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Please don't include him in Crochet or Robert deals. Payroll is already going to be south of 100m.

Why? We settle for uninspiring returns all the time.

Awful result but predictable.

Yaay.....tablescraps and people we could have drafted if we wanted to (sound familiar?)!!! I know I'm excited /s

Anthony from BOS would be awesome.

PHI would be a great match. LAD would be horrible.

Tremendous potential largely unfulfilled.

Yeah that's what I don't get....everyone else was saying his swing looks good now and Law was saying the opposite.

Law basically trashed Montgomerys swing in the AFL and said he isn't moving well. I was less than thrilled to read that after all the good stuff I've been reading here.

That's really encouraging about Montgomery....he also finished the AAA year playing well at the end too so maybe his back is feeling better or he made some adjustments. Any reports of how he's looking at SS in the AFL?

Looks like being cheap doesn't pay Elias. BAL swept two years in a row. Lulz

We need legit positional talent.

f*** you, Jerry

I'd rather have 2 Top 100 positional prospects

So we basically gave Fedde away for free. Thanks, Chris

Yeah I wonder if we can get some data on his performance vs velocity in the last couple weeks. I'm very encouraged by his play as of late.

Yep I've noticed recently he has been hitting well...dunno about his defense.

Colson 3-4 is great. Need to keep seeing contact improve.

Montgomery 2 hit game!

Very nice. Montgomery, Quero and Ramos all having good games in Charlotte also so far.

That's pretty pathetic to do that to kids who were probably really excited about the event.

IMO depends on what other pieces were involved. Remember even though what we got was light, there were still two other guys in there which according to some in the scouting community have decent upside. I agree that Keaschall is prolly more valuable than Vargas as a headliner, but MIN would need to still add pieces. Keep in mind also Getz was prolly freaking out trying to add MLB ready bats for the 2025 team because they sure as hell aren't gonna sign like 4-5 FA bats with money so they needed to get someone ready to hit for 2025 on the cheap. They'll prolly hope that by next spring Montgomery has figured things out (or his back issue is better), start him at SS, Ramos at 3B, Quero at C along with Lee, Vaughn at 1B, Vargas in LF, and maybe get some real good prospects for CF/RF/2B in the offseason trades and/or sign a short term major leaguer as a bridge for those roles. If Robert hasn't established more value, he will start at CF again obviously.

Hopefully Chicago. We need at least a pair of Top 100 bats plus another decent prospect.

We really should have taken one of the various bats in the draft. Dammit.

Well the extension demand was certainly part of it but we also got reports from some of our people here saying the Sox insisted that anyone wanting to trade for him also take Beni's contract too and obviously no one was going to give up good prospects plus pay Crochet plus also eat Beni's money too. That was never going to happen. At most, a very rich team might be willing to give Crochet a long term but team friendly deal and maybe pay most of Beni's remaining money too too but they prolly wouldn't offer anything prospect wise and it would be a Chernobyl level nuclear catastrophe if the bat starved Sox basically gave away an elite LH SP for just salary relief. The only thing that will change between now and the offseason is the extension demand. Crochet's agents will no longer have October as leverage and so the offers presumably should be more robust with that problem removed, so long as we aren't dumb enough to insist on Beni being attached again.