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Because some people can't see/understand the big picture. If you want any chance at sustained success then trading players like this now is the only realistic way that this franchise can build something.

Well for one, this team will still be rebuilding next season. Erick Fedde is only signed through next season. If he keeps this up, through this season and next season as a front of the rotation type starter. The White Sox, in no way shape or form, are going to resign a 33 year old SP to the contract that his performance will demand. If he keeps this up for this season only and then stinks next season, your value on him will crater and then you get nothing and he still doesn't help this franchise moving forward. The only logical outcome here is to hope he keeps this up over the next two months, and then he is traded for a nice package of prospects that will help this team in the future when they expect to be good again.

We got a 23 year old bullpen prospect for a 34 year old OFer with no future here. Whats not to like about that? The prospect, 3.15 ERA and 12.8 K rate in 103 minor league innings. While he most likely never makes it, its a wonderful return for 71 at bats of Robbie Grossman on a rebuilding team.

Trading Burger was the right call, you can argue about the return that's fair but there is just nowhere for this guy to play here right now. 3B, DH, and 1B are all occupied with people who can't be traded and can't be unloaded until 2025. For a team in the midst of a 100 loss season followed by a front office overhaul and a rebuild, it just made way more sense to trade him since he was one of the few assets we had.

This team was never going to lose 120 games or get shut out 30+ times. That was over the top, it wasn't and isn't going to happen. They're still a really bad baseball team that will be incredibly fortunate to get anything for some of these guys.

I already accepted a while ago this was going to be a miserable season. The best part of the games now is watching Ramos start hot. Hopefully, we get some Montgomery and Thorpe up here soon then its going to be must watch.

Ok that makes way more sense. Im interested to see what happens against Cleveland, New York, and Baltimore over the next few weeks.

Basically what's going to happen all year is the Sox will be awful, then they will hit a stretch where they have gone 5-5 in their last 10 and posters will start to be like "Hmm maybe we aren't really that bad" and then they'll lose 6 in a row and it will be back to the dumps, then inevitably have another 5-5 game stretch and posters will be like "You know, maybe Chris Flexen IS a good SP option." "Call me crazy, but Gavin Sheets just might be the answer in RF". Then its back to the dumps again. Over and over, repeat.

Bruh, who is WE? 90% of this board knew this was going to be a 100 loss campaign. Aint no we thought this was a .500 team.

Depends on what your definition of notable signing is. Signing some mid tier FA to a 4 year $70 million deal is not notable to me. If they payroll is ~$50 million I need to see a difference maker added to this roster.

14 months from now, probably likely. I was more referring to this off-season. After we shed what little we have this deadline were not going to have much to work with in the off-season and I wouldn't expect them to make any notable signings.

Im going to operate under the assumption that hes not someone they want to trade at this time.

This statement has pretty much always been true though, so we know how it goes.

Can't wait to see what he does next season with no money to spend and no assets to trade. Should be a banger.

Im pretty sure its only posters on this board that think Bummer is a worthless piece of garbage.