WestEddy

About 25% of all TJS happen in March and April. It's throughout the game.

It sends the message of "Be better than Fletcher, and take his job".

I've had it beaten into my head that everybody on Earth knew that Robert, Eloy and Yoan would all be injured by game 11, and that Getz should have known that too. I can only assume that Luis Robert will be out by game 11, again, because history, and we will stumble into the TDL with Robert putting up a strong month coming off the IL. I think that trading Robert in spring training would also be for the reason of avoiding carrying him on the IL for 2 months and reducing return.

They just signed the guy you've been screaming all along they should have signed last year. LOL.

One must remember to stretch before reaching over to cover your heart while saying the Pledge of Allegiance.

We seem to be forgetting that Robert put up 0.5 fWAR last year, OPSing .657.

90 wins and the ALCS! BOOK it!!!

90 wins and the ALCS. BOOK IT!

Braves going in a direction...

I would imagine that for every TJS at the beginning of spring training, there's a couple guys who just rested for a month or so over the winter and healed up.

That's great news. The Cease trade is looking better and better.

Bold prediction:

Chris Getz and I would like to order room service in this head of yours. Can you think a menu?

I completely agree with all of this. Yes, he has to start "winning" (I agree with your definition) the Fletcher/Mena, Horn/Thompson trades. So much money and resources have been invested in getting Matt Thompson right to the verge of his real estate career, somebody's got to pay with, at least, a younger version of Matt Thompson.

Yeah, I'd have to say I'm with WS23 here. Looking back on all the position players moved at the deadline, there's not a lot of pizzazz moving one way, or the other. I mean, maybe Getz could be trying to recreate trading up on a paper clip to a house, but there's no number of william bergollas that leap the stream to a top 20 prospect.

Burke's going to start 33 games, and strike out every batter he faces, throwing 33 perfect games. That should equal 891 strikeouts, but he'll probably have to pitch a perfect, 3-strikeout 10th a couple of times, too. Mark it down, you heard it here, first.

So then the kids ignored the father's wishes and picked a franchise that was popular now, even though he had a pretty rough reception from Philadelphia fans? I'd put my money on the family being put off by Reinsdorf's pallid support and shitty remarks that they'd just go with the Phils.

Attacking? LOL. Calm down, already. Nobody attacked anybody. I've been very nice, and make sure to let everyone know that I want them to criticize Reinsdorf, Getz and the White Sox. If you want to call 2024 Hot Garbage, I invite you to. Going forward, I disagree. Simple as that. Need a band-aid? Davis Martin made 10 starts and racked up 0.9 bWAR. Sean Burke made 3 and racked up the same 0.9 bWAR. They weren't the problem. Jonathan Cannon made some adjustments and turned out to be a pretty reliable starter.

Reinsdorf sure didn't help Allen get into the Hall. Is that what you're implying? Or, am I inferring that correctly?

They are investing today. Because they still literally have over a hundred pitchers in their minor league system. A bullpen arm isn't a luxury item. It's like they sold one share of soy futures out of their vast portfolio to buy a car to get to work. Still invested in the future, obtaining a necessity to conduct business in the present.

And we've already had this clarification conversation. If I say a guy like Mason Adams is a legitimate starting pitching prospect, I'm not saying, "Dude, he's super-legit" like he's a sure fire all-star. I'm saying that the team is bringing him along with an eye on getting him major league starter innings. If the Sox pick up, say, Phillip Humber and stow him at AAA, nobody plans for him to be developed into a big league rotational starter, anymore. So, Riley Gowens, or Aldrin Batista have a clear path to big league starter innings if they keep developing. They're legitimate pitching prospects. In the case of Shane Drohan, if the guy wasn't injured, for sure he would have gotten starts before Thorpe, and definitely before Keller and Kuhl. Drohan was mentioned as a rotation option when he was drafted. I don't know if that was bad scouting, or Getz not doing his due diligence, but it happened. I said the Sox had 15 legitimate starting prospects across 4 levels, you asked who, and I listed out about 19-20 guys, including Drohan. I've explained this to you twice, now, and you know it. 2025 - okay, strong is probably the wrong word. Then stable. Sean Burke has been noted in a couple "just missed the top 100" lists. He's a guy. He'll get a chance to start. Davis Martin and Jon Cannon will start games, and will most probably cover 5 innings of those starts. Maybe 6. That will be better than most of the Sox' first month or two of starting pitching in 2024. This, in turn, will keep the bullpen from being taxed like they were in 2024, removing that "excuse".