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Not really. It means they sold at peak value. The return is a different story. They bought low on Eder. And if you look around Eders trend line as he gets innings back on his arm, he's trending forward. Last 3 starts are a 4.02 era, 23 Ks in 16 innings including a .421 BABiP

Still chuckling about the victory lap his biggest fan took here after a 2 hit game. He's been awful offensively, awful defensively, and the Sox pitching is bottom 5 in the league in pretty much every category. Tough to discern what exactly he is accomplishing. If he's such a great guy to have around, make him a coach. That said, Sox don't really have anyone else to plug in until Stassi returns from injury (and his 60 days are up end of month), so best case scenario we still have a few weeks of watching him look helpless.

Time's must be really rough for your ego if you're trying to give people the I WAS RIGHT for this move.

Maldonado 9 for 91, unveiling the new Maldonado line of .100, to go along with the better Mendoza line of .200. Hard to explain why Getz expected a better batting average from Maldonado , and on a team that needs more offense. Fortunately, some of our hitters have been improving and the pitching has been good lately. We may not lose 120 games anymore.

Not saying they’d be good, but it would have been nice for this team to not start 3-22.

Man that was a fun month

This whole thread can go to @freezingcoldtakes

The Maldonado Line __________________________

We have a better record than the Rockies. ?

It's gonna be a loooonngg weekend for the Guardians. Sox are getting ready to......

I’m not saying the offense is good but it at least looks semi competent with the recent additions. With Crochet, Fedde, and Flexen settling in at the top of the rotation, this team might actually win some games this month and next.

If we benched guys in this franchise for lack of hustle or shitty play we couldn't field a team. Talent wins. Get anybody with any hint of it up here. Vaughn and his 70 level jib can go simmer in Charlotte.

Leasure is a great last name for a reliever. I wonder how much having a name like Bummer fucks with you psychologically

hell yeah leasure

If Tony doesn’t acknowledge him, then neither do I.

Yermin Mercedes?

Ramos just has a presence and is excited to play and especially bat, compared to Moncada it's night and day as far as energy.

Me gusta Ramos

SUCK IT VAUGHN HATERS

I know Colas hasn’t been good and I know the org is not a fan, but the obvious answer to an AV demotion (which prob won’t happen) is Sheets to 1B and Colas to RF.

DeLoach has been in the 600s for OPS (in Charlotte!) with little power recently...has something changed? He profiles as average to below average defensively so I guess that should fit right in.

Didn't you want Crochet to go back down to the minors this year? They were drafted in the same year. What's the difference in the big scheme of things if he's a year behind?

I think there is zero chance that Fedde is here post trade deadline. He should probably be traded for a bat given how many holes we have currently. From my perspective, your 2025 rotation should be Crochet, three kids, and some sort of cheap vet in FA. The rest of our money needs to go to the offense.

Thank god for Rick Hahn. Who would have guessed that his graveyard hour trades for Lee and Quero, Nastrini et al would be the last decent talent we’d see enter the org for the foreseeable future. All hail haber and his computer, much preferable to org chart Getz

Everybody here loves to amass shame porn. Now Cease is Verlander, when in November, he was Erick Fedde.

Point is, Orioles (and MLB’s) top prospect didn’t look good in his first mlb stint so not ALL orioles prospects are looking good this season. You choose to focus on the positives for other teams and disregard the negatives. For the Sox, you choose to only focus on the negatives and disregard the positives. I guess that’s your schtick.

He’s quite literally a utility player for the brewers. If he played everyday his OPS wouldn’t be that high guaranteed. Anyways, it’s funny you’re even remotely defending that trade because if the Sox made the same deal we’d be hearing about how awful it was every single day, multiple times a day..

All I can say is thank god Getz didn’t take the Corbin Burnes package (or anything even close to it). This return is light years better than what the Brewers got. What in the hell were the Brewers thinking? Geezzz

He missed a season due to COVID and then had Tommy John. Its not like he's been playing in minors for 5 straight years. He'll be 25 the rest of the season.

If burger was a stock the Sox sold him at the absolute peak. he will likely never put up a stretch of 2 months at a 850 OPS or higher again.

Well, yea. No way Burger even returns a Jake Eder today. As I said weeks ago, it’s more likely that Burger is a DFA candidate in a couple years than a solid everyday regular. Maybe Eder will be too but worst case he looks like a cheap mlb lefty reliever for a few years. Upside is potentially even better than that.

Bruh, who is WE? 90% of this board knew this was going to be a 100 loss campaign. Aint no we thought this was a .500 team.

Corner outfield is where you stick your sluggers and hope they can play defense well enough to not give up more runs than they produce. Kyle Schwarber was a starting outfielder on a team that went to the World Series. Yes, to an unbiased observer, Gavin Sheets is good enough defensively to justify putting his bat in a major league lineup. That’s not white sox apologia, that’s just a basic understanding of how professional baseball is played. You seem to want to deny reality to make a point about how bad the Sox are. This team is bad enough that you don’t need to make up things on top of it to help make your point.

Why? He never wore the jersey. It's like people who have orange Walter Payton jerseys

No, it’s not a very good free agent class. Go get Alonso though. f*** it. Next year should be better than this year but I still wouldn’t expect them to be competitive.

Sorry, you'll get Crochet, Nick Nastrini, Tanner Banks as an opener, Paul DeJong converted to a pitcher, and Clevinger.

Also very encouraged about getting 7 of our 9 wins against two teams that are 6 games out of first in their respective divisions. I’m unzombied now this is great

Sold high as in the amount of whining over trading Burger was NEVER justified (and that we sold at his peak value). The return would be even worse if we waited to trade him this year.

Did anyone else think he even is starting to bum Schriffen out? He wasn't so enthused about Martin Maldonado last night?

I am on team HODL

Sold high would mean the return was good. That’s questionable at best. Jake Eder is 25 years old and currently has an ERA over 5 with a 1.60 WHIP in Double AA.

Robert and Ramos both worked hard to learn English as their second language and not have to fully rely on a translator. Meanwhile, Moncada has been with the Sox by far the longest and still has to rely on a translator. Shows the difference in effort between these players.

That’s because Cease IS currently pitching like peak-level Verlander for the Padres. In his start against the Cubs yesterday, he gave up 1 hit and had 12 strikeouts in 7 innings. It was the first time in the Statcast era (past 9 years) that a starting pitcher didn’t give up a hard hit ball (exit velocity > or = to 95 mph). Mike Tauchman made an out with an exit velocity of 94.6 mph. Also, you would be rewriting history if you say you don’t remember posters that wanted to hold onto Cease until this year’s trade deadline so he could prove he was an ace once again and potentially increase the return on him. I wasn’t one of those posters because I was concerned with Cease getting injured or struggling again, and the Sox getting even less for him. But it looks like those other posters may have been right. Of course we can’t just assume Cease would’ve pitched as well as he is with the Padres right now with the Sox, especially with the MLB’s worst defense that Getz put together, but it will still be interesting to see what the Padres get for Cease if they fall out of the playoff race and decide to trade him, and see how that compares with the Sox return from this past offseason.

I would like to add that Maldonado is the closest to an automatic out in MLB. When they want to speed a game, just bypass his turn and add an out to the inning.

That's what it's all about folks.

I hate you for making me laugh at this fucking joke.

Way too early to call that trade anything resembling a success when the biggest need on the major league roster now and in the future is power/offense.