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For this decision, Getz likely listened to Mike Tosar, the former Dodgers scout that initially signed Vargas. Mike Tosar, also the same Sox assistant hitting coach that was fired a week after Vargas was acquired.

Gotta love that they are paying a few of the already small number of scouts that they have to sit at home with pay for three months.

The Sox are going to have to trade Crochet for sure this offseason. It’s pretty obvious he doesn’t want to be here.

“Congratulations to all involved.” 🤣

Small sample size.

“More HISTORYYY!!!” On pace for a 38-124 record. Amazing.

Yes, I remember small sample sizes. I remember earlier in the season when you tried to use a small sample size of the Sox record over 25 or so games when they went on a short hot streak to say that the team wasn’t historically bad and was better than it appeared to be. By the way, here is Vargas’s career line in 506 plate appearances: .186 AVG / .282 OBP / .335 SLG / .617 OPS As far as Flexen and Sheets go, Flexen has a 5.34 ERA and Sheets has a .686 OPS. They are both bad players like I stated. However, we wouldn’t have to see them playing for the Sox if they were both traded at the deadline as you anticipated, since they both had “value.”

Yes, Getz said that on November 7th, 2023, prior to his mostly awful offseason acquisitions… https://www.audacy.com/670thescore/sports/chicago-white-sox/chris-getz-on-his-white-sox-i-dont-like-our-team So he didn’t like the team and succeeded in making it even worse right after he made this statement. 🤣

Your “agenda” talk is a sham. The proof is in the pudding. Getz’s two trades for guys he thought would be fixtures in the lineup in Fletcher and Vargas have been atrocious. This isn’t some sort of conspiracy to make Getz look bad. Getz has made himself look like a bad GM under his own accord with those two trades. He doesn’t need help from any posters here.

What an amazing assessor of talent that our GM is! Vargas is the bust of all busts.

I’m actually rooting for Jerry and Getz to own the record. It couldn’t happen to a worse owner and a more unqualified GM. It would be very fitting for them both to own it.

Something that happened 62 years ago in 1962 is not a recent feeling like 2024 would be.

What about if they attain the prestigious accomplishment of the worst record in MLB history?

I try not to. 👍🏻

Are you surprise? I am not surprise. Vargas is dreadful to watch.

This was just one single Google search. I’m sure I can find even more… https://blogs.fangraphs.com/2024-mlb-trade-deadline-winners-and-losers/ https://amp.foxsports.com/stories/mlb/mlbs-biggest-winners-losers-from-trade-deadline https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/columnist/bob-nightengale/2024/07/30/mlb-trade-deadline-2024-winners-losers/74610915007/ https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/2024-mlb-trade-deadline-winners-and-losers-dodgers-make-key-moves-but-baseball-blockbuster-never-develops/live/amp/

Seems pretty obvious that Getz took back exactly whom the Dodgers were looking to dump — a former top prospect whose initial shine had turned to tarnish after almost a full season of awful at bats in the majors.

I am still waiting for Getz to trade his other valuable flip candidates including Brebbia, Flexen, and Lopez, along with Sheets… 🤣

To be fair, there were positive posts about how Getz nailed the Fedde signing and moving Crochet from the bullpen to the rotation. But then the trade deadline came around, and well, yeah… we all saw what happened there.

Then I retract my statement and approve of this post!

He succeeded so much on the Fedde acquisition only to botch the return for him so epically bad. He wasted his own trade asset.

I guess it’s easier to just stick your head in the sand, ignore it, and pretend that Getz isn’t doing a bad job.

You don’t see the irony in how a GM who was promoted undeservingly from within now has the initiative to only hire from outside the org because internal hires must apparently not be the greatest choice? Your point would make sense if it wasn’t Getz running the show and being in charge of this new initiative. But alas, the top dog is still just another Jerry minion. But then you made a joke about grabbing more Royals employees, so you seemingly are aware that the Sox are picking the wrong people?