WestEddy

This guy was a big deal for a hot moment. He was even bandied about when the Eaton trade with the Nationals happened.

I suggested a Mets deal of Robert for Senga, Acuña and Clifford/Ewing. I don't think Robert brings back that good a prospect at this point.

Was it all 3, or somebody like one of those 3? I'd think getting all 3 would be a good haul. One of them and the Comp Pick and another dude is probably what Getz is shooting for.

That's it. The comment sections fill up, depending on the subject. An article on how the Sox are working the waiver wire got 80 posts, while a Podcast article got 20. Somebody might mention a trade in the comments, and a couple of guys might respond.

Looking at the Arenado deal, the D-backs just picked him up on a 2/$11M deal for their most recent 8th rounder, who happens to be a starting pitcher. Could the D-backs have done better on the free agent market? The Angels paid Yoan Moncada $5M last year and didn't give up a minor league arm. Looking at the deal that SSShowdown posited, they'd send Lee to Phil for Castellanos, RHP Matthew Fisher (#10, MLB), and half of Castellanos' $20M salary. Could the Sox do better than his -0.6 fWAR for $10M? Austin Hays put up 1.2 fWAR for half of that. Hays will be 31 in July; Castellanos starts the season at 34. The Sox end up trading Lee (and $5M they're overpaying for a veteran RF who will suck) for Fisher and hope for a dead cat bounce out of Castellanos. Is that a good trade?

He is somewhat subdued at SoxMachine.

I agree. But how often does that actually happen? Who is giving away prospects to unload bad contracts?

Every Twitter string has somebody suggesting the White Sox take on a bad contract to pick up "one or two prospects", like that's a thing that happens regularly.

We're all doing a great job working together during this trying time.

This was the point of my post in the old hot stove string. Nobody's sending "prospects" to get a team to take on bad contracts. they sent money and even got a minor league arm back.

Dude, pretty much everybody tip toed around this argument all day. I'm certainly not in charge of anything here, but you can either message SS2k5 or just invite him to 4chan. Bring up a hairbrained trade idea. Or link to some Twitter dude's s%*# trade proposal. We can sure use it.

Acuna is supposed to have some CF ability. I think his bat profiles as a defensive specialist, although there's bloodlines, and he has hit in the minors. The White Sox have lusted after him.

If the Sox traded Robert for Senga, Acuña and I don't know, Clifford? Ewing? I suppose that gets us back a starting pitcher and CF, and there's your "prospect". Maybe there's an lower or unranked dude who Shirley/Keller liked.

If the Cubs didn't say it, I've seen it bandied about that Shaw works as a Brooks Baldwin-type utility player for them. Frankly, where the Cubs are right now, I'd see Shaw as more of a sweetener for a pitcher or a bat they're trying to acquire, or whatnot, not somebody to move because they're blocked.

But I'm guessing that every team runs into the same problems. If they're going to pay down a guy like Rodriguez, they still want value for what they're sending away.

Newcomb expects to start 30 games. We'll see, I guess.

Okay, here's a SouthSideShowDown blog post about how the Sox could get a prospect for taking Castellanos off the Phillies' hands. White Sox could help Phillies pursuit of Bo Bichette with this unconventional trade First of all, could somebody tell me about all these trades that happen where teams send top prospects to other teams so they can pay their own players to play for someone else? Is that like Free Money day at the bank? Seriously, the White Sox sent international budget money to the Rangers for them to buy out Dionner Navarro's option within the last decade, and the world went mad with rage over how stupid and cheap that was. When else does this even happen? Looking today, there aren't even that many situations where teams roster players they might like to dump. Here's my list: Toronto - Andres Giminez Boston - Masataka Yoshida Houston - Carlos Correa Oakland - Luis Severino Philadelphia - Castellanos, Taijuan Walker Mets - Kodai Senga(?) St. Louis - Nolan Arenado Rockies - Kris Bryant Some of these, like Bryant - is just too cost-prohibitive to take on. Toronto seems to be happy with Giminez, Houston with Correa. The other teams listed have been shopping these guys for a couple of years, now, and somehow, they haven't been moved with "prospects". We don't need a DH. We already have Benintendi. Nobody's been beating down our door trying to trade for him and Hagen Smith. (Maybe 10-D and Jacob Gonzalez, in reality). I just don't think these deals happen, anymore. But everybody on Twitter and other boards keep throwing this fantasy at the wall, like every other day, teams are throwing prospects at teams with space to take their overpriced contract.

Quite ironic that Shaw's job was taken by an American citizen.

Like going to a Stones' concert after the long-retired Bill Wyman died to "support" Mick Jagger.

I mean nobody cares regarding a player taking time off from the team to attend their mother's funeral. Oh, the bolded part. My point was that they showed up to play those games. They didn't take off to go protest or attend a rally.

Players take bereavement time regularly. Nobody cares. We even know about this because of the context, not politics. I had to have a little cry over agreeing with Ray Ray, but if person at work finds out that a family member died, everyone starts telling them to go home and be with their family. It's like, "why are you still here?" The fact that he had to ask teammates is telling. He wasn't "mourning". NFL players knelt during the National Anthem of games they showed up to play in. NBA players wore "I Can't Breathe" t-shirts during warm-ups of games they showed up to play in. The media portrayed that as "controversial". It's fun to pretend things that didn't happen. If a baseball player skipped a key game in the homestretch of a pennant run to attend a No Kings or George Floyd rally, I can't say how I'd feel about that. I can't remember anything like that happening, so I'll have to wait until it does.