WestEddy

How many times has it happened this year? A few? I seem to remember people going nuts over Colas or Ramos being on the roster for a day longer and more vociferously than sitting somebody for a week before they put him on the IL. Hahn/KW did it much more.

Again. Pick a lane. Are you mad because they bring up a guy for a game to have 26 guys, or mad because they wait a couple of days to see if a player will heal quickly? It's not asinine. Asinine is pages and pages of people whining about every single roster transaction. Baldwin's a guy OPSing 560. The guy they bring up will hit a whopping 1-21, and everyone will scream that Getz should be fired for making a roster move, and not developing a guy they just picked up off the waiver wire. Nobody even tries to make sense, anymore.

Counterpoint: No you wouldn't have.

He does now.

Should Jeff Luhnow have been fired after that horrible 2013 111-loss team? His 2012 team had 107 losses. It's called a rebuild.

Moronic? Seeing as they didn't have another shortstop on the 40-man, and Lopez was on waivers, maybe they didn't want to have to roster Remillard or Difo. It's a 31-109 team. How bad could they be, playing a guy short on expanded rosters?

It's funny that everyone seems to have "they played shorthanded" and "why bring a guy up for a day" macros on their keyboard. The wrist didn't respond to treatment. Big deal.

And Nicky Lopez went 5/7 from June 22/23. Can you direct me to your gushing posts on those magical 2 games?

And if, somehow, Getz gets on a winning streak, or he's fired, everyone will just word search "Getz" and replace with "Reinsdorf". It's really just bad performance art, at this point.

Well, they do say that 3 weeks in Miami is like a year in any other place, so I guess that 57 plate appearances is like 600.

Eric Fedde on the Cardinals sure doesn't look like Erick Fedde on the White Sox. They sure upgraded their organizational pitching in one off-season.

Didn't Getz say this isn't the off-season they'll be "spending"? I see more fix and flip options, maybe 2 starting pitchers, an IF and OF. Another weird, unemployable catcher who could call a game, or keep the backup gear warm until Quero catches fire.

I see a guy like Buck Showalter, who seems to be an acquired taste around the game. Sho seems to focus on fundamentals, and runs a good clubhouse. He's a good "accountability" manager. He's good at firing up a team, but I've read that grows old as a team matures. Good in-game manager, not big on analytics, or working rookies into a veteran lineup. Good bullpen usage. In 2025, Vaughn and Benintendi may be his only pets to run out there every day.

Upgrading organizational hitting is on the shopping list this off-season, so maybe a guy like Vargas was a focus for working with what could be the next Charlie Lau, or Walt Hriniak, if that even exists, anymore.

Unless he was the highest ceiling available. The Cardinals wouldn't even let Jordan Walker go, who looks pitiful at the plate, right now. You can target all you want. Not one top 100 prospect was traded, this deadline.

Colas sure hasn't torn it up in Charlotte, and if he's showing the same problems that poisoned the well on him last season, I'm not sure what the point is.

They needed Senzel's 40 man slot. I suppose they could have put Drew Thorpe on the 60-day IL if they knew about his situation then.

Twitter and other outlets have people talking about Brooks Baldwin being injured, wearing a brace on his wrist, and possibly being "done" for the year. I suppose Amaya was picked up because Getz thought there might be some interest in anybody picking up Nicky Lopez on waivers, and Amaya is the only other person on the ML roster who plays SS. If Lopez does get claimed, do they bring up Monty? Or if Baldwin goes on the IL, do they bring up Remillard or Mendick? Shewmake is on the IL, so we're dodging a meteor, there. Enquiring minds want to know.

There's a long history of society deciding "how other people should raise their kids". If you believe the studies that show these results are BS, then you probably have no real credibility to evaluate your own reactions or your child's to "punishment". Why is there embarrassment? And are you so sure the first reaction is a logical connection to one's behavior? I got hit with a strap, bare-assed as a kid, and yes, I consider that sexual abuse. Because it is. Not that my Dad was a molester; he was a great guy, I trusted and still love him. But A + B = C. It's abuse that's sexual in nature, therefore, it's sexual abuse. Because sometimes the "spanking" was enraged, disproportionate, and seemingly random, I went a long time, as a kid, not understanding why I was always in trouble at school, and around authority. It was beneath my parents to explain themselves to me, because a parent doesn't have to explain themselves; the kid should respect the parent, and it's nobody else's business, anyway. Sound familiar? I think a big part of this disagreement is crossing the line of "if this is abuse, then my parents were abusers". One can still admit that one's parents did something unhealthy (which was/is accepted and legal), and still love, understand and respect them. There is no dichotomy. If you give your kid a swat or two because he won't stop acting out, sure, that's still legal. It's also legal for some of us to think that's very unhealthy, express that, and try to change the law to reflect current, societal thinking.

It finally dawns upon me that they DFAed Senzel to get Amaya on the 40 man, but he wouldn't be able to get to the ballpark in time for the game, so they called up Ramos for a day to have 26 men. The move isn't as silly as it sounds, but Ramos should be starting at 3B for the Sox.

If two estranged parents disagree about physical discipline, yeah, it could be problematic if one parent ignores the other's wishes.

I'd be happy for the Sox to announce they reupped Mike Soroka for a year, and in the announcement, say, "We're doing this to ensure we will never sign Mike Clevinger again."

I could certainly explain it away as Getz seeing a guy who might need a slight tweak to become a .300/.400/.500 hitter. But I don't think that's Amaya, and that's not the White Sox at this time. This is more disappointing than enraging. Maybe Amaya is a better Sosa, in theory. Ramos should be the starting 3B right now. I'd actually flip Ramos and Vargas, let Vargas find whatever he needs to find at Charlotte.

Yeah, I don't get this one.

Got it. I'm guessing Senzel was in anticipation of more moves at the trade deadline. Senzel couldn't be optioned, and Amaya replaces Ramos at AAA.