Dear Boston Red Sox ownership, it’s time to go all in or just go away
The mighty Boston Red Sox, four-time world Series winners since 2004 are again the doormat of the American League East Division for the second time in three years. Worse yet, they’ve become boring and irrelevant. How the mighty have fallen.
So, while the absentee ownership laments every loss of the Liverpool Reds, the ownership of the Boston Red Sox seems to have forgotten that they even own the team. Their seeming disinterestedness in providing the resources it needs to be successful is a Boston sports travesty.
What about finishing last in the American League East for two out of the past three years doesn’t register on the Fenway Sports Group, the owners of the Red Sox? And why do they seem perfectly willing to let this once flourishing franchise fall to ruin?
The owners of the club in former times provided both the leadership, e.g Theo Epstein and Dave Dombroski, and the capital to make this franchise champions. Now, not so much.
So what should this ownership do?? There are only two options that will be explored right here, right now.
The Boston Red Sox owners should either pay the piper or sell the team
If the Boston Red Sox doesn’t exert itself as a big market team, it is a disgrace. Last season, they allowed Kyle Schwarber to flee the coup and sign with Philadelphia seemingly over money. The guy loved Boston (and Waltham) and the Beantown faithful reciprocated.
Schwarbs was very good in his cameo appearance after the trade deadline last season, and he was even better in 2022 for the Philadelphia Phillies. Critics of this opinion will say that he only hit .218. Yet, they conveniently gloss over the fact that he absolutely mashed 46 home runs and 94 RBIs. Analytical stat-geeks will still find a way to trash that production.
And uh, oh yes, Philadelphia made the playoffs this season and the Red Sox, well didn’t. What a coincidence! The Sox also undid another of their best moves in the 2021 offseason and traded away Hunter Renfroe for Jackie Bradley Jr. and two uber-valuable prospects.
As Boston’s legendary WEEI sports talk show host Glenn Ordway, the Big O used to say, “How’d that work out for them?” Not so good, O. Renfroe clocked 29 home runs with 72 RBIs along with more outfield assists. Think the Sox could have that 75 home runs and 166 RBIs? Think so.
Now you can add the bizarre signing of James Paxton who didn’t throw a single pitch last season to that Wall of Shame list. There’s a combination of bad baseball decision-making by Chief Baseball Officer Chaim Bloom for certain included here.
Yet, it can certainly be surmised that the penurious Red Sox ownership has somehow put the clamps on Bloom’s ability to spend to build a World Series winner.
The Boston Red Sox ownership should make a decision
With all this in mind, the Boston Red Sox’s absentee ownership should really make a decision. Either pony up the cash to let Bloom do what his predecessor Dave Dombrowski (who was unceremoniously dumped less than a year after) did, build a World Series winner, or sell the team. It’s that simple.
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Where is this ownership and what are they thinking? Are they wailing and gnashing their teeth about this pitiful excuse of a season or just hunkering down in five-star hotels somewhere (not that there’s anything wrong with that!) enjoying the good life? Fine, but when you own a major big-league baseball team in the United States of America, you are privileged, not the other way around.
You have one of if not the most dedicated and loyal fanbases in all of sports. The old ballyard is filled every game lining your pockets with more and more cash. Yet, seemingly, you just rake in the moolah and tell the fans to take a hike.
So it’s time for you to step up, or please, please do us all a favor and step out. But, if you actually do care about the team, give Bloom a mandate to build a World Series winner, whatever the cost. That means cash and lots of it and you can start with Aaron Judge, thank you.
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If not, then do all real Red Sox fans a favor, take your billions in equity capital gains, uproot from Boston (you were never really a part of Beantown anyway), and sail off into the sunset.
Just please do us one favor, sell the team to a deep pockets owner who’s a real Red Sox fan who’ll be willing to do what it takes to restore the fallen glory of the BoSox.