Red Sox are a mess in 2020 - which is on brand for 2020 w/ the "Sportz Jerks"
Red Sox stink but MLB baseball is back (for now)
Let’s start with former Red Sox cult hero and Dodgers reliever Joe Kelly throwing behind Houston Astros Batters.
Jeremy - every MLB team should have a guy on their roster like Joe Kelly, tell us why?
Leave it to the red sox to beat Jake De Grom - At least Eovaldi is getting run support.
Blame Pie - we go down the payroll and assign blame
Active Payroll is $115 million, the injured reserve payroll is $52 million (so almost 33% of the salaries)… and if you adjust the salaries for the shortened season… $43.7 million for active payroll and $15.7 million for injured reserve, so either way over 25% of your salaries are going to dudes who are injured
JD Martinez - I’m going with Base salaries not adjusted - he’s at $23.75 million
Xander Bogaerts - $20 million
Nathan Eovaldi - $17 million
Jackie Bradley Jr. - $11 million
Martin Perez - Pitcher - $5.5mil
Kevin Pillar - $4.25mil
Christian Vasquez - $4.2mil
Jonathan Lucroy - $1.5mil
Brandon Workman - $3.5mil
Andrew Benintendi - $3.4mil
Matt Barnes - $3.1 mil
There’s a bunch of dudes I don’t know or care about but we can go through them
Mitch Moreland $2.5mil - play him
Rafael Devers - $692,500 - play him
Alex Verdugo - $600,000 - play him
Michael Chavis - $571,000 - play him - but not a 1B
Chris Sale - $30million
Dustin Pedroia - $13mil
Eduardo Rodriguez - $8.3million (he’s only on 10-IR — he pitched well in 2019 relative to these other guys)
Paying David Price - $5.9mill (and he counts $16,000 against the luxury tax)
Paying Pablo Sandoval - $5mil
Paying Manny $2million in deferred money - that’s ok
Rusney Castillo is getting $14.27 million this year in a “buried minor league contract”
Who’s on the trade block - Xander has a full no trade clause
Eovaldi ? is he worth a flyer for a contender?
Jackie Bradley? same as Eovaldi?
Underrated Prospects
Baseball Analytics is “dead” in a 60 game season.
the manager Roenicke, seems to be going out of his way to “out do” Bobby Valentine as worst 1 year manager of the 21st century for the Red Sox.
Airing of Grievances
Predictions going forward — As Clubber Lang said in Rocky 3 - my prediction is pain! Red Sox are tanking
It didn’t have to be like this - it started with the overreaction of firing Alex Cora and the Mookie Betts deal with the Dodgers was an exclamation point! But lots happened along the way.
Moreland got benched the day after 2 homers - team can’t score
Verdugo vs. Lefties rant from Andrew
Benintendi, Pillar, What else