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Mead plays 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, I will take what we have at those positions. I guess he could have been the UT or R/ DH. Mead wasn't going to get the playing time here and his departure has led to very positive things. The Sox didn't have an established a LF, CF, or RF in the preseason. Sam was given a chance to learn on the fly in LF because Benny was a defensive liability. Peters in CF made the All-Star team, and Montgomery is finally the answer to a long-time hole in RF. Benny getting moved to DH and now sharing the role with Grick has been working. Grick can also play the outfield.

July 26, 1942 – 17-year-old Chuck Comiskey was being groomed to take over the team. I always think of both Chuck Comiskey and Muggsy Halas and what could have been if they stuck around.

Would remind people that it didn't stop the Cubs for trading for Nick Madrigal.

Sure they can. It's minor league baseball.

A lot of bickering in here…feel like we should be focused on rumors in this thread. I’m still kinda shocked at the Merkin piece yesterday on Mason Miller. Makes me think they’re actually exploring some bigger trades since he doesn’t go out on a limb much and is pretty tethered to the team.

According to Bob, the Sox are telling teams they won't trade any of their top 10 prospects, but will assume money. It seems to be a reasonable stavce.

Also, 2 times through the lineup for a pitcher… max.

This

Venable needs to juggle the lineup today, if something is broken, you fix it.

Picks are eligible to be traded the day after the world series is concluded.

TIME TO STOP THE FUCKING BLEEDING AND BEAT THE LIVING s%*# OUT OF THESE c***S! LET‘S GO BOYS AND GIRLS!!!! TIME TO MAN UP AND GET BACK ON THE WHOOPIN ASS TRAIN!

I think it’s WAAAAAY to premature to say this. They’ve only played what… 6 games so far since the break and are .500 in them? I just checked. 8 games played. 4 wins and 4 losses. +6 run differential. Waaaaaaay too soon to call that “coming back down to earth.” They could have won two more of those games. If they had we’d be looking at a 6-2 record since the break and we‘d be up 3.5 games. Everyone’s tune would be totally different. Take a Xanax and give it some time. This is going to be a dog fight in August and I’m here for it.

So you want to trade for Miller and Detmers? For who exactly? Surely you won't have to trade Bonemer nor Carlson.

Here come the Panicans. Tra la la, tra la la.

Is there a reason why they threw him out there in the 9th with a 6 run lead? Like it's great he got a CG and all, but 120 pitches is totally unnecessary.

With this catcher disaster in our hands, maybe the Sox would have been better off drafting first the Georgia Tech catcher Lackey. We need more immediate help.

If Quero would have been able to tag with two hands, he would have been able to hold on to the ball, and the runner would have been out

We could have used Jacob Gonzalez nowadays.

I doubt JR had ANY idea about the potential value that Tatis Jr had and certainly neither KW nor Hahn did. I was pleading to not take on Shields without even knowing about Tatis Jr.

Early for Mead by definition isn't exactly rational either...not for prospect lovers.

So if you can't win anything in the postseason even with Miller, King and a catcher...then just do nothing? Sounds like that equally twisted stick head in sand plan will certainly satisfy Sox fans lol. We can just be like Baltimore minus the two 0-5 playoff appearances, keep payroll in the bottom 2-3 and hoard prospects. Or we can criticize SD for swinging those big headline talent trades with nothing to show for it despite 4/6 playoff appearances and one humbling NLCS loss (50% due to Clevinger.)

I hear Luis Robert is available. What?!? Too soon?

Since when does JR include players in trades? He listens to the proposed trade agreements from his GM and either rejects them (mostly due to money) or approves them. In any case, JR approved the trade so he obviously had no problem taking on $27 million of Shields remaining contract and giving up Tatis Jr.

You can go back a month. It was never rational. Only in your own twisted mind maybe. You didn’t predict s%*#.