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Agreed, they aren’t spending any money on an OF so Colas makes the most sense right now. Also, I have to imagine the Braves are done looking for starting pitcher after the Sale trade. They have quality and depth in their rotation. Strider Morton Sale Elder Fried ReyLo Smith-Shawver

Thanks. I forgot to even mention the steal of a starting pitcher the Royals got back from the Rangers for 29.1 innings of Chapman, while only paying for about half of his $3.75 million salary.

Scott Barlow was the Royals’ closer to start the season, not Chapman, and Barlow ended up with 13 saves out of 16 opportunities. Chapman had 2 saves out of 4 opportunities for the Royals before he was traded to the Rangers. Graveman had 8 saves out of 12 opportunities for the White Sox before he was traded to the Astros. Hendriks came back early and finished the season with 1 save out of his 1 opportunity before needing TJ surgery. Also, Jimmy Lambert had 1 save out of 1 opportunity and pitched more innings (37.2) than he likely should have with a 5+ ERA due to the fact that the Sox didn’t have a better high leverage reliever like Chapman on the roster. So you are saying that Chapman signed with the Royals on January 27, 2023 knowing he would only be the “backup” closer to Barlow, but he definitely wouldn’t have signed with the Sox while knowing that Hendriks was diagnosed with cancer on January 8th and that he would start the season as the “backup” closer to Graveman, the same situation as backing up Barlow with the Royals?

There hasn’t been a quicker rise and fall than Colas as a prospect but he’s still only 25, the same age as the stud “prospect” Joey Ortiz that Orioles fans so desperately want to deal for Cease. Also, many of the same Sox fan posters that want to dump Colas, even though he makes all the sense in the world to give playing time to on this awful 2024 Sox team, wanted to replace him with one year of Kevin Kiermaier or Adam Duvall. What are Kiermaier or Duvall going to do for the 2024 Sox on one year deals? Serve as mediocre trade deadline guys that return little to nothing? I’d rather see what Colas can do with those at bats. He could be the next Dayan Viciedo but maybe he actually develops into something? God knows it’s better than giving that playing time to 34/35 year old outfielders, which would basically be wasted at bats for this team.

Gallo and Taylor do absolutely zero for this team. May as well play Colas or an OF if one is acquired when trading Cease.

If Sheets gets any non-emergency starts in the outfield for the Sox in 2024, they haven’t learned a thing and Getz is as awful of a GM as Hahn.

Obviously last year was a lost season regardless and it wouldn’t have mattered in the grand scheme of things, but how would having two relievers with similarly good stats not have been better than just one, with Hendriks on the injured list? Chapman wouldn’t have been an improvement on Jimmy Lambert’s 5.26 ERA in 37.2 innings?

The stats definitely disagree with you.

He’s probably the best option statistically and cost-wise. Everything else…

What are the good options out there that aren’t also expensive? Snell and Montgomery left on the free agent side.

How many starts does Stroman make before he tweets out that Yankees fans are racist pieces of s%*#?

They don’t have the lefty hitter that the Sox would want but they still have the pitching. But I have no idea if the Dodgers are still interested in trading for a starter. Nick Frasso, Gavin Stone, Jackson Ferris Andy Pages

This is good news at least. You gotta love the big market teams that can sign a starter for $18.5 million a year as insurance.

So nice you had to post it twice?

I also read that Stroman posted a picture of himself in a Yankees uniform. Yankees fans don’t seem very happy.

You could say that with or without the Stroman news. The Sox should look to make all of the prospects they acquire PTBNLs, so they have more time in the other team’s farm system and less time in theirs.

Imagine acquiring both Ortiz and Madrigal to team with Lopez. Sox fans would be slap-happy. An infield of Vaughn, Lopez, Ortiz, and Madrigal would put up 25 homers combined, maybe 30 if they were lucky. ?

I don’t think he’s on the trade block anymore but Burnes gets almost twice as much as Cease in his final season before hitting the open market.

I guess we’ll see what happens. No one knows what packages have even been offered for Cease. It’s too bad we can’t see what Getz has turned down so far.

Getz: “Not everyone is perfect.”

Oscar Colas, Brett Phillips, Rafael Ortega deathmatch for opening day RF.

Yes, assuming that the prospects a team gives up actually pan out to be anywhere near as good as Snell or Cease. That’s not always a given, as Sox fans have seen from the return on the Sale trade. Those two sure-thing prospects turned into busts pretty quickly.

I doubt Getz panics about anything. He was gifted with a GM job and apparently doesn’t even have to win anytime soon, judging by the roster he has put together for 2024. He cut payroll and went dumpster diving in free agency, which is good enough for Jerry.

I just did some googling. Stroman called Bob Brenly of the Diamondbacks racist for a comment about his durag. Then he said that Mets fans yelled racist comments at him and threatened his life, so he also called the Mets racist for not defending him against the fans. He also called Michael Kay, the Yankees announcer, a racist for not having more black or Hispanic co-hosts on his ESPN radio show.

Competition (fodder) for Brett Phillips for Sox defensive backup outfielder.