TheFutureIsNear

I advocated to take the gamble and wait on a Cease trade for a better return. Obviously we’ll never know how well Cease would have pitched for the Sox, but also hard to defend the Cease return…even without the Thorpe injury. But other than that? No idea what he is expected to do. I don’t believe he has a bigger budget at his disposal and just doesn’t want to use it. In a full rebuild you pretty just have to cross your fingers and hope. The real test will be if/when the young guys develop and it’s time to add the finishing pieces….if Getz is around for that (hopefully the team is sold and a new GM is brought in) Overall a “C, for now” seems about right.

Getz should take a shot on Buddy Kennedy. No idea what the Phillies want back, but he’s out of options and not making their roster.

At some point in the future I’d love to get to see a list of “This guy played in the majors??”, just from this 2-4 year stretch of Sox ineptitude (who knows, it also may never end)

I think it’s fair to say they just don’t consider Colas

Apparently the plan is to pick up every below average lefty and see what sticks. Most likely none

I guess Getz had a plan for SS that didn’t work out and now needs to double back? Don’t get me wrong, it’s an extremely low % chance, but I’d rather bet on DeLoach being useful than Amaya. Maybe Colas will actually get a chance at RF/DH now though

This seems about appropriate for the Sox

Show your books or shut up…that’s where I’m at with these owners crying poor. I don’t expect every team to be the Dodgers, but I’ll never believe these teams can’t turn a healthy profit spending $120+M on the roster

Very little MLB talent to trade, a bad farm system (arguably Getz’s own doing), and new asinine draft lottery rules…trying to rebuild that is going to be a long difficult road for anyone. Reality is that if at least 2 legit free agent hitters aren’t signed at some point and the payroll doesn’t get back up to $160+M I don’t see how Getz could possibly dig out of this hole in less than 5 years. And I’m not even trying to defend Getz. I never thought he should have gotten the job to begin with. Just important to acknowledge how dire the situation really is.

Crazy how 1 second you’re discussing trading for a top prospect and then you blink and he’s being signed as a 30 year old minor league free agent.

Sosa, Vargas and Ramos should be given every opportunity to play before a guy like Rojas. Hopefully it will play out that way

I get that, but at the end of the day aren’t the guys he will be sharing a locker room with day in and day out going to determine that level of comfort? The whole not wanting players thing at his meetings thing throws me off a bit. But now that I’m looking at the list of teams in the last article posted I guess it’s not all that weird. And my original post was for sure worded poorly, idiot was too harsh of a word. He for sure should take whatever time and process he wants. Just doesn’t seem like he’s going the typical route is what I was getting at

I can’t tell if this kid is very smart or a complete idiot. Very odd how he’s gone about this whole process. Pretty obvious it’s not about the $, so I wonder what the main sticking point is for him?

Vargas sure, why not Fletcher should have to earn his playing time. There’s still a small part of me that would rather see Colas honestly. And not like Fletcher has significantly better pedigree than DeLoach either. Hopefully 1 of those 3 can step up and earn playing time in RF and we don’t see too much of Tauchman and Slater