Jones & Keefe: With Blake Snell off the market, what's next for the Red Sox?

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00:00There's two things that are scary about this. I don't care that Blake Snell signed somewhere else.

00:03I didn't want him, you didn't want him, Billy didn't want him, we didn't want him.

00:05So I don't want to be inconsistent on that.

00:07There are two scary things. Number one...

00:09You're not getting guys.

00:10Well, guys are getting snapped up.

00:11Yeah.

00:12Number two, 180 for Blake Snell, 182 over five years for Blake Snell.

00:16That's probably more than I expected.

00:18So Burns is worth 900.

00:20Okay, that just means the price, I think, on Burns and Freed is higher than I thought.

00:26Right.

00:27Which means now I do feel a little less like the Red Sox are going to get one of those guys.

00:31They got priced out on Yamamoto last year.

00:33Oh, we're totally in on him, but then the market got out of control.

00:35They're not... So I am with you, like...

00:37Hang on, but you really think they're not going to get any of these guys?

00:40Well, no, that's not true. I mean, they got Lucas Gilito last year.

00:42So they'll get somebody...

00:43They're not going to get Burns.

00:45They'll get Shane Bieber.

00:46They're not going to...

00:47Oh, Shane Bieber is on the shelf all year.

00:48So that is a guy that fits their...

00:51They're not going to get Freed?

00:52Their M.O.

00:53Uh...

00:55No.

00:55Bob Nightingale, USA Today, the Boston Red Sox, who were in on Blake Snell, more of that,

01:00are now focusing on Max Freed to upgrade their rotation.

01:03They're going to be so close.

01:04They might be the first team just to miss him.

01:06So you're saying...

01:06You're saying no.

01:07Wasn't that tweet, like, five minutes after Snell signed?

01:09Yes.

01:10So how does he know? What does he know?

01:11Well, I don't know.

01:12Yeah, they're going to focus on Freed.

01:13Haven't they been focused on him before?

01:14Well, maybe they're focused on Freed and Burns.

01:18So you're a no on Burns. You're a no on Freed.

01:21They will get neither.

01:22Oh, they'll get neither?

01:24I'm not so sure about that.

01:25So Freed, let me just say this real quick, on the off chance that they do sign Freed,

01:29I don't want to be the guy, like, oh, you're saying this now.

01:31He...

01:32I think you like him more than I do.

01:33I do, but even still, like, he's not a huge strikeout guy.

01:37So there is, like, a little concern, like, how elite can he be?

01:42He finished second in the Cy Young in 2022.

01:45He, uh, this past year had a 3.25 ERA, which is obviously very good.

01:50His, the most innings he's ever pitched is 185.

01:53But that's also maybe kind of the new norm.

01:56How many guys throw 200 innings now?

01:58It's so rare.

01:59Although, you know, if you just do quick math, if they do 33 starts in a healthy season,

02:05and even if they average six innings a start, that's like 198.

02:09So you're, I don't know, is 200 even that, is that, is it still that big of an ask?

02:16Maybe it is.

02:16I mean, a lot of pitchers don't...

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