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Meanwhile Pham started off his 1st 2 games with the Cards 4-5 with a grannie and Kopech pitched 6th inning 2Ks in a lose to the Padres. Fedde should get a start soon too

I said probably the whole buyout to get the prospect so I was close. $1M off.

You haven't missed much so far .0 -8 also had a ball he appeared to take a bad route on clank off his glove. Wasn't called an error after a long run into the gap but I think Julks would've caught it.

Better than Benitendi and Vargas in LF which isn't saying much.He did rob a HR in his first fews games with the Sox. He's got an above average arm too.

West Burg got hurt after acquiring ILoy DFA ILoy now. He brought the curse to your team . Then again Holliday hit a grannie so temporary reprieve.

Probably not meant for the game thread ?

And even then it's not really good for the Sox. There's no way to tell if it went toward next years player payroll .

Close to my opinion but leaning C- to D. Maybe I overvalued Fedde or Getz thought way too highly of Vargas AAA stats and ignored his fielding. Kopech still throws 100 and had an extra year so we differ in that it seems light for 3 MLB players teams actually wanted 2 of them with the extra year and current Top 20ish pitcher in baseball. St. Louis put Pham in their lineup right away and got rewarded with a Granny. So I think they were a strong prospect short especially since Edman didn't play at all this year. I did expect very few Top 100 guys to be traded which I spoke of in some of the future Sox draft threads. Maybe pitchers, catchers and 1st basemen would be out there, so I thought we might get a top C/1st baseman if Getz was offered any he liked among the suitors. I also didn't like the reports that said he preferred not to trade in division although ultimately maybe they didn't offer the right kind of players. Eloy sure great trade for JR but at least he got a player back . But I'm at the point that I view these trades as nothing more than bottom line trades and as such were not designed to be impactful to improving the team very much but to help JR prepare the team to be sold.

I doubt from the fans abandoning the Sox that donations won't even come close to generating the revenue that ads do.

@Bob Sacamano said the same thing I just said in his answer to your post and you gave him a thank you emoji. How is what he said any different than what I said ? And I did get the story straight . I acknowledged that when I started one sentence with "Sure that hurt.." I guess he didn't call you peanut butter ?? Maybe I need longer posts explaining step by step because you seem to interpret everything I say wrong or flat out falsely misrepresent it purposefully.

29 other teams besides the Sox have a Top 10 prospects list . 29 x 10 equals 290 - 95 or so in the top 100 (Sox prospects in the Top 100 dont count. That leaves around 195 that won't be in the top 100. There are various top 100 lists so maybe you can include more players but the math is the same no matter what list you use.

We is JR. Not happening.

Somewhat surprising there want even one but not really. Thought there might be a pitcher. I think Lesko was a top 100 guy (#76) but sliding downward. Maybe he wasn't on BA Top 100 though. Figured if there were any traded it would be pitcher,catcher or 1st basemen. There aren't that many teams who have the confidence like Tampa Bay in their scouting and development to take prospects outside the top 100 or Lesko who was having huge problems throwing strikes.

Sometimes you are denser than peanut butter. I outlined why way before that happened why he was least likely to be traded than Robert. Sure that hurt but there were reports he wanted an extension from the Sox already out there. Wanting one from a team he'd be traded to with no guarantee they'd treat him like the Sox did was him protecting himself from being exploited. There wasn't going to be many serious suitors for him regardless because they already knew he'd be unlikely to pitch in the off-season and he didn't want to pitch in relief. Pretty simple. Don't blame me that you couldn't follow that train of thought.

I was torn .I had a feeling it was going to be Smith when I saw who was available knowing he was a very good LH pitcher which seems to be their forte. Cags was a fun idea as a pick. Big bat big personality , initially ranked higher than Smith but that doesn't mean too much right now.

From who and for what ? I told you 3 weeks ago neither Robert or Crochet were being moved by the deadline.

It makes all the sense in the world to me. He was hired to do exactly what he's doing. Getz the Pet. There's only one reason for JR to fire Getz and that's to shift focus away from him and make Getz the fall guy by pretending he still gives a damn about winning. But JR is usually more loyal to his Pets. He's all probably let him Stay Getzy boy stay ! Good Getzy !

Touche.

If we ever get the full details I'm guessing the whole buyout to get the prospect.

Yes it would which is why I don't believe it. Unless of course JR is eyeing Benintendi and Roberts remaining contract obligation as obstacles. We shall see if JR lengthens or shortens his leash on Getz the Pet. I suspect JR to do just enough to avoid getting on Manfred's radar so something similar to this year, maybe 1 or 2 better contracts than Fedde got this year. Nothing longer than 2 years.

Oh you poor diluted soul.You actually are pretending Jerry cares .That's adorable. In a twisted way it makes me thinkk JR is ill and the countdown has begun to The big sell. US Sellular Field.

Oh I got it ! I got it ! Eloy is an experiment. If their development people can raise Eloy from the dead and change his stance, make him hit fly balls and keep him healthier they will know they are bathing in the light of the goodness of the baseball gods. It's just too bad the gods frown upon being tested in such a way . It's a sign you are getting greedy ,tempting your fate and they shall suffer for it.

If you see the Sox spend anything next year it'll just be an upgrade from $1- $5M slugs to $6-12M slugs. That won't make them any more likely to succeed . It's just more expensive window dressing picked by a guy handpicked to fail by our magnanimous owner. Unless JR fires Getz to make it appear he's not happy about the terrible reason. But JR is usually loyal to his pets.

Thank you for your participation watching the demise of our franchise as the fans desperately clawed at the Orioles prospects while the O's continued to make smart baseball decisions until now . Never bring over a cursed player from a loser franchise. I'll say I'm sorry for the current group of Os fans that they will never see a Championship with all your wonderful position player prosects but thank you and your franchise for throwing the Sox a bone even though you have unwittingly doomed yourselves.

You actually think one is separate from the other ? The awful roster is a result of JR slashing payroll and using Getz to execute his wishes. You may have kept telling everyone the franchise is losing money but how is it JR has so many big plans going forward with the whole planned partnership wih the Wirtz family to build his sport conglomerate with the Bulls and Blackhawks while preparing the Sox to be sold. This is all JRs I'll be exiting the world soon strategy for his heirs. He's smart enough to legally cook his books to show massive losses while at the same time funnel money into his projects. And you wonder why Getz get can't get any good trades done. He's not getting any good offers. The Sox are bleeding among a huge school of piranhas. Hire inexperienced GM to execute his plan and tell the world it's to expedient the return to competence. The whole time that was BS. The Reinsdorfs of the future will stricty own the Bulls. Just have to wait and see if baseball is really interested in keeping the franchise in Chicago as much as some seem to think. By the time this whole plan is executed the whole country may be in bigger economic turmoil more than it is now. The divide between the haves and have nots is deepening.