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Maybe, maybe not. Either way, the Cease return wasn’t looking that hot before this injury.

Kjerstad was already putting up a .790 OPS.

Yep, sorry, typo. I had Berroa on the mind because he was just called up.

I believe fathom was also referring to Thorpe’s bad past two starts and Zavala and Berroa also disappointing in the minors.

This team is cursed. Good thing Getz acquired 24 year old Vargas with 5 years of control rather than a promising prospect with full control like the Twins offer and choosing when to call up said prospect. Instead, even if Vargas pans out, he will be wasting service time while Thorpe is healing from his inevitable upcoming TJ surgery.

Claimed due to Thorpe likely needing TJ surgery soon. ?

At least Hahn’s flier acquisitions made some sense. This guy has been absolutely putrid in the minors and majors.

I saw this on Facebook. How does a “major league” organization do something like this?

Yes. “May earn additional $1.5M in performance bonuses”

True, but I think most teams realize Pham is too old and his glove isn’t good enough to be playing CF and RF except in a pinch. He’s negative fWAR across the board.

Well, if that’s true I’m glad he was retained.

Pretty sad return for two former top prospects that were acquired for Sale and Quintana. Oh well. It is what it is.

I’m not sure I’m buying it. If they waited this long to fire Grifol, what’s a couple more months and 40 more losses matter? ?

Getz tried to rush them back for the trade deadline. Fail.

Orioles refused to part with Coby Mayo and now they are calling him up…

Jesus, I realize that the Sox called Eloy back up too early while he was still hurt to try to get some sort of trade value out of him prior to the deadline, but how long does it take this walking disease to heal?

I think @ChiSox59 will be proven right and Eloy will be cut before the end of the season. They will eventually call back up Kjerstad whom they sent down for Eloy initially.

I never bought it. This is JR we are talking about. He’s a penny pincher. He let Hahn and Kenny run the trade deadline last year and then fired them in late August. He used them as the fall guys for last year’s horrible season and he will do the same with Grifol at the end of this season. He wants to make a big deal of firing Grifol at the end of the season to take the heat off of him and Getz. He actually thinks that Sox fans are this stupid to fall for this crap.

Gotta love how Moncada stayed worthless to the end. Couldn’t even stay healthy or get healthy by the trade deadline so the Sox could get a minor league scrub for him or at least dump some of his salary like with Eloy. Fucking bum…

The most hilarious thing about Pham is that he played 38 games in RF and 30 games in CF for the Sox. Meanwhile, the Cardinals have started Pham at DH and now LF tonight. The Sox literally have not cared about outfield defense for decades. It’s embarrassing.

They actually sent Heston Kjerstad and his .790 OPS down to get Eloy on the roster. Apparently, the Orioles don’t realize that Eloy’s career OPS is .790 and he hasn’t put up an OPS higher than that since 2022.

So they got out of some of Eloy’s remaining salary for this year and also his $3 million dollar buyout? This trade, the Tanner Banks trade, and the Robbie Grossman trade are Getz’s only unquestionably good trades.

They are going to set the record for worst record THIS season. The only question will be if it is just modern baseball or all-time.

Keaschall is three years younger than Vargas and also would have had a sixth year of control, not just five like Vargas. The Sox probably still could have gotten those two prospects from the Dodgers for Kopech in a direct trade with them. Getz is insane if he thinks adding Vargas was important for the present when the Sox have no one ready at so many other positions. Keaschall would have made much more sense since the Sox are still waiting for other guys to be ready like Montgomery and Quero, and perhaps Ramos.

His bat has been crazy good so far and he steals bases. And he was a 2nd round pick so the talent was expected. https://www.milb.com/player/luke-keaschall-807712