Every year I play the utility role in our SB Nation general manager simulation. I’ve done the Marlins, the Pirates, and the Orioles over the past few winters. This year I ended up taking over the Red Sox.
I didn’t have an objective necessarily when I started, but I knew that I wanted to try to do two things: extend the Red Sox window and try to drop payroll a bit. If the latter wasn’t accomplishable, I wanted the money to be spent efficiently if it were going to be spent.