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It’s not even worth it, @caulfield12. He will make up any BS he can to defend his man love Getz. He just said we shouldn’t listen to what the Twins beat reporter said or what our own SoxTalk insider said and then proceeded to make up his own entirely hypothetical story on what he thinks happened. 🤡

I’ll trust @Y2Jimmy0’s info over your incoherent ramblings. No one cares about Wheeler. The Sox failed at acquiring him just like they did with Machado and Harper. Old news that has nothing to do with this story. Dan Hayes, @Y2Jimmy0, don’t listen to those guys… @WestEddy knows all!!! 🤣

Sasaki just wasn’t impressed with the idea of meeting Benny the Bull at O’Hare Airport. 🤣

Here it is… https://www.soxtalk.com/forums/topic/115946-fire-chris-getz/?do=findComment&comment=4650516

Didn’t SoxTalk’s own insider confirm that the Dan Hayes report was right, except he was missing that the Twins wanted the Sox to include cash in a Fedde for Keaschall swap?

It still would have been worth it for the Sox to include cash with Fedde for Keaschall over packaging him with Kopech and taking back Vargas. At the point Fedde was traded, he was still owed around $10 million left on his contract — $2.5 million for the rest of 2024 and $7.5 million for 2025. And I don’t believe we ever heard how much cash the Twins wanted the Sox to include. So at the very most, the Twins could have been asking for $10 million, but I seriously doubt the Twins expected the Sox to pick up Fedde’s entire contract. The Sox are going to have one of the lowest payrolls in baseball this year but they couldn’t send some cash in a trade last year for a better return than Vargas to improve their team? Moves like taking back a Fletcher over McCarthy and a Vargas over Keaschall add up. There’s a reason we will now have to watch more garbage in RF next year — the suckfest veteran platoon of Tauchman and Slater over McCarthy. And a very nice 2B/CF prospect whose clock hasn’t started would definitely be better than Vargas right about now.

Apparently, the Sox didn’t even have a seat at the table with Sasaki. Probably because they didn’t fly Tadahito Iguchi in as well. 🤣 https://www.mlb.com/news/white-sox-have-high-hopes-for-colson-montgomery-in-2025

It’s just a goofy GM rambling to show off all his new player acquisitions. He is also making up smoke to preemptively defend his decision to hold Montgomery down a few weeks to ensure the extra year of control. Also, I doubt Meidroth will play SS instead of 2B when he is eventually called up.

Absolutely ruthless.

Turning 32 in a month. Which season looks like the outlier? https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/profaju01.shtml So bad.

Yep, via a press release rather than facing the media. 🤣

If history says anything, it will say that this was a terrible contract the second Profar signed his name to it.

Jerry would love it. Anything to deflect the blame away from the true root cause. Him.

McKnight is like the exact opposite of Schriffen. He is completely vanilla, so I can see your point. They need to find someone in between vanilla like McKnight and completely over the top like Schriffen.

Do you think they will televise his hate speech about “the constant drone of sarcastic trolls, Cubs fans, and know-it-alls hating on the Sox, or trying their best to depress true Sox fans, their friends and even their own children from attending White Sox games or enjoying the players and the games”?

Probably, but he was also the cause of the more recent personal issues.

Thank you! I never knew about that trick. Looks quite a bit better if you subtract his last two awful seasons, but still not “star” level. .288/.316/.442/.759

It’s a bit strange that a guy with the career line below was once considered a burgeoning star player. .278/.308/.411/.718 I know the last two seasons have hurt his overall career numbers. Is there any way to see his career line right after the 2022 season?

He’s usually optimistic until Jerry gives him a reason not to be, which unfortunately is often. Then he rightfully unloads on Jerry. I would say he’s one of the most fair and balanced posters on SoxTalk.

The Guardians actually dumped a decent reliever to make room for Sewald. ”Guardians designated RHP Pedro Avila for assignment. Avila gets the boot from Cleveland’s 40-man roster to free up a spot for veteran high-leverage relief arm Paul Sewald. The 28-year-old righty was a revelation last year for the Guardians, posting a strong 3.25 ERA, 1.31 WHIP and 73/30 K/BB ratio across 74 2/3 innings (50 appearances). He’s a virtual lock to be claimed off waivers in the coming days.”

No love for Sosa because he was good for one month. The rest of the time he has played, he has been weak in the field and corkscrews himself into the ground at the plate trying to hit 500 foot dongs like Juan “Tasmanian Devil” Uribe. But this roster is a giant suckfest so Sosa should get every opportunity to play a lot of games.

Neither is a difference of .076 in OPS. Busch also had 52 less plate appearances than Vaughn last season. Busch would have been the Sox #2 ranked player in WAR after Crochet last season and their highest ranked position player in WAR by far. After three seasons of bad performances, it’s pretty surprising that multiple posters in this thread said they would choose Vaughn over Busch, much less any other 1B. Vaughn is awful, and now he has strung together four straight seasons of bad performances.

A remarkably close season? Ummm, no… Andrew Vaughn: .699 OPS / 0.2 bWAR Michael Busch: .775 OPS / 2.8 bWAR You weren’t even close. Your boy AV couldn’t even OPS above .700.

I should have taken this bet. Vaughn still blows and Busch is definitely better.

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