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Remember when the entire premise of Getz’s offseason was acquiring vets to make the kids earn their promotions? Yeahhhhh…

Too bad he isn’t also a “power lefty” like Gavin Sheets …

Getz not signing free agents is probably a good thing. It would just be more money lit on fire.

Getz’s entire offseason was a whiff outside of Fedde and DeJong. His other in-season trade for Fletcher was a whiff. But you have faith in Vargas, even though he now has a full season of at bats to his career in which he is is one of the worst hitters in recent memory? Crazy.

He doesn’t work for him anymore. He can stop kissing ass anytime. 😩

Fedde’s value to the Sox was only what he could be traded for. It’s just like having great closer on a terrible team. Fedde was a trade asset and Getz threw it away by trading him for a bust in Vargas. Getz’s best signing of his otherwise awful overall offseason turned into a guy that the Dodgers wanted to dump. He traded a 5.3 WAR for a -0.6 WAR. Simply embarrassing. The best Vargas ever did with the Dodgers was last Spring Training when he had a broken pinkie finger and the Dodgers literally told him not to swing the bat so he ended up drawing a bunch of walks facing bum pitchers in ST. If the Dodgers couldn’t fix Vargas’s bat, the Sox have no hope to.

Exactly. I seriously won’t be surprised when Schumaker goes to any other team and the Sox then start up the Sizemore hype and say he was their managerial choice all along.

I assume that means you are going to fire your vibe check in about a week, to follow along with why Getz acquired Vargas and what he did afterwards. RIP Mike Tosar.

Getz actually spent almost double that at $38.85 million on his acquisitions in the offseason, along with his additional signings early in the season. See my post below for the breakdown. He spent around $40 million dollars on mostly bums and only has Vargas to show for it.

Sure, but that’s never the way JR does it. He always has a GM/manager chosen before the end of the season. He doesn’t care about the best candidate.

A lot of GM’s were former players that were even worse than Getz (Billy Beane), but they knew they sucked as players and could still identify good hitters that could get on base. Getz goes after weaklings (Lopez, Fletcher, Julks, Vargas, Amaya, etc.) that hit as poorly as him.

It’s to the point that it’s funny. Like a Bugs Bunny cartoon.

“Red Sox manager Alex Cora told reporters it’s likely RHP Liam Hendricks will be shut down for the rest of the season. Hendricks had an MRI on his elbow after taking a break from pitching. Cora said the team will wait to hear from the doctors, but it’s likely Hendricks will be shut down. The 35-year-old was working his way back from Tommy John surgery, but might have to wait until next year to complete the comeback.”

That’s even funnier because it was almost like Getz was admitting he screwed up in trading for them because he didn’t even play them when other outfielders were injured.

I think I can guess who, but I may go back for fun anyways. 🤣

The Sox are too stupid to ever think of such an idea. Also, Jerry doesn’t care about promoting anything as long as he is still making money.

Let’s give outfield reps to a true 3B prospect so we can make sure to force the gloveless bust Vargas at 3B. Makes sense.

TJ surgery is not as big of a deal for hitters as it is for pitchers, and this kid was still raking through his injury. Also, the Sox are nowhere close to competing so it’s better that Keaschall would have had all of his service time left, while also letting the Sox choose when to start his clock. Vargas already had only 5 years of control when the Sox acquired him and that will be decreasing while the Sox are still terrible for who knows how long? Finally, the notion of not trading a pitcher that only has one more year of control within the division while your team will suck is absolutely moronic if true.

I just posted a tweet from a Twins beat reporter stating Minnesota’s offer for Fedde, which was better than Vargas. A 22-year old that was the Twins #4 prospect at the time. Not a guy whose service time had already started who had already shown he couldn’t hit or field with the Dodgers. The tweet is from August 1st, literally right after the trade deadline, and I remember seeing it when most of this site was pissed off about the garbage Fedde/Kopech return. Is this hindsight as well? It’s pretty funny you are trying to make this weak argument when we already have evidence that Getz has picked the wrong guy in a trade just earlier in the season. Does Dominic Fletcher over Jake McCarthy ring a bell? Is this enough common sense for you?

They have Community Relations, Media Relations, and Public Relations teams according to this link: https://www.mlb.com/whitesox/team/front-office But Jerry probably still does what Jerry wants.

There is an “or” in the tweet. Dan Hayes also says in the video that the Sox wanted one of those three prospects, not all three. Asking for one of those three guys was probably a bit much but I would have gladly taken their #4 prospect back for Fedde in Keaschall.

Yep. I was being kind. I would say the majority of our starting lineup is bad bench players at their best. Sheets could be DFA right now and it wouldn’t matter at all. For some reason the Sox think he’s worth keeping around. All that “lefty power” that he doesn’t have I guess…

Exactly. I can’t believe this is even in question. Some posters tried to say that Trevor Rogers was more desirable than Fedde because he had an extra year of control over Fedde. An extra year of control over a bad #5 starter isn’t exactly a plus over simply taking the better starter. You think the Orioles wouldn’t rather have Fedde right now in their rotation rather than Rogers in AAA? And even if some posters still stubbornly believe that Norby wasn’t on the table for Fedde, I would also rather have prospect Luke Keaschall, healing from TJ surgery, right now over Vargas. Getz is a fool. People giving Getz the benefit of the doubt on his trade deadline is ridiculous. He has already proven he is a terrible assessor of talent — see the Bummer for a “big pile of crap trade” and choosing Dominic Fletcher over Jake McCarthy. The same Getz apologists will continue to blame Jerry when there were definitely moves that Getz could have made that would have improved the team. The Marlins absolutely destroyed what Getz did with Fedde/Kopech with their trades of Puk and Rogers. Both teams had similar trade assets but only the Marlins came away with a good return at the trade deadline.

Deflection. He felt he had to make some sort of statement because the media was asking. So he made sure to release this BS before his team sets the record for futility. Now he gets to avoid the media for when the team actually makes history and the cynicism about him as an owner is at full force. And I doubt Jerry listens to anyone, even his PR team. Jerry does what Jerry wants, which usually makes him look like a clown. But that’s what happens when you have a huge ego.

Sure, I would think and guess the same. It shouldn’t be tough to top -35 wins. But it won’t be much better.