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So the argument is that we didn’t know when the perfect moment to trade Robert was, but with the benefit of hindsight we do now? Robert finished the best season in his career at the end of the 2023 season. Getz was promoted to GM on August 2023. In his first offseason, he had already started his rebuild — he signed some mediocre free agents and traded Cease. Are you saying that at no point in time after the 2023 season ended and Getz took over as GM that Robert wasn’t worth more than Acuna and Pauley and that it didn’t make sense to trade Robert considering Getz had already started a rebuild?

That’s impressive… Who knew there were so many ways to polish multiple turds?

Well, Getz pretty much has to say this. At this point, there is really no way for him to improve the outfield over Robert. Bellinger will be a Yankee soon and I doubt the Sox will be spending on Bader. What good free agent outfielders are even left at this point? https://www.mlb.com/amp/news/mlb-free-agents-2025-2026.html

Conforto to White Sox confirmed.

Anyone going to SoxFest? Should be a riot… literally… At least until they “please” the crowd with a live SoxFest announcement of a Conforto signing!

But who actually gets on base for Acuna to use his speed?

With Schriffen talking about Fuller’s swing changes for Kelenic, Acuna, and Conforto, at least we will all be too drunk to care.

If you consider Benintendi to be what he truly is at this point, a DH, the Sox literally don’t have a true major league caliber outfielder right now.

If the Sox are indeed at $67 million in payroll for 2026, I believe they currently have the lowest payroll in baseball.

One of the few.

Well, one thing that seems obvious now. The Sox never had any intention of including cash in a Robert trade, even if it would have improved the return. Heyman called it.

I love how Reinsdorf isn’t a fan of Cohen and didn’t want him as an MLB owner due to his big spending, but he has no problem helping Cohen’s team by dealing him Robert for a utility man as long as he doesn’t have to include any cash in the trade. 🤣 The sooner Jerry is gone, the better.

So Getz will be spending $20 million on additional players this offseason?

They should be. They essentially gave up a utility man for boom or bust potential.

It wasn’t a $40 million dollar contract. It was a guaranteed $22 million and they just decided to pay him that $22 million on November 4th..

What sucks is that the Mets have been offering the same bum for Robert for a year. The Mets know he sucks, we know he sucks, but for all of Getz’s bluster about picking up Robert’s option and not trading him unless the return is worthwhile, he had to eat the s%*# pie and still take Acuna. I can’t wait to hear Getz’s quotes today trying to polish this turd of an acquisition.

Did they really manage to spell “bobblehead” wrong?

I’m not saying you weren’t right. But the Sox are risk averse to the extreme when it comes to pitchers. They would rather trade him for a good return of young cheaper prospects than worry about having to eventually pay him the big bucks and him getting injured all the time. This is the culture the owner built.

Thanks for sharing. I thought it was at $72 million.

The Sox were worried about Crochet holding up as a starter like you said, but at least they sold him high and got a good return for him. Crochet staying healthy and getting even better with the Red Sox is a big of hindsight. Robert was just traded for the next Leury Garcia. Big difference with these two trades.

I’m not sure I would argue the former, but definitely the latter. But there is some irony to moving Crochet so quickly because you might not think he can hold up physically as a starter but at the same time you hang onto an injury-prone guy in Robert for so long.

Like I said, Getz was promoted to GM with Robert coming off of his best season in 2023. How does it make sense to immediately start a rebuild and not trade his best asset? Robert was never going to be around for the next contending Sox team. Getz then traded his best asset in Crochet one year later. Getz got all the credit in the world for selling Crochet high but people seem to forget that he could have done the exact same thing with Robert.

Getz’s big talking bluster about not trading Robert without getting true value for him was pretty epic, considering he finally just accepted the oft-rumored crappy Mets offer of Acuna that we have heard about for almost a year. 🤣

I mostly see non-Sox fans saying that the Sox held onto Robert for too long before finally trading him at his lowest value, which is exactly what Getz did.

Well, there could be an addition, if you like burnt toast outfielders like Michael Conforto. I don’t care if Boras is his agent. That dude has to hope that some team will offer him a cheap one-year deal to stave off retirement for another year. Unfortunately, I could see the White Sox being the team to help him.