It felt like a fair price to swap the 48th ranked player on Sox Prospects to acquire a veteran who is also a former Boston pitcher! And what a story. But it could be Garrett Whitlock if he isn’t needed in the rotation. Who’s the closer? Matt Barnes? Well, probably. Rockies trade Daniel Bard to the Red Sox for Durbin Feltman Eddie, I would have gone five if you needed it! Well, one point for the virtual Sox. At 3/$50 he signed for about $16.7 million per year, basically the same rate as his real life deal with the Detroit Tigers, just two years shorter. Red Sox sign Eduardo Rodriguez to a three-year, $50 million dealĪfter some negotiations, I was able to keep Rodriguez in Boston. There were games in 2021 where it looked like that 6 bWAR player was back and putting his name into the Cy Young conversation. It’s been a long road for him coming back from various injuries and then Covid in 2020. Keeping E-Rod was very important to the plan. Red Sox extend a Qualifying Offer to Eduardo Rodriguez He’s not the offensive force he was a few years back and he really shouldn’t lead a team in stolen bases, but what can you do but keep him around? $12 million for two years of veteran help versus $7 million for one year keeps him in the organization. Red Sox sign Christian Vazquez to a two-year, $12 million deal Kyle Schwarber? I really wanted to keep him but he turned down the qualifying offer (more on this later).Ĭhristian Vazquez.well, he wasn’t really gone for long. His stay in the bullpen was just 26 innings, and while impressive at times, there was still a lot of work and not a lot of budget to play with when I looked at my wish list. Believe me: I was excited to see Richards signed last year and wanted him to thrive. While he had a second life as a reliever the choice was $1.5 million or $10 million. The same can be said for Garrett Richards. Martín Pérez, for all his energy and fun, just hasn’t really pitched well for any given length of time. There were a few easy roster decisions to make here. Red Sox decline the options on Garrett Richards, Christian Vázquez, and Martin Perez.
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So what’s on the menu? Extensions, trades, and free agents!
Given their brief major league experience and the budget and farm system available, adding some help for the transition of Houck, Whitlock or both onto a major league roster would be nice. Chris Sale, Nathan Eovaldi, Nick Pivetta, Tanner Houck, and Garret Whitlock could all be available to start but wouldn’t be locked in as the starting five. With pitching, especially consistent pitching, the biggest hurdle for the Sox last season the plan for 2022 had to start with imagining the rotation.
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For a brief moment, it looked like they were about to embark on another amazing World Series run. There were some streaks of good play and bad play but ultimately the team won the games necessary to make it into the Wild Card, ALDS, and ALCS. While every year sees both over and under performers, on the whole the 2021 Red Sox were, well, good. My goal in taking over for Chaim Bloom was to finish this team. These simulated Red Sox are not beholden to a specific budget amount, but also aren’t executing a plan of “sign every free agent available.” I assume if I’d collected 50 or 60 guys the commissioner would have started to take action, but being fuzzy around the edges of the simulation seemed to be allowed. In the past there have been some “secret missions” like “your ownership instructs you to get under the luxury tax threshold.” This year the only marching orders for the Red Sox were “expect to be among the big spenders.” That vague guideline was it.Īlso, we didn’t need to worry about the 40-man roster.
The exercise is intended to see what we can do as the GM for a few days working with 29 other GMs from across the SB Nation universe. A way too early prediction for the Opening Day rosterĮarlier in the offseason, just before the lockout went into effect, I participated in the annual SB Nation MLB Off-season Simulation run by Max Rieper over at our sister-site Royals Review.
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