The Red Sox will be releasing your favorite, and their best players in their prime
The Red Sox new strategy for teambuilding is now apparent. It's not earth shattering. We've seen the Braves in Atlanta now doing it for several years. Sign your young players extremely early before they have any track record and no reason to decline a contract that comes awfully short of their expected earnings if they would just get a couple years of service time under their belt.
For the players, this is going to suck. Well, the good ones. The shitty ones or just OK ones like Brian Bayo will make out OK somewhere around even maybe a little more. But, if Christian Campbell has a couple good years, he basically gave up getting to free agency money two years earlier at 28 years old for 10 million bucks over eight years. He's not going to be a very happy camper in 2028.
So, by the time he does get into free agency and he's 30 years old. The relationship with the team will most likely be strenuous because he's been underpaid for half a decade. Also, the Red Sox have no interest in paying 30 year olds, long-term big money deals. That is no longer in their financial strategy .
So, we are about to see a core of young players come up in the Biggs watch watch their ups and downs as they learn how to play and how to win, and if history tells us anything, as soon as they're on the precipice of breaking through as champions in and around that 30-year-old age mark at the crest of their prime the Red Sox are going to cut bait.
The best case scenario is the team is willing and able to supplement the deficiencies in the roster with short term big money deals, and free agency for proven players similar to the Bregman signing this year, which is really just a one year $40 million deal three years in a row .
If they can do that well enough and consistently enough and the kids they're signing site on scene can actually play, that's the best shot at World Series contention.
Just don't think for a second your health Harold did big three I'm gonna be Red Sox for life.