Red Sox 2025 Season

[Roy H.]

Bye bye Buehler

Welp, at least he was a better pitcher than Nick Pivetta.

/sarcasm.

[Goldstar88]

Bye bye Buehler

It?s fine we have Dusty May now. 

[rocknrollforyoursoul]

Bye bye Buehler

Welp, at least he was a better pitcher than Nick Pivetta.

/sarcasm.

And better than Nathan Eovaldi. 

[Redz]

Tolle was fun to watch.  Though I have to say, I thought the crowd wasn?t as into as I thought they?d be.  Seemed like a game they?d already won.  Maybe they thought that too.  That?s baseball..

[Goldstar88]

Red Sox should cut May loose. He sucks. Can?t believe they gave up multiple prospects to get him. 

[byennie]

I honestly can't follow the Sox reclamation project logic. I mean, I'm happy Giolito is looking good, but $19M for him and $21M on Buehler... $40M/year is enough to afford any pitcher in the league not named Ohtani. Why on Earth do you commit that kind of money where the best likely outcome is that one of the two becomes maybe... a #2 or #3 starter? They wouldn't be 100x better off nabbing Burnes or Wheeler even if they had to offer $45M/year?

So now we spent $40M this year, and because Giolito looks good we need to pay him $19M next year to be maybe our #4 starter?

Imagine if we had Wheeler instead and it was Crochet / Wheeler / Bello / Tolle...

[Vermont Green]

The Boston Red Sox have gotten a head start on their offseason business. The Red Sox and All-Star closer Aroldis Chapman have agreed to a one-year, $13.3 million extension with a vesting option for 2027, keeping him out of free agency this winter and in Boston for at least one more season. Beisbol FR first reported the deal. The team has not yet announced the extension.

"As we can sit here today and we look at a closer having a historically good season, it has to be something that you consider," CBO Craig Breslow told the Boston Globe when asked about extending Chapman this past week. "Obviously it takes both sides to work through some things. I think he's been outspoken about how much he's enjoyed it here."

Chapman, 37, is having an off-the-charts good season. He is 26 for 28 in save chances with 74 strikeouts in 52 innings. He's walked a career-low 7.3% of batters faced, and opponents are hitting only .119 against him. Based on the contact quality he's allowed (exit velocity, etc.), Statcast pegs Chapman's expected ERA at 1.97 and his expected batting average against at .167.

[Phantom255x]

I honestly can't follow the Sox reclamation project logic. I mean, I'm happy Giolito is looking good, but $19M for him and $21M on Buehler... $40M/year is enough to afford any pitcher in the league not named Ohtani. Why on Earth do you commit that kind of money where the best likely outcome is that one of the two becomes maybe... a #2 or #3 starter? They wouldn't be 100x better off nabbing Burnes or Wheeler even if they had to offer $45M/year?

So now we spent $40M this year, and because Giolito looks good we need to pay him $19M next year to be maybe our #4 starter?

Imagine if we had Wheeler instead and it was Crochet / Wheeler / Bello / Tolle...

Giolito has been the exception in a good way, but otherwise I 100% agree. Remember, they are also paying Patrick Sandoval 6M THIS season to literally just rehab and sit on his couch all year. He's owed another 12-13M next season. Then guys like Paxton, Hendriks, etc. over the years. You know, money that could be going to actual talent in the present. And then we have to hear about all the luxury tax ramifications, cost flexibility, etc.

I just hope they don't go into this offseason saying "oh we have Patrick Sandoval getting healthy and others coming back from injury so we don't need a #2 pitcher, and also we believe in Jordan Hicks bouncing back so no need for any other bullpen addition".

[Redz]

They can not keep rolling May out there anymore either.  I can't believe Cora sent him back out there for the 6th when he barely escaped the 5th giving up just 3 runs.