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The Greg Hill Show

Best Of Red Sox on WEEI: The Pivot to Ranger Suarez

The Greg Hill Show

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2.6709 Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

The Greg Hill Show, Jones & Keefe, and WEEI Afternoons react to the Boston Red Sox' signing of Ranger Suarez following Alex Bregman's departure for Chicago

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0:00.0

Jones and Keith, W-E-E-I, the fame Dale scale, made its return based on coach and quarterback rankings.

0:07.8

Yeah, we tweaked it slightly, but I think it still applies.

0:10.2

We made, well, all our picks this weekend based on the Dale scale.

0:14.8

You can go check those out at Jones and Keith.

0:17.4

They'll be up shortly.

0:18.4

Not confusing at all.

0:19.4

I like our guy Chuck in New Hampshire, who said this is like a bowl game. The NFL quarterback and Keith. They'll be up shortly. Not confusing at all. I like our guy Chuck in New Hampshire who said this is like a bowl game. The NFL quarterback and head coaching rankings via the Dale scale presented by Jones and Keith on W.E. That's it in a nutshell. I mean, it's too long for a tweet, but it's good. It made sense to me and you, I think, hashing it out in real time. I'm not sure how many people followed along in real time, but that's not really the point.

0:37.9

We've got a graphic to clear it all up later on. It looks great. So go check that out again at Jones and Keith. We'll get to Zadano Chara, his number getting retired tonight at TD Garden. Does he deserve it? Who else deserves to have their number retired? We'll get into all of that. Plus we'll go on the clock at high noon with more thoughts on divisional weekend.

0:55.7

But joining us right now on Jones & Keith, the return of Rob Bradford. Baseball isn't boring. And W.E.I. He's brought to you by McFarlane Energy, the heating, cooling, and bioheat delivery pros that Easter Mass and all of Cape Cod depend on. McFarlane Energy.com. What's up, Bradford? Oh, McFarlane, to you both. It's so good to talk to you. So good to talk. So good to be back. And I just want to get this out of the way. I take full responsibility for Alex Bregman, not signing with the Red Sox because clearly I gave them a sense of overconfidence when I put them at 51% instead of 49%.

1:29.7

That was on you. Well, thanks for doing that, Rob. That takes a big man to a bit when he's wrong.

1:33.7

So we appreciate that. We'll get to Breggman maybe in a moment, but let's start with the signing yesterday that I was surprised by, especially given a tweet you had earlier in the day, they were looking at controllable

1:45.7

pitchers via maybe trade, and then out of nowhere they signed Ranger Suarez.

1:49.6

What are your thoughts on the deal?

1:51.2

Yeah, I think that once the Bregman thing didn't happen, it became pretty clear what their pivot

1:56.1

was going to be, and it was going to be this run prevention.

1:58.7

They were going to dive into the world of these top of the rotation pitchers,

2:02.5

which we thought they had left behind, put in the rearview mirror.

2:05.8

And as you said, I tweeted out.

2:07.7

I had heard that they were being very aggressive to finding that guy.

2:11.9

Now, they found that guy via free agency.

2:14.7

But what that told me at the time was when I tweeted that out, said, listen, I mean,

2:19.3

there is no room for interpretation.

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