The Red Sox are allegedly planning for big spending this offseason, but it’s been underway for awhile and all they’ve done is sign a middle reliever. Cool. (MLB really needs to figure out a way to get back to the days of the hot stove).

So I thought it might be fun to read through the MLB Trade Rumors Top 50 free agent list from a different perspective: If their predictions are accurate, which contracts would I be happy to see the Red Sox end up with.

(1) Aaron Judge, 8/$332 million. I obviously don’t expect to be in on him, but Aaron Judge is awesome, it would be awesome to have him.

(2) Carlos Correa, 9/$288 million. Carlos Correa is also awesome, and it would also be awesome to have him. Like Judge, not exactly a popular player in this market, but he is a true superstar and Boston should be in the market for all superstars.

(4) Xander Bogaerts, 7/$189 million. If Bogaerts stays under $200 million or under 8 years, I think it’s probably a pretty good piece of business. I think my preferred outcome would be Philadelphia or Seattle overpays for him early and then we get aggressive on Correa.

(11) Kodai Senga, 5/$70 million. Personally, I don’t think there’s any way he goes for this little based on the number of teams interested and the fact that many of them are large markets. Sign me up.

(23) Nathan Eovaldi, 2/$34 million. Seems like an excellent compromise for a known commodity. I imagine he’ll work hard to pull another year from someone.

(26) Christian Vazquez, 3/$27 million. Good with a staff, known commodity, and we have no good options. I’m sure the organization is all fired up about making do with the cheapest possible guys, but this is a perfectly reasonable deal for a reliable veteran.

(40) Jean Segura, 2/$18 million. If we get cheap at shortstop, I wouldn’t be heartbroken to shift Story back to short and have Segura in at second. He’s a real baseball player.

(43) Michael Brantley, 1/$15 million. Good bat, no commitment. I’d love to see him or Conforto added in tandem with a trade of Verdugo and/or Duran.

(44) Michael Conforto, 1/$15 million. See above.

(49) Mike Clevinger, 1/$10 million. Seems like a no-brainer one-year gamble.

What did I learn from this exercise? I’m not in love with a lot of free agents, and the ones I like are either elite players, familiar faces, or rentals of known quality guys.

Piecing it all together, my ideal offseason would be extending Devers, adding Correa, Senga, Vazquez, and Brantley, bringing back Eovaldi, collecting a pick for Bogaerts, and trading Verdugo, Duran, and Houck for prospects. How’s that for being both a buyer and seller, Chaim?