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Jones & Keefe: Will the Red Sox spend this offseason?
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11/7/2024
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We always talk about Mike Lombardi when he speaks, it's really just Bill Belichick.
00:05
Every time John Heyman speaks, it's just Scott Boris. And so Scott Boris represents all these
00:10
guys. So if Scott Boris is trying to get 600 million for Juan Soto, he's going to want to
00:15
include every single team possible, including a team that used to spend. They don't spend anymore,
00:19
that's why it's laughable. But they used to spend, so you'd want them in the quote unquote bidding.
00:24
You want the Yankees to think the Red Sox are in.
00:28
But they are not.
00:28
No, of course not.
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Dodgers, Mets, Yankees, Red Sox, these are the teams you want in the mix, just in case.
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You can drive up the price a little bit if you're an agent.
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And John Heyman is happy to do Scott Boris's bidding.
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Let's say if Juan Soto makes 600 million on his next deal, do you think the Red Sox
00:47
hand out in contracts, so not for this year, but I mean in total contracts,
00:52
300 million with all the players they signed?
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I was about to say, no chance 600 million.
00:56
No, no, no, no.
00:56
300 million, no, no, no.
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So they won't even spend half in free agency on God knows how many players.
01:02
That could be 2, 3, 4, 5, 10.
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So to say that they're in on that, and then for him to skirt by,
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they're like, oh, they didn't sign Mookie Betts.
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I don't really know what happened there.
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Aren't you a baseball guy?
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Aren't you supposed to be kind of dialed in on that?
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Maybe why they didn't, and maybe you want to explore that.
01:16
So they wouldn't sign Mookie Betts, but now they're going to give 600 million to Juan Soto.
01:20
OK.
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Well, I mean, in fairness, they didn't sign Betts,
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and then they turned around and signed Devers.
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They did sign Devers.
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They sort of forced into that because they also let Bogarts go at the same time.
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And so you need somebody.
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If your logic is sometimes they panic and just abruptly change course,
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that's the best logic because the team has done that a bunch.
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They have a price thing.
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They've done it.
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They've done it.
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Devers is another example of that, where they just they reverse course.
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We're not going to do something.
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We're not going to do something.
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Oh, crap.
01:41
We have to.
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Now, I don't believe that's going to happen in this scenario.
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I do not.
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I thought last offseason there was a chance it would happen, and it didn't.
01:48
I'm no longer holding out hope for that.
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But there is a history of John Henry saying one thing,
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acting a certain way, and then just completely reversing course.
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They do it with GMs.
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They do it with managers.
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They do it in free agency.
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They do it.
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They've done it all the time.
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I now think they're done with that.
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Yeah, I don't think I don't think they're going to spend anymore.
02:05
Not in a meaningful way.
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Probably not even in a top 10 payroll in baseball.
02:10
They'll be right around 10.
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