I'm guessing he gets done around the winter meetings this year, he already did he long free agents learning about everyone, I presume this is going to be biggest contract (or very close to the biggest to return to the Sox.)

There are good pitchers that give up a lot of Air Pull (coincidently, Cease and Ryan), and there are bad pitchers that don't give up much Air Pull. But generally the best pitcher limit it:

pulled LD+FB / all batted balls

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read the green here

yeah, if bregman is gone, then you really need to explore everything with the infield. polanco is fine, but wouldn't be a top choice for me, even not having deeply looked into it. He would need to be paired with one of the studlier bats.

I do not

Pretty much totally incorrect.

“From 2022-24, while only 17.5% of batted balls were “pulled airballs,” that subset was responsible for 66% of all home runs. Pulled airballs in that time produced a .547 BA, 1.227 SLG making them an extremely valuable outcome.”

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He’s solid. Comes with a 3/55 contract, plus what you’d need to trade for him. Not sure if it wouldn’t be better just to sign someone like Giolito instead. They’ll be reaching higher, though, I think.

he's very good, but this list shows that he would give up lots of fly balls towards the green monster

I think they are more likely to trade, but any of the top starters has to be considered.

Beyond saying that, I really have no idea... but the best breakdown I have seen has been here... It sounds interesting and good, but not "second ace" like. youtu.be/MAWQqe3YBFE...

It was actually the Pirates that completely fixed him in the middle of last year lol