DHL Dan CCXXIV - Time For A Rebuild?

After another season of below .500 baseball and not making the playoffs, Shank wants the Boston Red Sox to do what they couldn't be bothered doing the past five years or so:

Instead of an endless rebuild, the future should be now for the Red Sox, and other thoughts

Picked-up pieces while wondering why the Red Sox won’t make a commitment to increasing player payroll . . .

▪ If you are satisfied with the 2024 Red Sox season . . . if you support the Sox’ small-cost, big-hype, long-term rebuild . . . you are part of the problem.

The endless rebuild drones on. Ticket prices keep going up, but the level of play stays the same. The Red Sox are 353-355 with three last-place finishes in the five seasons since they changed philosophy and traded Mookie Betts instead of paying market value for a homegrown MVP. Betts has been in the playoffs in five straight seasons since he was dealt to the Dodgers in what Sox ownership said was “a baseball trade.”

“Autopsy Monday” has become an annual part of the Red Sox calendar — no less than Truck Day, Opening Day, and Patriots Day at 11 a.m. — and Sam Kennedy, Craig Breslow, and Alex Cora met with the local media one day after the season ended last weekend.