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Using the 121 loss season as an excuse to be mad about things that never happened seems a bit disingenuous.

Not sure if you heard, but Getz could've gotten Jake McCarthy instead of Fletcher and Luke Keaschall instead of Vargas.

Keeping him is not a realistic option with JR, therefore he has to be traded. It sucks, but such is a life as a Sox fan.

Similar to the Venable hire, on paper this seems like a step in the right direction. Now keep doing more things.

He was obviously not good that one year, but I think it was more of a hypothetical question on whether he could improve enough to stick had he fully committed to baseball long term.

Keegan Pancake LFG

Remember Cole Kmet?

Genuinely surprised it took until the third page for meatball takes.

If paying superstars lots of money because they might go into slumps is wasting money, what do you consider paying less money to bad players who end up, in fact, being bad?

That’s completely not the point. Two of those guys have “scrap” level ceilings, while the other two were acquired with much higher ceilings in mind. The fact that they are all likely to end up as scraps is irrelevant to the initial point, which was that Getz did not “dump Kopech for peanuts” because he thought he was getting much much more than that in Vargas.

If you’re saying that Getz knew Vargas was “scraps”, you’re giving him way too much credit.

And one of the reasons relievers are considered so volatile year to year is that they’re working within the constraints of relatively small sample sizes by nature.

You keep saying they sold him for peanuts because that’s what Vargas’ value looks like after the fact, but they legitimately thought they were getting a big piece back in Vargas. That trade speaks more to their (likely) swing and miss on Vargas than it does to what they thought of Kopech.

Some of these schmoes just don’t appreciate the true power of magic.

BREAKING: Getz acquires Juan Soto one soda.

Just wait until tomorrow when they sign Soto.

To be fair, I was referencing Rick Morrissey’s column that Lip linked, not anyone here.

Kind of an odd take. Who are all these quality, experienced, yet currently unemployed candidates?

It was 80% tongue in cheek, 20% sports fans are irrational idiots (including me)

My simple take: On paper, this is a step in the right direction. Now show us more. I look forward to being yelled at about this opinion.

You answered your own non-question.

Grady out of the running per Bob Edit: Albernaz is the third name if you don’t wanna click the link.

Eh, I’d still take Chicago summers over Miami summers

I feel like there are enough smart baseball people in MLB orgs that can identify talent and potential and separate the manager from the situation they’ve been put in.

What's funny is that I think we're probably pretty close fundamentally in terms of being skeptical of moves, not giving the org the benefit of the doubt and needing to see actual improvement and results before feeling optimistic about the direction things are headed (aka standard "being a sox fan" stuff). But then I see the bolded phrases above and wonder if we're even reading the same thread. I just reread the whole thing and don't see anything remotely close to people doing that.