Greg Allen traded for Diego Hernandez

You got some crap for a statement that would have been alright for any other team in any other sport. spankees suck

Yes I know that. For all I know you could be describing both the Sox and Yankees this year with that statement.

My statement was pretty general and basic. The Yankees have been over .500 for the past 30 years and it's not like their winning percentage is .510 during that time. They have won about 57% of the time. Dumb organizations dont do that. The Yankees haven't been stupid since the late 1980s when Steinbrenner put them on a treadmill to nowhere. Only his suspension for digging up dirt on Dave Winfield kept him from destroying the franchise altogethr and it allowed what Gene Michael built in the 90s. Steinbrenner wanted to trade away a young Mariano Rivera for Felix Fermin. He lost patience with Pettite and wanted him traded away, but by then the front office was better at talking an aging Steinbrenner out of his insanity.

This was years after he had already given away a young Willie McGee, Fred McGriff, and Jay Buhner, and even Doug Drabek and Bob Tewksberry for virtually nothing.

That stupidity resulted in a year like 1990 where the Sox weren't great but good enough to squeak by in the AL East where Toronto was the only other really good team.

The Yankees lost 95 games and were so bad that Andy Hawkins pitched a no hitter for them and lost 4-0! Hawkins also had 3 outings against the Sox that year where his ERA was 162, not 1.62, but 162.00....he only lasted 0.1 on each of his 3 starts against the Sox. I remember Mike Greenwell hitting an inside the park grand slam on a grounder past the 1st base bag down the line. And the best thing of all was manager Bucky Dent getting fired.....at Fenway Park after the Sox swept them 4 straight in June. Let him put THAT on his mantle, hahaha.

They haven't been bad like that for a long, long time. Their bad seasons are basically the Sox 2019 season, where they still won more than they lost.

The Sox have had 5 losing seasons in the past 11 years, and reached 90 losses twice during that time and probably would have again had 2020 gone the distance.

I'm not disparaging the Red Sox because I'll take 2 championships with that baggage any day over the close but no cigar thing the Yankees have been doing. The Sox had that close but no cigar thing for a long damn time themselves. Let the Yankees be aggravated. F them.

That said, they make mistakes, but I dont think they're a dumb organization at all. They know Theo lapped them on the analytics modernization of baseball decision making 10 - 20 years ago, so they grew their analytics dept and probably surpassed the Sox for awhile. I believe Bloom has been trying to catch the Sox up in that regard as I believe they lost a bit of that edge in the Cherington era.

Aces like Cole cost big bucks. So do guys like Judge. So do guys like Devers. Every big contract will have dead spots, even those 3 deals.

That's the nature of free agency. If you dont wind up with dead money somewhere then you're not signing anybody.