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Red Sox 2024 Season => General Red Sox Discussions => Topic started by: longgame on April 12, 2024, 09:35:34 AM

Title: Starting pitching
Post by: longgame on April 12, 2024, 09:35:34 AM
Good article in MassLive about the pitching mess.

Lack of starting pitching depth was preventable for Red Sox (https://www.masslive.com/redsox/2024/04/mlb-notebook-lack-of-starting-pitching-depth-was-preventable-for-red-sox.html)
Title: Re: Starting pitching
Post by: Sea Dog 23 on April 23, 2024, 07:42:15 AM
First of all, I don't know diddly about what has been projected by the Fenway Group FO.  I have an inkling that they did not go out and bid for an ace to the rotation, because they were holding on to their finances for the 2025 season.

Yet that strategy does not focus on all the additional owners who will be bidding in the market in 2025 season.  We could have built the staff with a couple prized arms this year for a good start to 2025 when there were only a handful of teams bidding.  Next year the FO will have to outbid many owners just to install another building block.