The 2023 Rule 5 draft will begin at 1pm Central time today at the Winter Meetings in Nashville.
As a refresher, the Rule 5 draft is a way for players potentially talented enough for the big leagues but blocked by their current clubs to find opportunities elsewhere. Any players that were 18 and under at the time of their original signing and have played five professional seasons, and any players who signed at 19 years of age or older at signing that now have four professional seasons, who are not on a club’s 40-man roster are eligible to be selected in the Rule 5 draft.
The clubs will draft in reverse order of the 2023 standings, with no club obligated to make a selection when it’s their turn. If they do make a pick, they will have to pay $100K to the team they select from. The selected players must stay on the active roster (or injured list) for the entire 2024 season or else be placed on waivers. If they clear waivers, they must be offered back to their original team. They cannot be optioned to the minors. Last year’s edition saw some key players change clubs, such as Ryan Noda going from the Dodgers to the Athletics and Blake Sabol going from the Pirates to the Giants.
This post will be updated as the draft continues. Here is the order…
1. Athletics: RHP Mitch Spence (Yankees)
2. Royals: RHP Matt Sauer (Yankees)
3. Rockies: RHP Anthony Molina (Rays)
4. White Sox: LHP Shane Drohan (Red Sox)
5. Nationals: SS Nasim Nuñez (Marlins)
6. Cardinals: RHP Ryan Fernandez (Red Sox)
7. Angels: pass
8. Mets: RHP Justin Slaten (Rangers); Mets later traded Slaten to the Red Sox for LHP Ryan Ammons* and cash considerations.
9. Pirates: pass
10. Guardians: 3B Deyvison De Los Santos (Diamondbacks)
11. Tigers: pass
12. Red Sox: pass
13. Giants: pass
14. Reds: pass
15. Padres: RHP Stephen Kolek (Mariners)
16. Yankees: pass
17. Cubs: pass
18. Marlins: pass
19. Diamondbacks: pass
20. Twins: pass
21. Mariners: pass
22. Blue Jays: pass
23. Rangers: RHP Carson Coleman (Yankees)
24. Phillies: pass
25. Astros: pass
26. Brewers: pass
27. Rays: pass
28. Dodgers: pass
29. Orioles: pass
30. Braves: pass
The minor league phase of the Rule 5 draft also occurred this afternoon. Those players will not go onto the selecting teams’ 40-man roster. A few former major leaguers changed uniforms. They include 1B Seth Beer going from the Diamondbacks to the Pirates while the Yankees took RHP Kervin Castro from the Astros.
* (Robert Murray of FanSided first reported that Ammons was going to the Mets. Joel Sherman of The New York Post added that Ammons and cash were being exchanged for Slaten.
Mariners gonna make 4 picks lmao
Probably can’t afford it
Yeah, man, sending $100k to the other team is an awful lot of money. M’s will stick to the waiver wire where marginal talent can be found super cheap. Fans will get intimately familiar with the term “bounceback candidate” very soon in Seattle. Ownership is inexplicably short on cash, and they’d like to remind fans that choosing the pay in full option for season tickets gets you a 2% discount.
Passed on round 1
idk if it is a good sign or a bad sign they didnt take anyone. probably a good sign
I’m gonna say good. I’m not sure how he got there but Divish believes we’ll run a payroll around $150M and we’re around $107M as the roster stands. I hope that $43M goes to difference makers.
That would barely cover inflation from last year but I’d take it at this point, I was expecting the increase to be from 137M to like 140-141M
Lol, he says “we’ll” like he’s part of the organization
@weetodd- along with 90% of fans but sure. You’re going to have a lot of correcting to do on here if that’s how you feel like commenting lol
Thinking fans can’t say we is one of the oddest things I’ve ever seen people complain about.
@weetodd People like you are the ones that are insufferable. Get a life.
Wee Todd fans are part of the organization with out them a team ends up like Montreal or Oakland, playing in a new city in an attempt to acquire them. They are as important or more than any ace starting pitcher or star hitter.
Four picks? That they have to keep on the roster all year? I seriously doubt that.
They have to keep them on the roster or offer them back to the original club. Sometimes it happens that instead of offering them back, a trade brings that player to the drafting team so they can be sent down to the minors (or if I recall correctly that has happened before, not sure if the rules still allow it).
It isn’t out of the realm of possibilities that a team drafts several in rule 5 and then weeds out all but 1 (that they keep) during spring training. It is always a chance for a team to take a good long look see at a player and see how they progress under a new team situation.
I guess but 4? Is Seattle that desperate? No. They passed on the first round.
Lol, no, it wasn’t me that said 4, but I believe a team has done that before. I seem to recall at least one team drafting three and two stuck.
Southi — No, of course. It was Bnickles127 who suggested four Draft 5 picks.
I’m not getting the Pads getting the M’s pick at 15? Also I see at the 21 pick that it belongs to the M’s was this a trade for cash or other considerations? Does that mean we get Soto?
Or none haha
MAN!! No one took anyone, there are no names next to any teams. How boring!!
Lol
Cleveland took a nice power hitter from Arizona 1B/3B Deyvison De Los Santos. He should rake for Ckeveland.
Strange that the Dbacks didn’t protect a 3B, when they needed a 3B. Roster was set before the Suarez trade.
He’s also 20 years old, had a walk rate below 3% in the second half of last year with a K% above 25%, and his only projected above average tool is his power. Who knows if he’ll even stay on Cleveland’s roster all year. 8 of the 15 players taken last year were returned.
Like everything else right now the world is waiting for Ohtani to sign before doing ANYTHING.
Pirates got Seth Beer !!
Padres will take a pitcher
Rule 5 draft seems to get joked on a bit but every now and then some good players trade hands. O’s got Santander and Wells both from the Rule 5.
Right ! Wonder if there’s a cap to how many picks a team could make ? Bet A’s could draft and keep 5/6 dudes be most money they spend in a day all offseason lol
600K for 6 starters is a steal, your local baseball coach could probably be an all star on the 2024 “Las Vegas” A’s
Giants got Blake Sabol last year.
Roberto Clemente was a Rule 5 selection by the Pirates from LAD. Hope springs eternal.
George Bell was a rule 5 for Toronto.
Red Sox got Whitlock in the rule 5, sometimes it works for ya.
d2323 passes in commenting in this thread
I thought Des Los Santos was a legit prospect surprised they left him unprotected.
Nunez can’t hit but the Nationals could hide him on their bench for a year I suppose.
Underrated comment of the Winter Meetings right here
No one was taken ?
Damn 2 Yankees go back to back to start off
Cashman now scrambling to rework the Soto deal
At this rate they won’t have any pitchers left.
Three Yankees, wow
And that doesn’t include the 3 pitchers the Yankees traded to Boston for Verdugo
At this rate I’ll be pitching for Scranton this year.
Every 24-year-old pitcher, barely hanging on in the independent leagues, is calling their agent right now, “Get me a minor league deal with the Yankees!”
Redsox & Yankees lose multiple players.
Carson Coleman for the Rangers…
Interesting addition with one spot open on the roster.
10 picks. Yankees lost 3 players
Odds are they get one or two of them back since often they don’t stick on a big league roster.
Somebody really should have snagged Kristian Robinson. The massive upside was worth the risk.
Boston loses Shane Drohan to White Sox Ryan Fernandez to Cardinals
I’m betting Boston gets Ryan Fernandez back before the trade deadline. I don’t get that selection. He;s a 25 year old with 30 sub par innings at AAA. Strikeout rate is nice but that home run rate is terrible.
Red Sox minor league pitching on the whole leave much to be desired yet they’ve had 5 pitchers taken in the Rule 5 between last and this year.
Both red sox pitchers taken got smoked when promoted to triple a in 2023..
Players taken just got promoted to the big leagues! No AAA for them. Not in 24 anyways.
Low risk. He’s got a good K rate and a decent BB rate. If he can avoid giving up the long ball as much (which is a big ask, I know) he could be average out of the pen. Which would be an improvement for the Cards from last year lol
A’s bouta get half their 2024 roster.
No one took Cole Wilcox?
I thought the Padres would try to get him back
I was hoping the Tigers would. Very surprised he was available.
I guess we shouldn’t expect a Josh Naylor extension in Cleveland.
Are you thinking he and Manzardo platoon at 1B? Im sure Jose will DH a lot, but likely not enough to warrant a roster spot
I’m sure that is the intended plan.
Jose won’t DH a lot. He likes to play the field. He wants to play the field. But they have Naylor for the whole year, but I imagine if they’re getting production out of this kid and Manzardo, Naylor will be expendable at the trade deadline if not already.
I don’t like it, I’m a fan of Naylor.
Why would Naylor and Manzardo platoon?
They’re both left handed hitters and the Guardians didn’t give Naylor a few hundred bad plate appearances against lefties, just to relegate him to a platoon as soon as he figured them out.
They also didn’t trade Civale for Manzardo just to make him a platoon bat. They might split games at first and DH, but they’re definitely not platooning them.
Naylor is expendable. He’s not platooning. He will get traded. If de los Santos and manzanardo take turns playing 1B and DH, they are indeed platooning.
sorry. I meant Manzardo and De Los Santos platooning. that wasn’t real clear in my comment. I don’t expect Naylor to platoon.
Why do teams “pass”?? Just curious and would like to learn.
Because the player they pick has to remain on his new team’s MAJOR LEAGUE roster all year or be returned to previous team
Thank you
Also, to be eligible to be drafted in this draft, the player cannot be on a current 40 man roster.
AND you need an unoccupied 40 man roster spot
They don’t have any open spots on their 40 man roster. Or if they do have a spot no one worthy when they select.
Thank you. The vacant 40 man roster spots need to be there too. I missed that. Good catch
I imagine they don’t want to take anoyone they would be forced to keep on the Major league roster all year.
You have to keep anybody you select on your big league roster for the whole season. Most teams don’t find any players that they would want to make that commitment to.
Rule 5 guys are fringe major league players, typically non-prospects who haven’t been able to crack their own team’s roster because they’re too far down the depth chart.
Teams have to keep these players on their major league roster all year. If you’ve got a full roster of major league talent or have a pipeline of top prospects coming up, there may not be room to keep them.
There are many cases where Rule 5 guys outperform expectations and become everyday players, but they are the exception.
Yeah, though the Pirates seemed to do well taking Jose Hernandez from the Dodgers last year. He did about as well as could be expected from a guy who’d never pitched above AA before. Took a bit of a nosedive in September and could stand to be a little more efficient with his pitches, but a solid find as a lefty out of the bullpen.
The Rule 5 system, at least as I know it.
-To draft a player costs $50,000.
-Then he must be kept all year on the Major League roster.
-If at any time throughout the year, the drafting team chooses to let him go they then place him on waivers.
-If claimed, the claiming team must abide by the same rules of keeping him all year.
-If unclaimed, the player is returned to his original team, while the drafting team then also pays $25,000 to return him.
-Occasionally, drafting team & original team work out a trade where player becomes a full part of the drafting team and then could be sent down with no issues.
So why don’t some teams draft? Numerous reasons but probably most is the financial headache and roster stipulations of the process.
I am fairly certain that if a Rule 5 draftee is unclaimed on waivers, he must then be offered back to the original team for $25,000, which the original team pays to the drafting one. if they want him back.
You are correct. Basically the drafting team would end up out $25,000 for at least taking a look at the player.
I think it costs $100,000 to draft a player and $50,000 for returning him with the new CBA
Yeah I just saw that last night. Like everything else, it all costs more now.
I think Shane Drohan is a nice little pickup for the bad guys. A player I think the Red Sox should’ve protected.
WTF Cashman??? we lose 3 pitchers and you have 3 open 40 man spots to steal someone and you pass?
I still don’t understand why he left Spence unprotected. He’s a ML ready starter.
especially with FIVE open spots on the 40 now after the Soto trade
Perhaps they see it better to lose guys in the Rule 5 draft with the knowledge they can get them back if they don’t stick on the selecting team’s roster than to lost them for good on waivers if and when they need a spot on the 40.
I’m guessing Cashman plans to fill out the 40-man,and the MLB roster, with a checkbook .
I can see him adding a starter (Yamamoto or Bauer) and a closer… but that still leaves them with 3 open spots and Florial, Rortvedt & Gomez are all out of options and probably not making the 26 man roster unless there are injuries or Gomez goes to the pen.
The league has decided to gang up and just rid the Yankees system of any pitchers.
Can’t believe Maelins didn’t protect Nuñez. Wishing him the best and hope he will come back to steal a hundred basis for the Nationals and 99 out of them from the Marlins. Oh! I do follow the Marlins,just think it was a bad move letting him go.
He can’t hit though
Amazing how the Yankees always lose players… I thought you can pull back and protect more players after you lose one
no, that is the expansion draft
Not in the Rule 5. That’s the process for an expansion draft (that is, getting to protect more guys after losing one).
Actually nice to see that the Pirates didn’t lose anyone, even better that they passed. The Pirates rarely pass. Positive sign.
And I just saw that they grabbed Seth Beer in the minor league phase. For a team like the Pirates who need both first basemen and lefty power in the worst way, Beer is a great guy to take a flyer on.
Hooray Beer!
Get him an IC Light endorsement. Beer was a good grab for the Pirates. Has shown decent power and contact skills throughout his years in the minors. Seems like he’s got a decent glove too. Imagine the Pirates having an actual first baseman who might hit a HR every so often – probably have to go back to Adam LaRoche to find a guy who could field and hit with a modest level of competency.
Seth Beer needs to play in every team’s system before he hangs up his cleats so every fan has an opportunity to get a Beer jersey to rep their team. If Manfred forces this upon the league I’ll forgive him for about 10% of the damage he’s done to the game.
so much for the Yankees having a crap farm system
Exactly.
Either that, or the Yankees kept the wrong guys.
it still is crap they just shuffled the deck chairs
You better believe the athletics were all over this. Big ‘free agent’ signing of the offseason.
I like the Coleman for rangers and Nuñez for nats Nuñez can fly so he should be able to stick around as a pinch runner worst case scenario
You know it’s funny all the fan bases from all these different teams talk a lot of crap about the Yankees organization, but yet every team pulls from them every rule f5 draft… bunch of posers
Yanks made $300k today. They need it, ha ha.
I like the Rule V draft because it gives guys a shot to fulfill their dream. It doesn’t work most of the time, but once every now and then it does. Still, it has to be a lot better showing up in the Spring with a legitimate chance to make The Show.
The minor league phases are even better for the players. Those guys selected definitely have no chance with their current teams. It’s usually older guys who have younger, hotter prospects coming up to take their spot. It’s better to just let those guys go play somewhere else than holding onto them.
IMO the Rule V draft ruins more careers by forcing them on major league rosters for whole seasons when they need more seasoning. Plus the personal toll of moving cities for half a season, getting sent back and moving back to original city, also losing the momentum you built up development-wise on your original team. It’s obviously beneficial financially for the Rule V picks as they start pulling MLB 40 man salary, but it’s usually bad for their development. Especially with these 20-21 year old kids that get picked. The 24-25 year old guys with a year or two in AAA are fine.
so true Luis Torrens comes to mind… it’s bad enough most of these kids lost an entire season in 2020 because of covid
Allen Cordoba and Elvis Luciano come to mind too. Luciano was 18 and in rookie ball before the Blue Jays stunted his growth, and I’m pretty sure he’s out of baseball already.
Well Luciano also had the bad timing of being selected in the 2019 Rule 5 draft. Usually guys like him stay a year and then get sent down for seasoning for another year or two. But 2020 the minor league season was cancelled and he lost two straight years of development. But at least the guy got a year of service time and an MLB pension out of it.
I agree. It’s tough on the major league picks. Even if they stay in the bigs all season, they get buried on the depth chart. Position players are very rare. It’s usually some pitcher with a big arm who hasn’t developed, and now he’s being forced to develop with sparse relief appearances in blowouts.
I like the minor league phase a lot. If the organization I root for needs a catcher somewhere, they can get a better catcher through Rule 5 than picking up a minor league free agent. It’s a better second chance for the kid too.
or a pitcher who missed an entire season that the initial team thought would slip through unnoticed (or forgot to protect) like Garret Whitlock
Juggy is right
Why hasn’t tanner burns been picked yet? He could be a solid back of the rotation arm now.
Giants took Dariel Lopez from the Pirates in the minor league phase. 21 year old middle infielder with some pop. Was the Pirates #14 overall prospect.
He doesn’t even sniff my top 30. Probably a 1b if his bat will ever play.
Middle infielder is stretching it. He’s a below average runner who blew his knee out before the 2023 season even started. He may hit for above average power, that is if he can increase his walk rate and/or cut the strikeouts down. He walked in about 5% of his plate appearances with a K% over 25% at High-A in 2022.
After last year’s Rule 5 saw a lot more selections taken than normal in both the major and minor league phases, I wondered if that was a one-off exception or would it become a trend going forward. Apparently not a trend. .
probably making up for the lack of the Rule 5 the previous offseason because of the lockout… the minors are also chock full of players who had their progress severely interrupted by the canceled 2020 minor league season from covid
At least nobody picked Aliendo. Was the best thing that happened to me today.
The Brewers missed a perfect opportunity to select Seth BEER. just sayin’
I know you want him for the meme, but he’d be the best 1B on the roster right now
Sad to say, but Drohan quickly because a top10 prospect in the White Sox org… ;0)
The Angels took nobody 2 years in a row. How moronic is that since they have holes everywhere.
Any player taken in the Rule V draft has to stay on the 26 man roster. That creates a roster crunch as a team makes future moves.
Even with plenty of holes, the odds of finding an MLB starter from a pile of guys other teams didn’t think belonged on the 40 man roster are slim.
So tying up a roster spot for a guy unlikely to make your team is not always a good move.
I understand. However, 10 teams, allegedly better run than the Angels, took a player each. And if they find better players, they can always return them. I suspect lack of scouts may have something to do with it.
The Angels didn’t leave any room on their 40-man roster for this draft. They like the bottom of their roster better than the bottom of others.
(That kind of makes sense, BTW. A lot of lower-to-middling teams have better fringe players than others.)
They have added terrible players to 40.
LOL 😀
Yankees got plundered.
Meh. They protected 37 players and they still have moves to make this winter. They obviously liked the 37 current players much better. They’ll be okay.
The Cubs took a 2B in the Minor League phase. They don’t have to put him on the 4o anyway. But WTF? Is it that they don’t have enough 2B? The whole Minor League system is full of 2B. Maybe a 3B or relief P might have been a better option hey Jed? LMAO
I always wonder about that too. I assume some teams just select “talent” when they think they see something.
In past years wasn’t there more than 1 round of the major league portion of the Rule 5 draft?
If you look at the draft, Most of the teams have like 39 or even 40 men on the roster so most of the guys picked here filled up the 40 man. You have to have a spot to even be able to pick so when everybody passes they pass for extra rounds also.
Right, but there were 5 or 6 teams that had 38 players or fewer going into the draft, who still had room after making a selection.
Keeping 1 guy on the 26 man all year is a stretch for any team. More than 1 would be nightmare. Unless you’re the Athletics.
In past years teams have made multiple selections in Rule 5. Typically they use spring training to decide which of them they would try to keep versus return.
Every team can keep picking players as long as they have empty 40-man roster spots. Once they pass, they’re done.
That’s what I thought. But I don’t see where, say, the Nationals (38 players) passed after making their first selectiom.
I’m wondering if everyone who was left passed in the 2nd round, and the writers just decided to leave that out for brevity’s sake.
All it means is teams have guys they think they can sign in FA and they need 40 man spots to do that. So if you filled up your 40 man and then signed a MLB FA then you’d have to cut the guy you just spent 1oo grand on. Even a billionaire would see that as thrifty. Unless again it’s the Athletics. They would take 26 guys at 100 grand per plus the league minimum for whatever they had to pay them. Fisher would wet himself. This year is weird because Ohtani is delaying everything. Most years all the signing and trading would be over by now.
Apparently, no team took a player in the second round. When they went back around, all the applicable teams said, “pass.” That was it.
A couple of teams took as many as five players in the minor league phase of the draft. Those players don’t have to be returned. They’re just in a new organization today.
I must be missing something, but doesn’t Drohan have three seasons and not four. Why is he eligible to be taken?
He was drafted in 2020, so it technically counts as a year in his professional career even though he didn’t debut until 2021.
Guy named beer going to a beer league team.
Should be a rule that you can only lose 1-2 players.
Clubs work hard to develop players. Other clubs watch said clubs and underperform development to raid other clubs.
The Yankees should learn how to protect players.
Yankees farm over rated. First 2 picks Yankees.
Does that mean they have a good farm or just poor at projecting their own talent. A few years ago, Whitlock was drafted away from the Yankees, and there were several players that should’ve been left unprotected before him.
Both.
Whitlock is good but he is hurt a lot.
Red Sox lost 9 players in total. Ouch!
2 in ML portion and another 7 in Minor League portion. Ouch.
Man, I thought the Braves were nuking 40 man roster spots to be ready for some kind of cool pick up from Rule 5. I was mistaken.
Seth Beer is an interesting get for the Pirates. Big power if he can figure out how to use it
Quite surprised at some of the names not taken. I was kind of hoping the Tigers might take a shot at Cole Wilcox, JT Ginn or Angel Bastardo for the pen this year. Better than Englert who they took and held onto all of last year.
Winter Meetings and I expected better things from the Red Sox. It is evident that Breslow is in way over his head. The Yankees just traded for Soto and Verdugo. We have picked up three minor league pitchers and we need established players to help this team. Breslow was not even on the radar as a hire. No one wanted to come to Boston to work for Henry after they have let go good GMs sadly. The worst was firing Dombroski a year after he won the World Series. None of the rookies he traded for established players did anything earth shattering. He was a good GM.
“None of the rookies he traded for established players did anything earth shattering”
None of the players DD, drafted/signed/traded for, have helped out either. He had 4 years to bring players in. So far since he left, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, all Sox have is a questionable CFer, a DH playing firstbase, a couple of 4th/5th starters, and Chris Sale.
He left a massive crater to win that WS.
You won a World Series be happy. Rookies and drafted players are hit or miss with a lot of misses. Give me an established player any day of the week over a prospect or a rookie.
Sorry but this team is DOA (Dead On Arrivsl) after doing very little but picking up 3 minor league pitchers at the deadline. The Yankees improved and every team in that division is better than the Red Sox. They need outfield help, a second baseman, a first baseman, a DH, relief help, and above all starting pitching desperately. Breslow was not even on the radar as a hire. No one wanted to come to this organization with Henry meddling and that horrendous Mookie Betts trade dictated by Henry. This team is in cheap mode, develop rookies who are on minimum contracts. Yamamoto is not coming here and will stay on the west coast where he can go back and forth to Japan. This is a major market team and needs to act that way or they will loose their fan base which they are loosing now.
“You won a World Series be happy.”
Lol, I am. Read your own comment, youre the one unhappy.
DD walked into the perfect situation. Young homegrown talent, ready to come onto the scene. Betts, Devers, Bogaerts, Beni, JBJ, Holt, Vazquez, ERod, Barnes, Hembree. — A GM’s dream job, and the icing on that cake was salary space to supplement that roster.
Now Breslow comes in and a little over a month later and he’s “way over his head”. You think Casas, Duran, Bellos, Crawford and Houck are of similar quality to what DD was walked in? No, of course not. So time is needed.
A “happy” fan accepts the situation, you my friend are not happy nor are you being realistic.
Boston is set at 1st base. Casas isn’t a DH he will be fine defensively. What Boston really needs is a top of the rotation starter. Unfortunately there was only one maybe 2 of those guys in this free agent class and at least half the league is in on those guys including all the heavy hitters. Since I have a hard time seeing anyone outspend Cohen, who has made it clear YY is his top target, my guess is he’s going to the Mets. That leaves Snell and while he flashes true #1 stuff he’s injury prone and walks to many guys to be a true #1.
It might be true that Breslow is in over his head only time will tell that but what I do know is the market for pitching is insane right now. I mean there has been only one pitcher who’s gotten over a 300 million contract and that Gerrit Cole, arguably the best pitcher in baseball. It’s possible a guy that this off-season a guy who has never made one pitch in MLB becomes the second pitcher to get a 300 million dollar contract as a pitcher. That’s insane. I mean it wouldn’t surprise me if Monty gets 200 million that’s just crazy to. The market is of control for pitching. At this point I’m hoping they sign Shota and hoping it’s not a 100 plus million contract. Eddie just signed with Arizona 80 million in 4 years that May look like a bargain when it’s all said and done.
Maybe Breslow will turn out to be Bloom 2.0 but the guy has already hired who I believe to be an excellent pitching coach. Maybe this off-season isn’t the one to make signatures moves maybe he really needs to evaluate what he has he’s only been the guy for just over a couple of months. Then again maybe he swings a big trade for a controllable top of the rotation type with prospect capital that has been hoarded. Tbh I’d be happy with adding a couple pitchers he think grade out well for Andrew Bailey to sharpen then add a right handed power bat to balance the lineup maybe trade for 2nd baseman and see how things go. Perhaps the can sign Woodruff to a 2 year deal I think that would make sense. As for trying to outbid Cohen for YY it just isn’t going to happen most likely.
UPDATE from Redsox Nation: Not “Full Throttle” Currently 0$ spending for 2024 on anything Redsox
Waiting to see our Big Market Team get serious again. All spending on hold until further notice!
It won’t just be the Red Seat empty at the moment!
I love that Blaine Crim is still with Texas, and they got a very good reliever that I prefer to the 9 other guys drafted. This is great!