WestEddy

They played a half game under .500 in July. They're a different team from the one that left spring training.

If they play .500 ball the rest of the way, they'll lose around 95. They were 12-13 in July.

What's the goal? Getting good players in place, or being able to crow over $100M contracts? And if they buttoned up the bullpen even more, that would help.

High 70's? If they win 5 more, they're at .500, and that puts them square in the wild card race.

But it does. If JR takes Getz to the woodshed every time he spends $75k on a waiver trade, as you tell us every time there's a cash considerations trade, then they would have traded him for anybody to get that money off the books. They didn't.

Why do both catchers need to be in the lineup? If their bats only play at catcher, they deserve to rotate.

FanGraphs calls Davitt a depth starter Peoples was Tampa's #38 prospect for Fangraphs:

Ben Peoples Minor Leagues Statistics | Baseball-Reference.com Duncan Davitt College, Amateur & Minor Leagues Statistics | Baseball-Reference.com

Okay, Houser to the Rays, so by everybody's rules, this trade deadline has been a complete success.

I'm with Hogan, here. Anything short of a Juan Soto return is "failure". People are already dropping markers that not trading him in 2023 was a failure, not moving multiple players today is a failure, etc.

My guess is that there are deals in place with a couple of teams for Houser, and once somebody realizes they lost out on Cease or Kelly, they just call Getz and tell him to fax it in.

Cease being dangled, for one.

Apparently, Tong was wistfully bandied about back in May.

What's the Tong ask? edit - Oh, Jonah Tong. You know, start high, and if things aren't coming together, stay high. I think teams are expecting the Sox to dump Robert, then, surprise!! they wind up with a 3-5 WAR CF for peanuts.

And maybe this is the big bluff. Everybody expects Getz to cave and take whatever they're holding the line at. They might start getting more serious around 4:15 when he's not calling them back with a counteroffer.

That's the part of the ongoing argument I just don't get. It would be horrible to put their bats at 1B, but OMG!! slot one of them in at DH yesterday and watch everybody run around the bases like they turned on a merry-go-round. If the bat doesn't play at 1B, it doesn't play at DH either.

So he may only realize his true value around July of 2027?

Then DH him. He reminds me of Jorge Orta.

xo

Well, that's going to clear out any bodies that could have been sent here for Robert.