MLB Rumors: Why Red Sox need to go all in on Aaron Judge
For the Boston Red Sox it’s “here they go again time” as the team finished last in the American League East yet again.
That would be twice in the past three years the BoSox have looked up at all of their AL East competitors.
One might echo the words of a comedy character (“The Life of Riley“) from ancient TV who’d utter the famous line, “What a revoltin’ development this is.” It’s highly apropos in light of the pathetic state of the team.
All eyes will be on Chief Baseball Officer, Chaim Bloom who has seen his team go from an ALCS participant to a doormat again, in less than a year. He’s got a lot of work to do.
Bloom’s predecessor, Dave Dombrowski got a raw deal and was summarily and shamefully dumped (a disgrace) from a similar position less than a year after his team had actually won a World Series.
Yet, such is the life of a top baseball man under the absentee ownership of the Boston Red Sox, one more interested in English Football than Boston baseball.
That leaves Bloom and the Boston Red Sox with one huge question, how to again turn this debacle around? There’s one major way to make a statement and get the ball rolling. This is it.
The Boston Red Sox first move must be this
Having summarily traded away their best player, a former American League MVP, Mookie Betts over money for a piddling return, compounding that gross error, it’s time for the owners to either pony up or sell the team.
They need to throw down the gauntlet, and get right back in the race. That would be to go all in and all out to sign superstar free agent slugger, Aaron Judge, for whatever it takes.
Signing Judge is a great move on a whole host of levels. First, the team will get one of the two or three best players in the American League if not all of baseball. The team has money coming off their payroll. They need to make a huge splash. Judge would be just that.
Judge of course broke the American League home run record set in 1961 by his New York Yankee predecessor, Roger Maris this season with 62. He’s a giant both literally and figuratively in baseball and to see him patrolling Fenway’s right field would be a thing of magic.
Second, it would be massive addition by subtraction as the Boston Red Sox’s gain would be their former nemesis the Bronx Bombers (there was no competition this season) loss. Signing Judge would be a Bronx Bummer of monumental proportions.
Third, getting Judge would make up for the loss of any one or two, or three stars or former star players who could leave or be dealt. They would be Xander Bogaerts, Rafael Devers, and J. D. Martinez. If need be move them all and sign Judge.
Boston Red Sox fans, be the judges
So the $64,000 or rather maybe $640M question is this, how much should the Red Sox be willing to spend to blow the Yankees out of the water to sign Judge?
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The answer is whatever the heck it takes. If it’s $50M per for more for a decade, go for it. Judge will be a productive fielder for at least half of those years and he’d be a perfect DH after.
A big market team like the Boston Red Sox not spending is an embarrassment. If these owners aren’t ready to splash the cash and give Bloom a real opportunity before he’s kicked to the curb, then they should do Red Sox Nation a favor and sell out.
Take your billions in profit and, as Biff said in the first “Back to the Future” movie, “make like a tree and get outta here” because they wouldn’t deserve to own a franchise like this.
Find some billionaire (preferably one for whom buying the Sox would be pocket change) to run it like a World Series Champion should be run, not like the penny-pinching, Scrooge-like, low-rise operation it is now.
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That’s the suggestion. That’s the first step among many others that needs to be taken to regain the team’s dignity and respectability. Have at it. This space is not one to countenance 10-plus year contracts usually but enough is enough.
Just go out there and do whatever takes for however long it takes and sign Aaron Judge. Then, let the fireworks at Fenway begin. This guy will mash 75 in the old ball yahhhd for certain.