TheFutureIsNear

At some point don’t you need to read the room? EVERY SINGLE Sox hitter has been an utter failure the past few seasons. Maybe, just maybe, it’s an organizational failure and not on the individual players? Again, I’m not saying that I expect Vaughn to have a miracle turnaround just because there’s a new coaching staff…but it is more than possible. Giving up on a former top 10 pick to shave $3M off of our $90M (or whatever it ends up at) payroll is indeed dumb. It’s over emotional fan thinking.

1- another team would scoop up Vaughn for sure 2- what on earth do you think saving $3-4M on Vaughn is going to do for us?? Letting Vaughn just walk would actually be one of the dumber things this franchise could do

Is there any connection between Venable and McKiven? Doesn’t seem like a bad hire, just curious who is actually selecting the coaching staff.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that’s what I want to happen, but that’s what I can definitely see happening. Hopefully that’s just my beaten down brain, but I do also struggle to see a team giving up any kind of “blockbuster: top of the rotation” type package for Crochet. Caba, Abel and Buckholder. I can see something like that being enticing to Getz while also being ideal for the Phillies. And it’s honestly not terrible, but would rely a whole lot on being able to “fix” Abel and get the best out of him. But that also seems to be a Getz theme of his targets.

My prediction: Crochett to Phillies for 3 prospects NOT named Miller, Painter or Crawford

Not really newsworthy, but crazy Dunn is 29 already. Seems like only a few years ago he was a top prospect

Gotta roll the dice sometimes in life…can’t live scared. The only realistic shot the Sox have to be competitive within 5 years (outside of the team being sold) hinges on the return from Robert and Crochet. There’s literally nothing else outside a small handful of prospects. Getting a mediocre return for Robert is going to do nothing to change that.

Unless a team blows him away with an offer I don’t think Getz should be looking to deal Robert this offseason. His value couldn’t possibly be lower. Sure, there’s risk of injury, but it’s not like he could possibly be worse than last year. With getting healthy in the offseason + a whole new coaching staff there’s more reason to believe his value will go up rather than down. I thought trading Cease during the offseason last year was a bad move, Robert would be an even worse.

I wonder if an inter-division trade could happen? Definitely shouldn’t be a deterrent with the Sox and our realistic window of getting back into contention. Detroit and Minny have a few hitting prospect that will work as trade partners. Basically, I think a smaller market team that knows they will never sign a top FA pitcher getting aggressive for Crochet would be ideal for the Sox. Dbacks would be another example

It’s not Nevin and doesn’t seem to be a guy that Jerry/TLR would have pushed. About as happy as a Sox fan can get Venable’s main job isn’t going to be winning baseball games for at least 2 years, but hopefully he’s able to build a positive culture in the clubhouse and bring us up to at least a somewhat modern baseball franchise. Unfortunately Venuables long term future and not being a stepping stone manager relies on Getz being able to make good baseball moves and build a team. Not promising…

Nevin is for sure going to be hire. Probably the only candidate that I had a negative opinion on. Just doesn’t feel like a guy that is going to move this franchise forward out of the Stone Age.

The crazy thing is there really aren’t any big name high $ managers available other than maybe Skip. Is Jerry really going to make this decision based on like $500k savings? And as soon as I typed that I realized it was a dumb rhetorical question. Of course he will.

Skip left the Marlins because he didn’t want to be part of a full rebuild with a new GM. What makes you think he was ever going to come to the Sox? All the rumors are saying he’s waiting until ‘26 for the right opportunity to open up

The Sox having a historically bad season and then being sold with the intention of being moved sounds like an appropriate Old Yeller like ending to my Sox fandom. But hey, ‘05 was fun.