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The arms they have added through trades, plus a guy like Grant Taylor sure helps.

Eh, there is no need to hurry into a deal. Learn a lesson from Rick Hahn who sold quickly when he got the offers he wanted for Sale and Eaton, but waiting until the ante was upped for Jose Quintana. Patience young padawin.

Also this is obviously all Ron's fault because he quit making his annual "Jose Abreu sucks" thread, and he never knew when to start hitting again.

And scouting And coaching And managing And GMing And player development

I am sad to see this for Jose, but glad he did get paid. He's just a great dude. I will always be a fan.

We have 3.5 years on Robert. I am 100% OK with waiting out a minimal offer.

I could argue that the Sox made a strategic mistake by not holding on to Cease a bit longer, and I did at the time.

By that logic we don't know anything about Robert either. We do know that Cease is back to his old self, and that is what teams were holding back prospects because of.

And by running scared in the Cease deal we took less than we should have.

6 months ago the situation on the ground was very different. Robert had just played a full season, and the Sox thought they were chasing something like 25 to 30 games to be a contender. Today they have another injury and about 50 games to make up.

I will say that does at least play into the Sox strengths of pitching development vs offensive player dev.

I am going to wait for it to happen, but all this means is Chris Getz and Rick Hahn are the same picture if it does.

PItching? Really?

They are going to be awful in 2025, no matter what they want to be.

Look we can stomp our feed and rage and act like we have some sort of power over management, but we all know that there is a very close to zero change that Jerry Reinsdorf reverses 40+ years of his contract philosophies and gives a huge extension for Crochet. If you go back and think of all of the big pitchers we have had over the years, expecting Garrett to be different just because you are mad isn't going to work.

Or in two years we are back here without Garrett or the prospects.

Bullshit. They have like $50 million on the books for next year after the give out walking papers, and literally only Benny in 26 and beyond. If they give up future players to move that deal when they have that little on the books, that is a propaganda piece that would make Kim Jung Un blush.

God Jesus no. Please don't be that stupid with all of the payroll room coming up.

And the odds of Jerry signing off Obama real Crochet extension is less.

Best I can do is Tony LaRussa.

The rest of MLB owns an .800+ winning% when leading by 2 or more runs. The Sox are now 3-11.

Don't worry, Kopechs annual injury should be coming up any day now.

And I can't see Crochet listening to anything under nine figures.

Gotta win once in a while...

Well holy s%*#.