A Realistic View of 2019 Part 1

[notin]

Just beating moonslav to the punch.

But seriously, come tomorrow, TITLE DEFENSE BEGINS!!!

[mvp 78]

120 wins

[Palodios]

ESPN's Way too Early Rankings for 2019 has the Red Sox at #4.

Minutes after beating LA, days after beating NYY and HOU, they put all of those teams ahead.

[a700hitter]

ESPN's Way too Early Rankings for 2019 has the Red Sox at #4.

Minutes after beating LA, days after beating NYY and HOU, they put all of those teams ahead.

ESPN is a failure of an organization.

[mvp 78]

173 - 0

[YastrzemskI]

This post is too early man... the champagne is still flowin’!

CHAMPS BABYYYY!!!!!

[notin]

This post is too early man... the champagne is still flowin’!

CHAMPS BABYYYY!!!!!

Well this is as tradition dictates...

[Station 13]

ESPN's Way too Early Rankings for 2019 has the Red Sox at #4.

Minutes after beating LA, days after beating NYY and HOU, they put all of those teams ahead.

Click baity.

[mvp 78]

But the cliiiiiifffffffffff............

[jacksonianmarch]

It’s not clickbait. It’s somewhat reasonable, but that assumes a lot. No team has repeated since the 2000 Yanks won their third in a row. There’s 18 years of history there. The Sox ace looks hurt and it’s a shoulder issue, which puts his production for 2019 in question. Kimbrel, Eovaldi, Kelly and Pearce are all FA’s with the Sox already against the cap. While Price looked awesome in the POs, he’ll be another year older and had a big workload this year. The questions are there for sure

No way I put Houston above them. Both with Keuchel and Morton hitting FA. Unless HOU gets a discount, they can’t afford those guys. Yes, they’ve got MiLB talent, but there’s no way they’re gonna replace that production.

NYY is the biggest wildcard. Our pen takes a hit with Britton and Robertson entering free agency. Happ and CC are FA’s too. But we’ve got a literal shit ton of money in our pockets and the prospects to make a move too. Stanton enters year two as well, which is historically the best year for our star acquisitions. But moving them above BOS is assuming we spend and don’t get outspent. We aren’t as carefree with the checkbook as we used to be. And while pitching is what we need, the biggest and shiniest toys on the market swing a bat.

The Dodgers have a bright future with a solid farm and Buehler ready to take the reigns. But they’ve got to figure out the Kershaw situation and need a new manager.

[cp176]

It’s not clickbait. It’s somewhat reasonable, but that assumes a lot. No team has repeated since the 2000 Yanks won their third in a row. There’s 18 years of history there. The Sox ace looks hurt and it’s a shoulder issue, which puts his production for 2019 in question. Kimbrel, Eovaldi, Kelly and Pearce are all FA’s with the Sox already against the cap. While Price looked awesome in the POs, he’ll be another year older and had a big workload this year. The questions are there for sure

No way I put Houston above them. Both with Keuchel and Morton hitting FA. Unless HOU gets a discount, they can’t afford those guys. Yes, they’ve got MiLB talent, but there’s no way they’re gonna replace that production.

NYY is the biggest wildcard. Our pen takes a hit with Britton and Robertson entering free agency. Happ and CC are FA’s too. But we’ve got a literal shit ton of money in our pockets and the prospects to make a move too. Stanton enters year two as well, which is historically the best year for our star acquisitions. But moving them above BOS is assuming we spend and don’t get outspent. We aren’t as carefree with the checkbook as we used to be. And while pitching is what we need, the biggest and shiniest toys on the market swing a bat.

The Dodgers have a bright future with a solid farm and Buehler ready to take the reigns. But they’ve got to figure out the Kershaw situation and need a new manager.

The Red Sox will do their due diligence I think. They get it. It isn't all about these uber talented free agents. It is all about finding solid unselfish talent and putting them out there to play as a team. John Henry sounded and looked like he was having a pretty good time last night. I don't think that it matters to this franchise right now how anyone projects them to finish next year. You win with good people - they get it and they'll be back I imagine.

[oldtimer]

This post is too early man... the champagne is still flowin’!

CHAMPS BABYYYY!!!!!

I agree. Plenty of time to discuss the future, which is bright. Now is the time to celebrate what this team has accomplished.

[Hitch]

120 wins

Anything less is an unmitigated failure.