{"id":502377,"date":"2026-01-02T04:07:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T04:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/502377\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T04:07:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T04:07:13","slug":"otm-open-thread-1-1-happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/502377\/","title":{"rendered":"OTM Open Thread 1\/1: Happy New Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">2025 may be gone, but the holes in this Red Sox roster are not. With virtually the entire MLB offseason on hold over the last week for the holidays, we enter 2026 with both a Red Sox team that hasn\u2019t participated in free agency yet this winter, and a free agent class that still has more than half of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2025\/11\/2025-26-top-50-mlb-free-agents-with-predictions.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MLB Trade Rumors\u2019 top ten guys entering the offseason <\/a>still on the board. (Can we get a pitch timer for this part of the MLB calendar, please?)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This leaves us in a continuously awkward spot when trying to evaluate the club. The front office has made multiple trades (and probably mostly good ones if we\u2019re being honest), but also still has an incomplete roster, money left to spend, and all against a backdrop of several shiny objects still sitting on the shelves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In other words, there\u2019s still plenty of offseason to go, and we here at Over the Monster will be at your service to cover it all. So Happy New Year to you and yours, and we\u2019ll be back to our usual thing soon!<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In the meantime, use this thread to ring in the New Year, talk about whatever you want, and as always, be good to one another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2025 may be gone, but the holes in this Red Sox roster are not. With virtually the entire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2375],"tags":[5,141,48,2542,4,45988,89,2543],"class_list":{"0":"post-502377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-red-sox","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-boston","10":"tag-boston-red-sox","11":"tag-bostonredsox","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-open-thread","14":"tag-red-sox","15":"tag-redsox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115823538538419563","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}