Chick Mercedes

Jazz would be pretty damn nice though. Unles you're giving up Montogomery, find a way to make that deal

When is the cutoff for calling a player young. Seems like he’s entering his prime now

I hope someone kicks the Cuban crutch out from under these guys, and they learn how to scout and sign around the world well like other professional scouting departments. Ban Cuba. Get legitimate.

A lot we don’t know about Grifol. But I wouldn’t put it past the Sox FO to have hired him because through him they could dictate outcomes on the field. Certainly he wasn’t the hot commodity. I can’t fathom how they felt about last season’s outfield, or Eloy. But Pedro is probably not playing a strong hand of independence.

Yes, to byoass proven commodities so we can roll the dice. Lets GO!

The actual quote is not quite that though. But maybe?

I thought we were finally playing on a fair, level playing field, and we still struggle?

follow the money

I mean, follow the money. Remember when we were told that we were just being paranoid that Leury Garcia was being signed for an oversized role? Dude is gonna get used because the powers that be have paid him. Can't block Leury.

Burger is coming, lol. The Sox way is to wait years and years for some nominal minor league infielders to filter through, and or Leury Garcia.

It wouldn’t be weird not stopping by to visit. For all intents and purposes, this manager was a huge failure. And for all intents and purposes, would have been fired from any other team that didn’t have a weirdo owner. Do most failed and fired managers “stop by and visit” the old squad in spring training? Granted, he still ostensibly is still a part of the organization because again, Jerry Reinsdorf is a weird and dysfunctional sports franchise owner. But it certainly wouldn’t be weird for him not to be there. Not ever. I think we all would go on with our lives never asking why Tony LaRussa never stopped by and visited.

I’ll do my best.

They are extremely few and far between anymore. The majority of the fanbase seem at odds with the organization, but the organization has not had any regard for it. Most front offices/ownership do endeavor to try and hit their layups with the fans. Not on the Southside.

It’s just, Jerry freaking Reinsdorf. Hopeless.

Baby steps equals big progress for this franchise.

There are people out there that will move to a new city, and will subsequently begin rooting for the new team. I mean, these are people I wouldn’t trust as far as I could throw them.

It’s not the losses that are aggravating enough to lose patience with following the team. I can live with endless failures of execution. But I can’t watch endless intentional brain dead philosophical stupidity.

wellI actually for a brief moment I successfully detached from following the team anymore after the great James Shields aquisition. It finally dawned on me this franchise wouldn't ever pursue, keep or aquire top tier young talent except by accident. And as an old man you begin to learn how to stop doing things to hurt yourself. But then they suddenly began aquiring top talent in the minors by tradeing sacred cows, and plain ole out hustling other teams in a couple cases. Threy pulled me back in with young prospect baseball. Pursued top level free agents! Very un Sox-like, We. Were. A. Normal. Organization. (Kindof) But, you knew JR had to start making them weird again, and so I'm sliding into limbo again. We'll see.

What’s gonna make him different than Thyago Vieira is the situation.

I would do it just for even prospect value. The Sox aren’t getting a second baseman, they aren’t serious about the season anyway

And we can’t possibly trade Hendricks because the Sox are trying to win this year lol

Sheets is not an outfielder. Don’t start that option stuff

i generally understand your points, and largely agree. But I think we're at least in the parking lot of the ballpark. Known quantities are worth a lot, so Eloy and Hendricks are getting a little undersold here. The Mets are offering 1 known quantity and a prospect, albeit a big one. Deals get feasible when one side is highly motivated. Cohen is a madman.. Just a matter of fleshing this out. Shoot for the moon, and the Batys of the organization become a lot more doable.

The number one prospect and Michael Kopech was acquired for Chris Sale, but I wouldn’t quite call Hendricks and Eloy as valuable as Chris Sale was. Eloy should be eminently tradeable in a deal like this. I wouldn’t expect Hendricks and Eloy alone to get a deal done for Alvarez (with McNeil), but assuming the owner is having a voice in the process, he seems to light fires under his people to facilitate all-in acquisitions right now. This owner is a wildcard that might upend conventional wisdom