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I’m not sure what you are seeing when Kopech pitches, but you are going to be disappointed in the return for him when it finally happens. Kopech isn’t sniffing a return of the #62nd ranked prospect in the MLB. Cease returned one top 100 prospect — Drew Thorpe, who was rated #85 at the time of the trade.

That’s takes some talent. Amazing job by Getzy.

Not hindsight at all. I remember numerous posters specifically calling the Maldonado and Lopez signings terrible wastes of money when they happened. Also, that Brebbia was a bit too pricey for a team that was going to be awful either way. Play young players in a season you know you are going to be non-competitive. Don’t sign garbage re-treads unless they are cheap and you think they are flippable. Maldonado and Lopez were never going to be those guys. Getz didn’t even stick to his supposed plan of bringing up prospects slowly so it was all BS anyways. Improved defense for the rotation — yeah, that worked out well. But I guess we should all be excited that Getz got one or two signings right in his offseason and ignore all the many more awful acquisitions. You have very low expectations.

If Getz avoided dumpster diving for a few of his junk DFA candidate veterans this past offseason in preparation for a no win situation/season, he would have Benintendi’s $16.5 million covered for next season already. Maldonado, Lopez, Brebbia, and Hill. These bums cost $16.1 million dollars and provided around negative 2.5 WAR up to this point.

Yup. I wouldn’t put my own money on it happening but there still is a small chance he finally hits well enough to be worth half his salary and an even smaller chance that he is worth all of it. You can’t neuter a Crochet return just because of Benintendi’s salary.

Which record are you referring to — the Sox franchise shutout record or the MLB shutout record?

Very different, yet still very bad.

MLB has Caba as the Phillies #5 prospect and #99 in the MLB top 100. I can’t imagine Kopech could net that kind of value for 1.5 seasons of control with the way he has been pitching. But yeah, if the Phillies are dumb enough to offer that kind of value for him, you take it.

It was a very short delay, like 30 minutes.

Blasphemy. If I was the coach of the other team, I’d ream those two little kids out for congratulating big boy and bench them for the rest of the game. If I was big boy’s coach, I’d ream him out too and bench him for raising his arms and asking for applause as he rounded third base like some MLB star.

Funny how it would sound like sh1t if we were Dodgers fans but it seems like an impossible feat with our team. I can’t even imagine them getting close to that.

Wilson and Kopech bringing the heat but guaranteed to give up runs every outing. Nice timing by them considering they were our two best bullpen trade chips.

On the positive side, a certain poster’s job tracking the stat just became a lot easier now that the counter has been reset.

“And the Sox no shutout streak is… OVA.”

Good god, what team would want this loser?

That little kid with the ice cream cone had a bigger gold chain than Moncada.

Haha, your earlier prediction was just shy by a few feet.

And neither did you. In this thread alone you jumped from 200 innings in one post down to 150 innings in another. Either way, this discussion is tired and I don’t really care anymore. Back to the game…

Like I said, Stone is saying the same thing as the majority of posters here. No one should feel stupid. There was rationale provided for why Crochet wouldn’t be able to throw a ton of innings this season. I don’t believe I ever saw any rationale provided for why Crochet WOULD be able to throw 150+ innings this season.

Thanks for finding this. So I said I would be surprised if Crochet throws 150 innings, much less 200. I never said 100 so I avoided @JUSTgottaBELIEVE’s shame and ridicule! Yessssss!!!

Oh, sure they can. On multiple old bad veteran acquisitions like almost every offseason. Multiple bad players is better than one good player. Quantity is always greater than quality. It’s the White Sox way.

The rain cock-blocked your prediction.

I don’t think I ever gave an estimate. Either way, he’s at 94.1 innings pitched, not 100 and not 150 yet.

Nice of him to tank his trade value with us. And there’s that improved Getz defense like clockwork!