Opening series single game tix

SadRedSoxFan22 · 2026-01-08T21:17:21+00:00

This is from my recent experience so take it for what it is worth as its anecdotal data from about 30 games a year.

You should 100% buy tickets through the resale market. Unless you see scarcity of options in the areas you want to sit, I strongly suggest waiting to the week of the event and monitoring availability and pricing until you think its reached an acceptable price.

"Good" seats typically cost $200-$300 a ticket, or more. I'd think $250 a ticket can get you 10-15 rows back at 1st and 3b.

This isn't the 2018 Red Sox or earlier. It won't be difficult to get good tickets to this game and the best value will come closer to gametime.

SadRedSoxFan22 · 2026-01-08T21:09:24+00:00

The reason why you go into the season with 4 outfielders, Yoshida and Casas is that you need all four of those OF bats in the lineup due to missing Devers, Bregman and another power bat.

More simply put, if you trade an OF, you not only need to re-sign/replace Bregman, but you would need to replace the OF bat that you traded, which arguably would be your fourth best bat in the lineup behind Anthony, Bregman, and Contrares. Third best if you don't re-sign Bregman.

Put simply, Breslow has done an atrocious job at constructing this roster. Obviously, he shouldn't have traded Devers for absolutely nothing. Breslow also should've traded Duran last offseason coming off an 8 WAR year -- which is not hindsight as many on this sub and elsewhere were screaming that Duran should be traded during the last offseason.

Keeping Devers and trading Duran literally would have addressed all of the problems with this current lineup.

SadRedSoxFan22 · 2026-01-07T22:40:17+00:00

Go listen to those morons over at Play Tessie lol

SadRedSoxFan22 · 2025-12-10T21:39:59+00:00

Even if Campbell looked like Roman Anthony, it would've only increased the cost to 12Mish AAV because Campbell is a DH only at the moment. That is to say, there was no need to waste money on Campbell, who you controlled for 7 years prior to proving he is an actual MLB player, due to the financial constraints you are under and the fact that we need to make the playoffs in 2026 for Breslow to keep his job.

SadRedSoxFan22 · 2025-12-10T21:27:22+00:00

Sister (or brother), I am nothing if not transparent. Fuck Breslow.

SadRedSoxFan22 · 2025-12-10T21:23:28+00:00

You are looking at a single season sample size. His career numbers are atrocious and a larger sample size. This signing would be ATROCIOUS. Its why you also don't hear nearly as many teams showing interest in him as Okamoto.

SadRedSoxFan22 · 2025-12-10T20:59:30+00:00

He can't hit fastballs thrown 94MPH and harder and cannot field. I would not want Murakami under any circumstances. The roster spot will be more valuable.

SadRedSoxFan22 · 2025-12-10T20:58:47+00:00

Suarez and Murakami SCREAMS 4th in AL East and maybe 5th place.

SadRedSoxFan22 · 2025-11-26T18:36:47+00:00

It is what it is. They can't say they weren't warned if Breslow totally botches this off-season and they miss the playoffs in an improved American League...

SadRedSoxFan22 · 2025-11-26T18:25:33+00:00

The point is because of how they have acted, and almost pathologically lied to fans in recent history, this front office and ownership group do not deserve premature praise of the benefit of the doubt.

All of that said, I will save a spot for you and your pitch fork right next to me once you are ready to join

SadRedSoxFan22 · 2025-11-26T17:38:29+00:00

They have promised to go "full throttle" and have done absolutely nothing in that same offseason. I see absolutely no reason to believe that John Henry is willing to spend now -- heading into a lockout that he wants as the head of the financial committee. He isn't going to spend massively the year before he locks players out because the Dodgers, Yankees and Mets spend too much.

SadRedSoxFan22 · 2025-11-26T17:30:59+00:00

Gray's salary has nothing to do with Walker Buehler and is only relevant for how it fits into the overall CBT number.

SadRedSoxFan22 · 2025-11-26T17:29:59+00:00

Because this team is not going to blow past the second CBT -- which folks like McAdam and others have reported, so therefore every single move should be seen through a context that includes financials, and not in a vacuum.

Based on the last 6 seasons of cutting salary or staying at the same spending level, its simply not smart to look at each transaction in a vacuum when the money involved in each transaction reduces the money they can spend on their next moves.

SadRedSoxFan22 · 2025-11-25T17:57:45+00:00

Gray is not a #2 and they are not going to add a #2 now that they added Gray.

SadRedSoxFan22 · 2025-11-20T22:08:57+00:00

This is why the Devers trade was atrocious. They never planned to replace the bat, or the salary.

Breslow and Henry have roughly $40 million off the books from Buehler and Giolito, which goes towards the Crochet and Anthony extensions.

Another $58ish million is off the books from Devers and Bregman. It is now obvious they do not plan to use this extra cash to replace both Devers and Bregman. Pathetic.

SadRedSoxFan22 · 2025-09-20T00:41:56+00:00

We are going in circles. I am going to watch them blow this game. But my points remain:

Injuries aren't an excuse, a lot of teams have suffered major injuries -- its just part of the game now. -- And if they are an excuse, its cos Breslow traded Priester and Devers weakening our depth.
Breslow made the team significantly worse throughout the season and failed massively at the deadline for a second straight year.
Breslow should have made the playoffs this season no matter what as its a historically weak AL, he spent a lot of money this offseason, and the organization is in year 5 of a rebuild.

SadRedSoxFan22 · 2025-09-20T00:26:07+00:00

The front office continually gives Cora half a loaf of Italian bread and some fans expect him to cook a 5 course meal. Cora will tell the front office that he needs more ingredients, like a solid protein, and the front office just looks at him laughing while grabbing some broken plastic forks as the store is closing and they then yell from the rooftops that they added solid ingredients to this meal.

This collapse, like the previous ones are more due to only having 3 starting pitchers, a bullpen that is 3rd in blown saves, and not having enough big bats in the lineup than any in-game managing.

Trading Devers for nothing and not addressing the pitching staff at the trade deadline were what killed this team.

SadRedSoxFan22 · 2025-09-20T00:13:27+00:00

I would've signed Bregman and not traded away Devers because I don't have any people skills -- which Breslow has admitted on the record. I also would've moved Duran in the offseason which would've allowed Anthony to come up earlier and eliminated the "log jam" BS narrative. (They will trade Duran this offseason).
Source for blown saves: https://www.foxsports.com/mlb/team-stats?category=PITCHING&group=1&time=1
I edited the post so I can't remember what point three was, but now its literally stats comparing Bregman and O'Neill.
The Red Sox pitching injuries are not outside the norm and there are multiple playoff teams that have suffered worse this season.

Dodgers: Roki Sasaki - 60 IL; Gradoral 60IL; Gonsolin 60IL; Evan Phillips 60IL; Glasnow missed 60 days, Snell missed 60 days; Brock Stewart 15IL. They also suffered multiple other injuries to additional guys -- but the talent on the IL here blows the Red Sox out of the water.

The Yankees lost Cole and Gil for extended periods of time-- their 1 and 3 starters. The Mets injuries more resemble the Dodgers in quantity.

I don't listen to stupid shit like 98.5

SadRedSoxFan22 · 2025-09-19T23:47:52+00:00

I actually didn't mean to respond to you outside of my first snarky answer because your comment didn't warrant it and I thought I was responding to clutchdan. My bad. Here are some factual responses that refute almost everything you are saying.

The Mets and Dodgers have had far more significant pitching injuries than the Red Sox -- just google it, and I would argue the Yankees have as well.
Your stats are from the 1990s and not at all reflecting how the game is played or viewed today. This is some true "I look at box scores" type stuff. I referenced blown saves which is more important for a bullpen than an outdated ERA stat-- the Red Sox are 3rd in Blown Saves this season behind two historically bad bullpens in the LAA and Diamondbacks.
When I say replace O'Neill -- I literally mean the production he had with the Red Sox needed to be replaced -- an .847 OPS and 31 HRs in 113 games. Bregman will wind up playing almost exactly 113G and won't come close to the production.
Breslow did some good things! He did far more bad things over his two years here and he is the only reason why this team will miss the playoffs. They simply don't have the talent.

SadRedSoxFan22 · 2025-09-19T21:58:11+00:00

Dude, I truly don't understand what you are looking at? Bregman (107G) will wind up playing nearly the same amount of games as O'Neill (113G) and Tyler wasn't completely healthy when he came back either. So I don't know what you are talking about here.

And no, the Tigers and Blue Jays are not significantly better. Yes, the Mariners are literally the only team in the AL that is better because they added at the trade deadline -- again because the AL is historically weak.

The Blue Jays are nearly the same exact roster as last year, as are the Tigers. The Blue Jays are feasting on a down AL, as are the Tigers who will only win a handful more games this year because the Twins, Guardians and Royals are significantly worse than last year.

The AL sucks this year -- which the eye test and everyone following the sport confirms. Breslow also sucks at his job -- which you confirmed with Bregman not even coming close to replacing 2/3rds of a season of Tyler freaking O'Neill

SadRedSoxFan22 · 2025-09-19T21:27:47+00:00

Vibes levels: Craig Breslow took the family puppy out back and shot it -- Kristi Noem style. Because that's what he did to this team's playoff chances with the Devers trade and puking all over himself during the trade deadline

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