Jones & Keefe: Did the Red Sox give Aroldis Chapman too much?

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00:00Neither you or I like the Eraldus Chapman signing.

00:02No.

00:03Uh, bad guy.

00:04He's 100 years old.

00:05Old.

00:06Bad dude.

00:07Not great.

00:08And decent money for one year.

00:09Not great the last couple of years.

00:10I stand by all those things.

00:11The money, though, we were called to task for, and this is somewhat fair, I think.

00:15We complain about the Red Sox not spending money.

00:17Yes.

00:18And then they sign someone and we go, that guy stinks.

00:21We don't like that signing.

00:22Well, we're not going to like every signing.

00:23Okay, but also we specifically reference that's too much money for this guy.

00:27Now I personally, I personally think you can say they didn't really spend.

00:33This is a one year, $11 million signing.

00:35But are we being hypocrites by saying sign, sign, sign, spend, spend, spend.

00:39Then they sign somebody and spend and we go too much money.

00:42Is that it?

00:43Uh, so I don't think so.

00:45I think like every single contract isn't going to be great.

00:49See, there's a commitment to the team, like a commitment to the team and like a longterm

00:54commitment is one of these like mega deals, which they haven't signed in a long time.

00:57I mean, re-signing Devers, sure.

00:59But like a 12, 13 year deal to Soto or six plus years, let's say to like Corbin Burns

01:05or somebody like that.

01:06That is a big time commitment.

01:08They spent more money for Chris Sale to win the Cy Young somewhere else last year than

01:12they did on, on Chapman.

01:14We're just saying for a one-off guy who may or may not be your closer, that seems like

01:18a lot.

01:19And so if that takes away from some of your other big moves, I wouldn't love that.

01:22That's it.

01:23I just want them to spend.

01:24I do.

01:25I do.

01:26Yeah.

01:27If they signed Soto and Corbin Burns and then they spent $11 million on a role as Chapman,

01:28I won't care about the money aspect because they're just spending like crazy.

01:32But to be consistent, like we, neither one of us really wanted Blake Snell.

01:36So if they won the Blake Snell sweepstakes, I'm not going to be like, yay.

01:39I'd be like, really, is that the best use of your money?

01:42I would, that one, I would have applauded them for spending.

01:45I wouldn't have liked the signing.

01:46I would have nitpicked the signing.

01:47I think I would have applauded them for spending.

01:48But you're not going to like every player.

01:49Here's my point.

01:50If they have, this really is a criticism of them not spending.

01:53If they have 70 million to spend and they're not going to spend into the luxury tax.

01:58Okay.

01:59They have 70 million until they hit the CBT.

02:01Is this an indication?

02:02Number one, they're not going to spend big on Soto or Corbin Burns.

02:05They're going to spread it out.

02:07Yeah.

02:08And if you only have 70 million to spend because they refuse to go into the luxury tax.

02:12Now I need to criticize how you spend it.

02:14So I think we're okay there, but I understand the blowback saying they need to spend money

02:18and then we criticize the spending.

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