WestEddy

That guy also argues vociferously that Getz started with a roster burdened with three guys who everybody knew would be injured within the first 10 days, and two others would hit famously before their career norms. He's never clarifies if he thought Getz should have cut Benintendi, Vaughn, Robert, Moncada an Eloy, or signed players better than them to multi year deals and benched the 5.

The White Sox picked 5 players who were on the same Cape Cod league team, the Chatham Anglers. Light article profiling the five. https://www.chathamanglers.com/chatham-angler-news/2024/2197/White-Sox-Front-Office-Talks-5-A’S-Alumni-Selections-In-2024-MLB-Draft

Once he started listening to the coaching staff, he's been lights out.

People also laughed when I said 68 wins. Maybe everybody was just in a giggly mood that day.

He's marketing Crochet as a TOR starter who can pitch a full season plus. Crochet isn't that right now, so he'll probably hold out until he is. He's marketing Robert as a 5 WAR CF who is currently injured, and not performing at that level. He'll probably hold onto Robert until he's healed, and put him out there again. If teams don't want to pay TOR starter prices for a guy that's on an innings limit. Perhaps you can tell us the magic sales tactic that will start the Oriole prospects to come spilling forth from their minor league system.

Do we know this? Or is it reading between the lines of his comments on relieving?

These guys bought a car, once, and got the dealer to throw in the mid tier undercoating for the price of the value package. So they know how easy it is to shake loose 4-5 top prospects from another team.

More bathroom reading, just throwing 12+ trade ideas against the wall. https://www.soxon35th.com/10-trades-for-the-white-sox-to-consider-at-the-2024-trade-deadine/#google_vignette

I could see this stemming from a single contentious conversation about an extension that Getz abruptly cut off, so they're playing their next card.

Or that's what teams are telling Bob Nightengale and others. We're 4 days away from the deadline. I'm sure teams weren't thinking, "Hey, we're going to pick up this guy who never pitched more than 50 innings in a season, and who looks on track for 150, and then we're going to wring him out in the post-season, then laugh at him when he's hurt and the biggest payday he'll ever get is $800k". I would bet that everyone considering him has a plan to limit innings, piggyback him, make him an opener for a month, then ramp him back up, use him to get to the playoffs, then use him as a 3-inning bullpen guy one game a series.

What are you talking about? There's a new GM. There's a new contracts guy. We don't know what their philosophy is on extending the youth. But then, the Sox' version of Chourio and Keith is Schultz, Smith, Taylor, Adams, Schweitzer. See, they've been drafting pitchers with their high picks for the last few years. Once some position players step up, maybe they'll start talking extensions. Do you want them to extend Korey Lee and Dominic Fletcher for 8/100? They don't have any of those "can't miss" types right now. Maybe Bonemer or Wolkow starts looking like that in a year or so. I'm not sure how you come to the conclusion that because they haven't given any extensions to the suck that has been this team for the last couple years, they will never give extensions again. Are you surprised every morning when the sun comes up again?

No, it's time for bed. Go brush your teeth, and we'll read you a story.

Guys with no trade clauses renegotiate their deals when traded. Nobody's complaining about their attitude when it happens. No GM worth his salt is going to let a 2nd hand quote stop them from acquiring a game changing pitcher.

Of course. This entire spring here was one long argument about how the White Sox should take 3 years to ramp up Crochet, and how dangerous what they were attempting was. I seriously believe Crochet's ask is about the risk of this season, and not subsequent seasons.

How? If he pitches a full load through to the end of the year without issue, he's good to go in the off-season.

Bathroom reading: One prospect on each team the Sox should target https://www.soxon35th.com/one-prospect-from-every-team-the-white-sox-should-target/

I think South Side Sox even ranked him like, #8 on their prospect list, when signed.

It's his baby, now, but nobody knows what interference he got from above, what he was allowed to do, and what was funded. As soon as he became decision maker, Bannister was in the door, so it seems to me that was his idea, nobody else really wanted a pitching czar.

I would imagine Getz has rolling tiers of return value he'd accept for Robert and Crochet. A best offer available now that gets him 80% of what he was hoping for might be better than one in December that gets him 90%. The wild card is what faith does he have in his system to develop players at bat and in the field? If they really do think they have a Bannister for hitters they can go more lower ranked toolsy players instead of demanding top ten in the game prospects.

Luis Robert will be the PTBNL

Or do the same thing, half the bullpen is vets building value for the TDL, and the other half is shuttling rookies in and out to see what you have.

Tanner Banks has better numbers. LFG!

Sure he is. We had no starting rotation coming into the season. The gamble was to sign Fedde, Flexen and trade for Soroka, and hope one of them could pop and be flipped. Fedde makes the whole experiment a success.