2025 Red Sox and MLB Thread
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Juan Soto and the New York Mets are in agreement on a 15-year, $765 million contract, sources told Jeff Passan, the largest deal in professional sports history.
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Juan Soto and the New York Mets are in agreement on a 15-year, $765 million contract, sources told Jeff Passan, the largest deal in professional sports history.
It's good that the Red Sox didn't end up paying that.
That's crazy money!! It's 50,000,000+ a year. Fucking insane!!
Now I just hope they keep up the willingness to spend this kind of money. They can use this money to get, say,
2 top pitchers and a high end bat.
That's what they need. Soto, no offense to him, was not enough to put the Yankees over the top last year, and he was not going to be enough to put the Red Sox, who couldn't even get into the playoffs, over the top.
They've made some really boneheaded decisions the last couple of years. Letting Mookie go was inexcusable. Story's been a disaster.
And the Story train wreck was easy to see coming, too.
The farm system's supposedly loaded with everyday player talent. So getting an ace and a #2 is the way to go. And they should either trade Story for whatever they can get for him, or build the team with the notion that Story will be allowed to walk once his deal is up.
Original deal: Six years, $140 million
Remaining years:
2025: $22.5 million
2026: $25 million (opt-out)*
2027: $25 million
(*If Story opts out after 2025, the Red Sox can opt back in by activating an additional $25 million in 2028.)
It was still April when Trevor Story dove for a ball and landed awkwardly. As Story grimaced, Red Sox nation groaned. The left shoulder dislocation cost Story the majority of the year, and now three years into a deal marred by injuries, the Red Sox must hope there’s still something left in Story’s bat.
In only 163 games over the past three years, Story has a mere .296 on-base percentage and an 89 OPS+. He made a surprise return from the shoulder injury and hit .270 with two home runs in September, providing a small glimpse of hope. But after all the injuries, the chances of Story taking his opt-out after this coming season are slim. As the Red Sox look to return to contention, they must hope Story can stay healthy and find his form of old even as he enters his age-32 season.
They should just eat the deal, but they won't. So they need to play him as either a bench guy or a rotational player at both 2nd and short. With any luck, he'll decline the option (he'd be crazy to do that).
The Sox would have to eat a lot of that contract to get rid of him. He's not going to opt out, and I don't blame him. There's no way he'd get a better deal elsewhere.
I agree. I hate that contract, but they're stuck with it. So they should use it as a way to ease the young players in by using a rotational system. Frankly, given how so much has been "analytic'd" in sports today, I'm surprised that teams haven't started going with group rotation systems, rather than just occasional substitutions, in order to cut down on fatigue impacted play and fatigue-based injury. The rotations don't have to be purely even, but keep it close to it:
Rotate 4 outfielders
Rotate at 3 at SS/2B
Rotate at 4 at 1B/3B/DH
Give the backup catcher a higher percentage of games
That still leaves 13 pitching slots, which is what the Red Sox started with last year. And the 4th man in the DH rotation and/or 3rd man in the middle infield rotation could, in theory, be someone who could also serve as a legit backup in the outfield, which would add extra protection against injury or late game moves involving the outfielders.
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