How often have you heard the FO say about a manager, "We have the utmost faith in ___________ to right this ship" and then see that same manager fired within a month?
That's why I don't believe anything coming out of the RS office. It would be ridiculous for any executive of any business to reveal their commitments. It's detrimental to their own business and a boon to the competing businesses.
It's a mere moment in a man's life between the All-Star game and the Old Timer's game.
-Vin Scully
They kept him down because they had an elite outfield with Benintendi, Bradley and Betts and did not want to pay that much for a fourth outfielder for tax reasons. It probably didn’t help that Dombrowski was never a fan of Castillo.
His salary was a huge factor in keeping him down, but he was good enough to play in MLB…
When you say it's gonna happen now
When exactly do you mean?
As I understand it, yes. The RS were on the hook for tax on that salary if he made an MLB roster. So it must have come down to a calculation of what that hit would be in relation to the lux. tax limit, vs. what little they might save by releasing or trading him (no one was going to take on much of his salary).
"Fans have become more entitled than anything. So they're starting to question our motives for the game, or how we approach the game. The ones that do question -- like who are you? Just shut up and watch the game tonight." --Kevin Durant on players' lack of effort in regular season games.
Championships since purchase by John Henry group: Red Sox 4 Yankees 1
The Red Sox are 8-1 in their last 9 postseason games against the Yankees.
My recollection was Sox over reacted to coming in second place to the White Sox in Jose Abreu sweepstake. I read somewhere Sox was NOT going to come in second place for two years in a row. Rest is history.
Also we are on the hook for a portion of last year of Price's contract, $16M. Of course it has to count against our luxury tax. Otherwise we'd trade away bad contracts to get it off our books. Surprised we're discussing that...
Last edited by Nick; 01-21-2022 at 02:13 PM.
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