Chapter 1: What recent signing did the Red Sox make and why is it significant?
Play Tessie. There's nobody, nobody, nobody. As you can tell, Gordo, play Tessie podcast. As you can tell, I'm exhausted by the offseason. I like literally I am like this is I was saying someone about this today that that this should not be happening. You should not have to get to mid-January and actually feel like we're in the first two weeks of the offseason. This should not happen.
It should be against the law. And anybody who says that this is how it has been, this isn't how it has been. This is worse. This is worse than any other year. It's only getting worse.
Chapter 2: How has the offseason dragged on and what impact does it have on player signings?
Teams are – players are dragging it on. Teams are dragging it on. I mean, Gordo – Forget about the top 50 guys. Like, you know how many guys are out there still? Still?
Some of the best. And it goes all down the spectrum.
Sure does. It's just exhausting. And you know what? What it does, I think that it loses the – It loses the juice when guys do sign. There's no one more optimistic or enthusiastic than you. Congratulations. Put it on your Wikipedia page. Okay? No one more optimistic or enthusiastic than you. But I got to be honest with you. When guys sign or trades are made now, sure, there's a buzz.
There's an immediate buzz and people talk about it. But it's almost like, I think people are exhausted. I think people are like, there isn't that euphoria that you have on in the middle of December compared to middle of January. There just isn't. Because I think so many people need that respite
between the off-season and spring training and maybe a little bit of Hall of Fame talk in between, which is how it used to be. But I don't feel like when transactions happen now that there's this, let's go.
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Chapter 3: What are the implications of Ranger Suarez's contract for the Red Sox?
Like for instance, I'll give you for instance, winter meetings, right? Everyone wants winter meeting stuff to happen. I would say this is that Let's say as we sit here, the big signing today was Ranger Suarez. The Pete Alonzo thing, people were freaking out about much more than range. And I know that, you know, it's a little bit more money, whatever. And he's a position player. Bigger name.
Bigger name. But, I mean, still, you look at the money, it's not like it's that much more money. It's not like the contract was that much more. I'm not saying that people don't enjoy when guys sign. All I'm saying is that I do think that there's, say, we're shaving 20% off the enthusiasm by extending it into January. Agree or disagree?
Well, 100% agree. And I'll give you an analogy. Think about it like you're listening to a song or you're at a concert and there's like a really, there's like a buildup to when the big explosion in the song or the beat drops or something. Like it has to be well-timed. Like there's a buildup, but the buildup can't be too long.
And if the buildup is too long, you're sitting there like, okay, what the hell is going on? And then like, by the time the beat drops, you're already over it. If it's well-timed out, then you're, then you're going nuts. Like the song's great. You're, you're rocking out. But like with this, it's like we've been – there's been this buildup, buildup, buildup.
But at a certain point, the buildup plateaus. There's no more up. You're like building horizontally.
Okay. This is good. We're workshopping, nailing this, and I think I'm going to get it. I think I'm going to get what we're going to define this offseason as. It is a bad walk-in music for a relief pitcher.
I like that.
Right?
Yeah.
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Chapter 4: What are the current trends in MLB free agency discussions?
Why the guy's in the bullpen. He just got the call. He hasn't quite opened the gate. Now he's opening the gate.
and now he's starting to run in and here we go and by the time he gets to the mound and starts throwing if people's heart rates are at 180 they're like let's go by the way i don't know if you know that 180 is high oh yeah you do oh okay i never know what you know other than baseball i never know if like
I just learned that.
Yeah.
If you have a family member that has a heart thing, that's when you learn it.
Well, sorry. Sorry.
Sorry.
No, it's fine. They're healthy. But I would say this is that this is like it hit 180 at the winter meetings. And now the music is played on way too long. And we're just like. All right, man. Timmy Trumpets is just like – we're sitting down. We're like – we get up for a second.
Our legs got tired. What? Our legs got tired. Our legs – the legs get tired when you hit like January, maybe not even January. Because here – there's the other part of this too. The whole Christmas to New Year's quiet period, that also doesn't help it because we don't like – we don't learn anything new for a long time and it just – It just stops the flow.
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Chapter 5: How does the offseason compare to previous years in terms of excitement?
It's a perfect example because through all the juice that Kyle Tucker has gotten since maybe the new year, where now we're getting some offers, now we're getting some teams and everything else, there isn't that refreshing the phone about Kyle Tucker. Like there isn't for the Mets and for the Phillies and for the Dodgers and for Toronto. There isn't.
There's almost the, all right, just wake me up when it's done, man, and then we'll talk about it for a couple days. And then, by the way, then we'll get into spring training.
Yeah. Compared to Juan Soto where it was like refresh, refresh, refresh, refresh.
I mean, that was the height of excitement. That was awesome. And even Juan Soto, you had Max Fried, you had Garrett Crochet, you had all of this. And now, I guess like baseball, spacing it out very well, because it seems like there's like one or two things a week. And okay, you have, in this case, we had Bregman on Saturday, and then you have Ranger Suarez on Wednesday,
Did I miss anything in between? No, just rumors, right? That's it. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. So why baseball saying, well, we're spacing this out? Well, you're also losing the loss there. I mean, I wasn't planning on going on that rant, but I do feel that way. I do feel like... Like... It's just – it's exhausting.
And it's tough because you say you want a free agency deadline, but then it's like, well, that's very anti-player. And it's like – I mean, it probably is because you look at some of these guys, like all the guys that got posted, like Imai and Murakami, maybe to a lesser degree Okamoto, but like those guys' markets never fully developed probably because of the deadlines.
But maybe if everyone had the same deadline, it would all work out.
Oh, by the way – Arenado.
Arenado was another one.
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Chapter 6: What are the expectations for the Red Sox moving forward after the Suarez signing?
Cardinals had to eat three quarters of the money just to get anything.
Yeah, okay. Well, we're tied. Yeah, I get it.
It still is a big deal that he got traded, though. And you're right. If it happened earlier in the offseason when there was more buzz, it would have gotten more play than it did.
So before we get to like the here and the now, what happened with Suarez and
Bregman or whatever you want to talk about what is the one that's going to be what is the one that's sort of going to be like to jolt us the most what is going to be the thing that jolts us the most is it going to be a crochet like trade is it going to be one of these I mean I I guess the obvious answer is Bichette right yeah probably Bichette also we forgot Ryan Weathers
That's another one that happened. Sorry. I don't know if you know this. His dad pitched for the Yankees.
Really? I didn't see that.
I saw more of that. I'm like, I get it. I get it. His dad pitched for the Yankees.
It's like Aaron Savali pitched in spring training against David Ortiz. Can you believe it? I know.
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Chapter 7: Which players are being discussed as potential trade targets for the Red Sox?
There's nothing else to say. It's funny because if you look at just the hitter, I mean, Kyle Tucker is a better hitter. Right? Correct?
Yeah, definitely.
Yeah. And Bo Bichette isn't a shortstop anymore. But, again, I think that Bo Bichette, that'll get more buzz. And certainly more than Frambois Valdez. Who else? I mean, that's basically it. Zach Gallin. I'm kind of fascinated about Zach Gallin. Like, we had Lance Brzozowski on, and we were talking through the Gallin situation, and
It really seems like there's no other place for him to go than Arizona.
Well, what happened? Remember that day where he signed with the Cubs, but he didn't? Like, what happened to that? And now they've got Edward Cabrera, and they've got a full rotation.
What was that? Who was that?
That was Bob.
Bob. That was Bob, yeah. That was weird.
That was passing immediately.
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Chapter 8: What conclusions can be drawn about the offseason winners as of mid-January?
It's like he's got the qualifying offer and he's coming off the stink of like obviously his worst year in a while. Yeah, I think the Diamondbacks are the best fit because at this point he maybe should consider one of those opt-out deals. And if I'm any other team, like I just saw what happened with the Red Sox and Alex Bregman and what can happen if those deals don't work out.
You saw what happened with the Giants last year with Blake Snell. I hate those deals.
I'm so out on – But you have to give Boris credit, don't you?
Oh, it works every time for him.
But we didn't even know that this was until the Chapman-Snell year. We didn't even know this was a thing, right? He's basically like, you're just going to shake this qualifying offer off after a year, and then we'll be on our way.
And it works every time. The only guy it didn't work for was Jordan Montgomery. Everyone else, I'm pretty sure, has gotten a better deal because of it. And, of course, you factor in the deal. You add it up. Bregman didn't get $175. He got $205.
All right. Well, let's talk about the here and the now. Ranger Suarez signs a deal for, tell me what it was again, five years? Five years, 130. 130, okay. With, by the way, the Red Sox having to give up two picks.
Yep.
Two picks.
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