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This is exactly why Friedman and Dodgers will pounce. They will happily take on Beni's 50m and basically get an ace for free.

This means it's almost certainly LAD because they wouldn't mind giving him 100m and owning him for 6 years (and backloading it) and LAD won't have to give up De Paula or anyone truly valuable so long as they also take on Beni so they will take advantage of the fact that we are cheap as hell. Basically it will be Crochet and Beni for maybe like the Dodgers no. 8 or 9 prospect and someone in the 15-20 range and someone in the 20-30. If you're upset right now, this place will be a thermonuclear wasteland if a Crochet trade goes thru. 80% of the return will be salary relief.

The Sox. That's an awful deal.

I dont like Getz but it's not his fault Crochet nuked his trade value and Robert looks awful at the plate.

Yeah thats just infuriating. The payroll is already gonna be very low next year. If you put Beni in the deal, you can forget about even one savage in the return. I dont have an issue with Crochet trying to take care of himself and i don't have an issue with the Sox optioning him for the rest of the year to get another year of service time back under the guise of bringing up youngsters to the 26 man to "evaluate" them for the rest of the season.

Will they give up Pratt?

Jimmy suggested awhile back the Sox wanted Pratt and Letson from MIL.

I fully agree we need OBP and power, particularly savage power, but unfortunately Getz doesn't seem to value that and he's apparently content trying to win games 4-3 or 3-2 with pitching, defense and speed on the bases. I'm not really a fan of this philosophy particularly in our ballpark, but it is what it is. He might get a savage bat at some point in these trades, but I doubt he will get a bunch of them.

I agree....but Getz has a profile that he wants for better or worse and yeah STL is not a great fit. I'd rather have Beavers +, but I don't think it will be BAL.

Agreed. I expect if Fedde is moved to STL, Getz will want Victor Scott II and another piece. His vision is all about speed, defense and contact over power and I wouldn't be shocked at all if it's something like Scott (50) and like a 45. That would be Robert's replacement in center and would provide GG defense plus speed on the basepaths.

To be fair, he probably is sitting on a gold mine. He's not gonna trade prime guys, dude is militant about that.

At one point he was compared to Juan Soto......super disappointing

Seems like we will need to wait till the offseason to move him. Sigh...

Dammit

That would be much better than LAD. If you can get Miller and Crawford you got your CF and SS (Law says Miller should stick at SS.....unlike Montgomery).

Yeah we need a legit savage bat. I'd take De Paula, Ferris, and a couple other pieces....but LAD just doesn't match up that well. I'd strongly prefer someone else.

He's not a centerpiece anymore.....I agree

Why is that surprising to you? For this FO, a lack of power is a feature not a bug.

Very nice. Aly's reverse mojo works again.

Need to start seeing a bunch of 3-4 or 3-5 games. Show me contact. I know the power is there.

A USF Dons signing, nice....West Coast Conference in the house! /I'm a WCC alum....not USF tho

Isn't Basallo gonna end up at 1B?

Agreed. Crawford would eventually replace Robert in CF and we'd have a SS that could take over from Montgomery when he moves to 3rd eventually.

That's a horrific proposed trade. No.

Neither Boston nor NYY will have any effect on Elias.