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I might be reading your post wrong but Pillar was only guaranteed $3 million if he made the opening day roster. So the Sox just cut him and signed him back for less. He never received any of the $3 million. Now why the Sox thought Pillar could be worth $3 million dollars just less than two months ago if he made the opening day is another question.

Wow, crazy. Grossman is old and I didn’t think he was ever a good defender but being worse than Sheets is impressive. With Pillar back, Sheets should just backup 1B and I guess he will DH against righties, even though he can’t hit.

The White Sox, where old bad players go to play for whatever they are offered.

Hopefully. We don’t need to see Sheets in RF.

His stuff isn’t bad but he just can’t throw enough strikes.

Hopefully, we will have a new owner by that time who would be willing to extend him.

And they were replaced by the much more incredible bats of Paul DeJong (.612 OPS) and Nicky Lopez (.632 OPS)! Add up the OPS’s of Anderson and Andrus and then DeJong and Lopez for a hilarious surprise. They’ll play better defense but they won’t score any runs either.

Sure, but the Sox still had two years of control on Cease and didn’t even get close to discussing what the price would be. So one could reasonably expect that this will happen with any other good player in the future, under the current ownership.

Getz knows who butters his bread. He’s JR’s new loyal mouthpiece servant.

Gotta love how the only way to “save” a JR-owned team is by trading their best players, rather than resigning them. JR is an embarrassment to competition. It’s too bad he didn’t just stick to real estate. Having an owner that just wants to make money rather than win is the worse possible scenario as a fan.

A true JR mouthpiece robot. Embarrassing.

Well said. I am fine with the Cease trade but not with Jerry pocketing $8 million. The fact is that Jerry really doesn’t want to compete unless it’s on his terms and Getz is simply doing his bidding due to his undeserved promotion. It’s a vicious cycle of suckitude and “Yes” men. And GriFAIL is just the whip cream on top of this entire $h1t sundae.

Why do they have to be “whiners”? Does anyone call you a “stupidly over-optimistic homer”? I get the impression that @Lip Man 1 is a long lifetime Sox fan who has lived through Jerry’s entire awful reign and longer. The same owner who has done nothing with the Bulls since Jordan left because it’s a money maker. Perhaps you should listen and learn from your elders. But do what you want.

Those Orioles fans win again. Didn’t overpay us for Cease and got rid of their deadbeat owner even before nature took its course.

Can I take the under on July? Once most of Getz’s acquisitions are DFA candidates by July that he keeps hyping up as having promise, he won’t be posting much at all.

Checkmark on the first one. Not so much on the second and third. I guess I thought a Sox message board would be where you go to talk about the team, during good times and bad. When they won the WS in 2005, I’m sure everything was positive. When a team sucks, it should be expected that people discuss the suckitude and the terrible owner.

$13 million more in Jerry’s pocket. I guess I should probably stop caring about the Sox giving money to bad players.

Forgot about that rumored offer. Terrible. Duran is a free swinging hacker and Porter and Leiter cant throw strikes. Funny how these teams throw out offers with their players with the most obvious flaws.

Would love to know what their offer was.

I said they missed out on a better outfielder (Taylor) for $1 million more. But I still think it’s funny that they just traded Cease, cut Moustakas and Pillar, and JR will basically be pocketing $13 million.

Dick spittin the truth. ?

Didn’t you just use this excuse for Crochet?

Hah, they just didn’t want to pay him $3 million.

With Cease traded away and the decision to cut both Pillar and Moustakas loose, Getz has saved Jerry $13 million. Getz won’t be getting fired. He probably just got an enthusiastic pat on the back from Jerry.