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Hahn also needs to say no young left handed savages or Norge Vera will be dealt, too. I'm patiently waiting for that part.

If they had given up Montgomery+ for one year of Manaea, that would have been a disaster of BIBLICAL proportions.

Give up Kath instead. In the As organization, I'm 10000 percent sure he will become Corey Seager and I'm going to be so irate. Just spend some fucking money rather than wrecking our fucking future. I'm sick and tired of this shit

I love how the guy turns into an OBP machine and now is hitting XBH too and now ofcourse we have to move him. I fucking give up. This team just hates left handed savages. It's like they enjoy getting owned against RHP and getting exposed by elite RHP in the playoffs. There's alot of people out there that take pain as pleasure. I just didn't think these folks would be in our FO.

Portillo better be wrong. Hell no to trading Montgomery

Don't you touch my young left handed savages, Billy Beane. Eff you

No to Vaughn. No to Montgomery. No to Colas and no to Vera.

I wish we had that extra year of service time. Now that he had a hot start, there's no way they can justify sending him down for a few weeks.

Left handed savagery!

Nice pitching matchup.

That was very loud contact Left handed savagery!

They'll bring up a AAA scrub and concede a game before they let DKs option vest. Ofcourse they're doing a great job conceding games even without intending to now.

It sounds like it might not be too bad. Maybe like what 2-3 starts? Better than 6-8 weeks for sure.

Wow they couldn't even get something for Adolfo?

So he's out for a week then?

Do something, Rick. Cueto isn't something.

I think the primary issue is we need to make a truly meaningful move to strengthen the rotation. Lynn going down and the Tigers adding a savage only makes the need more acute. Adding Cueto is not a meaningful move. It's trying to put lipstick on a pig. Its still a pig and the lipstick doesn't fool anyone. It doesn't transform the pig into a supermodel. Even McGuire isn't going to fap to that. These aren't the moves a "World Series contender" should be making. It's garbage. Why would we waste anything on someone who has to get stretched out for awhile in the minors first? Don't we need to replace Lynn's April and May innings from the getgo so the BP doesn't get exhausted and/or we don't get in a situation where you are conceding games twice a week with DK and ReyLo/VV? And it is a waste of money since it's been obvious for awhile that we are financially tapped out so each dollar is precious. And then I hear "well you guys would be pissed if you saw what it would take to get a good pitcher on the trade market". Well, whose fault is it that the farm is a desolate wasteland where making any kind of big move would be painful? The teams fault for failing to draft or develop properly. They didn't want to take back salary so we could get Meadows and now he's with a rival. They can't develop well so our offers suck for pitching. It's their fault on both fronts. Want to know when the bitching will stop? When either they are a) tearing thru the schedule at a 95-100 win pace with even the current roster or when b) they make meaningful additions by taking on more salary obligations or c) they swindle someone for a really good SP and the cost somehow doesn't hurt at all. In other words don't hold your breath. The bitching will continue and in fact escalate exponentially until everything is smiles, cupcakes, rainbows AND unicorns. This is supposed to be our fucking window.

4.2m isn't nothing when we're already damn near close to maxed out. If you believe reports that we could not spend until we got Kimbrel off the books and the FO had to basically use the savings to swap in Pollocks salary, that means Cueto just ate 4.2m of the 6m net savings. So we're basically sitting with less than 2m left to use. If there are any other major injuries the Sox have will have to either sacrifice significant pieces of an otherwise desolate farm system or they'll watch helplessly as the rest of the Central closes in on what should have been a cakewalk division title again. I'm glad he cost us "nothing", tho... More cheap filler crap. They're trying to plug leaks in the bottom of a boat with bubble gum.

If he can't pitch for weeks what's the point? Isn't he supposed to be a short term bridge?

Weak. So much for the "quality" SP Stone mentioned. This is crap. The division will be tight all year.

Lulz at our inability to get this LH savage all offseason and the Tigers just get him on the eve of the season. Lol They will need to snag a legit 2/3 SP to hold onto the division now. Any scrub won't do

Which Sox-affiliated weddings is Madrigal showing up at? And poppysox wedding doesn't count.

Doesn't paddack have only 2 pitches? Might be tough to be a quality starter with a limited arsenal. I think that's a big contract to swallow for Paddack. If it were both him and Gore maybe, but I thought I read they weren't moving Gore.

Yeah that's what I assumed. Not sure why anyone would want him, unless Sox ate most of the 18m, which would still open up some more savings on a net basis.

Thanks for the recap of his comments. It's a double edged sword there. Stone isn't talking about any starter he is saying quality which means it will be costly, esp since teams know we dont have much leverage right now with that Lynn injury. I'm bracing myself for a painful trade.