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It was highway robbery.

Yep, Peters is only 26. Could be Getz’s best acquisition of all time.

Yeah, Peters and Hudson too. Or the reverse with Brazoban. It’s a young man’s game.

Mariners fans have little to laugh about this year, but dumping Castillo AND acquiring Smith and Dominguez has been a decent consolation prize.

Well then they're probably losing the division.

I just wish Getz would have learned from his predecessors in Kenny and Hahn and all of their acquisitions trying to squeeze one last drop of performance out of players nearing retirement. Stop acquiring old fucks. It almost never works out. Admittedly, it did work with Grichuk with his extreme splits against lefties. However, baseball is a young man’s game.

Really need to bring back WSI with WestEddy and friends as mods for only positive/supportive comments. Not having two sides and a healthy/controlled environment for debate will kill any sports board off eventually.

https://www.fangraphs.com/standings/playoff-odds/season-to-date/mlb 84% to win the division, 9th best odds for playoffs at well over 90% Was going to make an “eating crow” thread, but that would turn into some kind of jinx/reverse jinx eventually

WestEddy was arguing with me in the first few weeks of the 2024 season that I was being insufficiently positive. Enough said.

Fedde has a 1.04 ERA in 5 starts vs. MIN as a Sox (2024 and 2026). 26 IP, 3 ER, 24 Ks to 7 BB, and a 4-0 record. He's held them to a .416 OPS this season. Solid 3.00 ERA overall since June, that's some quality innings for a value price.

Best @caulfield12 post of all time. Absolutely shredded. Not a fan of the deadline moves, but let’s hope everything goes well going forward. Someone get Castillo and Doyle some PED’s. 😶

Pirates and Cardinals are no slouches. They play in a division with two really good teams, Cards just beat the Dodgers twice on the road and getting a few guys back from injury, Pirates have a pretty good offense and decent starting pitching. Both would probably be in first if in the AL Central

Don’t worry. Once all of Getz’s great deadline trades pan out, the Sox will hit whatever win total WestEddy changes his prediction to.

Why would we want to make it more accessible for Naperville

I'm the most right of anybody and Im not on here asking for crow. Thats cringe

Yep, it's Metra's busiest line. The Route 59 and Naperville stops are by far Metra's 2 busiest stops outside of the downtown terminals and I think Lisle and Downers Grove are up there, too. A Metra stop right there would be pretty cool and could service a lot of passengers. Maybe they could especially justify it with a Northwestern Medicine campus there and if the rest of Amtrak/BNSF/78 properties includes residential development. Of course, I don't want to get too far ahead of ourselves. There's still several significant hoops to go through before a ballpark there could happen. It's far from a done deal, especially if the Amtrak move gets delayed or blocked, and a stadium might be 8-10 years away even if everything ultimately gets approved.

Lol you started out in low 70s for win predictions and then kept moving the bar upwards when Fegan went out on an optimistic limb with 78-84. The majority of the board was at 67-73 in the predictions thread. They probably end up at 84-85. Does that make up for underperforming predictions badly in 2023 2024 2025 or having the very worst deadline of all the contending teams? No matter what crow you're expecting, it's just as likely as you admitting Castillo or Doyle weren't good moves lol. You’ll still be trying to convince everyone Luis Castillo is just one minor tweak or two away from 2019-24 form. Also Houston is 1 1/2 games behind and Cleveland just 2 1/2 if you'll refer to the current standings. And Castillo/Mune are still broken. As things stand, they are unlikely to beat the 3/6 winner OR beat Houston as the 6 without either of those guys contributing.

We have to WIN this division. Cleveland plays a Hostess Cupcake schedule the rest of the way, and is fully capable to go 16-6 or better. Detroit quit and is handing them a 4 game sweep. We have to take care of our own business and not expect help. Help would be a bonus.

Any chance in hell Castillo leaves $23.75 million on the table and retires?

Well, you and @Chicago White Sox were right that Getz needed to acquire a second starter but he was too worried about only acquiring players with additional year(s) of control instead of rentals.

That checks out

If there really was an active freight rail yard there until 2019 that had noise and emissions, that weakens the argument that they're suddenly putting an Amtrak facility where residents experience nothing on that spot before. Not that residents don't have the right to be angry/concerned or to ask for more transparency when a new maintenance facility is proposed in their neighborhood, but it's not like they're proposing a waste incinerator on that spot.

That's a new one

AAA has Statcast data, here's Sandlin's summary: https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/player-scroll/game?gamePk=816612&player_id=689818 Were you looking for something specific?

We don't need to do that. Just go .500 the rest of the way. I don't think Cleveland have the ability to go 16-6. We may not have the pitching but they don't have the slug either.