers that helped unlock Cole’s potential on the Astros.

Got a thread on this already, you can still access the site if you change your safari settings when on the site. LINK

It's really unfortunate that Burdi, Dunning, Lambert, Burger, Adolfo, and Basabe were all either hurt for most of the season or completely out of commission. That's a lot of potential trade chips that are unproven and all coming off injuries. Leaves such a select few amount of resources to work with via trades.

Not a chance.

Well... I mean this changes everything! /sarcasm

Wheeler absolutely has risk. But I’d bet more on the 33 year old with husky build having more issues in the near future.

Ryu has much more risk than Wheeler IMO.

As a professional athlete, I’m sure he is used to his fair share of criticism regardless of where it comes from. These guys have been dealing with haters their whole professional career. Personally, I don’t get why you’d want to go out of your way and personally attack a player directly, but some people find the need to do so, especially on Twitter as it gives those keyboard warriors a platform. Delmonico has been incredibly meh for the Sox, but I totally like the guy as I’ve met him in the past. He’s extremely nice, just sucks at baseball at the major league level.

And next offseason they will come up with some other bullshit that they can’t spend money because Gio and Moncada will need to be retained and they need the space to prepare for that. Jerry absolutely knows what he is doing.

Seems like the Mets are out. Seeing some tweets that the Phillies are close.

Knowing the Sox (if they are even bothering) they will offer a ridiculous incentive laden deal.

I didn't realize they have that much money coming off the books, so that probably means they will keep him. If for some reason he was available, I would hope the Sox are all over him.

Kenny always gets his guy!

I'd be happy with (in order): Stroman Ray Paxton

C'mon, he isn't going to throw Covey under the bus. He knows same as everyone else that Covey is a dumpster fire option for the rotation. Probably trying to be nice to his son's co-worker.

Man, that's just sad. I don't think the Sox are at all in on him. If they were and Rosenthal heard something, he wouldn't have forgotten to add them in 4 minutes after his first tweet.

It would be funny if he did sign here still. I bet both would claim they had it first.