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I will give Getz credit. He lost at the right time and the Sox now have a chance at a franchise stud SS. He is also not spending much money, whether that is by his own choice, or due to Jerry, or both. But when/if this rebuild starts improving the team and Ishbia takes over hopefully as early as possible, he will have so much flexibility to spend money, I can’t see how the Sox shouldn’t improve quickly.

I meant more cuz he moved Benintendi to DH. I wouldn’t be surprised if Getz signs another outfielder.

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Eh, too bad.

Can Kelenic play CF or is he terrible defensively? I don’t know much about him other than looking at his Baseball Reference page which shows he played 159 games at CF with 147 starts in his career. The thought of Hill staying at Charlotte is nice if they have 4 outfielders that could potentially play CF at any moment in Acuna, Pereira, Baldwin, and Kelenic.

There are are enough outfielders still looking for a job, I think you are right. But I don’t even think they will need to spend $5 million.

I wonder how much Hays will even get at this point. It’s getting close to ST and so many guys haven’t signed yet and don’t seem to have much leverage. I could see Tauchman having to take a minor league deal at this point.

He is, and has been in his career.

He’s probably the only decent OF left since Bader will be overpaid. Not sure if Hays would be worth signing though. He seems pretty injury prone like Tauchman. If he comes cheap, sure.

I wish they would say what the plan is for Newcomb. He sounded like he thinks he’s starting.

Both will be interesting, for different reasons. Good starters left, very mediocre OF options.

Getz said Peoples was getting trade interest as well. Of course he is going to hype these guys up, just like did did with Acuna. And trade interest in a Rule 5 guy could be offering literally anything of value or no value.

But that has been the strategy for years. The guy you hate and that looks very Meadiocre had the very same studly minor league numbers. Vargas did too.

I’m very happy with the “state of the nation”. The Sox, not so much. But why would it be crazy for fans to say that the Sox could rebreak a record they literally just set a year earlier? It was the highest loss total in 125 years. I don’t think it was crazy to think the Sox could achieve any feat, no matter how awful. Getz was literally trying to tank. The Sox might get a phenom SS in a few months as a result.

You gave him enough rope to hang a thousand men.

You shouldn’t be shocked. I could pull up posts in which you were still defending Rick Hahn until the bitter end, after numerous failures. Now, Getz is your savior. And here you are, still defending fucking Jerry Reinsdorf. Quite frankly, your takes are biased and awful. But good luck to you. Imagine wasting keystrokes defending the worst owner in sports, yet here you are… Hopefully, you are still on Jerry’s payroll.

https://southsideshowdown.com/former-white-sox-gm-rick-hahn-had-to-fire-himself-jerry-reinsdorf-news Jerry is the worst owner in the MLB. A monkey throwing a dart could make better decisions than him when it comes to running a successful winning team.

Peoples is a nothing burger and the Sox seem to love 26 year old Davitt more than his performance has earned. He must have some great stuff.

I don’t think anyone will be that upset considering they turned a midseason signing of a mediocre starter in Houser into Mead. Like I said before, people will just wish Getz had traded Houser for younger lottery pick prospects like @GreenSox complained about immediately after the trade, rather than a post-hype prospect that a better developmental organization in the Rays was willing to give up on.

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I don’t think anyone overvalues Mead. He’s out of options and there may even be a slight possibility that he doesn’t make the opening day roster. I’m guessing he does but I still don’t think people would be devastated at losing Mead. Like @GreenSox always complains about, Getz should have dealt Houser for some younger lottery tickets. I just think with where both teams are, Robert is a great pickup for the Mets, so whatever fans are complaining are just upset they missed out on Tucker. Acuna isn’t bad for us either, but we just wish we received more.

I get your point regardless, but the Mets are loaded with infielders. Ronny Mauricio can essentially replace Acuna’s utility role. Mets fans that don’t like this trade are nuts. They have a Gold Glove center fielder with hitting potential for up to two years and didn’t have to pay $240 million for him.

Not really a good comparison. Bryant is 34 years old and is still owned $78 million over three years, all guaranteed years and money. He also has chronic lumbar degenerative disk disease. He’s not likely to ever be productive again, or even finish out his contract. If he even plays, it will likely be as a full-time DH. Meanwhile, Robert is only 28 years old, is owed either 1/$22 million or 2/$40 million, is relatively healthy (albeit injury-prone), and can play Gold Glove defense in CF.

Yeah, but they traded a post hype prospect that may only amount to a utility man. I can’t imagine Mets fans are very upset with this trade. They get boom or bust potential for up to two years for a guy that would be sitting on their bench.