Red Sox 2025 Season

[Roy H.]

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...

Dunno if Burnes and Wheeler are the best examples.  Burnes had Tommy John surgery in June and Wheeler is out 6-8 months with blood clots.

IMO it's all about length of contract with older pitchers. By the time these guys get to free agency they're often close to 30 years old abd are due to break down.=

Thoughts on Max Fried and his deal?

[Roy H.]

Ugh.  Anthony out for the rest of the regular season.

[rocknrollforyoursoul]

Ugh.  Anthony out for the rest of the regular season.

What?!?

[Phantom255x]

Ugh.  Anthony out for the rest of the regular season.

What?!?

Oblique strain, 4-6 weeks.

Best case scenario? He returns wild card series or early ALDS.

Worse case? Probably World Series which I highly doubt the Sox make (but hey I'd love to be wrong)

[celticsclay]

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...

Dunno if Burnes and Wheeler are the best examples.  Burnes had Tommy John surgery in June and Wheeler is out 6-8 months with blood clots.

IMO it's all about length of contract with older pitchers. By the time these guys get to free agency they're often close to 30 years old abd are due to break down.=

Thoughts on Max Fried and his deal?

I feel like the Fried deal is great for the first 5 years, but the last 3 are going to be a complete disaster. 31 million each year when he is 36, 37 and 38?

[Redz]

Any other old schoolers getting ` 75 Jim Rice vibes from the Roman Anthony injury?

Hopefully he has a career like Jim Ed's.

[rocknrollforyoursoul]

Ugh.  Anthony out for the rest of the regular season.

What?!?

Oblique strain, 4-6 weeks.

Best case scenario? He returns wild card series or early ALDS.

Worse case? Probably World Series which I highly doubt the Sox make (but hey I'd love to be wrong)

Horrible luck. Now they've gotta fill in with overpaid/underperforming Yoshida or some quad-A guy.