No dooming or shitposting. I’m genuinely curious to know how the fan base feels about this? Boston’s opening day CBT payroll is $216M – $41M of that being paid to Sale, Giolito, Hosmer and Justin Turner. The FIRST luxury tax level is $237M. Wild… shout out to @RedSoxStats providing the numbers

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1. “Boston’s opening day cannabicitran payroll is $216M”

   “Boston’s opening day cognitive behavioral therapy payroll is $216M”

   “Boston’s opening day cock and ball torture payroll is $216M”

2. Have a feeling, or maybe a vibe?, that our boys will win the season series against NY… even with them being a full $100M above our little engine that could.

3. I thought hosmer got paid league minimum from Boston?

4. These aren’t the numbers that are used to calculate against the tax though

5. Hosmer is league minimum so I don’t care about that at all

   The sale trade was a great deal in a vacuum, so can’t complain about that either. Would look a lot better if they signed someone to fill his spot

   Turner is fine too because it let us stay under the CBT last year, which would’ve allowed us to go over this year (except Henry doesn’t want to spend money anymore). A pretty creative structure to that deal actually

6. I’m indifferent. I’ve known for a long time we are probably mediocre at best this year. I just want to watch baseball.

7. 216 or 126 as the post says?

8. IT SUCKS DICK

9. Hindsight will be 20/20 but yes, it’s an objectively bad spot to be in for how bad our team is on paper

10. Oh wow thanks no one on this sub has ever mentioned this

11. I’m not a fan of paying all that money for guys who left/haven’t played yet. I wish we would have kept sale. Watch him have a great year in ATL.

    not thrilled about the Gialito money. Hoping he has a bounce back year next year.

    Didn’t realize we were still paying turner 🙁

    Hosmer was like league minimum so I don’t care about that.

12. $100m less than the Yankees is wild. If they were available, we could sign 3 Ace pitchers and still be less.

    We are even $24m under St Louis, a team known for being frugal. We could have signed Montgomery and been around their payroll.

13. When did everything start being “wild”? I feel like usage of that word is up 4000% in the last two years.

14. Spending $41 million on players that aren’t on the team isn’t ideal, obviously.

    I wouldn’t go beyond the luxury tax for this roster.

    In general, the fan base seems to be obsessed with money and how they’re entitled to it being spent and doesn’t seem to care about building a team, developing players or even who they sign or how much it costs.