@beantube.bsky.social
NBC Sports by day, Red Sox optimist by night
Immediately thought of you when Cora said it
12.03.2025 19:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0None of these happened but very ok with the Crochet / Buehler backup plan
Go get Bregman and a relief arm and the Sox play meaningful baseball in October
Living in fear of a panic Santander / TO overpay
08.12.2024 16:13 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0When Soto spurns the Sox:
- Fried / Burnes (preferably both)
- Trade for Suzuki
- Check in on Mariners / Pirates arms for prospects in 6-10 range + MLB OF
It’s all so simple, spend the money on pitching!
Whether it’s right to believe these reports or not, gotta think $650 / 13 is probably where Soto talks land?
I expect $50M AAV is what Boras is ultimately looking for…
15 days until Winter Meetings begin
24.11.2024 17:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Whenever I miss baseball during the offseason, I watch my POV of the final out of the 2013 World Series.
and then I miss Koji Uehara instead.
Post-Patriots game deep dive into Soto has me in the trenches in Savant. Unbelievably impressed by how much the advanced metrics love Juan Soto.
You hear it anecdotally all the time, but he is SPECIAL.
More to come...
Snell/Fried
Crochet
Houck
Giolito
Bello
Red Sox 2025 rotation could feed families
Couldn’t be more back if I tried
15.11.2024 05:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Shane Bieber is an intriguing bounce back candidate for the Red Sox. Keeps it in the zone, not a big velo guy - 2 years with an opt out?
15.11.2024 00:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Gotta respect Breslow and Bailey for being consistent, great breakdown
15.11.2024 00:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Building from within from '14-'16 led to spending and trading in '17-'18. The team identified their guys, devoted time and energy to their development, and supplemented their gaps with aggressive trades and huge checks.
The 2025 offseason smells awfully similar...
2018 was great and that core of Mookie / Xander / Devers could've won a lot more, but the fruits of deciding to bail and rebuild the infrastructure will pay off in 2025 and beyond.
Painful and saddening yes, but well positioned to compete into the 2030s.
The framework is simple- a team's contention window is limited and cyclical. Tear it down to build it again stronger.
Identify your guys, find free agent vets that fill the gaps, ideally win a few titles, then decide if that core is stable enough to keep winning and if not, start again!
Ahead of the 2024 MLB season, I started pulling together some thoughts on the state of the Red Sox, 5 years since the championship window effectively closed.
I cataloged as much as I could into a framework I’m calling “the Sports Competitive Cycle”
Not clever, but stick with me I’m cooking.
so it begins…
14.11.2024 16:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Also found this one, my attempt at coping with the lack of throttle last Sox offseason...
14.11.2024 02:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0white bar sox spend, red bar first CBT threshold
doing my best @redsoxstats.bsky.social impression
Revisiting some graphics I made ahead of the 2024 season and found this chart. Paired with all of the recent optimism around the Red Sox spending, quite a visual.
What a difference a year makes, I hope to say in the next few weeks...
Red Sox Twitter vs Red Sox Bluesky
14.11.2024 01:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
