Tier 1 Red Sox That Got Away

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00:00Tier one, Matt.

00:00Okay, we'll make this quick.

00:01These are pretty obvious.

00:02John Lester, which I thought was an absolutely colossal mistake,

00:06and think of what it led to.

00:08They didn't sign Lester.

00:09They let him go, and they ended up having to sign David Price,

00:12who was a disaster.

00:14Mookie Betts was a trade, but he was traded because they weren't willing

00:18to sign him and invest what it was willing,

00:21what it would have been required to keep him here.

00:24Huge mistake.

00:25They went after Mike Messina in the offseason of 2000-2001, I believe.

00:31And, again, there's a silver lining here,

00:33but they would have paired Mike Messina at that time with Pedro Martinez.

00:38Okay, that was the plan.

00:39That was before these owners, and Messina ended up going to New York,

00:43and the Red Sox didn't push hard enough or go far enough,

00:46and it could be that Messina never wanted to come here.

00:48Kirby Puckett, early 90s, was another one.

00:51The Red Sox.

00:52I don't remember this.

00:54Oh, yeah, it might have been hard to get him.

00:55In 1991, after the Twins won the World Series, Kirby Puckett was on the free agency,

01:00and the Red Sox allegedly offered him five years, $35 million.

01:03There's a media story that goes along with this, too, Murray,

01:06that may or may not come up during the show.

01:08If not, I'll tell you after here.

01:09Okay.

01:09And then Bernie Williams in 1999 was a free agent,

01:13and the Red Sox were close to getting him.

01:15And the Yankees got concerned at the very last minute,

01:18and Steinbrenner said he would not allow Bernie Williams to go to Boston

01:22and increase the value.

01:24The Red Sox should have said, whatever he gave you, we'll give you more.

01:27They didn't, but Bernie Williams, the Bernie Williams failure

01:31led to Carl Everett coming to the Red Sox a year later.

01:36And it might have been the same offseason.

01:38Actually, I think it was a year later.

01:40And then we all know how things went down with Carl Everett.

01:42And it might have been the same offseason.

01:44And it might have been the same offseason.

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01:51And it might have been the same offseason.

01:52And it might have been the same offseason.

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01:54And it might have been the same offseason.

01:55And it might have been the same offseason.

01:56And it might have been the same offseason.

01:57And it might have been the same offseason.

01:58And it might have been the same offseason.

01:59And it might have been the same offseason.

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