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Right ? He will be out. They are all about controlling the narrative. Can’t control your own #1 guy? Bad look. I’m sure TC gives no Effs.
Lol but he is wrong as most fans are. Thats a ridiculous deal and **** Bergman for taking it. He's 32, not getting younger and missed a lot of games last year. Good riddance. Devers needed to go so good riddance to him also.
Because he is a Boras guy and 99.9 percent of the time Boras clients never end up in the best situation for them baseball-wise. It's always about the top dollar so Borass can get a bigger chunk of the pie. I say that about most Borass clients btw.
It's a personal thing to me. The Sox are more setup for now and the future to win a WS than the Cubs. Thats my opinion of course. I have just seen more and more players over the years value earnings over winning. Happens all the time and Borass clients are the worst. I'd want titles and take a bit less to have a better chance to get one or more. The ultimate when you are 80 years old is ...there goes so and so, he's a x time title winning player. Everyone in sports has tens of millions of dollars. Titles are the separator.
As of this moment the Sox are 9th in payroll at $240m and conveniently below the tax threshold by $9.5m (LA is $334m and $95m over). In 2024 they were 4th in revenue at $574m (LA and NYY were well over $700m) so I assume revenue grew in 2025 (because they won).
The Bichette thing...needs to get done but I hear he wants 300 million which is insane and nobody is paying that. If they don't snag him, who I really, really like..and he solves a big issue at second imo...then there is enough to start *****ing about. He's young, talented and immediately helps the team. I agree there.
I have had this arument so many times. Any sport I played, sure it was amateur stuff, I always only cared about winning. If I were a pro, and extra couple million a year or there isn't worth it if I don't have trophies sitting in my office. As I said everyone in pro sports has generational wealth. There actually have been athlete who have done this. Marcus Jones recently comes to mind. You don't he could have gotten paid more in the FA market? Of course he could have. Ben Brown as well. Why do I care how the organization spends its money if I have a good chance at competing for titles? Make me comfortable and lets go compete for championships. At the end of the day if you are playing for money and not titles, I don't want to be playing next to you.
Yea I don't think hes $300m either. He might be Trevor Story 2.0 as he has some injury history. Hes is 27 and if they are going to shell out a 5yr/~$175m deal that's the age and production it's appropriate for.
Until you get your first big contract, then your sitting on your ass, going all Pablo Sandoval.
Yeah and Milton Williams is starting everyone in the face. Sure he got paid and paid well but he is an absolute dawg. Never gives up, motor never stops and wants to get better.
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