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It was a "solid" or fair return at the time. Nobody else at SoxTalk thought it was great, because we didn't get Campbell, Anthony or Mayer. Those were the three true prizes of the Red Sox system. In the end, they need to get at least 2 3+ fWAR players out of Teel/Montgomery/Meidroth to "break even," but ask nearly every big league GM if they'd take one in their prime 6+ fWAR ace/TOR pitcher or two 3 fWAR prospects? Ask everyone if they would have rather gotten any of those Big 3 players + Teel or Big 3 + Montgomery and almost everyone will give up Gonzalez and Meidroth on the back end of that trade for the close to "can't miss" Top 10-15 MiLB prospect... Not to mention there was SOME not inconsiderable risk attached to Braden Montgomery's ankle/foot injury from last season at Texas A&M. Fwiw, I think we had this same debate a week or so ago about Jake Eder and Burger and the description utilizing the adjective "great"... but I will refrain from calling anyone a "liar" since it's impossible to prove or quantify or verify at this point. And you can certainly argue that NONE of those three players were available or at least MADE AVAILABLE to the White Sox for Crochet, but we'll never really know the "real/objective" truth here.

Anderson is basically it. (18.9 total fWAR with the White Sox) Robert, especially for two seasons, 2000 and 2023 (12.4 total fWAR). Burger, depending upon your opinion of him. Not exactly a great testament to your system with Romy Gonzalez might be the 4th/5th biggest big league contributor on the position player side...obviously Moncada is Top 5 due to fWAR/bWAR but still not worth the return on investment overall. Or Nick Madrigal.

Braden Montgomery might have been left off of ONE list, but that's pretty much a solid middle 100's MiLB prospect list addition if ever there was one (plus the Red Sox are MUCH more trusted industry-wide on prospect identification and/or development in general). Of course, the problem is with the 6 TJS (and counting), as well as the collapse of Colson Montgomery. Any rise by Grant Taylor at best cancels some of the Montgomery slippage out.

Canario...not Jeimer Candelario Viciedo's about 35 or 40 and was last seen playing in Japan. Colas is nobody's favorite...unless they're connected to Clevinger somehow.

2020 34-26 Lost NL Wild Card Series (Won 0 Rounds) 2019 84-78 Missed Playoffs 2018 95-68 Lost NL Wild Card (Won 0 Rounds) 2017 92-70 Lost NL Championship Series (Won 1 Round) 2016 103-58 Won World Series 2015 97-65 Lost NL Championship Series (Won 2 Rounds)

It would take all the pressure from AL East and West ownership groups about the four Central teams having an unfair competitive advantage...especially if three teamd make the playoffs again this season. Not to mention lower attendance/shared gate revenues...at least SAC and TB have "exciting/lively" home environments now...and zero draws for all these teams when the Sox come to town, except maybe expected blowout Victorian for the home team?

Swing decisions!!!

He and Tanner McDougal seem to possess the two best arms in the low minors.

They're on the road. Think Kyle Williams doesn't travel to save his paper money. Pool reports or only info from CLE side probably.

Why wasn't Jones inserted as PR again?

Gut punch of a loss. Sox have that trade marked these last three seasons. 2-9 vs. 3-22

Or the Royals should have invested money into, but it's all going to Perez Witt Lugo Wacha Estevez, etc.

And Torkelson, ofc, is becoming a legit threat in DET now...

Worry implies panic...it's why Buffett sold all his Apple stock last year and is now sitting on a massive pile of cash waiting to be reinvested for the highest rate of return. And it's not a game for at least 80% of Americans. We'll see what those bottom 80% are feeling after/if the budget blueprint passes with tax cuts for rich and corporations.

As soon as the Dow is back anywhere close to 45200 let me know... The odds of a world recession are 40-50% higher, not to mention we've angered many of our closest allies unnecessarily, when it so obviously should have been the western world/democracies all attempting to isolate China as a unified bloc in the first place...instead of one country and person going it alone.

It’s dangerous because we already had a top catching prospect…and we already know how catching beats up even the best hitters. Maybe one shifts to 1B/DH. But we desperately needed a true SS and CF and got neither. For now, Braden is playing CF, but nearly every scout around the game projects him as a RFer. Meidroth has become an early favorite with fans…but it’s hardly like he is a consensus Top 100 prospect, even. He is the next man up, the likeliest to be promoted at Charlotte, however. To me, Meidroth and Gonzalez feel almost more like Basabe/Victor Diaz in the Sale trade. Except Chase is sort of like a cult hero at this point. One thing he is not, is an everyday major league SS. Unfortunately, neither is Baldwin.

"“The Chicago one was intriguing when it opened up. Right? Because it is a team that has a lot of upside, a lot of Latino players, you know. We talked about it as a family.”“The White Sox, we love the city. We love, I mean that is a good baseball team. Then Tony happened and it was like woah. Okay. Here we go.”" Alex Cora discussing Sox managerial possibility before TLR got the job

https://global.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/44597125/baltimore-orioles-put-starter-zach-eflin-injured-list

30) Chicago White Sox Last week: 30 Five straight losses for the White Sox after a nice start to the season. They are who we thought they were. yahoo sports power rankings

He might be MORE afraid that if Colson Teel Quero Meidroth all struggle...they're going to be coming after him with pitchforks and torches. That will only leave the Big 3 to market and this summer's #10 draft pick...they probably want to hold Schultz/H.Smith/Taylor back until next year for off season marketing purposes.

Dylan Cease was spotted a 3 run lead and immediately surrendered 5 to the A's and it's still the bottom of the 1st. That Sacramento stadium is definitely going to provide huge offensive numbers as it heats up in the summer months. Make that 2 outs and 6 runs. ERA up to 7.94. Cease leaves with 3 IP, 9 earned runs, 8.56 ERA (about where Jon Adkins was when he was traded for Ray Durham, lol)

NY @ Detroit 14,156 Minnesota @ KC 13,008 CHW @ CLE 33,722 (obviously terrible weather conditions, but that's kind of a warning sign for the Guardians to be be closer to 30K than 38,000)

Even Martin Maldonado (clearly one of the worst players in baseball last year) has been relatively decent in SD...hitting over the Mendoza Line, at least.

https://www.milb.com/news/former-water-polo-player-sam-abbott-adapting-with-chicago-white-sox-293789676&ved=2ahUKEwi93bzJ8cmMAxX5OTQIHfcrEHUQFnoECBYQAw&usg=AOvVaw12PF55iMCFQ4AEqu745aO0 Maybe draft more water polo players like Sam Abbott? Heck, we might need to go back to investing in Indian cricketers as a concept, lol.

Well, the next Camp Cora for Chicagoland youngsters has probably been cancelled, lol...