OTM Open Thread 1/10: It is Wednesday

Photo by Barry Chin/The Boston Globe via Getty Images Cubs beat Dodgers to a free agent! Happy Wednesday. Shota Imanaga Cubs deal is complicated and includes player/team options and escalators that could boost it to way up to $80M. Guarantee suggested to be somewhere around $30M for two years by @JimBowdenGM @jonmorosi 1st said $15M/year …

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Don’t Trade Kenley Jansen

Photo by Kevin D. Liles/Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Even though the Red Sox inexplicably feel the need to clear salary entering 2024, they shouldn’t fix one problem by adding another. As we sit here in the second week of January, in a Red Sox offseason that most of us had high hopes for but which, so …

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Kenley Jansen Is Closing Out His Legacy

Wendell Cruz-USA TODAY Sports Badly placed pun aside, will Jansen’s modest decline be a liability in 2024? 2023 In One Sentence Kenley Jansen had one of the worst years of his career. . . which was still good enough to get him into the All-Star game and he was a noticeable improvement upon 2022’s closing …

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