Blue Jays Sign Springer

[Thunder]

Springer said he wanted to be closer to home (New Britain, CT). I guess terrorizing the Yankees and Red Sox in their own ballparks 20 times a year counts as being closer to home.

[mvp 78]

@mlbtraderumors
Astros To Re-Sign Michael Brantley

[a700hitter]

And the Blue Jays have just signed Brantley:

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2021/...-brantley.html

MLB Trade Rumors with fake news.

[moonslav59]

Astros re-sign Brantley

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2021/...-brantley.html

[Kimmi]

Sox should just get better with JD and Beni returning to form. I think the Sox struggled out of the gate and were never able to catch up in 2020. I think that if they played 162 games last year that they would have wound up closer to .500 than where they were. If ERod is healthy, Houck pitches like 2020 and one new rotation add gives them quality innings, this team will be in the hunt.

This is my kind of post.

[Kimmi]

Every team has many "ifs."

I'm not disagreeing with your point. We seemed to have more than our fair share of injuries and "bad years" from too many players. Expecting a return to the norm is something that is probable not just wishful.

We are also not done setting our opening day roster. I'm convinced we will make some significant additions. We should easily pass the O's (no biggie) and come closer to the rest of the AL East than we were in 2020. Only the Jay s seem to have improved by more than us, on paper, so far. The Yanks appear to want to stay under the tax line, so they have much less "budget space" than we do- going forward. They also lost Tanaka, Paxton & Happ. We lost JBJ.

The sky is not falling on Sox Nation.

Unfortunately, the media thinks the sky is falling.

Some of them are really in top form today.

[Kimmi]

Springer is a nice addition for the Jays. They will have a good offense (or offence).

I wouldn't have given him that long of a deal though.

[Bellhorn04]

MLB Trade Rumors with fake news.

Yikes - can you imagine if they did that with a significant, reported Red Sox signing?

[notin]

Astros re-sign Brantley

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2021/...-brantley.html

Everyone is signing Brantley today.

Everyone except Bloom..

[Kimmi]

Yikes - can you imagine if they did that with a significant, reported Red Sox signing?

This is one of the reasons why the offseason drives me crazy. You usually don't get a false report that a player has actually signed somewhere, but the false reports that say the Sox are the favorite to sign someone or that the Sox are nearing a deal with someone are bad enough.

[Thunder]

This is one of the reasons why the offseason drives me crazy. You usually don't get a false report that a player has actually signed somewhere, but the false reports that say the Sox are the favorite to sign someone or that the Sox are nearing a deal with someone are bad enough.

"Multiple reports confirm that the Red Sox are emerging favorites to sign David Ortiz out of retirement, age him in reverse by 20 years, and then start him at DH in 2021"

[notin]

This is one of the reasons why the offseason drives me crazy. You usually don't get a false report that a player has actually signed somewhere, but the false reports that say the Sox are the favorite to sign someone or that the Sox are nearing a deal with someone are bad enough.

Well, those might not be false reports. Favorites don't always win. Close deals sometimes fall through...

[moonslav59]

Everyone is signing Brantley today.

He'll be the first player, ever, to get paid by 2 teams.

[5GoldGloves:OF,75]

MLB Trade Rumors with fake news.

The Red Sox won in a landslide last year!

[mvp 78]

We can all blame old friend Hazel Mae for reporting the Springer deal in error.