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Cuba can always allow the players and their families to leave freely to another country and play, then we know that's not about to happen.

Here is to hoping all those power pitchers with upside they took in 2017 take off this year.

Maybe not villainous, but every time he puts out one of those fancy books comparing Oliver Perez in several ways to Randy Johnson (which he did) when Ollie reached FA several years back and all those large.. Whoppers he's known for to use a kind word.

It's not hard to see, for some him in a twisted way and nothing more than the epitome of everything that has gone wrong with the game.

Some might say Marvin Miller was bad, I will not and never did. He brought changes.. Some good and a few maybe not as good. Boras has brought nothing but a hard line "my way or the hell with you" stance which is grating and will use any tactic to get there, even lie, which he has shown with those books he at least used to put out and publicly puts forth in media speeches time after time with regards to "his" clients.

Yes.. It's the job of an agent to help a client, and indulge as much as possible in their respective abilities and they all do to a certain degree, but the amount Boras goes to far exceeds what is reasonable and hits fantasy levels. It's no wonder "his" people have become the 1st "victims" in the new era of somewhat fiscal sanity when combined with his hard headedness.

Duron thought might have been useful as LT relief option for the system, if he wanted to stick it out. Remember he looked pretty well when laid eyes on him few years back. McAvoy always (to me) was cannon fodder and another example of what you get when 4 pitch guys with no heater fail... Nothing useful.

Think from 1 story we saw earlier in the offseason they may have possibly tried this approach, at least with regards to Porcello, who doubt will see close to his current 20m AAV in FA once he hits the open market and doubt the FO got any bites without subsidizing part of his current salary, which is why he's still here.

JBJ is another could have seen shopped around some after his post season heroics. Might as well, but doubt any GM's were willing to be blinded and pay for that short term success and over look the long cold streaks he has.

IMO, those 2 were the obvious ones to trade earlier and clear some space for a sign. Tougher one would have been Xander, then would have had to rely on Lin and bring in some kind of vet as another backup plan. Too risky.

I looked and looked also Chris and cannot find it. Sometimes they update posts, maybe that's it, but it flat out ain't there. Will look over other sites later to make sure no other sports site. not that many others bother to check now, mostly NE ones, along with The Athletic.

There is a really good piece on MiLB pay from a player's prospective at the Athletic:

MiLB Pay

There was a time when MiLB teams belonged to the parent team anyway. Could be headed back to that. Imagine local/private ownership began as another cost cutting measure to begin with.

Remember back in the day Boston owned several of their minor league franchises, tho not the stadiums themselves. Cities themselves did pay for those and crowds in the 70's were not huge, like in some earlier decades when minor league ball was at it's hey day.

See no reason why local communities and clubs could not do this once again and get away from the for profit mode with regards to MiLB ball to pay kids a proper salary. Some current MiLB owners want to attempt it, go for it but don't see how they can on their own.

It seems to me Bogaerts is the odd man out for the Sox to attempt keeping among the 3 of Betts/Sale and Bogaerts. How they can fit 2 more than likely additional 30m AAV salaries, then a Bogarts one at probably 20-25m in the payroll dooms any chance at retain JD Martinez over the next several seasons and I don't see Dombrowski going that way.

Glad you can make some games and see them. We may take in a Tigers game or 2 since Joker Marchant upgrades finally done.

Still planning trip-2 during GCL season. Maybe this time can actually meet up, or during a Sox road trip to Ed Smith stadium MiLB complex.

This has to do with ST also, tho from the 70's and is in regard to an article on The Athletic today on Dwight Evans.

Here is part want to show:



I remember when Williams would show up in camp he usually had a "project" player to work with during the spring and focused on that player. Hobson 1 year and also remember in the clubhouse he'd talk hitting with a few players, coaches and some of the writers long after most of the others had gone. Mostly remember him zipping around on his golf cart between the MLB clubhouse and the MiLB complex where he had a few guys he was working with also, sadly can't remember any names there.

My question, is know at least 2 members from old Winter Haven days other than me around here, including the HaSox BB from that time cannot remember name (apologies).

Can either of you remember Ted ever working with Evans before? I really don't during ST and was generally there all the time, either in stands, minor league complex, or hanging around in the back ground of the clubhouse.

Am pretty sure it's been mentioned here before.

If Dombrowski was willing to spend a good amount of money on a closer, then he would have just let Eovaldi walk earlier and signed one of the middle guys Miller, Britton etc.. instead. it was pretty clear he wanted the formidable rotation preferably and look for scrap pieces for the pen with where that deal put the 2019 salary at.

Before that Lurker, after 2013 when he broke his I believe it was his left foot the Sox FO was going to take him to arbitration and many of us here wanted them to sign him to a LT extension then. He already had 1 and a half season by then starting to show he had pretty much honed his craft and was developing into a good setup man. I believe he only got a cpl million then, they could have signed him for probably 3/15m at that time.