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Pace yourself. You have to be running out of houses.

Erick Fedde and Padres trade return looks pretty good. I think Seattle trade will look good after the draft as well.

Sale threw 143 innings the year he was drafted.

He's 22 and came straight from AA. He did really well before getting injured. He seemed to have an idea at the plate as he didnt chase bad pitches. He's been young for every stop of his career so far. This to me screams more of a move to try and save Grifol then anything to do with Bryan.

If your property taxes go up it means your house is worth more. When the markets go in the tank, buy like crazy for the inevitable rally.

Montoyo at least seemed to make an impression on Luis Robert.

I was in the same boat, but I've embraced the suck - I'm pissed when they win now. I want this organization to be a full-blown national embarrassment.

Chris Getz - 2024 Players Acquisition Tracker Pitchers: Erick Fedde: 3.88 FIP | 1.1 fWAR Mike Soroka: 6.28 FIP | -0.5 fWAR Chris Flexen: 4.83 FIP | 0.4 fWAR Mike Clevinger: 6.19 FIP | -0.1 fWAR Brad Keller: 6.55 FIP | -0.3 fWAR Jared Shuster: 3.73 FIP | 0.2 fWAR Jake Woodford: 2.67 FIP | 0.1 fWAR Steven Wilson: 6.24 FIP | -0.3 fWAR John Brebbia: 4.93 FIP | -0.1 fWAR Tim Hill: 3.48 FIP | 0.2 fWAR Bryan Shaw: 7.38 FIP | -0.2 fWAR Dominic Leone: 6.72 FIP | -0.4 fWAR Justin Anderson: 3.13 FIP | 0.1 fWAR Grand Total = 0.2 fWAR Hitters: Martin Maldonado: -25 wRC+ | -1.5 fWAR Nickly Lopez: 72 wRC+ | 0.2 fWAR Paul DeJong: 94 wRC+ | 0.7 fWAR Braden Shewmake: -12 wRC+ | -0.7 fWAR Tommy Pham: 121 wRC+ | 0.5 fWAR Dominic Fletcher: 46 wRC+ | -0.4 fWAR Zach DeLoach: -33 wRC+ | -0.1 fWAR Corey Julks: 171 wRC+ | 0.4 fWAR Kevin Pillar: 86 wRC+ | 0.2 fWAR Robbie Grossman: 80 wRC+ | -0.4 fWAR Rafael Ortega: 20 wRC+ | 0.2 fWAR Grand Total = -0.9 fWAR Getz has now made 24 external additions to the 26 man roster since taking over and they have combined for -0.7 fWAR this year. Meanwhile, Chris has given up multiple controllable pieces in the process. These included Declin Cronin (0.3 fWAR), Romy Gonzalez (0.1 fWAR), Popeye Rodriguez (118 wRC+ in AA), Bailey Horn (0.00 ERA / 3.11 FIP in AAA), Matt Thompson (40% reduction in BB rate in AA vs PY), and Christian Mena (3.70 ERA with improved GB rate). I understand Getz was forced to dumpster dive, but spending ~$23M above the league minimum on this collection of “talent” and ending up with negative fWAR from them is simply unacceptable. Obviously there is a lot more season to go, but the early signs are highly troubling and so far Getz’s roster feels like a really bad version of a Rick Hahn developed one. And Chris has no one but himself to blame for not having replacement level talent on call at AAA given his past role.

Mogollon and Wolkow both in the line up for ACL.

Glasses...a heart....and some balls.

Most owners did indeed loath him especially after he testified on behalf of Curt Flood is his case against MLB trying for free agency. They also despised him for suggesting back in the 50's a revenue sharing plan, which the Yankee owners (naturally) called socialistic. One person who was listening and who asked for more details was a guy named Alvin "Pete" Rozell who used the info to go to congress and get an exemption letting the NFL form a national TV contract and equally share the TV revenue. And led by Bud Selig the owners initially turned down his bid to get the Sox in the winter of 1975 imposing harsh conditions. Somehow Veeck got it done. Tigers owner John Fetzer was overheard at the owners meeting (by a reporter who placed a glass up against the wall next door and listened in) as saying (paraphrasing) 'Look we don't like the SOB but we gave him conditions he had to meet and he met them. We have got to do the honorable thing and vote to give him the franchise.'

One of the worst acquisitions in modern Sox history. Can't hit.

How about a one way plane ticket back to his native Puerto Rico?

I mean we traded a bullpen arm that hasn't thrown a pitch this season and got a bullpen arm, a minor league OFer, and the draft pick. I think that's pretty solid.

Yea but one of these guys had his team in the World Series last year

This team definitely needs more Suk.

To state the obvious, not very impressed so far with anything they have evaluated.

Left out the sleeper watch section. Support BA if yall can. The work is great,

Another kid that came up and for the most part just sucked ass. I don't even think it's the players at this point it's the org. It happens too often to be anything but. The core is rotten and the fruit rots around it.

I'd personally go with Jirschelle. Let him make some mistakes, and have some growing pains. Make sure he isn't Pedro Jr. when the team has the horses to win.

"JR you can sign Harper and Machado to your team on the rise that has 10 top 100 prospects, TA, Abreu and Rodon. They fill needs and will be below market value soon." JR: "Try low balling."

2-3 good FA position player signings can mask bad drafts. but that requires jerry to die.

Meh, he lost 100 games last year with a completely different roster. Pedro should not be an MLB manager. Its not like hes constantly making the right calls but players just fail. Hes constantly making head scratching decisions. Every time I see the lineup come out and we got Vaughn and Benintendi in the 2-5 holes, its like wtf are you doing man.

This entire organization is an embarrassment to the city of Chicago and major league baseball. The GM and the manager should be fired immediately. It's amazing how far and how fast they brought this organization down. All the bad decisions started with the hiring of this manager and the hiring of this GM.

$15M is paying for Benny, whom I consider quite the anchor.

There's no reason to cheer for the Sox on a given night. I mean when your SS is DeJong and 2B is Lopez and 1B is automatic out Vaughn and catcher is the worst in all of baseball and the outfield is a bucket of spam led by .200 Beni, yes you can't cheer for this club. And maybe actively root for losses.

Getz’s offseason was garbage and he managed to make an awful team even worse. He also gave away two pitching prospects and an infield prospect for essentially nothing (Fletcher and cash).

The whole regime needed to be gone. He was part of the problem IMO, not part of a solution.

I get that way when JR makes a threat. My thought is then move you asshole. But someone pointed out that as an out of town fan that's really unfair. Which I think is fair. I do miss my ignorant fan days when I'd just go to game after game not knowing how horrible the franchise really was.

For me to root for the Sox to lose is right there with cheering for my property taxes go up and my 401k to tank.

The name of your sex tape... Just your usual awesomeness.

No, King of the Universe. Actually I would just settle for a couple games scoring over 2 runs to be honest..

The White Sox are farther from getting out of last place than any other AL team is of first place. Pedro Grifol era? Just flush it.

Ummm, I don't think he's "playing" dumb.........

I think Pedro should triple down on his comments from the other day. That might motivate them.

Well I go back to the 70’s and 80’s. A fair amount of those teams stunk but they had a certain personality and funky flair that had a fitting home in the old park. It’s odd; you liked them and there was a tangible player-fan relationship. You wanted them to win often accepting they just weren’t going to. I don’t get any of that right now. Maybe winning will inspire it but it was there with or without the wins in the old days. …Or maybe I’m just old and crotchety

I mean am I supposed to be impressed at being able to add 20 more losses to a hundred loss team? Granted it is impressive, but not in the ways that get you extended.

Not to mention starting the clock towards major league money sooner.

This is why we won't be good for a very long time.

I think the issue is people seem to think that Pedro cares what the media and people think. I believe it is really obvious by what he states and how he states, he doesn't. He is saying as little as possible to protect his people. I am more bothered when he does speak up and throws someone under the bus than by when he plays dumb for his players benefit.

Look Pedro is really bad at this part of his job, but I do believe most of the time when he states he doesn't know, he is just not saying what he knows to protect whoever he is protecting.

Then just say that. "You know everybody was a little irked about the delay, umps included. I talked to Garrett about it and we're just going to keep that conversation between us". Saying "I don't know" is pathetic media management. Everything about Pedro as a manager is a zero, including how he handles what should be softball questions. See the eclipse bullshit as well.

Again, I don't anticipate this to happen but going 6-2 in the last 8 games is nice. Keep that pace up and they'll win 88 more games this year. Miracles do happen and I'd love to see Grifol, Getz, and company prove us all wrong.

Looks like a 9-4 stretch to me. If they activate The Incredible Jelks in there, 11-2?

sounds do-able. going to clear out the calendar for October

“Fedde was a first round pick that was a consensus top 100 MLB prospect. Yes, he struggled in his first MLB stint but obviously the pedigree and talent have always been there.” ^where did I say his former prospect status will boost his trade value? I didn’t. This comment was in response to while he isn’t a “big” name like Justin Verlander, he’s also not some AAAA scrub like Tim Hill with zero pedigree.

No GM not named Rick Hahn cares about draft order when acquiring assets. I agree with you on that. But BELIEVE used that as one of a list of reasons Fedde wasn't "unknown" - to counter the claim that Fedde wasn't an established name, therefore, he'd have less value. I also agree that if Fedde's showing up on top ten lists of ERA, K/9, etc, he will be highly sought after. I'm beginning to believe that his contract isn't as big a selling point we previously thought it was.

It all depends on how he holds up against the best line-ups in baseball over the next couple of months...these would be his next five starts, theoretically. StL CLE Nationals (obviously not that great a line-up after CJ Abrams right now) NYY or Toronto Baltimore

But they still have to protect the Nastrinis and Cannons of the world that are not ready for the majors. Other than Thorpe and possibly Iriarte...nobody jumps out quite yet in the higher levels if we keep churning the big league roster. Which means a lot more Keller/Clevinger to protect the youngsters from getting overexposed. Delicate balancing act.