Chris Getz on the REKAP podcast

[Tony]

15 minutes ago, greg775 said:

That's where some of you differ from some of us. You say Crochet is worthless to the Sox. If you have a great player some of us think it's fun to watch him wear our jersey and win a few games. If you keep your Crochets, Cease's and some of the other guys let go in "rebuilding" you might actually be able to win the old fashioned way. But let's just keep dumping all our good players in the name of a tank/rebuild job. Ridiculous. And this last one didn't work and some of you still like tanking/rebuilding rather than keeping your good players.

You’re attacking posters here but that anger should be directed at ownership. The post you are quoting is working under the same assumption we all have been…the Sox were never going to extend Crochet. 2025 and 2026 are going to be awful years for the White Sox, the same years Crochet is still under contract with the Sox. Working under that premise, it would have been asinine NOT to trade him. 

[WhiteSox2023]

21 minutes ago, greg775 said:

That's where some of you differ from some of us. You say Crochet is worthless to the Sox. If you have a great player some of us think it's fun to watch him wear our jersey and win a few games. If you keep your Crochets, Cease's and some of the other guys let go in "rebuilding" you might actually be able to win the old fashioned way. But let's just keep dumping all our good players in the name of a tank/rebuild job. Ridiculous. And this last one didn't work and some of you still like tanking/rebuilding rather than keeping your good players.

You already know how cheap Jerry is.  We had both Cease and Crochet at the same time, yet the team still wasn’t good enough to win anything.  Perhaps the Sox will be good once their young players develop, but by then do you think Jerry would have paid both Cease and Crochet their going rate in free agency?

As much as I am not a fan of Getz, trading Cease and Crochet was all on Jerry, not Getz.

Edited 8 hours ago by WhiteSox2023

[Lip Man 1]

1 hour ago, Tony said:

You’re attacking posters here but that anger should be directed at ownership. The post you are quoting is working under the same assumption we all have been…the Sox were never going to extend Crochet. 2025 and 2026 are going to be awful years for the White Sox, the same years Crochet is still under contract with the Sox. Working under that premise, it would have been asinine NOT to trade him. 

Crochet is now talking about an extension with the Red Sox, that he sees a "lot of merit" in it.  

[WestEddy]

9 minutes ago, Lip Man 1 said:

Crochet is now talking about an extension with the Red Sox, that he sees a "lot of merit" in it.  

He should. It would have foolish to keep him and build around him.

[caulfield12]

2 hours ago, WestEddy said:

He should. It would have foolish to keep him and build around him.

Not if they at least had a 2024-25 Padres budget.

Not extending Crochet if it was even a remote possibility will go down as a mistake...unless they actually hit on a prospect two for one deal with Teel/Montgomery or like the Q deal originally looked like.

Rodon Sale Q Cease Giolito Lopez all got extensions from OTHER teams...and Kopech will be next.

We are the feeder team for the rest of MLB until we actually sign a $100+ million contract.

 

With the Sox luck...the 2027 team will finally be good but it will all be wiped out by a labor I'm passes over caps and floors or minimums.

This will come closer to a head if Sasaki also signs with the Dodgers.