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Nah, that’s a weak excuse. The Sox have sucked for years. What does a .490 baseball get anyone? No playoffs, no chance at a WS, so what does that do for you? You may as well just be excited about every win the Sox get in a losing season cuz .490 doesn’t get them anything better.

No, that is not what I am saying. Your expectations are understandable but too high considering the current Sox owner. I understand being upset about not extending a stud like Witt in the hypothetical scenario in which the Sox drafted him but you are the same guy that wanted to bring back the decaying corpses of Abreu and Anderson so you can watch them attempt to play .490 baseball. The fact of the matter is that there are some teams with cheap owners like JR that don’t want to and won’t spend on all facets of their organization to win. But obviously that is no excuse. There are other ways to win, even with a low MLB payroll. Look at the Rays for example. They are competitive almost every year because they have a good front office, good scouting, and good development. Instead of being upset about not extending players that may or may not be past their prime, you should be wishing we had a team like the Rays that know how to: 1.) Draft the right players and develop them. 2.) Trade away their MLB players as they get more expensive via arbitration and approach free agency for promising prospects. 3.) Don’t waste a combined $20+ million dollars on garbage veteran bench players year after year like the Sox when your own developed prospects would be better for a fraction of the cost. Instead of championing a wise change like this, you wish we would sign over-the-hill nostalgic vets like Abreu and Anderson because you are apparently happy watching .490 baseball. The question is, why are you happy to watch .490 baseball that leads to absolutely nothing?

If Witt was on the Sox, yes, he would be traded in about 1 or 2 years from now for sure. Getz/Jerry wouldn’t have given him an 11/$288.7 million dollar extension like the Royals did. Instead, Witt would have turned down Getz/Jerry’s offer of 10/$200 million with the possibility of earning $300 million if Witt won the Triple Crown in both of the last two years of the deal when Witt is in his mid-30’s. ?

Maybe he is shooting up Compound V from the show “The Boys”? ?

I just took a guess and looked up the 2003 Detroit Tigers schedule. The 2003 Detroit Tigers went 25-67 prior to the All-Star Game, which coincidentally was held at U.S. Cellular Field on July 15th that year. I’m not sure if this is the worst record prior to the All-Star break in a 162 game season but it has to be close if it isn’t. So our Sox have currently “bested” that terrible Detroit team by 2 games so far, depending on what happens in the next 2 games before the All-Star break. https://www.baseball-almanac.com/teamstats/schedule.php?y=2003&t=DET

Well, I know one poster who disagrees with us. ?

If that is possible, he makes perfect sense for a team with a big division lead that doesn’t necessarily need him to win their division.

Are you like an old man yelling at the kids that ride their scooters past your lawn or something? Look at the Sox record. At this point, does it matter if they pitch Crochet for only 2 innings or 9 innings against any opponent? A win or a loss at this point means jack squat cuz the Sox are trash. I agree that they set this up so he can get an All-Star Game appearance. But in the larger scheme of things, I don’t think the Sox are too concerned with his innings count because they know they are trading him soon and he won’t be their problem (innings limit or performance decline) in a couple weeks. What part don’t you understand?

Well, they now think their GM can acquire anyone for peanuts since the Burnes trade was perceived to be light for Milwaukee. It will be fun watching them fail to re-sign Burnes though.

I wonder if the team that trades for Crochet can find some balance of keeping him stretched out to start while giving him a lot of rest to have him as a postseason starter? 6-man rotation along with skipping Crochet’s starts where they can.

It’s bullshit, per Robert Murray. Scroll up.

Sure it did, and of course he wants to pitch in the All-Star Game. Your last sentence is a bit naive however. Jerry’s mouthpiece has already spoken, and he gawn. In general, outside of this All-Star Game appearance, the Sox have been pitching Crochet like they know they won’t own the risk of him throwing too many innings going forward. https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/columnist/bob-nightengale/2024/06/30/mlb-awards-first-half-all-star-game/74258656007/

I edited my post and removed the “likely” but it’s all a bunk BS rumor anyways.

Elias is like a pirate with his booty. He’d rather be buried with his prospects before trading them away for what he actually needs to win a World Series. Not saying it’s a sure thing he can’t win a WS without trading his top prospects, but it’s obvious that he wants his cake and to eat it too.

Whoops.

https://fansided.com/posts/mlb-rumors-cardinals-jordan-walker-orioles-jackson-holliday-marlins-jazz-chisholm Per Robert Murray:

Or that, haha.

No. Elias was probably asking for Paul Skenes, Bubba Chandler, and Luis Ortiz. Skenes alone is now worth more than Holliday. He is officially a proven stud ace in the majors, and likely worth more than Holliday even if Jackson pans out as well.

It was obvious his first game back when he could barely jog to first base. Like SS2K5 said, the Sox will do the same stupid s%*# with Moncada. Basically blow any chance of these two bums getting healthy to deal them for anything by the trade deadline. The Sox rehab their players in the majors and just tell them to home run trot to first base on any contact. Even Sox apologist Chuck Garfien has been wondering in the postgame shows why Eloy is playing when he can barely jog to first base. Getz’s roster management has been absolute clown shoes this season.

That’s what we thought in the offseason. No one thought winning at a .250 rate would be possible and they proved us wrong for a long stretch. Now imagine Robert, Crochet, Fedde, and any halfway decent reliever in our garbage bullpen being gone, along with DeJong and Pham?

Schriffen is talking up the NBA Summer League and how excited he is for it. Anyone else think he took the Sox gig to grease the wheels with Reinsdorf for a future Bulls commentator gig? He sure seems to love basketball more than baseball. He does have SlamBall experience after all…

That’s why Robert gets the big bucks…

Yes, it could. Similar to the Alex Rios acquisition years ago, it would have to be a bad team trying to dump a bloated contract for an above average player. The Sox got two good seasons out of Rios and then traded him for Leury Garcia, and it only cost them money.

It’s going to be like the start of the season again.

Anyone else cringe when The Legend said something like how every time Eloy gets in a groove he gets hurt and has to start over again? Yeah, Stone Pony, that’s cuz he’s the most injury-prone walking disease in baseball. Where the hell have you been?