Ken Rosenthal: The Red Sox are ‘not trying’ to spend
The Boston Red Sox have left, and are still leaving a bad taste in the mouths of their fans this offseason. As the rest of the league has been making moves, especially in the free-agent market to better their chances of competing, Boston has been sitting on their hands while player after player passes them by.
Ken Rosenthal went on Foul Territory with former MLB catcher A.J. Pierzynski to discuss the Red Sox’s situation.
“They’re not trying the way they should be trying,” Rosenthal said Tuesday. It is inexplicable how they are running this thing.”
Many fans agree with Rosenthal’s sentiment on the Red Sox. In need of a frontline starting pitcher especially since Boston moved on from Chris Sale this offseason with options on the market. A pitcher like Jordan Montgomery is spending the offseason in Boston with his wife, as well as reigning NL CY Young winner Blake Snell is also available. Boston is yet to address their issue in the rotation; diehard Red Sox Jared Carrabis, a prominent member of Boston and MLB media, has made his opinion known like many others with how fed up the fanbase is with the front office–especially with Justin Turner signing with the Blue Jays Tuesday.
Red Sox team president Sam Kennedy also called anyone who doubts the Red Sox’s competitive intentions ‘a liar’; seeing insiders call out the organization’s strategy of shedding payroll, the front office going back on statements of competing and having little to show in terms of offseason improvement–all these things can point back to the Red Sox front office being unstable and untrustworthy. They lack the motivation to field a competitive baseball team in the toughest division to win and the most infuriating part is: They are a couple of moves away from competing for a wild card spot.
You can’t allow a player like Turner–one of the bright spots in that Red Sox lineup–leave with seemingly no replacement to cover his production as a 20-plus home run and 96 RBI production. As a franchise, you are asking right now of Tyler O’Neill right now to cover Justin Turner, Alex Verdugo, and potentially Adam Duvall’s production while asking Lucas Giolito to potentially be your No. 1 starter.
Signing either Montgomery or Snell and bringing in a bat-like Jorge Soler will ease the fury of the fanbase. While also improving the team to a point where you can compete. Moves can be made to make this team better if the front office and ownership want it to.
The Red Sox as of now are looking at a very slow 2024 season, with fans pissed off with the organization’s antics and gaslighting. Teams are getting better while the Red Sox have not, and the people in power will be the ones to blame. No amount of scapegoating and other damage-control tactics will blind fans from the crap they have been given, which can all subside if the Red Sox become serious about competing. How it seems they could care less.
This is not on the players in the clubhouse, Alex Cora or Craig Breslow. It is about a premier franchise having a crisis due to neglect from the decision-makers within the organization who are not addressing the glaring problems with their team.
To those decision-makers I ask: Are you serious about fielding the best team possible? If yes, then show the fanbase and stop the lying, the gaslighting and the overall incompetence fans have witnessed. If you’re not, then sell the team to people who care to see this team succeed just like the fans.
You can bank on young prospects to help the team seeing how the organization is very high on Marcelo Mayer, Roman Anthony and Kyle Teel. However, as the Boston Red Sox, you can build a competitive environment for those prospects to thrive … not to mention your superstar third baseman Rafael Devers.
Do better or step aside.
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