WestEddy

It's a minor league deal. He might see the 4th inning of a spring training game.

Another guy the Brewers kept on their 40-man instead of rostering Shane Smith for the 2025 Rule 5 draft.

You just said two teams in the AL Central are trying. Does "trying" have a different definition for you than the one most of us subscribe to?

Now it seems like Getz really did pick the Red Sox' pockets, holding out for the guy (Teel) they didn't want to trade. Good on him.

Polanco to the Mets

Most of what I have to offer would be based on gut and wish-casting, but Steamer thinks Ryan O'Hearn would be good for 1.1 fWAR, and Bleday 0.9. Tauchman's at 0.7. While I'm resigned to something like an O'Hearn addition, I would hope the front office does get cute and takes a few gambles.

Braves blogger breaks down how to fix Rolison:

Baldwin was always a "utility" guy. Look back to his college experience, summer ball, and through the Sox system, he's always played 7 positions.

I post those guys just for trade rumor talk. Most of it is BS. I just get jonesing for trade talk. There doesn't seem to have been a lot of that this off-season.

Capra and Amaya are natural shortstops. Baldwin isn't.

Tyler Alexander next.

I hope you have his rookie card, then.

I've given you a thorough, bulleted response in the Rolison thread. If you want to argue with that, have at it.

He developed every good player Rich Hahn drafted or got in trade. Then they traded guys like Steele Walker, Konnor Pilkington, Alex Call and Avery Weems, depriving Getz of even more developmental victories. The rest were horrible. Every team makes incidental trades that don't work out. Please tell me about the trades you knew were on the table for Santos and Mena that would have brought back All-Star OFs. The Sox did develop Seby Zavala. He was a bad defensive catcher, and they turned him into a good defensive catcher. That's what achievement looks like. I'll let you get back to being embarrassed that Shane Smith worked out.

The Bryce Wilson domino has fallen

The Sox are rebuilding on the cheap. The Brewers are a perennial playoff team at this point. The Sox should have scrubs on their roster. I made a great comparison. Study and learn from it.

The Milwaukee Brewers declined to roster Shane Smith after the 2024 season while Vinny Capra was on their 40-man. Every team in baseball makes the kind of moves you excoriate Chris Getz for.

1) The assembled playoff core fell apart, all at once. They had better pitchers. They traded them. That's what teams do in a rebuild. 2) Why was Shane Smith the best pitcher? Why is anybody the best pitcher? Somebody has to be the best pitcher. If it turned out to be Wikelman Gonzalez, then we could joke that the Sox had to get their best pitcher from elsewhere. If it was Davis Martin, then we could joke that the best pitcher was a 14th rounder coming back from injury. If it was Cannon, then the joke would be that a #5 junk-baller was their best pitcher. 3) I get the point people were making. Our best pitcher was left off another team's 40-man. That's great that you find that sad. I don't get the points you're trying to make. Why don't I get to say Crochet? He was on this team. They traded him. Cease was on the team. They traded him. They had 3 starting pitchers pretty much ready to go. Martin, Burke and Cannon. Smith was better. So what? Why do I have to be embarrassed or saddened by that? 4) I also don't get your obsession with reminding me that Hahn was the GM when Crochet was drafted. So what? 5) Are you also implying that the Sox should have had an entire top prospect team ready to go in 2024 when the old core fell apart? That's not how rebuilds work. 6) But really, the funniest part of all of this is RayRay saying that Vinny Capra was better than Shane Smith because Capra was on the 40-man, and Smith wasn't, and by extension, because Smith made the All-Star team, Vinny Capra was the best player on the White Sox in 2025. That's the messed up part.

The funniest part of this is the inference that Vinny Capra was on the Brewers' 40-man after 2024 because he was better than Shane Smith, and by extension, Miguel Vargas and Edgar Quero. What part of this is supposed to embarrass us?

Wait, this is about the guy who was making fun of somebody who didn't know how embarrassing it was to have a pitcher make an All-Star team. The same guy who badgered the people who gave the Sox a B grade for the season, and wouldn't let it drop?

I'm pretty sure that drafting one pitcher who becomes successful doesn't set a team up for a decade of playoff appearances.

At least one of Gilbert or Hudson have to be on the bubble. Neither has options left, and that's the most valuable thing about any of these guys.

yeah, Taylor going 3 is essentially throwing a bullpen game once every time through the rotation.