Jones & Keefe: The Red Sox don't deserve credit for their "effort" in pursuing Juan Soto

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00:00A-plus for effort, uh, in their pursuit of Juan Soto.

00:03What would you grade him, Keefe?

00:04Uh, F.

00:05You didn't get him! Like, the whole idea is to get these guys,

00:08and if things are really different, you're gonna get them.

00:10And I'm with you, I can...

00:11If they have a big free agency, you know, aside from Soto,

00:15I'll be happy to give him credit then, and at that time.

00:18But like, how many times do they need to fool us?

00:21Or how many times do they need to be, uh, according to John Heyman or Ken Rosenthal

00:25or whoever else, are right there, like,

00:27ooooh, right there, right on the cusp of it.

00:30Like, that's not an A-plus effort.

00:31You know what it's gonna take, especially a month ago,

00:34we all could've told you.

00:35You're bidding against the Yankees, the Mets, and the Dodgers, like,

00:38alright, you better be, you better be for real, I don't love your chances.

00:43And then they didn't get him.

00:45So like, is that really where we're going now?

00:47The, you're gonna give him credit for being third at best in signing a player?

00:53It's not a, that's not a, this isn't an area where it is effort.

00:56On the field's effort.

00:58Uh, D-minus.

00:59Yeah, okay, maybe D-minus, I'll talk him up to a D-minus.

01:01Honestly, that's kinda where I am, because, uh, for them,

01:04maybe it's higher than an F, but D-minus.

01:06They didn't even make an offer to Otani, like, they didn't even take a meeting with Otani.

01:09So this is somewhat of progress, and it's pathetic we even have to go there, I acknowledge that.

01:13But it is somewhat progress.

01:15They, I'll give them a, a, a stronger grade

01:18if they land a big-ticket player, or two.

01:21They really should land two at this point in time.

01:22They should land two of them, and I'll give them a badge.

01:25Oh, I will love that.

01:26Then, then, the pursuit of Juan Soto really meant something.

01:29They wouldn't extend as far as Steve Cohen, but, oh well, Steve Cohen outspent them, fine.

01:34I can talk myself into that.

01:35You have to actually follow through and do it to get the A-plus for effort.

01:39You can't pursue Juan Soto, come in third or fourth, make a similar offer to the effing

01:43Blue Jays, lose out to the two teams in New York, sign nobody, and get an A-plus for effort.

01:48Nothing will have changed.

01:49What if they are second?

01:50What if they have the second-best offer for Burns, and Freed, and Bregman, and Hernandez?

01:56Like, A-plus for effort?

01:57No.

01:58No, of course not.

01:59No, that, that is an F for effort.

02:00Then you're just trotting out the same team again.

02:01Like, you need to be, you need to be better, you need to improve on this team, and the

02:06thing with baseball is you don't need to win a million games.

02:08Like, you just need to be a handful of games better than they were last year, you could

02:12make the playoffs, and then you could go on a run.

02:15And they're not that far off, and they've gone a handful of years now without spending

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