Every MLB club faces these issues and it isn’t something we enjoy. “ Clubs, fans, media can all wish players had fewer options and that clubs had unlimited budgets, but players - including those you most want to extend - are often going end up going to free agency,” Henry wrote to McAdam. Naturally, Henry pointed to the Devers deal as proof that the Red Sox were still open to extending their in-house stars, as well as making long-term commitments to players into their late 30’s. In addition, the Red Sox also locked up a cornerstone piece in signing Rafael Devers to a massive extension that will keep the slugger in Beantown through the 2033 season. Bloom has been quite active in adding replacements, with such players as Masataka Yoshida, Justin Turner, Kenley Jansen, Chris Martin, Corey Kluber, Adam Duvall, Adalberto Mondesi, and Joely Rodriguez among the notable names brought aboard in signings or trades. Martinez, Nathan Eovaldi, Michael Wacha, Rich Hill) departing in free agency. It has been a busy winter at Fenway Park, with a long list of notable players (i.e. The Mets’ whopping $355MM projected payroll leads baseball, and the Yankees and Padres have also opened the checkbook to a large extent this winter, even if both teams are wary of hitting particular luxury-tax penalty tiers. In regards to Boston’s own budget, Henry told McCaffrey that the Red Sox weren’t going to increase spending into the $300MM range as response to how teams have operated this winter. We needed to make changes but we haven’t lost our way.” It’s so easy to fall as we did in 2022 to mediocrity. And every team (maybe not the Mets) has a budget. You always have to keep an eye on the future. “ In a particular year some clubs are criticized because they aren’t ’going for it’ when they are going every single thing they can short of destroying their futures to win. “ There’s been a false narrative that we somehow stopped spending - completely unsupported by the facts - that we no longer sign free agents, that we are uninterested in or incapable of winning despite our track record….I don’t think anyone realizes there are 30 teams in these sports every year that are all doing everything they can to win,” Henry wrote in his response to McAdam. Faced with the option of buying or selling for the stretch run, the Dodgers made their move, trading for Jeromy Burnitz and plucking Rickey Henderson from Newark.Red Sox principal owner John Henry addressed several topics related to his team in e-mails with The Athletic’s Jen McCaffrey and The Boston Sports Journal’s Sean McAdam, and in both Q&A responses, Henry pushed back against criticisms of the club’s offseason. 282 EqA) had been the bets of the bunch, but a severe injury means his season and Dodger career are over. 262 EqA) is underachieving, and none of the combination of Mike Kinkade, Dave Roberts, Jolbert Cabrera, Chad Hermansen and Wilkin Ruan has been exceptional. 227 EqA) has seen his star come crashing to earth after having once been one of the hottest prospects in the game. 210 EqA), who have gotten most of the playing time, are a combined black hole. 261 EqA) was unimpressive before going on the DL. 285 EqA) is having a good year, but when the All-Star catcher looks out at the rest of his team, he sees an offensive wasteland. The Dodgers are 49-44, three and a half games out of the Wild Card, but if their pitching were as bad as their offense they’d be the worst team in the majors. Dodgers Tap Henderson: They Didn’t Lose Rickey’s Number by Chaim Bloom and Clay Davenport | July 16, 2003
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