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Nastrini looked fantastic. Was throwing a ton of sliders that had some of the best swing and miss stuff I've ever seen from him. If he can get his fastball over and throw the slider he had tonight he's a legit big league starter.

He's had a decent month but for the season as a whole he's walked way too many guys and his BAbip is way too low to have any confidence on future success. I'll willing to bet Charlotte will not treat him well.

The LMG home runs are fun to watch. If he can make consistent contact the dude is gonna hit a ton of bombs.

Don't know if I agree. Prospect rankings have a tendency to favor unproven lower level prospects. I'd be curious if you took a top 100 list in any given year and did a 6 year WAR avg from those prospects following the year of ranking. My guess is you get more 6 year WAR on AAAA players than top 100 lists. Then apply the same principle to farm system rankings. If you take each teams top 30 and get the 6 year WAR from that year forward I doubt you'll get a huge difference between 1 and 11.

That swing looked like routine flyball. I'd love to get some EV data on him because anyone that can make an opposite field shot look that easy is a somebody.

Jake Peppers numbers don't look great this year but his stuff is legit. If he can't find consistent command as a starter I won't be shocked if he becomes a solid big league closer. Put him in a bullpen and I'd be surprised if he's not hitting 100.

Eder's profiles much better for a bullpen role. I'd put both him and Nick on the Sox pen right now and just cut some of the dead weight. There's no point sending these guys out to get hammered as starters in Charlotte's bandbox. Let's just see if we can make serviceable bullpen arms out of them.

Nick definitely seems like a guy who would be benefit from a bullpen stint.

Watching him today there's nothing that really stands out but he gets a hell of a lot swinging strikes. I swear he waits until the :01 on the pitch clock to throw every pitch. It was driving me crazy.

Looks like Tanner got himself demoted. But solid start.

To steal a line from shameless: F. F? As in fail? F as in fucked! I'm all for using holding the big pieces if the right offer wasn't there, but I'm not confident in Getz being the right person to extract maximum surplus value out of the few sparse assets we have. I think you need to start putting way more value on bats come draft day. It's clear there is a premium on controllable bats and we are seriously deficient without having a believable path to at least being mediocre on the offensive side.

If you would have asked me who between Scott and Fedde has more value I would have said its probably close. Boy was I wrong.

Finding anyone who can actually suite up and play a MLB SS is a challenge. Dejong did it, albeit poorly, but he still did it. There's not a lot out there you can acquire and have any confidence they're even capable at taking the field at short. A WRc+of 95 at SS is still worth something, it should have been worth more than the equivalent of a MiLB free agent signing.

I partially wonder if trading him means less paper work. The HR guy was in Getz's office and said I'm up to my ass in paper work with the other 15 guys we need to get rid of just trade someone so I can leave early on Friday.

We made a classic mistake by actually playing him thus devaluating his return. If we're learned anything recently from the St Louis Cardinals is you don't play your players to maximize their return.

His issue has always been throwing strikes. Something has obviously clicked. He's earned another crack at starting at this point. The few times I've seen him on TV it was his inability to get fastballs over for strikes that caused him to fall behind in counts.

The only thing that makes sense here is the Sox convinced themselves they were getting a deal on Vargas. But if that's the case I'm willing to bet they could have had it for just Kopech if they just let that offer sit for a while.

Had I know trading Fedde would have meant a Toukii sighting I would have preferred to just hold onto him and shoot for 60 wins next year.

Even by the White Sox semi incompetent standards this one seems highly underwhelming. With so many clubs out there looking to add a quality arm it's basically administrative malfeasance if you didn't at least call the White Sox to check this hand.

From the dodgers perspective, if they just nicely asked I'm sure the Cards would have been happy to just let Edman walk and the Sox would have equally been happy to at least let the Dodgers pay for Kopech coach seat. There's 3 guys in this deal that have zero to marginal value. So how the dodgers are getting two of them but actually gave up anything of value is somewhat perplexing.

Solid pick up for KC. I'd much rather pay that price than meet the Sox asking price on Fedde. It's also possible to find reasonably priced starting pitching, you just need to aim higher than Chris Flexen.

Generally speaking if you keep losing 100+ a year you'll be in a position to add top shelf talent at least once every two years. Give is a solid 4-5 years and things will work themselves out.

At this point I'm starting to think you'll have a better market for him in the winter. If you're a GM and your job is on the line trading for the next two years doesn't help much when you can probably only run him out for 3 innings on his next start. Just baby the s%*# out of him the rest of the year and start taking bids post world series.

If you're gonna do that, go get some legit bullpen arms and pay them $10M+. I don't want any vets unless they are legit options to close.

You might as well throw a dude like Burke a start or 5 next year. If that does work he can float between Charlotte and Chicago trying to find a niche in the bullpen. If you're gonna get lit up in Charlotte you might as well get doubly lit in Chicago. I hope they don't bring in a single vet next year and just throw every arm we have north of AA into the bigs and we'll get an idea who's gonna sink or swim. If you win 40 games so be it but at least you know what you have and then go spend some serious cash on 2026.