Jones & Keefe: Will the Red Sox spend this offseason?

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00:00We always talk about Mike Lombardi when he speaks, it's really just Bill Belichick.

00:05Every time John Heyman speaks, it's just Scott Boris. And so Scott Boris represents all these

00:10guys. So if Scott Boris is trying to get 600 million for Juan Soto, he's going to want to

00:15include every single team possible, including a team that used to spend. They don't spend anymore,

00:19that's why it's laughable. But they used to spend, so you'd want them in the quote unquote bidding.

00:24You want the Yankees to think the Red Sox are in.

00:28But they are not.

00:28No, of course not.

00:30Dodgers, Mets, Yankees, Red Sox, these are the teams you want in the mix, just in case.

00:37You can drive up the price a little bit if you're an agent.

00:40And John Heyman is happy to do Scott Boris's bidding.

00:42Let's say if Juan Soto makes 600 million on his next deal, do you think the Red Sox

00:47hand out in contracts, so not for this year, but I mean in total contracts,

00:52300 million with all the players they signed?

00:54I was about to say, no chance 600 million.

00:56No, no, no, no.

00:56300 million, no, no, no.

00:57So they won't even spend half in free agency on God knows how many players.

01:02That could be 2, 3, 4, 5, 10.

01:04So to say that they're in on that, and then for him to skirt by,

01:08they're like, oh, they didn't sign Mookie Betts.

01:09I don't really know what happened there.

01:10Aren't you a baseball guy?

01:12Aren't you supposed to be kind of dialed in on that?

01:14Maybe why they didn't, and maybe you want to explore that.

01:16So they wouldn't sign Mookie Betts, but now they're going to give 600 million to Juan Soto.

01:20OK.

01:20Well, I mean, in fairness, they didn't sign Betts,

01:22and then they turned around and signed Devers.

01:23They did sign Devers.

01:24They sort of forced into that because they also let Bogarts go at the same time.

01:26And so you need somebody.

01:27If your logic is sometimes they panic and just abruptly change course,

01:31that's the best logic because the team has done that a bunch.

01:34They have a price thing.

01:35They've done it.

01:36They've done it.

01:36Devers is another example of that, where they just they reverse course.

01:39We're not going to do something.

01:40We're not going to do something.

01:41Oh, crap.

01:41We have to.

01:42Now, I don't believe that's going to happen in this scenario.

01:44I do not.

01:45I thought last offseason there was a chance it would happen, and it didn't.

01:48I'm no longer holding out hope for that.

01:49But there is a history of John Henry saying one thing,

01:53acting a certain way, and then just completely reversing course.

01:56They do it with GMs.

01:57They do it with managers.

01:58They do it in free agency.

01:59They do it.

02:00They've done it all the time.

02:02I now think they're done with that.

02:03Yeah, I don't think I don't think they're going to spend anymore.

02:05Not in a meaningful way.

02:07Probably not even in a top 10 payroll in baseball.

02:10They'll be right around 10.

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