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Not surprising but still disappointing. Sigh

Dude will finish up the next few weeks in BHAM go to AFL and then a month in CHAR next year for service time and he should be our starting SS at that point. If TA is still here, he will move to 2B till deadline. And Ramos should be up and starting at 3B on big club before deadline too.

IMO, this is almost certainly the plan. Don't want to handcuff potential buyers with a long term high salary independent minded GM and turn them off, so go with the cheap salary short term yes man option.

If Getz were a savant, the minor league pipeline wouldn't be trash outside of a small handful of guys.

Isn't there a union rep on every team at all times? So he's going to get rid of everyone who ever serves in that capacity?

Bring Gio back...sign him to a reasonable mid rotation contract and put him back at No. 3.

I think the issue is even if they did a legit search no truly good candidate would take this job with the given constraints and the likelihood they'd be out when ownership changes which will be soon one way or another. It's not a recipe for success and therefore it's not a recipe for a 2nd contract. Only someone clearly not qualified and clearly unable to get a similar job elsewhere would agree to be JRs puppet and be micromanage and therefore here we are with Chris Getz.

Nice...good for him. Ramos should also be promoted.

Back surgery can be very risky...especially if it's like a fusion or something. That is a big decision that goes well beyond baseball. He's already made alot of money it might not be worth it to do a major back surgery in terms of quality of life.

This. What about Getz, Harold?

Beni's wrist looks like it's back....hes been hitting for power yet again tonight

Nice...higher velocity from Bush?

Thank you for the game insights. I know some people don't want the Sox changing batting mechanics during the draft year, but I thought the whole idea was they wanted to get a high floor/low ceiling "polished" prospect that could contribute as a 2 WAR player fairly quickly since they want to fill big league spots (either 2B or SS) on the cheap, so it makes sense that they are trying to fix stuff fast to move him from level to level as fast as possible. Ofcourse, the Sox don't exactly have a great history fixing hitters. Collins was supposed to be 55 hit/55 power too but they couldn't fix the hitch in his swing and he turned out to be 20 hit which made any power moot.

Unfortunately the new GM is likely to be the present farm director in this messed up franchise.

This is absolutely disgusting.

I wonder if Mattingly is a recommendation from Dombrowski since JR knows him.

Great for Wolkow to get his feet wet in Low A, but as a 17 year old I'd expect him to struggle there for awhile. He will prolly be there all next season. Nastrini and Ramos should be promoted to AAA. Montgomery looks like he's on track to be with the big club early to middle next season and Quero might be by the end of next year.

I hope you are right.

We need Guff to also say Getz/Moore is not true.

Getz/Moore is a joke.....but consider that no one credible is going to work for an 87 year old owner who could sell or pass away at any time and then they know new ownership will want their own person. No one is going to sign up for that.

Move Mena up to AAA along with Ramos

Yeah I'm trying to fund hope in that aspect of it.

Yeah I don't know what he has. I wish the best for him in his personal health situation but as far as professionally he needs to realize he's done. Just enjoy your retirement and focus on your health. I hope he beats whatever condition he may have.

If they hire an internal loser like Getz who failed as Farm Director or a washed up clown like TLR or Haber it will be even worse. Make a real legit external hire that's respected in baseball and invest in R&D and analytics. I'm glad he fired them but he has to eesist the temptation of the insular bullshit.

2B more likely for Gonzalez. Ramos at 3B.